The following collection of ‘after school’ plans represent those ideas which I rehearse and revisit; that is to say these are daydreams.
List:
Visit Ephram Wolff on Vaschon Island and make intaglio with him
Visit David Byrne in New York
Produce stickers for sale
Produce a digital sticker pack for facebook
Postcards for SCBWI eligibility
Cartooning career
Design enclosures for aquarium
Do stage design
Work for Hollywood scenic painting. Connection- Dennis family’s friend Jane??
Work for D4 productions.. New Jersey Daryl, met at Balet X in Philly
Work for mural production in Brooklyn through Franco’s Spanish friend.
‘’ ‘’ through that company.. craigslist. Big wall i
Go to France to chill with lawyer John. Do the nudist colony for a couple weeks in Nice
Go to Paris- hit up M law school about the artist arrondissement live there as a gleaner for a while- 4 months. Squatter
Hit up Taz. Live with his roving band or chill - tap in to that for a while. Ride trains
Hit up Maine sustainable farm near Deer Isle. Do a season’s work harvesting with them.
Do a woofing program. Work on a farm in Chile, or one in California
Take a class on Ulysses.
Take German classes In Philly
Go to grad school for painting in the Midwest after spending some time on the west coast.
Buy a big nice printer to make a production of zines and such. Compile a mailing list though excel, physical and digital.
Design Shirts and print and sell through a distributor.
Apply for artist in residencies; especially for the national parks service and for institutions I’ve been in contact with prior. FSU, Haystack, outside of philly college Haverford, Cork, that one in Ireland that Shils was in..
Do the 100 paintings/ 100 square feet/ 100 days project. Make a book out of it
Live as a homeless person with a bank account- voluntarily. Making a painting busk show, selling works and prints for price points- especially from found objects- scissors, glue, twine, rubber bands, and detritus. A little bell I could ring with my foot would be a plus, like a Salvation Army worker.
Make a portrait series of homeless people ala prima, to hand over to them upon completion, for them to sell. Or keep?
Make Plein air paintings in a public location to sell to tourists and or connoisseurs. Paint every day in the park for six to eight hours, with a small display of paintings arranged at the feet. Maybe two paintings a day. Or one.
Make Plein air paintings in specific locations- memorizing the place as a motif, to ensure travel spots as income spots. I.e. memorize the city hall of Philadelphia, then the Grand Canyon. Paint them like cheap tourist paintings.
Paint Florida landscapes like the Florida highway men, and busk on the side of the road as the new Florida highway men. Get some friends to join- recruit. Make an LLC and do as the highway men did.
Situated self in the park as a portrait painter. Do half-hour alaprima portraits in acrylic gouache.. or oil- package them as to ensure their lasting. Also consider bringing a camera or scanner out there, for documentation of each picture
Get a studio in a cheap town like Jacksonville, and hide away. No internet connection.
Make a splashy zine to bid for attention from companies of a specific field- design work- and attend an international conference of such industry. Hand out zines as a sampler to your styles with a mention of ‘for hire’
Contact Aaron Brown and gf about production mural painting in west coast. Paint big walls through companies like she does, for billabong and all that.
Hit up John from Jacksonville about production mural painting including through the companies he paints through, and also firehouse subs.
Apply to open calls for mural like Cosby, with Cosby. Try to get on those big walls.
Do the construction site project- where you rent a house in a town like Sarasota, then sign a liability waiver to a construction company, then wear a hard hat and hang out on site, using waste from the site to make improvisational sculptures and paintings. Comment on sponsored redlining, forced infrastructure through greed of local governments, and formalism in relation to homogeneity in relation to imperialism, capitalism, etc.
Marry and get in touch with true nature- true love by the touch. Her touch is like death. Sex is so great. Marry and never question her. Let her swing but also give her tons of dick. Have babies.
Marry and have babies and homestead somewhere in tick country. Level out and grow strong in forestry skills. Fuck the shit out of her and have babies.
Marry and live a secluded life in the countryside near her family and paint conservatively and be cool about her paintings being better, and try to be proactive about getting her discovered, in addition to doing the same for yourself.
Marry and have a babies and live wherever and treat her with reverence and respect
Record a few albums using that tongue dum and fish out those old spoken word recordings and apply them and live record drums over top. Also, use a loop pedal and do some shows with the arrangements. Organize a tour.
Live a residency period on a House boat- house-sitting as a residency. Organize a show from the works.
Live somewhere near an ice lake, and learn to respirate in extreme conditions.
Do a tour of horse paintings, going from place to place ranch to ranch painting horses, selling and squatting.
Ditto yacht paintings
Do a tour of water tower paintings. Paint towns water towers after research about the locale.
Hit up crystal River for the big town wall for a mural
Hit up captain Tim for that other mural, as well as the owners of Pete’s Pier for the back wall animal series paintings.
Hit up the town of Palatka, FL which does historic murals and try to get a wall in that town
Hit up same deal in that cow-town in northern New York State. Bovina.
Also hit up the whale painter in Hawaii and go to him as an apprentice/associate/colleague. Wyland
Do some work for that artist you helped move in Brooklyn - that woman. That once. .
Do more mural work for WTMA gym in Tallahassee
Do a series of woodcuts for resale of Pennsylvania scenes with labor sourced from homeless populations through the shelters. Surely they’ve gotten propositions like this before.
Paint more for Pyramid Inc. in Tallahassee.
Do compassionate work with old people- workshops, nursing homes, or likewise.
Do residencies in in- between spaces like Diane Collins and live in places being rehabbed. She’s living and working in a studio in an old hospital now.
Read read read read read read read
Write zine about my education as an artist thus far and publish it a little painting book. To be revisited of course when I’m old and still doing it.
Go back through Tallahassee and mentor Graffiti kids
Alas a lot of these ideas are things I’ve heard of other people doing.
Disappear to some place out west and live out of town, unknown and in hermitage- coming in for essentials- The Walden’s Pond plan.
Do a massive collage residency at my Grammy’s house upon her death. Living in the house and processing all of the imagery through collage. Likewise selling some of the valuable posters could be useful for money.
Do a still life residency at Grammy’s house before she dies. Three weeks six -to - ten hour painting days medium and mid-large scale works.
Do the directions home zine project in total. Bugaboo
Sit quietly in my room in west Philly and pencil and ink and scan and print and assemble and scan and print comics zines without WiFi while working at a cafe or something four days a week. Live a meager life- super routine, while working on batched off days- try to narrow it to three days a week. Do this for a few years. Don’t let the popularity fool you, manipulate or play into your product or production. The outside influence will only weaken the work. Make something wicked but so thoroughly round. Read Moby Dick and Ulysses for inspiration or lattice. esp Moby Dick as it relates to Philip Guston
Become a terrorist, disrupting the structures of capitalism for ecological relief. Ie dig up roads. Hurt trade.
Buy properties and become a slum lord.
Go to Detroit and fix up a home through the fix-to-own government programs. Invest time and energies in urban farming.
In Detroit likewise get a houseboat and homestead it, fixing it up and waiting for ROI for thirty years like the Amsterdam canal houses.
The hip hop animation. Art history graffiti beefing cross out names. .
Residency at my mother’s beach condo in Panama City. Focusing on painting the sand dunes alaprima. Publish through the local newspaper, and put into a gallery in Destin or Mexico Beach. Ditto Sanibel Island and Captiva- target rich buyers with supremely good landscape paintings.
Ditto Donna’s house- paintings of the lake, and or paintings from the Crystal Rivers springs. Frame up for the Franklin Anderson Gallery
Paint the side of that frame shop- landscape style in Crystal River. Mural. They want it. Little money.
Paint the City of Crystal River City Hall- they want it. I’ve already designed the wall, and gotten approval, just no finance or guarantees of permanence.
Residency at Eula’s house. Make paintings in an upstairs studio. . Of what I don’t know.
Go back to Europe and hike with a tent. Do backpacking Europe in a less yuppie way.
Go to China and make ‘authentic’ American Abstract Expressionist work. Basically troll the westernization. Make a bunch of money out there.
Hit up all sexual prospects and see if I can’t get laid. Roll the dice.
Go on a sex tour where I woo and impregnate many women in one big sweep. Figure out the rest later.
Hit up that dude Daniel McClendon in Asheville NC and see if he’ll give me the business he’s built, if he’s ready to tap out.
Become a guard or a docent at the PMA, or ticket sales. Same goes for ICA, though I super doubt they would hire a SWM.
Develop an art criticism column and write about and for friends.
Do a video series over time, (daily for eight years) about studio life through which I could share my journey and process. Stay humble and build a community
Go to grad school at Yale for painting and get to the center of post-modern painting rhetoric
Wake up early and pencil and ink something each day & post- something responsible. Early Bird.
Make a line of 3D vinyl toy models for distribution via those toy shops.
Walk into the offices of high level interior designers and propose murals, privately commissioned. Be their in-house mural painter for kids’ bedrooms, etc.
Get the best printer you can find
Flood the internet with my imagery and email (especially marinas?) offers for big walls.
Snail mail Marinas a small portfolio and a business card with a small concise statement about why painting Marinas is important/inspiring to me.
“ “ sports stores. Sports stores want big. Murals of athletes running across their walls.
Trader Joe’s. Be a signage guy, or a mural tech. Be an art director.
Do signs for Home Depot and work in the paint department. Do signage and work on calligraphy.
Do/Finish painting of American Opossums for Sheila in Crystal River
Do/finish portrait of Bob and his wife Berger. Sitting in chair in front of them, hoping it turns out. In person.
100.)Do animal paintings for auction sales to raise money for animal rescues ( I don’t like this as money is an abstract concept tied with a system. Exposure is better than money for the welfare of the animals in this regard. It would be a good thing do to maybe with prints or something though.)
Paint backgrounds for zoos (Sarasota Jungle Gardens, Big Cat, Botanical Gardens).
Portrait of Cowboy
Portrait of Willie Rose
Collabo with John Collazos. Partnership with him and Cosby
Do the mural Circuit that Cosby has seemingly tapped into.
Portrait of Emma Ballantine
Portrait of Yaffa
Yaffa’s Illustrations turn over in pencil
Apply for Vermont residency
Apply for Skowhegan
Apply for Cranbrook for visual arts and creative writing MFA
Hang out in the PAFA library each day and look at each picture in the entire catalogue- cover to cover each book and make a few copies a day.
Hang out in the public library each day and look up and read about the most vile things you can think of on public computers and in books
Work on a mushroom farm
Clear up that license plate charge with the City of Jacksonville
Travel and camp with a tow-behind trailer; doing pleinair paintings along the way, and stashing them to dry and selling them in the town centers when I come across them. Business cards.
Hit up Amsterdam connections and have a show (Edwin Suer). “ ” Wynwood guy.
Paint Florida Nature that would sell in Franklin Anderson Gallery, and pitch to Karen.
Pet portraits.
Hoof it and get a few walls in Philadelphia under control, then paint them with Cosby. Cosby wants to do some walls in Philadelphia.
Visit Beehive Collective (again). Maybe for their Black Fly Ball; or even better, winter with them working shipping and reading through their library.
Illustrate (dedicate one whole sketchbook to- for starters,inked) for the New Yorker (spots) and submit to the art director there.
Contact those in Maine to go in on a punk house with.
Do tiny pieces graffiti, and get internet famous off them, and vie for bigger walls based on the smaller designs. You’re a great graffiti writer, just there’s little incentive, and it’s so expensive. Use the little pieces like a laboratory, and even sell the little fine art pieces on found objects, or on more creative surfaces.
Apply to many shows to try to get known.
Become an expat in Columbia. Hit up that teacher from MXDF.
Mom sees me as being the foremost artist in the world; creating our generation’s smiley face, or our generations ‘keep on trucking’. Being multidisciplinary and entrepreneurial. Do that.
Become and expat somewhere very cheap. Huddle up some money and live off it for a year or two.
Hike the ACT or the PCT through.
Go to LA to carve out a living.
Go to NYC to carve out a living.
Make One Hundred Perfect Days zine
Make Mural Proposals Look Book Zine
Make Couch Paintings Zine
Make Exhibition Walls Zine
Caged Animals Zine with essay about containment
Mind Mapping Zine
My Education Zine
Make sealed room video from imagination from childhood
Finish up that big painting of Lexi
Do that other painting of Lexi
Invite Lexi to Philadelphia
Do a residency at a botanical garden, a series of watercolor paintings to be turned into postcards and to be sold in the gift shop.
Collabo with Cami on that children’s book
3D model and bundle files of printable reinterpretations of old motifs. Sell bundle. Entrepreneurialism.
Hang a sequel to the cigarettes show in Jacksonville.
Hang a 666 serpents show, with large paintings.
Make a book of collected clouds. Like Craphound zine. Downloadable pdf that shit.
Downloadable pdf larger bodies of work and consider putting it behind paywalls.
150.TEFL in Japan
Residency at Jessica Glass and David’s sheep farm in Hartford Connecticut
Apply for Peace Corps and do two years in Mozambique
Work doing video production for a state department in house animations and editing.
Work doing stop motion and miniatures building in a studio like moonbot, or see what the people who did that film Max and Sarah? That Asperger’s syndrome film. See what they’re up to.
Make a series of figurines like precious moments about dilemma, dread polemic, etc. and mould them and produce them.
Come up with an llc., a marketing plan, and research (for outsourcing and distribution), and build an understanding of networks (distribution and management) for a takeover
Work for Hallmark
Do a series of underwater paintings and merchandise them
Design a handful of murals for pollution awareness and pitch and install or just illegally install
Go to a place like where you dream about. I’m thinking Cranbrook.
Do album covers and band merchandise and band posters. Focus on musicians and visuals, and be in a band.
Be a drummer for a handful of bands and work a job to get by.
Do sex murals for nightclubs. Like to go go club in Berlin. Black light art erotica.
Spend a winter in Alaska in seclusion
