The Toronto Zoo wants to use poo for power...They only need 13 million dollars to set up zoo poo power...

Here is an article about Zoo Poo Power in the National Post...

here is a link to the Toronto Zoo...

If we can get enough money to get zoo poo power, then, later, the rest of Canada can benefit from the prototype & perhaps learn to power their homes with home poo, their cars with on the road poo, & their computers with chair poo...One thing we have in Canada is a great mushroom government, you know, 'keep em in the dark, & feed em what you feed mushrooms' ...- so we have plenty of poo to go around...if you have 13 million dollars, please send it to the Toronto Zoo today...

prices are negotiable Blog
2009 pricing structure...
height in inches X width in inches X 3 = total
(times 3 is for materials, artist , gallery )
(times 2 covers materials & artist)
(times 1 covers just cost of materials)
This is ballpark for any work of art...
We are hoping that 2009 will bring an economic recovery that can once again pay fair wages to cover all costs...

Did you know that for centuries artists have been trying to Avoid portraying likenesses in Art? (yes, Avoid...)

Various Ideas from Different Cultures about how to Avoid Likeness in Art...
(from U.Victoria.ca) "In metonymy, a term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated ("crown" or "sceptre" stands duty for "monarch"). In synechdoche, a part is used to signify the whole, as when a ship's captain calls out, "All hands on deck!" (in which "hand" signifies the whole person of each sailor--we hope).

  Japanese Art relies on symbolism ... Old religious art often substituted animal heads instead of faces... Rasa is a term to explain the essence of something , like when a herring gull pecks at a stick with a red dot painted on it because its mother has a beak with a red dot on it, which pecking upon signifies hunger... Many art styles have found ways to distill subject , both to find the Rasa, & to avoid a realistic likeness (which might trample upon Biblical values...) Abstract Expressionism seeks to find the artist's opinion of subject, as well as the rasa of the subject, so Van Gogh's church(early signs of expressionism) was comically asymmetrical because he had several problems with the Church...The concept of Orphism means that you respond to the painting without saying ' I like this because it is a horse & I like horses' , orphic art is like music, it works without comparison..Islamic art loves abstraction, hates likenesses, loves math- so they combine non-realism with math to get their cool repetitive tile look...(like Escher or Vasarely)... also, they stick a flaw in on purpose, so the artist always stays humble 'cause he knows there is always a mistake there...



People of the Book , by Geraldine Brooks tells how images got into Jewish holy books (there was a jewish deaf mute who couldn't understand the rituals...an artist took pity...)

The Glass castle is a book about a starving writer's upbringing...Long story short, they were starving before they started their careers, not because of...(actually did well later...)


Wabi-sabi addresses how the Japanese aesthetic of symbolism which is designed to avoid realistic likeness, how that intent is by method, delivered...meaning- is the work finished in an OCD way or is it a little sloppy? If you read about wabi-sabi, their method seeks studied sloppiness, as in , don't try to be perfect, but be perfect in your imperfection...(but understand why you are being sloppy on purpose...)