Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers

bilby commented on the list self-portrait-with-seven-fingers

I'm listing them purely for the suggestiveness of the language. Hence the list is a kind of gallery where the names of paintings are displayed rather than the paintings themselves, a tribute to the wordcraft of the titles.

April 27, 2008

nearsounds commented on the list self-portrait-with-seven-fingers

Hi Bilby,

I like lists that list titles as wordplay in this way or creating our own titles. Read my profile interests and write me sometime and I'll explain more of my interest in this area of writing.

nearsounds@hotmail.com

April 27, 2008

palooka commented on the list self-portrait-with-seven-fingers

Great list idea bilby. Are you an artist?

August 31, 2008

bilby commented on the list self-portrait-with-seven-fingers

Thanks. No. I can't even throw paint at a wall and make it stick. Photography's as close as I get to visual arts.

August 31, 2008

thtownse commented on the list self-portrait-with-seven-fingers

Tremendits - I am a fan of surrealism, and you prob'ly are too?

February 24, 2010

bilby commented on the list self-portrait-with-seven-fingers

:-)

February 24, 2010

ruzuzu commented on the list self-portrait-with-seven-fingers

My elementary school was so small that we didn't have a proper kitchen or cafeteria. Every day, one of the teachers would pick up a couple of containers full of food for us from the main school over in the county seat, which was about 20 minutes away. The sixth graders, as our elders, had the coveted duty of trading off as "servers" for the rest of the students. Every day, two of the sixth graders left class early and went to the stage next to the gym in order to ready the styrofoam plates and sporks and take the foil off the goulash, or pigs-in-a-blanket, or chili (with cinnamon rolls). Every day, while we were waiting to go play in the gym ("Do not jump off the stage. Use the stairs!"), I would arrange my empty milk container, my used napkin, and my dirty spork onto my plate in some sort of artistic display. Then I'd title it. "What is it today?" my friends would ask. "I call this one 'Self-Portrait with Spork.'" And every day, when the time came, I'd reluctantly throw it all in the garbage.

August 17, 2010

dontcry commented on the list self-portrait-with-seven-fingers

My husband and children are constantly creating homages to Dali around the house - although they don't even realize it. I often come home to "Persistence of Afghan, Gym Sock, and Newspaper." Even the dog gets into the act sometimes by laying half on and half off of her bed, with her head flopped over the back of it. Problem is, I'm not a fan of this particular form of performance art...

August 18, 2010