GOOOOOOOOOOOOO[AA]LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!

So the Telemundo shouted as Panama scored again on Nicaragua.
On the return trip from LA I was sitting in a Chinese restaurant-near the all you can eat taco buffet-watching Latin American soccer in Spanish eating my weight in sodium. I was informed after that my friend who lives in Santa Maria wouldn’t wish the China Bowl on anyone, and that perhaps their burritos are better than any of their loosely Chinese derived menu options. Judging by the décor I would have to take her word on that. It exists as a unique place, but in the American Hadron Collider of cultures I didn’t question its existence, I just wish I had ordered the taco bar.

The peculiarity of this lunch spot was a great metaphor for lots of simultaneous events in the life of LUKE.

The show I am producing for exhibition in a month is based on the answers to a survey asking for a set of iconography: American Iconography. What I discovered in the bout 700 responses is that I was looking to create a visual cultural identity in a country of intense variation. We are a country of immigrants living in a capitalistic democracy.  We are all Jeremy Bentham by day and a two year old child learning complexities of ownership by night; “the greatest good for the greatest number!”Cue the setting sun: “MINE!!!”   
Our cultural leaders are still derived in the same Darwinian ways of the hunter gatherers; the biggest and best become king of the hill, the difference of course is it’s now tied into economics and notoriety instead of who can stab the biggest mastodon, yet it’s still the same because at the end of the day it’s who’s not hungry.  We live in the misattributed theory of Thomas Huxley [The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of Shakespeare], we are the monkeys given enough time:  we had Shakespeare.  I’m referring to the idea that Huxley in fact did declare: that given sufficient time, all the possible combinations of matter, including those necessary to produce a man, eventually would occur by random chance. And what I am saying is that from our chaos as a multitude of little naked frail creatures running around to avoid being eaten and the free radicals that cause ageing emerges a series of peaks and those are the leaders. Obama is a randomly generated peak comprised of a multitude of components from all over the world, whose data set matches that for “leader”

I am so elated that I have learned from this process. On setting out to be a full time artist I wondered how much of this process would be rote work and where I would get the growth aspects of learning and exploring, I learned that those come when you ask for them and create a world in which they communicate with your work.  LUKE: 1

My trip to L.A. was a good one. I got to see a few awesome people and meet some other new great ones.  I was going down to an audition for the TV. I am legally bound not to say more to the tune of a million dollars, so I am going to leave it at that. An interesting experience and I am glad that I went down for my first visit to the city of angels. It seems apro pos that the trip surrounded TV.

I also stopped in the lovely town of Los Alamos on my way back to San Francisco to see the gallery that the show will hang in for the month of August. [ www.theCgallery.com ] The town was adorable, everyone nice and friendly, and what it has to offer is all centrally located, friends next door to friends. It was also a pleasure to meet the Gallery owner for the first time. [Thanks for working with me, it has been a pleasure.]

I want to give a shout out to the people who opened their couches to me: Thanks! A city is only as good as the people who live there. From my two nights and from the 6 people [including the waiter] I met… L.A. is a good city. I ate some delicious sushi, learned the joy that is Pinkberry played Rock Band till the walls were moving up [you know what I am talking about] and woke up with the sun to some fresh strawberries purloined from an extravagant wedding. Good times all. Thanks again.  See you when next I can and you are all welcome at my home where ever that may be.

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