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A Life Of Delusion

Explanatory Nomenclature: With A Peniality That Would Cast Glory On A Cocktail Weenie, Delusional King Farouk, Last Dynastic Sovereign Of Egypt, Despite Impotence, Set The Style For Corpulent Playboys, Gambled Away Fortunes, Practiced Theft, From Grand Larceny To Pickpocketing, And Having Met A Mysterious Death, Few Shed Tears

Poolroom Title: Category Ten “Spoiled Shitless” With Unrestrained Self-Worship Tantrums 

Oil on canvas     1999     50 X 72 inches (127 x 182.9 cm)

 

A Square Peg In A Round Hole

Explanatory Nomenclature:  Using An Example Of Mismatched Toys Forced Into A Misfitted Conjunction, And Then Poetically Attributing This Pressing Of One Shape Through Another As Synonymous With Misdirected Tenacity, Is Like The Analogy Just Described: A Metaphor Extrusion

Poolroom Title:  “What A Hammer Can’t Fix Is Something That Ain’t Broken”

Oil on canvas     1999     30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)

 

The Appetite That Dare Not Be Appeased

Explanatory Nomenclature:  When A Boy Puts Away Boy Things And Bares The Accoutrements Of  Men, He Unknowingly Inherits Adult Prurient Turpitude, But Through Unsophisticated Eyes, Every Pig Is His Sow, Every Dog Is His Bitch And Every Demure Colleen His Focus On Derision

Poolroom Title:  “Every Woman Is A Whore,” A Notion Recanted By Every Mother’s Son; Hence, If She Were So Pure You Wouldn’t Be Here

Oil on canvas     1999     24 x 40 inches (61 x 101.6 cm)

 

Art’s Triumph Over Substance

Explanatory Nomenclature:  Often In The Course Of A Fool’s Life, Something Silly Can Enter Into The Zone Of Ruptured Logic Where Emotions Add Berserk Irony To Anything That Would Permit The Abstractly Gifted To Dictate To God

Poolroom Title:  At Quantum Vaudeville The Intermission Is The Performance

 Oil on canvas     2000     30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)

Bastardizing Of The Autonomy Of “Person, Place And Thing”

Explanatory Nomenclature:  Paint For Me The Picture Of Being Here And There, And At The Same Time Everywhere, While Repairs Are Being Made To Elastic Truths, Rubber Physics And Malleable Cockamamie

Poolroom Title:  Garage Surrealism

Oil on canvas     2000     30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)

 

Child Bride

Explanatory Nomenclature:  Concubinage Of An Impubic Young Brat Backwoods Wife Is Strikingly Contrasted As A Mascot Emblem Ensconced On The Side Of A Spacecraft To Immortalize The Object Of Every Old Fool’s Dreams; The Infant Wife

Poolroom Title:  Appalachian Babycakes And Her Father-Figure Husband’s Penile Dropsy 

Oil on canvas     2000     20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)

Child Substitute

Explanatory Nomenclature:  An Artificial Infant Composed Of A Mulching Gnarled Protuberance Of An Exposed Root System From An Ancient Conifer Serves To Bless A Postmenopausal Motherhood

Poolroom Title:  Mumsy’s Twig-Baby Is A Thorn In The Placenta

Oil on canvas     2000     30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)

“Don’t Feed The Dog At The Table”

Explanatory Nomenclature:  Sanctifying The Cries Of Baying Hounds While The Homeless Perish Is The Misfortune Of Those Unable To Distinguish Between A House Pet And A Guest

Poolroom Title:  The Most Pathetic Thing About A Goddamn Begging Dog Is Its Begging Master

Oil on canvas     2000     30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)

The Lap-Dancer And The Firebug

Explanatory Nomenclature:  Erotic Choreography Performed By A Nubile Nude Entertainer For A Matchbook-Cover Collector And Part-Time Arsonist In A Close But “No-Contact” Proximity, Lends New Insight Into The Metaphor “Hot;” Hot Like Mixing Pyromaniacal Unrequited Love With Bare-Breasted And Visible-Genital Terpsichore (Dancing)

Poolroom Title:  Crotch Fire Sale At The Ballet Of Hovering Clams

Oil on canvas     1998     40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Minotaure-On-High As Witnessed By His Antediluvian Retainers

Explanatory Nomenclature:  The Tranquil Poetry Of Forest Murmurs Is Shattered As A Prophetic Strato- Cumulus Visitation Is Announced To A Reposing Melancholic Effeminate Bovine By His/Her Hominid Lackey-Domo Retinue

Poolroom Title:  Moo-Moo Doo-Doo In A Tutu

Oil on canvas     1998     40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Perplexities Of The Adult World

Explanatory Nomenclature:  When Children Cease To Believe That Everything An Adult Does Is The Predestined Act Of An Unquestionable Clock-Drive, And Come To Realize That Even To Spinoza, A “Thingamajig,” Is Still A “Doohickey,” Their Age Of Oblivious Bliss Has Been Rescinded

Poolroom Title:  Billy And Cynthia Watch Ol’ Gus Puke Up A Twenty Mile Long Ham-Nosed Imp

Oil on canvas     2000     20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)

The Phallic Anvil-Drop That Signifies A Bad Idea

Explanatory Nomenclature:  In The Promenade Of Injudicious Logic, Hindsight Is The Rain That Suspends Stupidity’s Parade; Not Eliminating It, Consequently, Barring Foresight, We Are Sill At Liberty To Exercise Stellar Idiocy

Poolroom Title:  “Does It Take A Special Hammer To Chase A Fly Off A Baby’s Head?”

Oil on canvas     1998     40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Play On Words

Explanatory Nomenclature:  With A Scene From The Battle Of The Belleau Wood Protruding Out Of An Oral Cavity Which Resembles A Poor Boy Sandwich, Even a Sophomore Medical Student Could Diagnose And Read The Rebus Clues From A Child With “Trench Mouth”

Poolroom Title:  A Pun Done For Fun By A Moron Is An Oxyimbecile

Oil on canvas     1999     24 x 40 inches (61 x 101.6 cm)

The Psychological Profile Of An Earthworm

Explanatory Nomenclature:  In Analyzing Live Bait, Questions Diverge On How Complex Are Its Clandestine Motives To Entice, Compared To Its Neurotic Tendencies To Exhibit Signs Of Having A Complex; Or Do Worms Traumatize While They Tantalize?

Poolroom Title:  Scrumptious Bitch Grub Ruttin’ On The Hook Is An Angler’s Sweetheart

Oil on canvas     1998     20 x 24 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Putting The Genie Back In The Bottle

Explanatory Nomenclature:  When The Greatest Minds Of Our Time Can Reinsert The Giant Arabian Golem Of Samarkand Into His Magic Lamp, Sinbad The Sailor Will Drown Wrapped In Aladdin’s Flying Carpet, And Ali Baba Will Find His Forty Thieves In A Thimble

Poolroom Title:  Only The Areolas Of Scheherazade Can Draw A Boil To A Head Through A Turkey Baster

Oil on canvas     2000     30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)

 

Requiem For A Fraudulent Ancestor

Explanatory Nomenclature: Verily, If No Scientific Scrutiny Is Withstanding, Not Only Did The Piltdown Man Exist, But He Was The Victim Of An Archaeological Cover-Up To Suppress Romantic Inclinations That A Prehistoric Man Could Telekinetically Transport Himself Forward Into 13th Century England To Be The Product Of A Union Between An Indentured  Medieval Laborer And An Estrus Receptive Sumatran Orangutang

Poolroom Title: When Ancient Relatives Become Extinct From Never Existing, That’s Contraception In Reverse

Oil on Canvas     1999     50 x 72 inches (127 x 182.8 cm)

 

Slave-Made Toys From Amiable Old Cathay

Explanatory Nomenclature:  Using Racial Stereotypes To Make Visible The Forced- Labor Practices Existing In Sino-Industrial Slave-Labor Camps That Manufacture Innocent Dolls For Unsuspecting Children, Brings To Light The Need To Emancipate Politically Indentured Lackeys, A Situation That Makes All Toy Merchants Accomplices

Poolroom Title:  She-Coolies Sweatin’ Bamboo Blossoms In A Stuffed-Panda Gulag

Oil on canvas     1998     40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

 

 

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