Blackstock

Very early on in this blogging venture, I mentioned the autistic artist Gregory Blackstock from Seattle. At that point, I couldn't find any decent images to post. Well, I found a few in The Morning News, an online magazine that I'm unable to find out much about. See below - and definitely click on these to enlarge. They're long and Blogger sucks for long images.

When asked how he decides what he'll draw next, Blackstock has said, "My own head. My easiest drawing, I drew eight different axes which I discovered from the old Webster dictionary. There are also the knives; two days ago at the Excalibur Cutlery in the Northgate mall right near my house…I still got a ways to go on those knives. Might get up to 80 or 100 them." Love it.

Not Blackstock, Not Griffin, But Letscher

Well, something (maybe having dinner with an obsessive mind tonite) made me wanna feature the autistic and obsessive artist Gregory Blackstock for tomorrow, but I couldn't find the images online that I'd hoped to. Blackstock made me think of folk artist Scott Griffin, but I couldn't find the right images for him either. So, next up in the brain was Lance Letscher, easily one of my favorite artists in Austin and an obsessive who meticulously collects, cuts up, and collages "found" paper goods. By weaving and spiraling and overlapping strips and strands of old books, ledgers, recipes, etc., Letscher creates beautiful, color-focused works that drive me crazy in the best way. If only they hadn't skyrocketed in price over the last few years, I might have myself one of these: