{"id":3390,"date":"2011-08-03T20:24:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T04:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2011-08-04T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T19:28:56","slug":"metro-profile-summer-art-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/metro-profile-summer-art-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"METRO Profile. Summer Art Sale."},"content":{"rendered":"

Department of Prophet Receives Honor in Home Town<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m the cover story in the Silicon Valley Metro <\/em>this week, with a profile by Dan Pulcrano, an appreciation by Gary Singh, photos by Felipe Bultrago, and the entire first chapter of Jim and the Flims<\/a>! I’m really happy about it.<\/p>\n

The Metro <\/em>is a free weekly newspaper, widely distributed around San Jose and the South Bay, and you can view a free PDF of my issue online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s cool that they showed some of my paintings in the article\u2014the one on the cover is \u201cThe Clone Garden\u201d\u009d which I did while working on Jim and the Flims<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been painting more than usual lately. It\u2019s because I don\u2019t have a novel or even a short story to work on, and I like to have some kind of creative outlet during the day. A way to lose myself in the process of craft.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cNoon Meeting\u201d\u009d, 40″ x 30″ inches, August, 2011, Oil on canvas.” Click for larger version.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the latest one, called \u201cNoon Meeting.\u201d\u009d I started out with a set of pebble-glass windows that I like. They went into the background, the grid of green and yellow rectangles. And I put three characters in front of the windows, happy to be getting together in the daytime, let\u2019s say it\u2019s at noon. A woman, a dog, and an octopus. <\/p>\n

By the way, I feel like I\u2019m accumulating too many paintings in my basement, and I\u2019d really like to sell some. So check out the summer sale prices on my Paintings page<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Coming back to \u201cNoon Meeting,\u201d\u009d my artist friend Paul Mavrides had suggested that I try using an impasto medium to build up more of a texture on my pictures and I did this with this new one, and it looks good.<\/p>\n

This is one of those pictures that is a bit like an unknown parable. But I feel like the three friends are people I know. Indeed, I might be the dog in the middle, bringing the two others together. We used to have a dog who looked a lot like that, his name was Arf.<\/p>\n

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I told my other artist friend Vernon about the theme of my new picture and he said, laughing, \u201cAh, yes, the three fundamental elements of any successful painting: a woman, a dog, and an octopus.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

I never got to hang out with cephalopods, only glimpsing them when diving, but I often put them in my novels. They’re, like, the ideal aliens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Department of Prophet Receives Honor in Home Town: I\u2019m the cover story in the Silicon Valley Metro this week, with a profile by Dan Pulcrano, an appreciation by Gary Singh, photos by Felipe Bultrago, and the entire first chapter of Jim and the Flims! I’m really happy about it. The Metro is a free weekly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}