Big art

In no particular order:
Pollock imitation
The cut-up
Girl with brown hair

It's probably a good thing that I don't possess many of my larger artworks, because if I did I'd be tempted to create some more—and that generally brings with it the problem of storing the junk somewhere. Several of my early (and probably crude) paintings are in the care of a private collector, and I haven't seen them in years. Several other pieces—large drawings in charcoal and/or graphite, along with another few paintings—I left in Italy, and I don't know what happened to them. (They're of no concern to me, I mean.)

The few large pieces I can keep track of today are in Virginia, under the care of family members. The pastel piece "Girl with brown hair" hangs, as shown, in an ugly frame in my mother's house, and was originally gifted to her, and will no doubt remain with her so long as she remains somewhere. Its origins are rather banal, but its life has been weird enough to relate separately.

The cut-up shown here, with my 5' 1" sister, originally measured 4' x 8', and used to hang in my Brooklyn apartment, until she and I dismantled the old stretcher and improved it. The piece began as a triple homage to Pollock, Rothko, and Kline, but I was never satisfied with it, and I stuck it behind a mattress in my mother's old basement. So long as it remained one canvas, I hated it, in fact; and only the intervention of more caring souls than mine saved it from oblivion. The complete story follows separately.

"Pollock imitation" measures 4' x 10', and is hanging in my mother's stairwell, as pictured here. Formerly, it was hung (horizontally) in another house, where it took up most of the wall, and nicely complemented a large sectional couch; prior to that, it stood (vertically) on display in the old Dharma Coffeehouse in Fairfax, where various art-loving patrons actually used their fingernails to pick out the coins embedded in its paint.

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