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TATTOO DETOUR 5:
HONOLULU DRAWINGS 2011
(OFF DUTY)
Continuing the last four years'
drawing projects from Honolulu, the 2011 batch returns to textual
inclusions vis a vis the art world, as well as iincorporates
magery gleaned from drawing sessions in the Asian Collection
galleries at the Honolulu Academy of Art.
Drawings numbered 588 to 643
measure 9" x 12" , while those from 644 to 677 measure
11" x 14".
All are ink on paper, and appear here in the order they were
initially begun in the sketchbooks.
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Normally when traveling I've
been content to walk around, explore and take photos while visiting
art museums and galleries -- a method that works fine in New
York or Paris when you're there for a week or so. But finding
myself in Honolulu for an extended stay the last four summers,
I realized that Waikiki is a different animal altogether, relentless
as it is with the shirtless men who are my muse, not only on
the beach but in the restaurants, grocery stores, hotel lobbies,
even on the bus. So I was tempted to go further than my normal
mode and try to have a studio at the same time, namely a sketchpad
and a handful of pens I was carrying around, creating a body
of work out of a suitcase while living in a hotel room.
Drawing on the aforementioned
beaches, and in the same restaurants and hotel lobbies, I was
able to enjoy a completely different rythmn of work than I've
ever known at home, at the same time surrounded by people who
occasionally wandered over to look at what I was up to so long
at my favorite Starbuck's table or on some bench in Kapiolani
Park, or under a palm tree. And the setting of an extreme tourist
spot such as Waikiki posed the enjoyable task of trying to reach
beyond the predictable cliches of surfers, babes and palms. The
resulting drawings are conflations of those very surfers, palms,
tattoos, military guys, pigeons, lobby furniture, waves and restaurant
tables, offering intersections between the surf of Hockney, Picabia,
Pettibon, Guston and Westermann, fact and fiction.
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HNL'11 #588 Jump In the Ocean
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HNL'11 #589 The Protagonist...
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HNL'11 #590 Untitled (Blue Line
Head)
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HNL'11 #591 Things Must Add Up
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HNL'11 #594 Untitled (2 figures)
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HNL'11 #595 Untitled (Green Branch)
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HNL'11 #596 Untitled (2 figures
overlap)
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HNL'11 #597 Untitled (2 figures
with Ocean Strokes)
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HNL'11 #598 Not Something, but
Not Nothing
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HNL'11 #599 The Surfer's Ouevre
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HNL'11 #600 Untitled (3 figures
overlap)
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HNL'11 #601 Untitled (2 figures
with Ginger)
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HNL'11 #602 Blah Blah
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HNL'11 #603 Untitled (3 figures
Overlap)
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HNL'11 #604 Weight of Worlds
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HNL'11 #605 Provoking a Gentle
Reverie
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HNL'11 #606 Untitled (3 Heads
on Tables)
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HNL'11 #607 Untitled (Fish and
Birds)
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HNL'11 #608 We Call Out
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HNL'11 #609 Untitled (Head on
Trunk)
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HNL'11 #610 Untitled (Red Clouds)
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HNL'11 #611 Turn the Page
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HNL'11 #612 Untitled (gate)
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HNL'11 #613 WHAT LIES BEHIND
THE SCAFFOLDING...
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HNL'11 #614 Untitled (Kimono)
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HNL'11 #615 Untitled (large blue
head)`
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HNL'11 #616 This Could Be
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HNL'11 #617 A Strategy That Has
Become Commonplace
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HNL'11 #618 This Is (Descending
Buddha)
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HNL'11 #619 Untitled (Bird house)
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HNL'11 #620 It's a Job and We
Love It
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HNL'11 #621 The Idea (Lacking
such a resource...)
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HNL'11 #622 Untitled (Boy with
hedge)
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HNL'11 #623 I was not Reginald
Marsh...
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HNL'11 #624 We Need a New Narrative
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HNL'11 #625 Navy
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HNL'11 #626 USMC
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HNL'11 #627 Turn |
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HNL'11 #628 Untitled (2 figures
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HNL'11 #629 Diorama
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HNL'11 #630 Untitled (Japanese
fish helmet)
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HNL'11 #632 Untitled (wave)
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HNL'11 #634 Untitled (flock of
geese)
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HNL'11 #635 Now We'll Show 'Em
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HNL'11 #636 Down the Waterfall
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HNL'11 #638 Untitled (monster)
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HNL'11 #639 Untitled (Hog and
bird)
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HNL'11 #640 Untitled (royal figures)
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HNL'11 #641 Untitled (red wave
tattoo)
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HNL'11 #642 Untitled (figure
in water)
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HNL'11 #643 Mahalo, Baby!
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HNL'11 #644 Untitled (man on
horseback)
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HNL'11 #645 Untitled (figure
with carp)
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HNL'11 #646 Untitled (bird and
kumquats)
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HNL'11 #648 BLUE GLAZE DRAGON
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HNL'11 #649 SO DO I
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HNL'11 #650 SAY
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HNL'11 #651 BACK AT THE RANCH...
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HNL'11 #653 IS VIDEO SOMETHING...?
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HNL'11 #656 Untitled (man with
carp)
SOLD
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HNL'11 #657 Untitled (green dancer)
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HNL'11 #659 BAD BOY
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HNL'11 #660 THE SAME OCEAN (Serra)
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HNL'11 #661 THE SAME OCEAN (red
wave)
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HNL'11 #662 THE SILHOUETTE OF
LEAVES...
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HNL'11 #663 THE ACCEPTED KNOWLEDGE...
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HNL'11 #665 POOM / PO-MO
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HNL'11 #667 UNFETTERED OPTICAL...
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HNL'11 #668 WE WEAVE FICTIONS...
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HNL'11 #669 Untitled (Indonesian
wood figure)
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HNL'11 #677 30 DAYS WAIKIKI,
MAHALO
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