Tricia Brouk (Dining Alone)

What follows here are paintings done from drawings done from YouTube videos--the theme, for the most part, being Jason Fox's AuntJackie together with all the immediacy of its soon-to-be-posted answers and variants (for example, and maybe my favorite AuntJackie in the Hood but that's not fair, because they're ALL good.)

The key painting here--If Thats Ya Man is Jason Fox himself--in the studio, with the Hood Presidents (for the video, see The Cipha Sound Effect Presents--The Aunt Jackie).

One more thing--I look at all of the videos WITHOUT sound--visitations, out of Maya Deren...as in the first part of A Study in Choreography for Camera made in 1945.

So, why Tricia Brouk at the outset? Yes, why...





A Brooklyn diner--or somewhere on Tenth Avenue, the kind with the metal exterior, thirties moderne, a brassy waitress and coffee in a white mug. "Never drink tea from a mug," her grandmother warned--that was Tel Aviv, not Lódz...but still good Old-World advice. How to apply in New York, this is the question. She bends forward, sleeveless dress, about to fix a shoe. Light from the curtained window pours in across the table, speckled linoleum, silver trim. All of one piece--that's the longing--all of one piece...