Art = observation + interpretation.
The Inclination Super Highway Bears Right
Look for Love
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
How to Create a 3D Picture In Your Head
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."
Inner Core Dimensions, Part 1
Inner Core Dimensions, Part 1 is an instrumental recorded 9/19/2017 in the album Sincerely Yours by douglas brent smith.
we three smiles
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
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
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
Strong and Sensitive -- collage by douglas brent smith (cropped version)
Strong and Sensitive -- collage by douglas brent smith (original, full page version)
After The Man With X-Ray Eyes Sees You
After The Man With X-Ray Eyes Sees You -- collage by douglas brent smith
Dark Bus
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
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 --
Examination of the Numbers People
The Examination of the Numbers People -- collage by douglas brent smith
Selecting Changes Using the Logical If
Selecting Changes Using the Logical If - collage by douglas brent smith
instant breakfast dreams
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
Behind the Secret Door (#2)
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.
bizarre as you are
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
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."
zen touch
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
Detailed Altered View of the Map of the Territory
Detailed Altered View of the Map of the Territory -- collag4e by douglas brent smith
small not invisible
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
Deconstructing The Early Projections -- collage by douglas brent smith, 1994
a truly eccentric person
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
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
The Symbol Is Not The Map of the Territory
The Symbol Is Not The Map of the Territory -- collage by douglas brent smith
Reactions to the Face On Mars
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.
Please Let Me Know When You Are Free
Please Let Me Know When You Are Free -- collage by douglas brent smith
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Big Boy With A View
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Big Boy With A View -- collage by douglas brent smith and christopher morgan smith, 1992
Constructing a Better Setting
Constructing a Better Setting -- collage by douglas brent smith, 30 December 1992
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