Thursday, 7 May 2026

GALLIUM PENCIL revisited

Adric at Quelab made another Gallium pencil for me on May 6, 2026 :

Gallium lead holder pencil (middle)
with syringe with gallium (right)
and ice pack (left)

After Adric made the first Gallium pencil for me in 2019, someone else posted their Gallium pencil on YouTube:

May 6, 2026

I drew at FUSION in Albuquerque:





















KREA Realtime prompt:
"only dotted lines"



KREA Realtime prompt:
"only dotted lines"





KREA Realtime prompt:
"only dotted lines"


PROJECTIONS

We projected some of my images and videos on the UNM Maddox Sculpture Center from Quelab on May 6, 2026:

My FAKE sculpture

Black-and-white images
show up the best in the projections

My FAKE sculpture


Longer video in higher resolution


We did notice that images with high contrast -- like black and white -- projected better than most other images.  Perhaps the LINOCUT images would project best.


Tuesday, 5 May 2026

May 5, 2026

We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:









KREA Realtime prompt:
"3 quarters back view of a woman sitting on the floor
 with her legs extended as a sculpture in the style of Bernini"




KREA Realtime prompt:
"sculpture of an art nouveau woman with long hair
 in the style of Bernini without a background"






KREA Realtime prompt:
"photograph"





IMPORTANT TRIVIA



Apparently RON ENGLISH graduated from the University of Texas perhaps weeks before I went back in the summer of 1986.


FRANK KOZIK was also in Austin at that time, though I only ran into him once in San Francisco when I sold him some thin tape at Flax.

Ron English had a painted an airplane piece for The BONEYARD Project in Tucson in 2012, that was organized by Eric Firestone: