Thursday, July 23, 2009

Letter from an Old Friend with an Unemployed Referral

I just received a letter from a friend from waaaaaaaaaaay back.

This lady and I were on the Overnight Shift at CNN, and would process video coming from Asia until wee hours of starlight. We laughed and talked a lot.

I recently asked her if she remembered any of our deep conversations about Life back then.
If the world was going to be destroyed while everyone around us was sleeping, Marcy & I (and Staff) would bare witness.

She inquired for a friend who was looking for work. I wanted to paste it, but this !@#$%^j*ck*ass machine won't allow it.

I told her to share my information.

There is an article about me below:
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Ray Macon, AKA artist Ray deMacon (pronounced: day may go) has been painting a lot. Although he hasn't gotten far away from his scribes.

This time it's spring colors and primary madness for several works entitled Graffiti Summer.

There is a mixture of writing in the paintings; with lonely phrases like "Song:Come Monday" "You're really not a good fake crier," and "I'm sorry but we have decided to pass."

Other than that, the color palette is very bright. One of the newest in the Graffiti Summer Series, the yellow and black acrylic "Gimme 5---NO!...don't touch me" took over 60 hours to produce, yet resembles any teenage notebook.

Beware My Faithful Love is a bigger piece. In it, the artist repeats the phrase and symbols of a formula called Plus Time Taps, which is---in affect---a wishful prayer for life extension. The colors are very Monet in palette.

With his I Was Once A Giant of a Man, deMacon feels the madness of the phrase, which encircles a Ralph Lauren Polo ad (with man and canine lounging) from the late 90s. The artist returns the figure to that of a classical Greek. The dog's tongue a bright red, deMacon says this was done because they were keeping a pug for a friend at the time.

The work can be seen in private at Studio deMacon in Midtown, Atlanta. 404-643-8215