What's all this Mess all about, Alfie?....What's 'IT' all about?




THIS AFTERNOON, THREE YEARS AGO, I SPENT ABOUT A HALF HOUR DISINFECTING, THEN CLEANING "IT" OF BLACK MOLD, VARIOUS FUNGI AND MILDEW.....AND DRYING THE WARPED LINEN CANVAS WITH A HAIR DRYER....JUST TO SEE WHAT THE HELL "IT" WAS 'ALL ABOUT'......THEN, SUDDENLY, '"IT" ALL CAME BACK': "WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT'......FEELING A BIT OF NOSTALGIA, I PHOTOGRAPHED "IT", SURROUNDED IT WITH A VIRTUAL FRAMING JOB....AND....HERE...IT "IS", UNBUCKLED AND 'RESTORED...DIGITALLY'.....AT THE TIME OF ITS CREATION.....1966, WHILE I WAS IN ONE OF PURYEAR MIMS' ART CLASSES AT VANDERBILT.....I WAS THINKING: "SOON, I WILL BE A GREAT ARTIST or WRITER or PSYCHIATRIST, or FASHIONISTA.......AND MY WORKS WILL HANG IN GALLERIES, ALL OVER THE WORLD!"..... WELL.......THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, DID IT? I GAVE UP "PAINTING" SHORTLY THEREAFTER......CRESTFALLEN, THAT I WAS NOT 'THE NEXT BIG DEAL' AND HAD BECOME CYNICAL ABOUT THE 'ART WORLD', IN GENERAL....AFTER A TOUR OF "ART" GALLERIES IN NEW YORK, LONDON, PARIS, VENICE, ROME, FLORENCE, MUNICH AND LUCERNE......VIEWING THE SELF-INDULGENCES THAT MADE THEIR WAY FROM MESSY, CLUTTERED 'WORK ARENAS' TO THE PRISTINE, WELL-LIT WALLS OF COMMERCIALISM......



 'There!'.....is this 'better'?

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