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Welcome to the Travel Book Gallery. 'The Travel Book' is so named because of its cover. Its content has little to do with either 'travel', although it has travelled with me since 1994. I began it at Aroma's Cafe on 17th Street in Costa Mesa, California, as a way of killing time while I waited for my laundry. It also wanted to counter-balance the more representational drawings that I had started the year before with something as spontaneous and undeliverate as possible. The approach and attitude was to create with a minimum of consciousness while constrained to the use the 36 colors within a rectangular area defined by four black lines. Beware of the first page! It is blank but not as a joke or a statement. Originally, it was intended to be totally blank, serving only as a front inner cover, which left 81 pages to draw on. The work on the second page wasn't considered as belonging with the rest, and the very last one ended up being used to draw Mt. Vesuvious in Naples, Italy. That left a total of 79 usable pages which towards the end disturbed me. I then decided to use the first page and so added the four black lines to define the rectangular working area for the last work, Number 80. After finishing 79 I started thinking of 80...it would be the first in the serious but really, it was the last one. It would finish the series but itself wasn't even begun. It would appear empty (being blank and white) but white is made up of all the colors of the spectrum which really meant that it was saturated with colors... The more I thought about it, the more I was inclined to leave it blank. That countered the whole attitude of leaving conscious thought out of the process...ironically, the last work is then the only one which was thought out... I had gone around a circle and found the entrance and the exit! The first page is an opening and closing to contemplation. |
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