28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond
Greetings from the Deep,
Detail of 28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond
More painting pics are further below.
Deep Water Horizon has been in my thoughts for a month. It is pretty much unfolding as I expected when news first broke; DISASTER.
This week I joined a new Facebook group titled;
“I vote we plug the Gulf oil leak with BP executives.”
Here is a link to that Facebook page for those logged in.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=122603081095826
The company’s PR position has thus far often been an absurd act of corporate covering the liability butt. This one will be in courts for a couple decades to come. BP appears to have been doling out information slowly and only when pressured. Company officials have made some callous remarks. Tony Hayward, BP CEO (for the moment) said on internationally broadcast television he hoped this would all go away so he could have his life back. So would the folks in the Gulf Tony.
Here is an article from the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail that outlines Hayward’s prospects of remaining BP’s CEO.
As seen in a video posted on YouTube the gentleman has made some fairly stupid and offensive comments such as “The overall environmental impacts of this will be very, very, very modest.” Tight reins on information about accident and the well capping process plus such statements convey a strong impression of cover up to limit BP’s liability. On occasion Hayward has back pedaled from some of his verbal gaffs. Hayward’s life in the hot seat is not over yet and he likely will find himself in a court and in front of the American Congress investigating committees.
The American Congress has proceeded with some investigation of the Deep Water Horizon disaster.
“The investigation began with the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where the executives of the three companies involved in the disaster came under fire from lawmakers.
They testified under oath in a room steeped in history.
It was the same room where Congress investigated the sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago.” Voice Of America, News.com
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Senate-Opens-Hearings-on-Oil-Spill-93423134.html
It is challenging to be optimistic about the situation in the Gulf of Mexico. Here is a toast to the future with a song from LHO.
Lee Harvey Osmond performs Leonard Cohen’s ‘The Future’
On to lighter things.
Here is some Yo Yo Ma to balance the gulf-gloom.
The couple of paintings I was slowly working on this past weeks are now varnished. I played around when I was applying the white undercoat which created quite a few layers of texture. This is especially so at the bottom of each painting.
I put undercoat on four canvases having the same 28” x 20” dimensions but at this time have added colour to only two of those canvases.
Details of a 28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond
These detail images of the full painting seen at the very top of this blog post seem to be under worldly – from the Deep.
Details of a 28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond
28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond
Click click click and you can view this album as a slide show in full screen view.
I had to write a song to express my thoughts and feelings about the situation in the Gulf of Mexico. It is aptly titled, ‘Deep Water Horizon’. At Howlin’ Dog Studio I recorded a rough rough one mike, one guitar, one dog howlin’ version which is posted on my Facebook page in the My Band section. http://www.facebook.com/johnredmond
Deep Water Horizon by john r redmond
Deep water horizon
Deep water below the ocean wave
Crude oil arising from a grave, Neptune’s bed
Mother nature gonna shed a tear again
Mother nature gonna cry some more
Top kill horizon
Top kill
Top kill horizon
Deep water horizon
Deep water below the ocean wave
Twenty ten you’d think we’d learned
Learned it all by now
Mother nature she knows how to shed a tear
Mother nature on the run some more
Top kill horizon
Top kill
Top kill horizon
And when the mother’s bleed is through
There will be a mighty starting over
Starting over
Oh . . .
I believe you didn’t mean it
Never wanted the rig to come burning down
But you have got to think
Think of what you’re doing
When you dig beneath the ocean floor
You better drill inside your head again
Companions of the blue
Human today . . . gone tomorrow
What kind of crude is flowing
Flowing through your veins
Better drill inside your heart instead
You’re gonna make our children’s world dead
Top kill horizon
Top kill
Top kill horizon
Deep water horizon
Deep water below the ocean wave
Crude oil arising from a grave, Neptune’s bed
Mother nature she knows how to shed a tear
Mother nature on the run again
John Redmond
Ottawa, Canada
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