Filed under: Art | Tags: 2015, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper, Rats
“…MOST Unwanted Rodents”
ink, colored pencil, and various stains on found paper
8 1/2″ x 11″
2015
(Yo Ray!.. Sorry for um, ‘finding’ this paper… hanging in the staircase of your building.)
Filed under: Art, Back In The Days, Ramblings, Uncategorized | Tags: 1980's, 2012, 2013, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Boston, Drawings, Elementary School, Free Drawing Paper, Graph Paper, Not Guilty, NYC, Penmanship, Punishments, The ways I punish myself, The Ways I Torture Myself, Writings
So a while back someone gave me a blank book filled with graph paper. Seemed like some interesting paper to draw on. Hopefully it would get me over the “hang up” I have with that paper.. it is what my 4th grade teacher, Ms. Casey, made us use for our “Punishments”.
Do something wrong, and have to write your punishment.. on graph paper. One letter, per square… over and over… until the page was done.
Mess up once?… Start over.
Hand cramping?.. Massage it for 30 seconds, then keep going.
Not learn the lesson?.. Do 5 sheets.
Still not learn?.. The whole class had to do em.
And after they were all done and got a quick check for accuracy?… Ripped in pieces and thrown away.
I usually got good grades in elementary school, except for… conduct, effort and… penmanship. So I OFTEN had this one…
“Write Neater”
This was another common one…
“I Will Not Talk”
Decades later I realized that some of these punishments had really stuck. And not always in a good way. So maybe the same techniques could be used to “unpunish” myself or or for things that I would consider more positive uses.
“Fuck That. Go Talk To Her.”
“A Skateboard Is Not A Battle Ax”
“Be Nice To Her”
Oh, and how can I forget? For next level shit we would have to write ONE WORD PER SQUARE…
“Sorry”
I spent a lot of time almost filling that book. But eventually decided to stop punishing myself…
“Not Guilty”
Filed under: Art | Tags: Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Disconnected, Disconnection Notice, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper
Literally disconnected these daze. No phone. And fine with it…
“Disconnection Notice #2″
pen and marker on disconnection notice
3.5″ x 6.75”
2014
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” Disconnection Notice (#1)”
ink on paper
6.75″ x 7″
2014
Filed under: Art | Tags: Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Collage, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper, Mixed Media
“ACE OF SPADES”
mixed media (pen, found paper, paint sample cards, playing cards)
4″ x 6″
2014
Filed under: Art | Tags: "I Can't Breath", #myNYPD, 2014, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, BEHR, BEHR Paints, Brooklyn, Chokehold, Collaborations, Doh! They Did It Again, Eric Garner, Forced Collaborations, FREE Art, Free Drawing Paper, Fuck the NYPD, Fuck The Police, Fucking Cops, Home Depot, New York City, New York Shitty, NYC, NYPD, NYPD Murderers, Police State, R.I.P. Eric Garner, Staten Island, Zoo York City
===================== R.I.P. ERIC GARNER =====================
(Forced) Collaborative with BEHR Paints released today*. Grab one for FREE at (involuntarily) participating Home Depots near you**…
“‘Fuck The NYPD’ Blue”
colored pencil and marker on BEHR color sample cards
3″ x 6″
2014
* While supplies last. (No need to ask Home Depot employees for help locating these in the store; if you can’t find them in the obvious location, you’re too late.)
** IF you are near Nostrand Ave/ Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Filed under: Art | Tags: 2014, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Drawings, For, Free Drawing Paper, M.T.A., My Bad, Sorry
“Sorry For When I Wasn’t The Person You Needed Me To Be.”
pen and marker on found paper
8 1/2″ x 11″
2014
the original piece of paper, pre-“art”:
