Well, it's been about two months since my last post. Started classes last week, and I'm back into the swing of things. I've started a couple of new paintings, which I'll post eitheir tommorrow or Friday. Starting to really think about Thesis. I've started making a list of all the things that I want to paint that would constitute an alternate reality, here's the list thus far:
1. What
if God was one of us?
2. What
if God was Clint Eastwood? Or Dirty Harry?
3. What
if the Native Americans hadn’t thought the white men were gods?
4. What
if the world had moved on?
5. What
if there were monsters under the bed and other places?
6. What
if there were superheroes?
7. What
if there was magic (real not sleight of hand and misdirection)?
8. What
if Armageddon?
9. What
if there were no technologies?
10. What
if the world emptied?
11. What
if there was an afterlife?
12. Heaven?
(Best memories)
13. Hell?
(repetition)
14. The
Devil?
15. The
Rapture?
16. Aliens?
17. Higher
forms of life?( Not neccesarily aliens)
18. Cosmic
order?
19. Unicorns
and fairies?
20. Cthulhu?
21. Plague?
22. Good
vs. Evil?
23. Oz?
24. What
if the evil that men do lived on long after they have passed? (Haunted house)
25. What
if God died?
26. What
if Dinosaurs still existed?
27. What
if we create what we believe? ( God, angels, The devil, monsters, science,
etc.)
28. What
if there was an island???
29. What
if the Hobbit… in New York City?
30. What
if there was a Shire?
31. Four
figures, the hero, a kid, on the left, while two bullies on the right are picking
on a kid. The bullies look over their shoulders, looking amused but at the same
time a little frightened. Wide scene.
32. What
if the devil was human?
33. What
if animals could talk?
34. What
if reality was as thin as tissue paper, what would we see on the other side?
35. What
if Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had been shot instead of John F. Kennedy?
36. What
if there was life on mars?
37. Utopia?
38. Dystopia?
39. Everyone
was crazy?
40. No
one could die?
41. What
if cancer wasn’t such a bad thing?
42. What
if what didn’t kill you did make you stronger, and stranger?
43. What
if your imaginary friends were trying to kill you?
44. What
if a small boy had all the power in the world?
45. What
if the Anti-Christ is a really nice guy?
46. What
if the devil walked old ladies across the street?
47. What
if you killed God, would you be God?
48. What
if the government actually worked?
49. What
if cops tried to brutalize the “wrong” guy?
50. What
if cats made good guard dogs?
51. What
if Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman?
52. What
if Jesus is a dick?
53. What
if you could dodge bullets?
54. What
if scientology is right, Tom Cruise would be so happy?
55. What
if Jack Torrance had lived?
56. What
if there was no more oil?
57. What
if there were zombies?
58. What
if Dracula was a diabetic?
59. What
if Utrecht had a 50% off coupon?
A lot of the things on the list are things that just came to me, and some are things that were just funny. I'd like to get through all of these or more in one form or another, whether it's just a sketch or a full fledged painting. Some of thse are just questions while others are just me trying to flesh out the scene. I plan on adding to the list as I go and if anybody has any ideas for an alternate reality please feel free to tell me, no idea is to outrageous or silly. Long days and pleasant nights.
Dirty Harry, God.