thoughts thunk

My friend Lisa is better at keeping up with her blog, of which I am sometimes a part.

As she mentioned, we went to the Ray Johnson documentary “How to Draw a Bunny” at the Alamo downtown. Favorite moments left out of her list are the difficulties in purchasing a work from Johnson. RJ encouraged haggling over prices, indeed it seemed very much part of the artist process for him. One patron exchanged price haggling letters with RJ for at least a year. By the time the price was settled upon, RJ had altered the portrait series of the buyer to portraits of Paloma Picasso. Another friend bought a piece of RJ’s at 1/4 less than the initial price. RJ cut out 1/4 of the collage.

My thesis related thoughts are in some sort of stasis. Reading induces sleep too easily. At least I have been drawing again a little bit (not that it’s school related activity).

Yesterday I started thinking about sea urchins. They are good at self protection, but cute enough to cuddle.