#imaginary architecture

A completed piece from this year, entitled Holy Cave of Purgatorium. Colored pencil, pen, and watercolor on paper.

A quiet space formed beneath the sea.

Between kelp-like pillars, soundless currents move slowly through the structure.

Not a scene to observe, but a space to stay with for a while.

Gilbert Adrian (1903-1959) Imaginary Architecture (undated) Source

African Dream (undated) Source

Tropical May Pole Scene (undated) Source

It Has Been a Fine Day (undated) Source

Feeding the Giraffes (undated) Source

Strange Africa (undated) Source

Tropical Street Scene (undated) Source

A Conversation About Marriage (undated) Source

Elephant (undated) Source

Lamentation by Jan Provoost, South Netherlandish, ca. 1510-1515

About the artist Mike Kelley. Thanks as ever to the angels who support the comic. I love you. Also if you would like to become one of those angels you can do that here Pateron.com/tomorjudy or paypal.me/inkandbricks

Everything is Somewhat Repaired: I think the artist Mike Kelley was an egg... and I'm kinda upset about it. CW Closet Stuff There are the closeted trans girl cliches like the noise band, dark sense of humour w/ complex irony, cute long hair and the sadness. (from Ectoplasm Photographs 1978/2009)

But there's also the archiving and obsession with childhood. Then later investments in biographical archeology and repressed memories. (Repressed Spatial Relationships Rendered as Fluid, 2002)

The personal buried in the academic. (Untitled (Dust), 1994-1999)

The religious upbringing that you just can't shake. (Castrati Satan, 1995)

the desire for softness which feels somehow alienated or distant. (from Arena series, 1990)

I guess by this I don't mean he was an egg. Hell I hardly know him and making these assumptions isn't exactly fair. In his talk at walker arts centre he in fact seems super resentful of people making assumptions about him.*   (Catholic Birdhouse, 1978)

It's more that I see parts of myself in his work. Parts of myself that were desperately trying to figure out I was trans without wanting to look the obvious in the face. (Figure II (Hair), 1989)

* The practice of transing of historical figures is mostly kind of goofy and at worst a bit rude and presumptuous. But also if projecting onto past culture helps you understand where you are now then I think it's useful. I feel like that's what a lot of his work was actually about in fact.

The Royal Museum of Kisses. Ballads weird and wonderful. 1912.

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