"Will Dockery" wrote:
"msifg" wrote:
"Will Dockery" wrote:

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,
watercolor and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most welcome.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
thought I had "dead bodies" stashed in the backroom:

----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1

HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood

Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.

The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in
Columbus. That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely
looked like a body to Danny W****. Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house July
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof
leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F****
Drive and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.

Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among
other stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and sternum atop decayed matter.

That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that
musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he
froze. Then he ran.

He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he
didn't want to know.

M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him
he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just said they didn't need the police coming there.

This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son
Will had a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police..

She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing the art), but the police needn't be bothered.

M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.
Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the
police. The next day, someone called the police.

About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was
such a
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.

That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was perturbed. She blamed Danny.

Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone
directory was involved; I called.) The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window. That's
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.

The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be
frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the house once. Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.

Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.

Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people
thought they saw a dead body.

But didn't.
----

Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.

thanks for sharing.

have fun.

just so you know, the link for the photo required
a subscription.  fotoshoot, or something like that.

fyi

"Will Dockery" wrote:
"msifg" wrote:
"Will Dockery" wrote:

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract
paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted
plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most welcome.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
thought I had "dead bodies" stashed in the backroom:

----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1

HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood

Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.

The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in
Columbus. That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely
looked like a body to Danny W****. Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house July
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof
leaks in places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F****
Drive and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will
Dockery lets friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store
their work there. Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls.
("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and sternum atop decayed matter.

That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he froze. Then he ran.

He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't want to know.

M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him
he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just said they didn't need the police coming there.

This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will had a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.

She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in
storing the art), but the police needn't be bothered.

M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.

Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police.. The next day, someone called the police. About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such a
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.

That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was perturbed. She blamed Danny.

Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone
directory was involved; I called.) The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window. That's
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to
see. The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the
house once. Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.

Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.

Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people
thought they saw a dead body.

But didn't.
----

Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't
heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.

thanks for sharing.

have fun.

just so you know, the link for the photo required
a subscription. fotoshoot, or something like that.

fyi

Yes, that made me wonder if other links are doing the same from that
site, if you get a chance, do me a favor and see if these work:

Green Planet detail:

http://tinyurl.com/green-planet

Man-O-War:

http://tinyurl.com/cqzktb

They're working here, but that may be because I'm "subscribed', even
though not logged in...

yes-
both worked.

i really like the texturing.

my dad paints similarly.

thanks allot for sharing.

i put that link in my favorites folder.

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

"Will Dockery" wrote:
"msifg" wrote:
"Will Dockery" wrote:

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract
paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever
reasons you prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,
watercolor and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted
plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are
most welcome.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping
tom
thought I had "dead bodies" stashed in the backroom:

----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1

HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood

Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.

The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an
old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in
Columbus. That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all,
but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like
a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely
looked like a body to Danny W****. Danny is a real estate agent who with
M***** went to look at the house July
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof
leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F****
Drive and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will
Dockery lets friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store
their work there.

Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls.
("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among
other stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street
house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage
and sternum atop decayed matter.

That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that
musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he
froze. Then he ran.

He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with
wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he
didn't want to know.

M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a
call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him
he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she
just said they didn't need the police coming there.

This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't
call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son
Will had a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.

She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her;
she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in
storing the art), but the police needn't be bothered.

M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said
it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.
Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the
police. The next day, someone called the police.

About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house,
unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying
body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was
such a
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.

That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
perturbed. She blamed Danny.

Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he
thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came
from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone
directory was involved; I called.) The 911 report said someone saw the
alleged corpse through a window. That's
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to
see.

The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be
frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan
was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the
time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the
house once. Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan
Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.

Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned
now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.

Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people
thought they saw a dead body.

But didn't.
----

Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't
heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.

thanks for sharing.

have fun.

just so you know, the link for the photo required
a subscription. fotoshoot, or something like that.

fyi

"Will Dockery" wrote:

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings,
which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,
watercolor
and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
thought I had "dead bodies" stashed in the backroom:

----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1

HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood

Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.

The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in Columbus.
That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork
made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a
body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely
looked like a body to Danny W****.

Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house
July 2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F**** Drive
and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets
friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.

Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other
stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and sternum atop decayed matter.

That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he froze. Then he ran.

He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't
want to know.

M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just said they didn't need the police coming there.

This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will
had
a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.

She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing the
art), but the police needn't be bothered.

M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.

Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police.

The next day, someone called the police.

About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such
a weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.

That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
perturbed. She blamed Danny.

Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone directory was involved; I called.)

The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window.
That's difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.

The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the house once.

Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.

Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.

Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people thought they saw a dead body.

But didn't.
----

Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.

thanks for sharing.

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"
will-dockery-group at (no spam) knology.net>wrote:

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

Savageduck wrote:

mercy snip

Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

Here is Pollock #2 at the Munson Williams Procter Arts Institute Utica
NY, http://snipr.com/7or04-wiksca
MWP http://www.mwpai.org/museum/collections/modernandcontemporary/


That's not a painting, that's a haiku in bastard form
having only three syllables such as: as
'em
icK!

Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm

SteepleJack Beer
http://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

"Will Dockery" <will.dockery at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 7, 6:08 pm, "Charles" wrote:

"Will Dockery" <will.dockery at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 7, 4:13 pm, FarStar wrote:

That was a great time period where the area was just bursting with great
artists and poets, which looked like it would expand... poetry readings
were
"in" around here for a while, 1995-1999 or so, there was even a city-wide
"best of" in music, arts, poetry, the Perky Awards which I took in 1998:

http://www.fototime.com/{030189BB-B6FD-45B8-ACDF-8F90760C28FB}/picture.JPG

As the Bush era unfolded, coincidentally much of that kind of ground down,
people drifted apart, and I began working more and more with rock and
blues
music, and deal in that crowd more now.

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"
will-dockery-group at (no spam) knology.net>wrote:

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons
you
prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

"George Dance" wrote:

Maybe Dale wants a new name for himself. I'll work on that. So far the
best I have is "Pale Hammesimitation", but that's a bit lengthy. I'll
try some recursions. 8)

see, i've got some luck.

*hoseman works for me.

heh

In article <2ip670.5i3.17.9 at (no spam) news.alt.net>, Meat Plow says...

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"
will-dockery-group at (no spam) knology.net>wrote:

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

don't be absurd, MP, you're completely off here.

dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.

when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the
canvas.

two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.

and in a way he did.

you give him too much credit!!! :D

most sincerely,

GodBuilt

"Will Dockery" wrote:

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk,

when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created. and in a way he did.