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<\/p>\nWe\u2019re under a corona virus \u201cshelter-in-place\u201d\u009d edict here in the SF Bay Area, hanging around the house, flipping twixt Twitter, FB, Instagram, email, messages, Google , NYTimes, WaPo, and links thereof. I\u2019m like a seedy spectral figure in a 3 am Reno Casino, working the slots. Waiting for a hit, and not getting one. Here\u2019s my painting of the virus.<\/p>\n
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\u201cPandemic\u201d\u009d Acrylic on canvas, March, 2020, 30\u201d\u009d x 24\u201d\u009d. Click for a larger version of the painting.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n I like how the colors came out. And the polka dots pull the whole thing together. I\u2019m gonna do a bigger one now. Instead of having a \u201cplan\u201d\u009d for this kind of spontaneous work, I might take all the wet paint that\u2019s still in my palette box and paint that on in chaotic mindless shapes that seem to look good in the moment, letting my brush do the (non) thinking, and then I start \u201cfixing\u201d\u009d the now \u201cruined\u201d\u009d canvas.<\/p>\n (Here’s a picture of my art studio.\u00a0 I pull the table out onto the lawn)<\/p>\n My friend Vernon Head says painting is all about ruining it and fixing it over and over until you feel like you can stop. I know I can stop when I can look at the canvas and think, \u201cI can\u2019t believe I did this, I\u2019ll never do this good of a painting again.\u201d\u009d If I quit before reaching this (admittedly somewhat self-delusional) state, then every time I look at the painting, I feel like, \u201cUgh, I\u2019ve got to work on that one some more,\u201d\u009d not that I always do go back and rework, and not that reworking is necessarily a good idea. Play it as it lays.<\/p>\n Tabletop landscape with a fabulous reflective \u201cteapotahedron<\/a>\u201d\u009d or “Utah teapot” in the mode of the graphical object studied by early Computer Graphics guys at University of Utah in 1975. I make my tea in it every day, having terminally burnt the living sh*t out of my cast-iron Japanese pot.<\/p>\n We had a high-tea party get together in San Francisco on Sylvia\u2019s birthday in February. Here\u2019s son Rudy Jr. and his wife Penny T.<\/p>\n My art hero Dick Termes was in Half Moon Bay for a show at the end of February. He paints on spheres, and he hauled a load over them over the Sierras in this cute little trailer.<\/p>\n I like the square spirals on this one. I think basically it\u2019s a cube on a sphere, with inscribed whirling squares in each face of the cube. Dick is incredibly careful and fastidious in his work\u2026drawing it, painting in faint paint, and then in dark paint (acrylics)\u2026takes him maybe six months to finish one of these works, which he calls Termespheres<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images8\/181_pandemic_1_1200.jpg\")
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