cowtown

I saw a statue of the buddha, with sunken skeletal features, veins crawling over canoe keel ribs, gaunt arms and gaunter legs, and I thot , he took himself to the edge, denied the physical, and then came back the self same way, to somewhere in the middle…is this what i need to do w. celibacy, is this what the church needs to do w. celibacy—i got so caught up in assuming the match b/w buddha & christ was the anihalltion of self, maybe it is temperance, balance and restraint. what next ?

the same place i found the buddha, i saw a disappointing show of the bog people---mysterious souls left persved in the peat bogs of Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Holland, there were some of the corpses there, and some tools, but also a collection of ritual jewelry/pots/adzes/etc that was deeply moving, but the light was so dim, and the display cases for some of the best work prevented a full view…that & they quoted heany’s bog poems but did not sell the volume.

To go along with the was wolfgang bleekers photos of moors, which had a decent colour sense, and some startling compostion, but by the most part, were overly romantic, and almost too cinematic.

The art gallery of calgary had a show of paintings done with acrylics, and clothes line, the gallery attendant described some of it as strong, and some of it as laboured. I was more excited by the eames plywood chairs then the work (which I found too concerned with material & theory, and nont nearly concerned w. form, so we had another show of b&w grids/rondos.

A bookstore cross stephen avenue had a book of censored comic art, including some v. well drawn boy pinups by p craig russell, almostl cadmusian in its details.

(saw some v. good public art, Yoruba murals on the side of a south African resturant, a horse made of farm implements, ekens glossy/blurry/glam/fuck you funny trophy cibrachromes as trophy art in the husky oil lobby/22 blackbirds carved, numbered and placed on a pole, etc.)

terse, wasp fight w. gramma about money, gave me my bday cheque early,

dependent on bryan’s car too much, found that out today, need to change it.