I took this guy over to the Creative Workshop where he’ll be in a show that starts there next week. I have a new batch of crime faces to tidy up and photograph. Steve Black has invited me to show some drawings in Brooklyn this summer so I’ll have to get them framed and ready to travel.
I was buying the matt board for this one at Rochester Art Supply and Sally from High Falls Gallery was behind the counter with another guy. She asked if Armand had contacted me because he is putting a show together about prison in DC or somewhere and she recommended my work. The other guy asked what I did and Sally told him, “Paul paints local convicts and and I take all the bitterness and rage out of their faces.” That did not ring right but I left it at, “No, I didn’t hear from Armand.
I remember showing my six basketball players from the nineties at Cylinder Sound behind the Bug Jar and Dave Ripton, who was recording there, told me, “I’d like what your portraits would look like if they were on heroin.” That stuck with me.
This guy does look kinda sweet.
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My Dad has a new book out about teaching change through poetry to criminals. He gets them to write the poems. Also, he believes that they are mostly all really nice guys. I’ll lend you the book sometime if you like.
I would like!
As weird as it sounds, I’d forgotten that the name of my studio was Cylinder Sound. Probably the best name I’ve come up with (the original recording devices used wax cylinders).