http://www.facebook.com/v/1427398890093RUST!
ROT!
DECAY!
COLLAPSE!
ABSORPTION!
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Arghghgrrrgrgrg! Breakfast with the arts! ATE IT UP THIS MORNING! The 1st in a series of 18″ X 12″ watercolors-”Bubbleaquarium” cleared off my plate! Feels good to slake the hunger- I’ll post scans for everyone to taste soon!
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Bacon is smart for breakfast? NO I’M MAKING ART FOR BREAKFAST! Silly rabbit Sunday morning is time for breakfast with the arts! Yummy! Yes, rust has a flavor, and you can taste its decay.
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ART FOR BREAKFAST AGAIN! YEA! PBS/Netflix – Art 21: Art in the 21st Century. TASTY! Two more 4″ X 4″ Antintropic watercolors too! I’m teaching Adelaide as I go, stirring up a yummy mix of nourishing creativity. We’re learning together as we fill up on ART LIFE and CULTURE!
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Arghghgrrrggg! Sunday Morning Breakfast with the arts is on the menu again! I haven’t been eating well the past couple of week but today I’m going to get my fill! GET UP GET OUT MAKE ART! Searching for signs of spring, talking photos, and MAKING STUFF! Click! FLASH, YUM! Did you see that, TASTY!
First things first! We acquired an older 4 wheel drive vehicle, with the goal of using it as a mobile photo platform. At shoestringadventures.com we are putting together photo collections of the work. We call it E.R.M.A. The Exploration, Reconnaissance, And Monitoring Apparatus.
It is a 1995 Jeep Wrangler, and after a little overhaul, an auxiliary lighting system, and a few custom camera mounts, E.R.M.A. will be ready for work. Our goal is to document, with photo reference, the Atlantintropic theory in and around Connecticut. Eventually expanding out from CT, we will explore the fallen ruins of NY, NJ, PA, RI, MA, NH, VT, ME. The Atlantintropic world continues to collapse, as our social structure grows.
Searching for Evidence of an Atlantintropic World
On a recent trip to South Dakota I decided to track down a few ghost towns as evidence that the Atlantintropic Theory was a tangible summation of the decay and decline of culture surrounding modern society. These towns, some populated well into the 1900s, collapsed because of economic or physiological decay. I have been visiting these kinds of places for a long time, more than 30 years now, and I feel that they offer one of the closest representations of the Atlantintropic ideal.
After laying out plans at dinner one night, I was able to convince several of my traveling companions to journey off the beaten path and find the lost town of Tinton. Underestimating the terrain, how dark the canyons get after sunset, and encountering difficulties like tire spikes, our first night was less than a success. We agreed to give it another go the following night, but this time with the right kind of car, and a little more daylight.
Located deep in the Black Hills of SD, in a remote portion of Spearfish Canyon, Tinton sustained itself as a mining town. Residents were reported to occupy the town up until the 1950s when the mill was destroyed by fire. Being such a “new” ghost town makes Tinton an ideal place to visit because so much of the town is still intact.
It was quite an adventure to finally reach Tinton. In the pouring rain, with washed out roads, and no real markers, we had a hell of a time finding it. We jumped out of our vehicle a number of times to navigate around obstacles, and with weather slowing our progress, we arrived later than expected. Getting there just after dusk, wet and tired, we climbed out of our mud covered SUV just in time to see the clouds break and reveal a purple sky dressed with a beautiful rainbow stretching across the ghostly remains of Tinton.
The sight regenerated everyone’s mood, and we immediately began exploring the collapsing buildings and overgrown landscape. While the others snapped away photos, I walked silently around the town absorbing the emotional feel of the site. This was truly an Atlantintropic expedition. The photos, notes, and memories I collected were invigorating inspiration for the Atlantintropic project. You can find albums and collections of Tinton and other Atlantintropic expeditions at the following dot-coms, blogs, and media sites.
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“Windborne Atlantin Flexakeel” by Alex Datzuk
4″ X 4″ color/technique tests, for larger 18″ X 20″ watercolor works. The larger pieces involve more detail, as well as background philosophy of the Atlantintropic Theory. These tests are necessary to create images for a “series” of 10+ larger pieces that have a coherent visual link. These watercolors will serve as a loose blueprint for the larger steel and concrete sculptures to follow.
The project at the top of my list, The AtlantinTropic Vision, is the direct application of my pen and ink work as base material for large-scale sculptures. In the next few months I will be revisiting old pen and ink pieces looking for elements that can be built on for further three-dimensional application.
Using industrial materials such as scrap steel, cold rolled steel, and steel reinforced concrete; the pieces will tie together organic forms with materials that deteriorate over time thus representing an organic form of decay. For example, as live flowers wilt so would the sculpture of a flower, after all, decay at a slower rate of speed is still decay. Applying a megalithic concept of the passing of a culture, using giant steel and concrete flowers rusting and slowly drooping into the earth symbolizing the passing of a culture’s time and place.
