App. 2’x3′ Inspired by Sermon for the Sun. Salvaged wood art featuring sunflower and the Sun gazing at each other in bliss, like the parent and child. To the sunflower and many of us, the Sun is the one true god.
Month: October 2011
Re:Re: Hello Ork Posters!
Hi Lance, I conclude, per your comments, that I am not “up for making something of great value” because I disagree that art’s subject dictates rules to the artist. It’s a long, long discussion often started early in one’s career whether art has rules or is, in fact, the closest we can get to expressing…
Nola.com Gets All African Antelope On Us
In this blog’s ongoing documentation of the historical record on how our local media outlets were covering the decay of the Gulf and poisoning of our food supply and the unabated decay of coastal wetlands, and the erosion of the middle class in the last years of New Orleans before it all went down the…
Re: Hello Ork Posters!
Ork, Oh, I understand! But just for fun, will you indulge me in a bit of a discussion on the value of art? Sometimes in the creation of my own art, I wrestle with the urge to take a shortcut and make things easier and more accessible. Though, I always feel like I would cheat…
Hi Lance…
Hi Lance, Yes it was a hard decision to leave off Algiers and the other neighborhoods, but we did so because we didn’t want to propose in black and white (literally) where ‘New Orleans proper’ ends east of Algiers (include the whole peninsula, or just Algiers and then snub the people in the other neighborhoods…
Hello Ork Posters!
Hello Ork!!! My name is Lance Vargas and I am a blogger and artist here in New Orleans, the City That Care Forgot in the Neighborhood Ork Forgot! http://www.orkposters.com/neworleans.html See, a friend recently Facebooked (is that a verb?) me the neighborhood poster for New Orleans available for sale on your site (and thank you for…