other artists – Frank Moore’s e-Salon

Re: Bruised Soul – A new LUVeR Show! (Kirk)

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:29:00 +0000

Hey Frank,

I thought you might appreciate the attached “bruised soul” poem.

Peace,

Kirk

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hey, Kirk! Thanks!

Btw, you in all your forms /bands are in our new music channel, FRANK’S DEEP ROOTS MUSIC CHANNEL. It is the collection of my personal favorite music [unlike on LUVER where we play everything without my personal tastes controlling things].

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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kirk’s poem:

STREET PORTRAIT: Two Versions

Oakland, CA

Hat brim

shadowing his face

from the corner street light

Trying to look

sinister

in the pose

of a child soldier thug

But

unbeknownst to himself

Peeking out

from behind his eyes

Is the bruised and frightened soul

of an angel

II.

In the hat brim shadow of the street light

Just a-hangin’ out on the street at night

In the pose of a child soldier thug

Lookin’ like he might be dealin’ some drugs

Like he might be packin’ a pistol

But in his eyes bruised soul of angel

In his eyes bruised soul of angel

But in his eyes bruised soul of angel

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what a powerful poem, Kirk!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: trivia

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:58:00 +0000

how interesting! there is one of my posters in another movie..one with Johnny depp but i can’t remember the name of that!

Happy new years to the whole crew

love
penny (and steve)

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same back to you!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: Philip Huang commented on your note “last performance of the year” (Rafael) II

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:54:00 +0000

T’as raison,

But we’re the 31th and I’m going to “jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam” tonight

Happy new years Frank

Rafael

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love those hot jams!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: Philip Huang commented on your note “last performance of the year” (Rafael)

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:52:00 +0000

“I think our bodies are bacon cheese burgers. Our bodies are meant to be loved and play with, to have fun with. They are instruments of love”

Now, why don’t I get any girl “Frankly” telling me that ?

Guess I don’t know the right girls

You lucky beast, Frank

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well, i never have believed in the concept of THE RIGHT GIRL… Or in RIGHT…. Or in GIRL… or in GETTING…

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

trivia

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:51:00 +0000

hi, penny! We here just watched a great low Budget film, BLAST OF SILENCE shot in New York City in 1961. in the bonus features there is a slide show of the locations then and now [’07]. In one NOW shot is one of your performance posters.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

my write-up! see you at 3 pm.

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:47:00 +0000

Hey Frank–here’s my write up! See you at 3 pm.

I came to “Uncomfortable Zones of Fun” because I wanted to see what performance art could be. It was actually one three performance art pieces I went to see that weekend. Walking into the space decorated with brightly colored paintings, strange costumes, and the artist himself, Frank Moore, sitting in a wheelchair communicating through an interpreter set the stage for my discomfort. As the night went on with narrative from the artist, questions and challenges for the audience, and performances from fellow artists opened me up a tiny bit to what was going on. Some acquaintances ducked out early. They were offended. I told my friend I wanted to stay just a little longer. As I said this a non-descript man sat next to me and started slowly shedding cloths while donning a woman’s wig and lipstick. This made it more clear that I was still right there with the discomfort. As the artist came to me to ask me my first question of the night I decided I wanted to claim what I was feeling, I value authenticity. I responded I was uncomfortable and in saying this it began to dawn on me. The artist who must had made many people uncomfortable in his lifetime was creating a space to express that and engage people in what they invariably turn away from in their life: personal differences such a disability, sexuality, and each other. In the moment I claimed what I was feeling I connected to some of what Frank was expressing. I just returned from a 4-month artists’ residency and I had spent the last six weeks looking for work to support my artwork. I hadn’t found anything and I was feeling beat and hopeless. That night something shifted in me. I felt like a whiney kid. Of course I can make my art, Frank proved to me despite monumental personal and societal obstacles you can express your deepest experiences by creating space for others.

Maggie Lawson
Artist
Arts and Community Education Director
Eye to Eye: art, travel, activism
www.arttravelactivism.org
www.flickr.com/photos/photographyastravelinglight

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what a great write-up, Maggie! glad that the performance gave you hope! Actually your staying gave you hope! And trust allowed you to stay! [btw, the masked guy (turns out to be an architect) has been coming to the performances for years to have a place to be nude at.]

and last night getting together with you in my studio was fun. And it was another milestone in my getting back to my normal work after not even being in my studio since May. I was still doing fine after our three hour session!

so when do you want to come back? We could read my ART OF A SHAMAN, the lecture I wrote in the early nineties for NYU. It may answer some of your questions. We are now getting ready to put it out as a hard back photo book [with no money!].

Next week I am free Wednesday (jan fifth) at three o’clock P.M. does that work for you?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Philip Huang commented on your note “last performance of the year”.

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:44:00 +0000

Philip Huang commented on your note “last performance of the year”.

Philip wrote: “This is a very thorough account of the show. I keep thinking about what that man said, that our bodies are just meat, and what frightens me is my own reluctance to confront my own vanity and shame. He’s right, we’re just meat. And Frank’s right–comfort is the ultimate means of control.”

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Philip, I think our bodies are bacon cheese burgers. Our bodies are meant to be loved and play with, to have fun with. They are instruments of love. They are the tip of the iceberg of who we are. But they are definitely a part of who we are.

glad that the performance made you confront whatever. Art should do that. I don’t know what shame is. And I am too cute to be vane!

We shouldn’t confuse real comfort with “zones of comfort,” which really are prisons of fragility making people easier to control and to limit. Real comfort is extremely flexible and supple and absorbent and inclusive, warm juicy! It Sticks to your ribs when you journey outside of the margins.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

X-MAS CARD CONTEST

admin — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:16:00 +0000

(to Vinnie & Jacqueline:)

your card arrived yesterday. Ok, you two win again, although it pushed “Xmas” beyond the breaking point! Would you email the original photo before the special effects so I can paint you two?

Last night I was searching on the web for a photo for my next painting and ended up with a nasty computer virus

which was hard to get rid of! so people need to send me sexy nude photos for me to paint!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: L’idealiste II

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:51:00 +0000

Invisible connection Uncle Frank ; my creative mind is like that big baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall of fire right now ;

amazing how a single word can have so many sens, and taken out of a clear context, can create original thinking from people

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at least, we try, don’t we?!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: I came to play

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:50:00 +0000

Oops! Butterfingers with the phone. I didn’t mean to send that.

That was a great reading of your poem last night!

So much so, I bought a copy of “Chapped Lap.”

Thanks again for the opportunity to play!

I was truely glad to attend the performance and not have to generate an excuse!

Mark Soden

Sent from my iPhone

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we will play together again… No excuses!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore