"Tell Me What YOU See?"

every picture tells a story -- don't it?

The STORY goes like this....
I suppose I could have unpacked the original art—the colored-pencil illustration of Bob Dylan, aptly titled: "A TRAIN TO CRY"—unpacked it from the box ready to be sent to the Santa Fe gallery (before the 'shipping cost' funds ran dry). I could have done that. And hung that picture like I hung the ink drawing of JACK KEROUAC and the batik painting of BILLIE HOLIDAY in the previous months. But I wanted to do something different this time. Hang something that might make the customers of the Northfield Coffee and Books shop pause and say "what's that?" It looks like a bulletin board from the artist's studio. It looks like a "process revealed." Some step-by-steps. Or at least a progression of what may have come first. You all viewed the "somewhat comical" step-by-step I posted in a previous blog. That's included. But so is a CD image of the album cover art for BLONDE ON BLONDE. And there's even a ticket to the 1997 Bob Dylan concert at Northampton's John M. Greene Hall (that had only to do with the inspiration not the actual art itself). There's the model train that posed for the original illustration. The cover and a page from my self-published magazine: "Ain't gonna hang no pixel." Yes, I wanted something different.

And that's my story...