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Dan

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** ARTIST NEEDS ROLLING STUDIO * DONE !!

+++++BINGO !! +++++ I got a 21' Winnebago, " Minni - Winni" with everything but a generator, new tires, brakes, passed state safety inspection. For, drum roll........$ 1,700 !! I'm re-outfitting as a live in studio, and am close to schedule

As you probably can tell by now, I’m an Artist, living in Jacksonville FL. I’m preparing to take my next direction in artist development. In the past I’ve gone to different parts of the country and stayed 1-2-3 years, studying, researching, working, changing.
Now I intend to go, “ Full on Nomad” and stay on the road for as far as the path takes me. To do this I need a, “ rolling studio”. So a class C, Motor home, or small to mid sized schoolie is in order. (20 to 26 Foot)
Being an Artist, I of course have very little money. To fund the start of this journey I’m selling off all non-essentials and existing Artwork. After that I’ll be doing artwork on the road, and selling it when, and where opportunity allows. Maybe pick a few tunes on the town square, or work a, (gulp!) traditional job if need be.
Back to the transportation issue, perhaps there is a Patron of the Arts, with such a motor home they would sell on the cheap.
If indeed you are one of those generous people, please take a look at my work, tribes.tribe.net/badartdog and consider my 2-3 year project.
I would also of course be willing to trade artwork, lots of artwork! My web site has about half of my body of work at this writing.
Thank you for reading my post,

Dan Blake, Artist/Master craftsman, Bad Art Dog studios

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Please note, I now have an "Art only Tribe" with a more complete Portfolio including prices, and new work, as well as some of my earliest pieces, at
tribes.tribe.net/badartdog


Daniel Lee Blake
Born 1952
Self taught Artist/Master craftsman
Working background;

Restoration specialties;
Art pottery, Stoneware, Ceramics, Plasterware,
finishes and patinas
Inventor of the restoration system for
early plastics, (Catalin, Bakelite etc.)
Ornamental iron fabrication
Exotic/rare auto repair & restoration
Automotive custom paint
Laminate fiberglass repair/production

2001 to 2004, studied the artistic development
of the Mimbres tribe ( 500 - 1200 A.D.),
to the modern Pueblo Traditions.
Present field of studies include; early rock art of American southwest tribes. From the Freemont culture, south through the Mogollon tribes, South Pecos, and Casas Grandes of northern Mexico.
Artist in residence, Art Tribe Studios
Newnan, GA. 2005-07.
2007 to present; Owner, Bad Art Dog Studios, Jacksonville , FL. Engaged in contemporary Brain Slap Art, ( 2, 3, and 4 dimensional Surrealism ).

Installations and collections
Western New Mexico University Museum
Silver City Museum “ Neo Mimbrano show “ 2003-4
Society for the preservation of desert archeology, Tucson AZ.
Dr. Glenna Dean, N.M. state archaeologist (private collection)
Antonio Grazieze, author of multiple books on western ghost stories
(private collection).
Western NM. University, “ Regional Best show 2002”
Elemental Arts, Silver city, NM.
. Pueblo Inn Gallery, Los Alamos, NM.
Outsider Gallery, Silver City, NM.
Many Moons Tribal folk art gallery, Arenas Valley, NM.
Gallery Row, Carrolton, GA.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Jacksonville, FL.

His large-scale archeological pieces augment
The collections of serious students of Mimbres art
Through out southern Arizona, New Mexico,
and Texas



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Age
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Location
about me
Is this the "self discovery window " ? complex learner- teacher, spirit traveler, artist at every turn.
Abst. sculpture, every medium. painter, poet, Master craftsman, player of music ( 12 string ) CD, radio.
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My Blog, My lifes

Is anyone else tired of no love? I’d much rather know love, than to have known love. Known love, is forgotten love, I want to remember love.

I think I knew love, but then I think, “ if I truly knew love, or if I knew true love, would I have forgotten love?”

Has the softness of its’ discovery been eroded by the coarseness of its’ loss? Is mine the only poets soul trampled by its’ leaving, or scared by its’ visit?

Has love changed its’ color, its’ tempo? Can I not see it, or feel its’ passing?
Was I blinded by it, so as to never see it again?
Mon, November 20, 2006 - 4:46 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Welcome to Eigmaville
land of leaf blowers and lawn vac's.
Where we buy our water in jugs
and dirt in sacks.

We give last years clothes to those
who live out'a bags.
And stop by wally world
to pick up a bag'o'rags.

We get down on our knees
to pull the flowering weeds.
And spend our saturday hours
plant'n wild flowers.

D.L. Blake
Fri, April 21, 2006 - 5:50 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Those who seek bigger gardens often end with weeds
Those who seek better gardens start with better seeds


If guns are outlawed,
only outlaws will shoot
themselfs in the foot


In a village of idiots
the smartest man is still an idiot


Hit the stock market
and play the odds.
Here's to the corporate christ
and all the plastic pocket gods.


We're surrounded by
laser eyed silver peeping monkeys !


Life; controlled chaos,
or cosmic conspiracy ?


Inner jurnies
have the highest hurdles


Growing up is a childhood
of new freedoms


It's only hard to find
what you're looking for.


A cold wind blows through
the torn fabric of my soul.


Hollywood, D.C.


You can plant your seeds on fertil soil.
Nourish them with sweat and toil.
Throw in everything but the kitchen sink.
You can lead a whore-to-culture
but you can't make her think.


The unmistakable rattle of rat shit
as it dances up the vacuum hose of life.


Smiles above the clouds of life


Life's a dance if you listed to the music.


How great a gift to have good friends
that are good people.


Some people are so busy looking for
the silver lining
That they just don't see the rain


Reason jumps out the window
when the lawyers walk through the door.


Beware the naked ape
he wears no shoes
he gives no clues
he pays no dues
his hart has tattoos
he sings the blues.


Demons hide behind their own walls


People seldom fall forward when they make a mistake


High achievements based on low expectations


Cosmic pinball


Frog fast and rat dog ready


While there is no doubt, that God made flies,
I am of equal confidence that the devil
tells them what to do.


Sometimes your day job is a nightmare


It's not that I don't want to do the right thing
I just don't want to do it right now.


NO DAY LACKS LEARNING


Ain't nuthing wrong with Nascar
that a couple of right turns can't fix


Anything can be true in the mind of a fool


The spirtual suffocation of religious supplication


religion is organized, spirituality is realized


Don't need no Caddy with leather seats
just a good old hat, and shoes on my feet


Internet wash and werewolfs hunt with
candy flavored condoms


Unbutton your eyes and see the surprise
when dark becomes light and truth becomes lies.


The less I stay the more I go
The more I learn the less I know


Sushi fondue and other brain slaps


Grab your favorite Isum, do it without delay
there's lots of roads to travel
and lots of tunes to play

all of the above, D.L. Blake
Fri, April 7, 2006 - 6:45 PM permalink - 0 comments
 


In the time of the ancients
There were no galleries
No juried shows
No mandated corporate expenditures for public art
No “wear your best black” wine and cheese openings

No monkeys rolled in paint post-modern simian expressionist
No hyper-syllabic art reviewers spouting esoteric excrement
No outsider art
No insider art
Just art

Now we have pigeon holes
Genres
Schools
Boxes for all occasions
Outsider
Is more than a name
More than a box built by the corporate art world
It
Is
A sense of being
We’re people that are
Because we are
Not because of the vocation or avocation we’ve chosen
Or by virtue of our training

Rather
Because we’ve given ourselves to the creation of things
Things that have beckoned to us to share their form with this
Physical world

These words, these works
Are dedicated to the spirit of those who
Share this universal breath

D.L.Blake
Tue, March 28, 2006 - 2:56 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
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