Rings and Dings!

Cherish youth!

Jesus! Crazyness!

More Sontag and Sushi! :-)

I Love Art!

Susan Sontag and Sushi!!!!!

Cookies! Damn it! Nothing beats a fine book, Susan Sontag's 'On Photography', and fine sushi (snow crab, cream cheese and spices wrapped in seaweed/rice)!

I am thoroughly enjoying 'On Photography' and I feel convienced that I love more conceptual based 'fine' art than more skilled based art. I mean I agree with the theories on the purity of flatness that are hammered home in 'The Painted Word', and will work those ideas into my photography projects, but I also enjoy just good old "relation-based" art work... art that grabs you!

Art should relate to how we view and experience the human condition right? I believe that to succeed I must grasp that idea better and pull it by the balls until I get something. (I might like someone to do that to me... :-)).

Hell if I know though. I am confused about so much right now. I love Jessica Patmon. She's such an amazing woman. She speaks with such heavenly honesty and confidence. I really enjoy that. She's such a damn good artist too. She loves the outdoors and children. She even paints like a true champion... she's damn damn damn good. I even feel rather weak in the knees around her... while feelings highly capable. Capable of what one might ask. Anything... I feel like I can do anything when she is around. I really look up to her too. She wants to be a high school art teacher, but I feel God is going to do far more than that with her.

Anyway... I tend to ramble when I really like a person. I am just going to keep producing work. I am aware that people like my art work and that I have been in Birmingham Artwalk and The Wonderland show... and even recieved top honors in the last student show (which I got all three of my pieces in for... RARE) but I am not satisfied! I want to connect with the world. I need to help it fix it's problems and I want to show it a world without borders or limits. I want I want I need I need.

Jon Hicks

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Tom Wolfe on the 'Bergs'

Awesome chapter. My second favorite chapter! I just read it again for
fun. :-)

Tom Wolfe's "The Painted Word" is AWESOME!

Flatness is the Word and the Word was God! This chapter 4 in his book
has changed the way I view painting. I understand now (in a realistic
sense) how "-ism" related art works. It's truely amazing how this book
breaks down the art world of painting and hell the art world period.
It's great. And the way he ends the book with the reader thinking
about being in Plato's cave sets the wonderful stage for Susan
Sontag's views and comments on photography.

In my opinion, photography is the new painting. And honestly
photography is flatness glorified... if you like cultureburg that
is. :-)

A wonderful place to see Art.

Here is a wonderful place to see art shows and beautiful pieces. This
is right smack in downtown Nashville. I love me some Nashville, TN.
It's a great drive from Birmingham and like a second home for me.