HI HO DDV,
I trust that your well and all things going good for you,had wondered what hap en to you. But with the holidays I know that mail is slow too. I even wondered if you got the xmas greeting card I sent? So your just about to put out your new issue of Force Mental, thats great, I hope you keep me in mind. Sorry I haven't commented on the first one but Yes I did read it all and found it most interesting. I have some question about the music and of some of your articles on Rock and Roll. I was wondering you play to an audience who seem fascinated by the idea that evil is "neat" or "cool", do you also accept some responsibility for the attitudes you seem help to create? Do you believe that an "artists" of all kinds cannot detach themselves from the effect of the work they produce? To imagine the artist as some sort of detached figure who produces "art for art's sake" or, maybe worse, art strictly for the $$ sake, lends to a decadence and a failure to appreciate the social dimension of producing something to be appreciated by some audience. What are your thoughts?
Now I love Rock and Roll in all forms, but the way its changed I wonder what the artists is thinking nowadays.
In any case like said I found it most interesting and I can see alot of work goes into your project, which most make it successful. Keep up the good work.
Congratulation on your second place in the sculpture-contest, should you have a photo of the work that won the prize I would like to see it. With all the different paintings that I have done the most popular have been Disney characters of which I call the Hi Ho series, and of course my Pogo the clown done in my bold and unorthodox style. Its taken from the portrait style but not a portrait as one would come to think. I have enclosed three photos of the HI Ho series, the first one came out in '82, which is now stopped as I reached 50 of them, then I have '84 which is Hi Ho in the Fall, still some available, and the '86 one, HI Ho in the Mine. Later in 1988 I will come out with a fourth one. Let me know what you think, they are very colorful, sorry the '84 one is a bad photo as the cameraman got to close, but the other on '82 will give you a full view of the '84 one. You mention that you may be getting one, so let me say since you send your Force metal to me I will pay for the postage on anyone you happen to get. I have enclosed the new list of instock, but even so I can do any of them for you should they be sold, as I have to do the list every month as they move so fast at my low prices. I have been told I should be charging more, but I feel as long as it cover the cost I will not change. Hi Ho series has always been $50.00 yet I have heard some have been resold for up to $200.00. that why I cut them off to make them a collector item. I have had many request for the first one as they want the whole series, but only 50 of each will be made an 18 x 24 canvas panel makes for a nice size painting. I will also enclose the Pogo the clown photo and you can keep them all. Maybe I should take out an add with my address in your magazine to see if others would be interested in them. what do you think?