Recent Artworks shown @ Atherton Mills Exhibition by Gene Smith . . .

Title: Does the Nightingale Sing at Midnight or Is He Quiet?

< Medium: Polychrome with Mixed Media

[Special Processes] Polychrome (paint) was used on the lettering and 'Nightingale', along with the

 application of intense heat that invites texture and crackling to accent the subtle background.

The use of wax is introduced in random areas to give a burnished appearance.

These various surface techniques reflect a variety of possibilities within the Mind of the Viewer.

Artist Statement regarding his artworks:

     My assemblages, constructions and mixed media [combines] involve rational

and irrational process, intuition, and interplay of connections conscientiously

and sub - conscientiously planned. The pictorial elements of romanticism, mystery

and rebus are intended to ignite a flame of curiosity within the viewer. It is

my intent to astonish or disturb the imagination of the audience and place them

on a magical voyage that sails into the dream world of the enigmatical. By using

the most common materials, discards, and sometimes unrecognizable objects, I

hopefully will stir the imagination and as in the words of Dubuffet: 'will re-

habilitate the spectator's language of vision and perhaps, just for a moment,

there will be a MAGICAL MYSTICAL MOMENT.

"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only

thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to

reduce it or kill it off all together."

                                         - Luis Buñuel

The Earliest Analog Computer - Circa 150 BCE – 100 BCE

- the Antikythera Mechanism was discovered off Antikythera,  Greece in 1901

Steve Ivanovics [Copyrighted by Paul Posados] assisted in the Developement / Re-Scripting of my film: 'It All Came True' which is @ present still in Re-Script / Re-Direct

 [Steve shall be one of the Characters in the Film as well]

. . . the elements that are the underlying foundation of the Story - are multi-faceted and inter-woven into two separate time-lines - and the time-lines are both woven together even though they both are in the opposite directions of one another - they run parallel to one another [the end is the beginning and visa-versa] . . .

the story begins with the actual ending [a violent bloodbath - the death of an Officer] - and directly afterwards - the Story begins to unfold with inter-woven time-lines that portrait the characters that are involved with an 'attempt' @ creating a club environment within a boarding house environment

~ 'Christina - the dancer' ~  [one of the Artworks in Exhibition that takes place  in the film]

time-lines involving the past & of future events are inter-woven with precision and overlap the story - allowing for the viewer to understand the personalities that make up the cast . . .

. . . "It All Came True . . ." about filmmaking [more info regarding the Film]

more to follow . . .