from Peter Sellers' Home Movies

Chipperfield Manor, Hertforshire 1961
16mm B&W

Peter Sellers was an obsessive maker of home movies.  Here are some frames, from a weekend get together showing Stanley and Christiane Kubrick playing doubles and Stanley with his twin reflex camera, shot during the filming of Lolita.

By the Window,

San Francisco CA, August 2016

Portraits of Rogelio Mena and Ne Oo posed at two different windows, Rogelio in my room by the canvas I’m working on and Ne Oo by the kitchen counter where he was preparing pig stomach and heart for cooking.  The Delphinium and Sunflower bouquet was shot late at night by dim artificial light in front of that same big canvas at one second exposure.  The last is an intentional double exposure.

Thin Mar Oo takes her parents to Disney Land

Anaheim CA, 6 July 2016

Thin Mar Oo paid for the five of us to enter the park and the pleasure was mostly hers and her parents.  I was sick to my stomach, which wasn’t the result of some snobbish reaction but a touch of the flu.  Never having been before, I tried to appreciate what was there and why, or at least to understand and empathize with all the working class people spending their hard earned wages on this entertainment and the ritual of waiting.

John Vaccaro, 6 Dec 1929 - 7 Aug 2016

as the White Bat 
with Mario Montez as the Mermaid 
in Normal Love, Jack Smith 1963

John Vaccaro, founder of the Theatre of the Ridiculous, and a performer of some note in works by Jack Smith, Robert Whitman, and Walter DeMaria, as well as under his own direction in plays by Ronald Tavel, Kenneth Bernard and Charles Ludlam, died about a week ago after a failed attempt to fix an aneurysm by some surgeons in a hospital.  He was 86 years old and had stopped directing thirty years ago.  The pictures above and below come from the climax of Jack Smith’s Normal Love.  Vaccaro portrays the White Bat, a kind of Pierrot figure, the worshipful guardian and servant of Mario Montez’s Mermaid, the film’s central character or creature.

from the Collection of Tamar Schumann

ten paintings by Dale Wittig, 
Max Schumann & Maria Schumann

The painting at the top, the earliest of these pictures, is a portrait of Tamar that I painted on a gallery exhibit announcement for Robert Colescott at Semaphore Gallery. Below are five parts of a series of watercolor drawings done on a watercolor post card tablet.  The images come from a Hong Kong Wu Xia or Martial Arts fantasy movie. The next three are painted by Max Schumann, the first two on discarded compact discs and the third on discarded canvas.  The last down is from a series of framed portraits of individual vegetables with their names inscribed by Maria Schumann.