Self Portrait, Pen and Ink - July 12, 1979
Self Portrait, Pen and Ink, 1979
Androgyny, Self Portrait, Digital Art, 2021
Androgyny, Self Portrait - Pen and Ink, 1979
Right: Androgyny, Self Portrait - Original Drawing, Pen and Ink, 1979
Left: Androgyny, Self Portrait, Digital Art, 2021
Labels, Pen and Ink, 1979
Reading the News, Pencil, 1979
Left: Labels, Pen and Ink, 1979
Right: Reading the News, Pencil, 1979
Toll Ahead, Pen and Ink, Pencil, 1979
Toll Ahead, Digital Art, 2021
Left: Toll Ahead, original drawing, Pen and Ink, Pencil, 1979
Right: Toll Ahead, Digital Art, 2021
1979: Music is the Muse
In 1979, I had a Kenwood 3500 amplifier running a Heathkit sound system, and a library of mostly new wave and punk rock vinyl records.
At the time, my artwork was sometimes influenced by the news, such as the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, and the homophobic hate crime assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Below is a list of some of the songs spinning on my turntable in 1979:
999 - High Energy Plan
B-52s - Rock Lobster
Blondie - One Way or Another
Buzzcocks - Boredom
Chaka Khan - A Woman In A Man's World
Cheap Trick - Auf Wiedersehen
Clash - Brand New Cadillac
Dead Boys - I Won't Look Back
Devo - Blockhead
Dickies - She
Diodes - Tennis Again
Edith Nylon - Ma Jolie Famille
Elvis Costello - Moods for Moderns
Flying Lizards - Mandalay Song
Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
Kleenex - Ain't You
Lene Lovich - Home is Where the Heart Is
Magazine - My Mind Ain't So Open (That Anything Can Fall Right In)
Martha and the Muffins - Suburban Dream
Motors - Airport
Patti Smith - Gloria
Pere Ubu - I Will Wait
Poly Styrene and the X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours
Ramones - It's A Long Way Back
Red Squares - Ottawa Today
Rezillos - Cold Wars
Roky Erickson - Bermuda
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Spherical Objects - Elliptical
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Suburban Relapse
Specials - Concrete Jungle
Talking Heads - The Good Thing
Television - See No Evil
Tim Curry - Right on the Money
Tom Robinson Band - (Sing If You're) Glad To Be Gay
Tubes - You've Got Yourself A Deal
Wire - French Film Blurred
XTC - Scissor Man
