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during summer i turn into an insomniac. late night tv is not reasonable, but i do it anyway…flipping, flipping, flipping and then a nature show. score. there was an incredible encounter between a bear and a lynx that summed up everything in my world. the pair were curious about each other. slowly dancing around in a circle ala west side story. they would punk each other a bit and then let out their audible code, which was either understood or not understood, whos to say. im taking about the type of sound that a broken moog would make. played in a hockey arena. come to think of it, the bear did sound like the goal siren. they should switch celebratory sports music with animal sounds.

i loved those few minutes of tv. couldn’t stop thinking about it.

beneath that batman mug is a lynx, but after repainting him a bunch of times, i wiped him out and somehow found the vintage batman mug on ebay. it seemed to me to be as bizarre as the lynx, just more silent. bat, lynx, man…the encounter, communication, it would have been just as good. the bear now has the nostalgia caught on his claw is is unsure of how to proceed. the lighbutlbs are there to add warmth to the scene. now its a party and party lights are important. romantic.

and anyway, when i was in undergrad and trying to figure out how to make art i remember robert rauchenburg saying “if the moment cant be as fresh and strange as everything going on around you, then it’s false”. he aslo said that in black mountain college, joseph albers gave him “permission to go on thinking the way i was thinking”. so the mug stays.