douglas brent smith

Art = observation + interpretation.

  The Inclination Super Highway Bears Right -- collage by douglas brent smith

  Blowing In His Hair - sketch by douglas brent smith

Whatever else is thrown at you, look for love. When you can't find it you can create it. Look first for love. -- doug smith

  Station Reaction - sketch by douglas brent smith

  Nothing Orange In The Room -- collage by douglas brent wsmith

  Pressure Sensitive Purging Mechanisms

  How to Create a 3D Picture In Your Head -- collage by douglas brent smith or, go with the alternate title if you like, something about a dream and little Mexico. We're here on this plane creating our little hearts out, in this case sometime in or near 1995.  "Draw a picture." "Why?" "I'd love to see it."

  Arranging for Transportation -- collage by douglas brent smith

  Inner Core Dimensions, Part 1 is an instrumental recorded 9/19/2017 in the album Sincerely Yours by douglas brent smith.

This Is Not A Code -- collage by douglas brent smith  

we three smiles    rolling on the floor    bounce around the room and then    smile some more         we three smiles    making up new games    dance around the table laughing    at our names        we three smiles    hug and tug and grin    praise the Lord for living in    the world we're in.        -- douglas brent smith, 10 March 1987 

  We Both Know (douglas brent smith) you’ve been hurt i’ve been hurt, too    everyone’s hurt you know it’s true    we build ever taller walls     and hope someday that they might fall         you tell your truth, i start the chase    you throw another beer in my face    i think there must be something more to this        we try and miss and try again    we don’t need labels but we’re more than friends    you don’t need to tell anyone and    i don’t need to tell anyone but    i think you know what i think you already know        you’ve been free and i’ve been free    let’s unlock this mystery    you be you and i’ll be me    this is us we both agree    and i think we know what we both know   

  They Have Identified The Stranger -- collage by douglas brent smith    "Is it finished?"   "Is anything ever finished?"   "Yes. Lou Grant. The TV show 'Lou Grant' is definitely finished."    "You can never be sure. There could be a remake."    "Are you going to remake this collage."    "Doubtful."    "Are you ever going to colorize it?"   "Also doubtful and yet also possible." "Oh."

  Strong and Sensitive -- collage by douglas brent smith (cropped version) Strong and Sensitive -- collage by douglas brent smith (original, full page version)

the biggest smile           on the smallest face      warming our hearts      -- douglas brent smith 

  After The Man With X-Ray Eyes Sees You -- collage by douglas brent smith

  Hovercraft Seeking An Open House -- collage by douglas brent smith

  Dark Bus -- collage by douglas brent smith I've always liked VW Microbuses. For a short time I even owned one that I dubbed Queen after the boat in the movie "African Queen". It shared a similar need for constant maintenance. Occasionally, it would make every trip a journey of adventure. Still, I loved that little bus.  I made the bus in this collage too dark and could not figure out how to fix it. Sometimes dark is dark forever. I tried to lighten it up a bit with cartoon-like headlights. It's far from perfect.  

 Attention Paid to the Spiritual Side -- collage by douglas brent smith I think I've used some of these images in other collages.  That happens, sometimes. The context changes the meaning and justifies the redundancy. Or, at least I think it does. I gave some thought to coloring this collage and decided against it. Maybe later, with time on my hands, I'll decide to color it. Probably not though because that process takes many hours and there is so much new work to do. This piece is from 1994. I was a completely differently person then and so were you (presuming that you were even alive then!) We're changing every day.  What color do you think that floor is? -- dbs -- 

  Transporting The Message Keeper -- collage by douglas brent smith

  The Examination of the Numbers People -- collage by douglas brent smith

  Spotted Off The Coast of Jersey -- collage by douglas brent smith

 Selecting Changes Using the Logical If - collage by douglas brent smith

scrambled dreams    scattered schemes    ideas flashed on the mezzanine    the balcony's crowded with narrow scenes    colorful dreaming liquid sleep        poached eggs dreams    wet and fried    homage to the dreams that died    rules that flutter    into melted butter    dreams design    their own red line    fried dreams my dreams    your dreams ours    evening slips and then devours    sheets around us    lights dimmed black    shadowed visions    on our backs    your dream is my dream is our dream complete.    

 Behind the Secret Door (#2) Behind the Secret Door (#1) Notes: I think (hope) that #2 (the one above) is an improvement over #1 (which is the exact same picture except that in #2 I added some lines, drew over a few more, and shaded one area. 

  Crashing The Space Camp - collage by douglas brent smith, 13 February 1994   

  Busy Table -- sketch / mixed media by douglas brent smith   

bizarre as you are    you know that it's true    not everyone caring    cares about you    bizarre as you wish    could you possibly be    like hair on a fish?    or gills on a tree?    how much of it's youth?    comparing the beauty    too tight yet too loose    impossible duty    bizarre as you are    absurd as can be    so highly abnormal    when done gracefully.    -- douglas brent smith  

 Read The Dictionary Upside Down collage by douglas brent smith Notes: "Who do you mean to be upside down?" "You'll know." "Are YOU upside down or is the dictionary to be upside down and how am I going to read it that way?" "In a relative sense, it's all your choice." "I thought so. You don't know." "That's your choice, too." "Isn't that YOUR choice?" "Also true."

we touch upon the wheel's edge  admiring and yearning for the endless turning we speak about the zen of when the hollow meets the solid road but space unending ends unanswered the endless questions of the snow change the motion of our plans touch me with your steady hands. -- douglas brent smith

  From Science to Love to Theology - collage by douglas brent smith

 Dreaming of the Divine Machine - sketch by douglas brent smith

  Get a Grip -- photo/screenshot by douglas brent smith

 Detailed Altered View of the Map of the Territory -- collag4e by douglas brent smith

what i really hate is waiting twelve minutes for the bus and watching someone who's only waited one minute squeeze onto the bus ahead of the rest of us what i also hate is being the sixth person in line when they open a new line and the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth people get ahead of me small problems, yes still aggravating i guess like an endless trip a relentless drip stop! pause! stay here because: what i really love is knowing that i am loved and living in that love and with so much love what else matters? -- douglas brent smith 

  Deconstructing The Early Projections -- collage by douglas brent smith, 1994

  Are Dali and Stone Twins? -- collage by douglas brent smith, 1989

  A Little Place by the Lake -- collage by douglas brent smith

 You Know When It's Cool -- sketch by douglas brent smith, 24 August 1983

the room changes they enter eyes turn heads turn new flows over flow a truly eccentric person looking perfectly normal now we rely on that until that ready - steady rock - solid presence presents change smiling at you: in on it lifting a secret door as we wonder how do they know? touching every single person in the room on the arm on the shoulder on the top of the head on the lips! opening the gates of possibility inevitably eccentric  

uncle grant -- can't can't chant pay now pay - for what we say uncle chuck - can't trust your luck tell us true - what do you do? what's the price? the thought is nice lift the lid? that's what we did sign right here - and here, and here grant three wishes - charity cheer freestyle lifestyle paid with tax scoop the art until it cracks uncle grant grant us one wish serve it up nonprofit dish we will write your favorite book paint your piece a proper look film the scene that lights you up fill the ever empty cup uncle grant let's find the spin show us how to cash it in. -- douglas brent smith  

 You Are Here -- collage by douglas brent smith

 Transactions Along The Path - collage by douglas brent smith

  This Won't Hurt A Bit -- collage by douglas brent smith

  The Symbol Is Not The Map of the Territory -- collage by douglas brent smith

 The 100% Game Process -- collage by douglas brent smith

  Science Had An Answer -- collage by douglas brent smith

Reactions to the Face On Mars -- collage by douglas brent smith.      It seemed like a revelation, a sign. Pictures taken of the surface of mars seemed to show a face. Could this mean that there was an intelligent civilization there once upon a time? Many years later, when our cameras produced much higher resolution images we saw that it wasn't really a face at all. It's just something that people do -- we see faces everywhere. We anthropomorphize wildly.  Well, the illusion was fun while it lasted. And it lasted long enough to be on my mind when I made this collage in 1993.

  Random 1992 Sketches -- douglas brent smith

  Please Let Me Know When You Are Free -- collage by douglas brent smith

  Kids Outgrow Things -- collage by douglas brent smith

  Big Boy With A View -- collage by douglas brent smith and christopher morgan smith, 1992

  Constructing a Better Setting -- collage by douglas brent smith, 30 December 1992

 On The Job Training - collage by douglas brent smith

  Not Those Hats - collage by douglas brent smith

  Love One Another -- collage by douglas brent smith, 17 March 1993