Dennis Hollingsworth

Jim Murray

"diminished chord" chromo galaxies by Jim Murray, 2011.

Last December, I was delighted to receive this piece from a reader of this blog, Jim Murray. We've kept up a rambling conversation via email over the years, Jimmy has a wonderful way of expressing himself with the written word. I asked him to send me a foto of his recent work and one day, boom, here I have a strange kind of unhinged or otherwise unattached collage (collage always involves a glue of some kind, right?). Something to think about, there. To give you a sense of what I mean in terms of his wordplay, (I don't think Jimmy would mind the reveal) here is a cut and pasted a paragraph from a recent missive:

i always liked french kats like jaques villegle, roger haines..i remember seeing a villegle in pau (s france)..and in a galleriest"s from bergamo ,who was a friend, house. I always liked collage its like they say @ the medium> {immediate to the paws, cheap to the pocketbook, conceals/reveals the adeptness/lack thereof of the tinkerers mindfingertip skilz}...and usually its flat ergo easy to cart around..so when i lived all over and the kids mounted up i didnt have a ton of room to work on figuring out al these chromo-palletes which was my intent..so that i could perhaps paint..(im a failed painter)..the hole punch was a hat tip to the impressionists who seemd to have been the early birds who made the canvas surface respire...? and i could get an immmediate response of the color relationship )madruga-market-nude skin-water with everything..amish clothesline) by glancing at the holes and the paper color under it so i tinkered with them for a few decades....then in the early 90s we had to move out of a farmhouse cuz someone bought it and we had to book. A bigishcombine like thing i tried was in the back of the pickup..it was amrch snowstorm and the thing fell out busted..so i said nufa this gonna thin em out so i started to belt sand them so i could do more jazz refrain layering..and then i liked the look provaocative of the agate hunting days of my youth..Well eventually had a show at flanders 7 years ago..but then some of the remants of that 25 year retro got rained on in that old schoolhouse!@#$%^ so i started cutting them up making smaller "openings" as leigh salgado labelsem... cuz i figured they would mold..if not..then i i have a collage around for a few years + and i am not tickled with the final chromatic resolve i find th epeices which trigger ojo joy and cuttem out..(sometimes i share a few with artists/friends like denny cuz they get the lingo and im kinda isolated here..sort of (no complaints) ur always welcome to come out and stay a spell...do some art the schoolhouse is empty in summer cept4me...

UPDATE: Here is Jacques Villegl? in Wikipedia.