When I left he gave me that bag of scrolls - I mean it was a big bag, easily a hundred, double sided, the results of barely 2 weeks of work - if even.
I've started photographing and uploading them, they are fascinating (if a bit repetitive, ...); all of them can be substantially embiggened by right clicking and selecting "open image in new tab". When looking at them they're all in pairs - one side, then the other; only rarely is a scroll one-sided. And - I'd like to say - a lot of people would guess from his artwork that he's a dirty-old-man. He's not. I mean, he is, just not in that way, he's very respectful of women; clearly he's gotta have some sort of charm if any (or all?) of these women posed for him...
This job of digitally archiving them - and poorly, at that - it's a full time thing - I'm not kidding, already friends are advising me I have more bags of scrolls waiting, you're going to have to settle for the best I can do...
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Tracked him down the day before I left, it'd been a couple of weeks since I'd seen him last and he'd been busy. I mean busy.
A very full 2 bags of scrolls, quite likely a hundred or more as they're often rolled 2 or three together and double sided.
And a Christmas gift, in case I didn't make it back to see him.
A pewter peeing cherub melted into a candle plinth. Note the sparkly hair scarf, he's got a big of a drag thing going on there...
Instructions for the boy as to how to get to his old house at the Naval base, he's hoping to see some pictures.
Out for dinner, he's affecting a "Banksy" look. The mitten - well, he had a stroke about 7 or 8 years ago - was left handed, then had to learn to draw with his right hand all over again.
I've got to start scanning his scrolls - and getting them framed in double sided glass - there's often pictures ala Kadinsky - on both sides. He deserves a show - really, there's no artist on earth as prolific, and disregarded - I doubt very much that of the 30 or 40,000 scrolls he's produced if even 500 hundred survive. And, yeah, it's all a bit out there, but that's the charm, and the artist doesn't always separate so easily from his work. Anyways, I've a lot of work sorting out all his gifts and artwork - flattening it, scanning it, and - of course, unboxing videos (there's whole boxes here of his stuff I just dropped off on trips back to Calgary that I have yet to go through...hopefully no rotten fruit!).
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Finally, a couple of days ago I got around to unboxing Stormy's plenteous gifts...no time for the scrolls, but long overdue on disposing of rotting fruit...
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It wouldn't be fair to take all of Stormy's fine artwork and gifts without arranging some sort of reciprocation...
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