Against the marsh / Dan Barfield

[Will Dockery]

On Friday, August 27, 1999 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Andrew Roller wrote:
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> Against the marsh
> by Dan Barfield
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> Willie-boy,...limited
> computer access time...
> Beautiful day here...
> silvery-bright, the ocean
> like a silver-blue mirror,
> palm trees whispering to the wind.
>
> white
> birds standing like virgin brides
> against the yellow-green of the
> marsh....
> been painting hard, doing good work--I think--
> still living off
> of peas and rice and fish....
>
> crabbing "ain't worth a
> damn!"
>
> ....television don't work anymore
> (thank God..No distractions there!)
> Still no phone...
> doubt I'll get one.....
> Joe's doing alright
> since he cut off his thumb..
> learning to paint without
> it
>
> Robert-called-Duncan
> ...still walking around with his flashlight.....
>
> Latino girls still beautiful,
> but untouchable......take
> care,old friend....Dan
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> For more poetry visit:
> http://www.angelfire.com/al2/willdockerypoems/index.html
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> Against the marsh is copyright 1999 by Dan Barfield
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A really old one from the Legendary Usenet archives!

[Chuck Lysaght]

Gamble. I love watching you lose your mind on Usenet.

[Chuck Lysaght]

Gamble. I love watching you lose your mind on Usenet. heh.

[Will Dockery]

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 6:46:42 PM UTC-5, ggamble wrote:
> On 2-Dec-2012, Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > We're so busy celebrating you and your best-loved poem "Pete The Dog".
>
> Please continue

Sure, we can continue as long as you can hold up, Gary.

Here we were a year ago, with you still whining:

http://alt.zines.narkive.com/fWb6uQUC/autograph-of-zorro-will-dockery-henry-conley-mh-benders

Will Dockery:
about a year ago

[Playgrounds Magazine's] circulation is in the thousands, and available in pretty much every location imaginable in this area.

http://playgroundsmag.com/service.htm

Yes, thousands of copies on display, as I pointed out earlier, in
almost every location imaginable in the Columbus-Fort Benning-Phenix
City area. Did I miss the part where you come on now and explain how
your "Nothing" beats that? Take your time, and I'll keep publishing my
poetry for a fairly wide audience.

Do the math--- 12 years (actually began publishing poetry in the zine
in 1995 but my regular monthly gig began in 1998 with Artrageous, a
column on Outsider Art that I took over when the first writer of the
column, my friend artist Mark Coile, suddenly passed away) of monthly
publication of 1000s of copies. That's a hefty audience any way you
look at it, Gary.

More than you've ever reached, possibly? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Post by ggamble
People wrap fish in it.

And, again, Gary, you've been published... where?

Anywhere at all?

Has even your best, most beloved poem "Pete The Dog" even been published anywhere?

[Will Dockery]

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:19:22 PM UTC-5, Chuck Lysaght wrote:
> Gamble. I love watching you lose your mind on Usenet. heh.

Dan Barfield is pretty interesting also, the man who first showed me the wonders of Saint Augustine, Jacksonville, and points in between:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.australian/2008-02/msg00004.html

Kanga, here are galleries of Barfield, my teacher, who has been higly
influenced by Aborigine art and culture

The art of Dan Barfield:

http://www.danbarfield.com/index.php

About Dan Barfield posted 2008-01-28 11:22:00 by Dan
I have often been asked by critics and students for the influences that have
shaped my "philosophy of art." I rattle off a few well known names and a few
well known "schools" of art which seems to satisfy them.The truth is....I
don't have a philosophy of art. My paintings grow out of my philosophy of
life and from the experiences of the life that I live and have lived since
childhood.

I grew up along the east coast between Savannah, Georgia and Jacksonville,
Florida, when that coast was still wild and undeveloped. School was a prison
for me, a thing to be endured only long enough to escape into the birdsong
silence and deep shadows of the woods and river swamps, or the sun washed
marshes and sea islands of the coast.
Then, as all teen-agers must, there came a time when I rebelled against this
life. I left this life behind and went to art school and college. I embraced
any road, any thought, any philosophy that took me away from that "old life"
which seemed somehow dull and meaningless. I learned all of the names and
catch phrases of the intellectual artist, embraced all of the currently
popular "schools," and lived the life of "artist as rock-and roll star." And
I did it well, getting my undergraduate degree in art from Columbus State,
and my Master of Fine Art from Savannah College of art and Design, showing
in Europe and America,wearing the laurels of success, never allowing myself
to admit that I was lying to myself and living someone else's life.

Then a major event in my life took place in which I lost everything. I was
living in my car with no home, eating at the Saint Francis mission in St.
Augustine, Florida, and being forced to rethink my life........In retrospect
it is the best thing that could have happened to me. I returned to the
beauty and basic truths of my childhood. I again embraced the beaauty of the
earth and the joy of being alive and free. This is where these paintings are
born.

GALLERY ONE posted 2008-01-28 10:29:41 by Dan
This is my personal favorite series. I have attempted to reach deep into the
human psyche here and create paintings that will be recognized across all
cultures and times. To this end I have worked flat with no attempt to make
them appear as anything except flat paintings on flat surfaces. There is no
attempt at perspective or depth; often there is no foreground, middleground,
or background. The colors are vivid and bright, the flora and fauna would
never be recognized by science, the fruits and flowers would never be found
in a florist or grocer....I hope that they are universal symbols of that
which they represent.

The observer will notice at once the power and importance of the sun symbol.
Actually the sun was usually the first thing painted and the rest of the
painting grew up around it. Those who have lived in the tropics will
understand this, as the sun is the ruler of the day and of all life.

The ruler of all life ....It has been suggested that the sun is a "god"
symbol in these paintings, and I am comfortable with that. (Note that I have
said a 'god symbol,' not a god....a symbol only.) The sun is the source of
all life as all energy comes from the sun...we are of the sun, we eat the
sun when we eat vegetables, or the meat that feeds on the vegetation.

Others have found a "Christian" image in the three "Ancestral Figures" that
stand guard with spears and huge erections over this fecund paradise.(I have
to admit that these figures are stolen from Australian rock paintings and
modified to suit my needs.)

I think I have said enough about these paintings now. I have a tendency to
get long winded and I would not want to color your perceptions. And after
all, art does not take place in the paint or on the wall; art does not take
place in the mind of the artists;...art takes place in the interaction
between the viewer and the painting. Art is a different experience for each
of us, modified or enhanced by our own unique experiences.

The Dream:
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery1.php

GALLERY TWO posted 2008-01-28 10:04:00 by Dan
What can one say about these paintings? These are scenes that I have
stumbled across from the Low Country of South Carolina to the provinces of
the Philippines. Shrimp boats of the South Carolina and Georgia coast, a
lighthouse somewhere on the Golden Isles of Georgia; a mother and daughter
in Costa Rica, two young Filipino girls with the family's carabao...other
images of other times and places....

Oil on canvas; simple, but I enjoy the discipline needed to render a sceene
that exists on the outside of my mind....simple beauty of a simple life.

I hope that you, the viewer, enjoy them, that you are sensitive to the
beauty of them, and that they bring you happiness.

[Will Dockery]

ggamble wrote:
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> He sounds like an even bigger

<slap>

Here's Barfield's autobiography, have someone read it to you:

The life & art of Dan Barfield:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.australian/2008-02/msg00004.html

The life & art of Dan Barfield, my teacher, who has been higly
influenced by Aborigine art and culture.

[Will Dockery]

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 11:07:35 PM UTC-5, ggamble wrote:
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> > Dan Barfield, my teacher, who has been higly
>
> > influenced by Aborigine art and culture.

A look at Barfield's art:

http://www.playgroundsmag.com/cover%20images/072007Cover500.jpg

And a couple more Barfield paintings can be seen in the background, here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shadowville_poetryreading_07.jpg

[Will Dockery]

ggamble wrote:
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> he must've taught
>
> you everything he knew about poetry.

I learn from everyone in some way, Gary... from you, I learned about hilariously bad "dog poetry" such as "Pete The Dog".

[Will Dockery]

"ggamble" bit...@obsesso.net wrote:
>
> new supply of crack

Does smoking that stuff help ease your pain?

[Will Dockery]

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 6:36:44 PM UTC-5, ggamble wrote:
> On 2-Dec-2012, Will Dockery wrote:
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>
>

> > "Dan Barfield Tribute Day".
>
>
>
> You mean this is the one day of the year when you celebrate someone other
>
> than yourself?

Well here's me with Dan Barfield on the cover of my 1999 poetry chapbook "Sea Weed Fox", if you need Will Dockery content:

http://www.myspace.com/willdockery/photos/66171934#%7B%22ImageId%22%3A66171934%7D

[Will Dockery]

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 6:41:58 PM UTC-5, Chuck Lysaght wrote:
> Gamble. I love watching you lose your mind on Usenet.

Yeah, looks like the little guy decided to take a sabbatical... heh.

[General Zod]

The poet...………. the artiste...………..

[Brainiac Five]

Outstanding photo.....

[Will Dockery]

Classic poetry from Danny Barfield.

😉

[Rex Hunter Jr.]

Interesting read...……….

[Rod Riprock Jr.]

Dan Barfield is a true American original... bless him....

[General Zod]

Very cool poetry by M.D. Barfield....!!

[Mr Zodiac]

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 4:36:51 PM UTC-8, Will Dockery wrote:
>

> Oil on canvas; simple, but I enjoy the discipline needed to render a scene

> that exists on the outside of my mind....simple beauty of a simple life.
>
> I hope that you, the viewer, enjoy them, that you are sensitive to the
> beauty of them, and that they bring you happiness.

Outstanding back story.....