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Bound For Glory

January 29, 2019Uncategorizedartwork, color, ej gold, form, fun, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, paint, reincarnation, rocks, sales, sculpture, sell, selling, shape, stonesgorebagg

“Me & My Money”, a serigraph produced decades ago.

My serigraphs used to retail at $1800-$3000, but we haven’t marketed them for at least 20 years — what are today’s prices? No idea, but we’re going to find out.

I intend to dig out some of those serigraphs, produced in the days before computer generated “giclee” color printing. These are from pastel originals. They are each and every one completely hand-printed, each color laid down separately, through a carefully prepared silkscreen, until all colors are present on the print.

Technically, it is “a work on paper”, and is produced in a profoundly limited run, hence it is sometimes referred to as “a multiple original” or “an original multiple”, depending on what part of the country your gallery might be standing.

I’m offering them today at ridiculously low prices, because my market has yet to be re-established in the marketplace.

Hence and therefore, the serigraph “Me & My Money” is available FRAMED to retail at $850, which means that your wholesale cost will be $350, allowing you to “keystone double”, which is standard retail practice.

Keep in mind that this piece comes framed, and that means money. If you don’t want it framed, take off $50 and we’ll ship you the serigraph flat — I don’t roll prints if I can help it — of course, large paintings on canvas are quite another matter.

There are not many of any of my earlier serigraphs left — they sold surprisingly well at the time — so if you want one of these compelling and dramatic pieces, better say so right now. Please don’t contact me months from now and expect to get one of these serigraphs. Continue reading →

Nest, Burrow & Swarm

November 26, 2018Uncategorizedej gold, garden, gem, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewel, maya, paint, reincarnation, rock, touch a rock, zengorebagg

Humans do pretty much what other animals do — they nest, burrow and swarm. Reproduction, food harvesting and warfare with other tribes are their main occupation, and in the end, they die without a trace, as if they’d never existed.

Gosh, doesn’t that sound familiar?

How about a t-shirt that reads “Believe it or not, this was once a living creature.”??? That kind of humor goes best on the gallows or in front of the concrete brick wall, which is why I included it in this little dissertation on the subject of Primal Rock Painting, something I sort of re-invented back in 1972, when I was working with Fritz at Cowichan in British Columbia, which I ran for a year following his passing.

“I’ve seen behind Maya,” he announced one day back in 1971, as a result of which, he decided to dismantle and rebuild Gestalt, which never happened, but some part of it survived in the form of “Play Therapy”, a term attributed to several prominent psychologists, all of whom might well have done so — the field was new and wide open to speculation and experiment, and people did.

With our therapy developed out much further, we would have ended up with what we today call “Primal Rock Painting”, about which I’ll endeavor to explain as best I can: Continue reading →

Rocks & Luck

October 21, 2018Uncategorizedej gold, gallery, gemstones, gorbagg, gorby, jal, jewelry, like, marketing, merchandising, money, paint, painted stones, reincarnation.rock, ring, ringstone, river, share, shop, stone, subscribegorebagg

The giant print flipper allows pieces up to 30″x40″ to be shown.

There’s this big chunk of mountain that comes crashing down to the river some 540 million years ago. It gets broken up into smaller pieces and then eventually is ground down to a bunch of smaller stones that get buried in the gravel bars of the rushing river.

As they roll downstream, they contact other similar rocks in the river and, just like it happens in a lapidary “tumbler” device, the stones grind and polish one another.

The process can be sped up in a lapidary workshop, merely by adding some grinding abrasive compound — it’s a simple cutting powder that you’d put into the water in the rock-tumbler.

The rocks in the tumbler go ’round and ’round, grinding against each other, sometimes for months, but it’s a LOT faster than the river method.

If you were to produce the ringstones and brooch stones that I offer in my rock shop, and you had to glue a dop stick to the back of the stone and hit it with a diamond cutting wheel, and then shape it, form it and polish it, that would be the work of several days.

All I have to to is hop into the car and drive 55 miles away to a landscaping yard where they have enormous bags and heaps of rocks, and select the ones I want, get them weighed and priced out, pay the invoice, load the rocks into the trunk and drive back home, another hour’s drive.

In all, I spend about an hour to an hour and a half choosing the rocks that I want to get. We’re pretty friendly with the landcape arts people, and they help us quite a lot to get loaded — in the freighting sense of the word — and they often have suggestions about rocks that they’ve just gotten in. Continue reading →

Zen Rock Painting

October 17, 2018Uncategorizedart, charity, congress, ej gold, fear, gorby, gorebagg, hope, interactions, jal, loathing, meditation, money, paint, paint a rock, peace, recriminatilons, reincarnation, rock, senators, social, tranquilitygorebagg

Jewel & Gorby setting up gallery for rock painting & auctions.

Yes, Zen Rock Painting is here, and it’s incredible! You will have the best craft experience of your life, absolutely guaranteed or double your money back — the class is free, the materials are free and the table space is free. It costs us about a dollar to give away one painted rock, and the result is well worth it.

What happens when someone is confronted with “Paint a Rock”?

It varies, depending on the internal and external dialogues and conditions. In short, the very prospect of the simple act of painting a rock is seen as an enormous ego-threat.

“What if my painted rock is ugly?” they worry. All the worst aspects of internalizing and projection come out at this moment.

If there’s a conflict between a couple or between adult and child, it will come out now. This is the time when all neuroses get trotted out to block the possible fun experience.

They are unworthy, and they know it — they’ve been taught all their lives that not only are they not artists, but that art is crap, and that all artists are degenerate drains on society.

I’m here to put that lie to the test. Continue reading →

Information, Information, Information…

October 15, 2014Uncategorizedcube, ejgold, fashion, gorby, gorebagg, hats, hearts, information, paint, theory, tiffanygorebagg

Tiffany in Red Hearts handpainted dress, & Gorby in LeslieAnn Cowboy Hat, during photoshoot for tattoo-fashions.com

“Information, information, information…without good information, Gabriel, how can I possibly make good decisions???” — Lord God, Creation Story Verbatim

Anytime you add or subtract information from the surface of a Primitive Object, which is what most things are, no matter what they look like, including me and you and Tiffany here, it changes the object, “Heisenbergs” it, in a way… I’ll explain:

Take an object, any object, and describe it as a simple undifferentiated cube with no distinguishing characteristics at the moment.

Okay, now stuff the cube full of something — anything. It goes into the “contents”, which is to say, it is added to, and distributed by negentropy into small groupings or “bundles” and embedded into the surface — not the skin — of the cube. Some part of these “instructions” or “information” says that the cube now looks like a sphere.

All Particles (Cubes) act as Black Holes in respect to incoming information by accumulating the information and distributing it unevenly within its surface.

We can add yet more or entirely different information and make the cube look like Tiffany, or Gorby or both, but that’s another story involving quantum mechanics like the kind of calculations and theory that you would be forced to confront in a final exam. Information can be “stacked” or layered.

Information embedded in the surface of the particle isn’t necessarily flattened, but it can be, in the interest of Conservation of Information, a standard that Stephen hasn’t yet broken, and he won’t ever. The Conservation of Information is not destroyed by a Black Hole, the observational evidence isn’t yet in to support my position, but it’s on the way shortly. Continue reading →

Teaching Art in Second Life

June 30, 2013Uncategorizedart, ashram, class, draw, ejgold, learn, paint, sculpt, secondlife, teachgorebagg

Gypsy Easel

It’s true — you can teach art classes in Second Life, and here’s how it’s done. First, get hold of this instant artist easel shown here. I’ll put in a link where you can get it:

click here for your very own gypsy easel

But now that you have your Gypsy Easel in hand or at least in Inventory, what do you do with it? How do you use it to teach an art class? It’s very simple if you can follow directions well.

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