The first summer heat is on and the fridge went on the fritz and the frozen peas thawing into one large green mass and the meat melting and the hordes of hot dogs that by rights and chemistry should last forever seem dagerously close to carion. The great steel thing is only three years old… In my old studio I had a Kelvinator from 1958 that worked like a jet age dream even though I had to knock great chunks of ice off the freezer compartment with a hammer… now we have this stainless steel shiny DeLorean inspired cocaine concieved crap… all shine and gloss and egineered obsolesence… and you can’t find a repair man for days… and if you dared hit it with a hammer, it would sue you… it’s on board computer brain acting as it’s own attorney.

Doing the old defrost, hoping that maybe these new fridges get the same troubles as the old, where in the condenser coils get frozen into a block of ice and loose their ability to radiate heat and thus their ability to make a fridge refridgerate. You never can tell, but it the old days you could see the condeser coils, now they’re all sealed in… so it’s anyone’s guess…. Do these things even have condensers anymore?

spent the day packing and shipping a painting to Dublin…. nothing much else accomplished.

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Here’s a sort of colllage from “Ashes and Oil” and e-book from a couple of years ago. You can download a sample here. Something about the video introduction remindes me of the painting I’m working on right now… So I thought it would be interesting to see them together when post an image of it (later today?).

Clover on the side of the highway.

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