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Comment by De Villo Sloan on April 27, 2011 at 6:53pm

I never can get enough of "Desolation Row." It's truly a major lyric poem and somehow oddly appropriate to DK's art. Great choice with that stanza, Erni. Here's the last stanza which I like very much too. For those of us who never tire of trying to figure this thing out, there is the suggestion that at least some of the characters are based on real people. Keith Richards is always good for a laugh, but I'm not sure he fits into Dylan's epic:

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the doorknob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can’t read too good
Don’t send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

 

 

 

Comment by DKeys on April 27, 2011 at 6:16pm

you guys are the google of art-who is the artist who used to have heroin in his coffee every morning? I could spend an hour on the internet and still not find it  love this Erni creates quite the visuals

Comment by DKeys on April 27, 2011 at 5:05pm

Thanks Ernie. I'm certainly not comparing myself but didn't I read that Einstein used to pick up cigarette butts to stuff in his pipe? I guess artists have always been/will always be eccentric.  I think the dirt on my junk adds something

Comment by De Villo Sloan on April 27, 2011 at 4:04pm

Helder, those are great observations. However I cling dearly to a personal myth that DK has no interest in formal composition and its' absent in her work. The material might be arranged in this piece more than others, but I'm not sure if it's formally composed. When I feel dizzy and a seizure approaching - I know DK has done a good one/

Comment by DKeys on April 27, 2011 at 3:46pm

Thank you so much Helder! I collected found objects for a couple of years and then turned them into collages and had an art show.  I like found objects as a chronicle of a specific time and place, as that can not be repeated.  i definately got a lot of weird looks picking crap up, but who cares? it's for the sake of art right? All the best

D

Comment by Helder on April 27, 2011 at 3:34pm

Becouse i like a lot to use some assemblage on my bigger works, i must say something about this piece of Diane. This work have a very balance composition with a good sense of colour, i dont know if there is any hidden intencion behind the piece but its work, that is the kind of work that i dont mind to have one in  my walls :) p.s your compositions sometimes remind me a lot one of my favourite collage artists, Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) for me the father of collage.