Dolan Geiman Wolf Biz (or The Wolf Says How) - 2008- $50
This is the latest in Dolan's series of Sketchbook Collages, more loose and eclectic pieces Dolan creates during the twilight hours in his studio. This most recent Sketchbook Collage, Wolf Biz (or The Wolf Says How), was inspired by a segment we heard on NPR's All Things Considered last night about the Mexican gray wolf. The collage includes maize, jumbled Russian and German text, a clock (guess the metaphor), and an image of Jim Bowie. Who is Jim Bowie? Why the inventor of the Bowie knife, of course! He was also a solider who fought at the Alamo.
Here's a short excerpt from Remember the Alamo, Chapter 13:
"The cry of Santa Anna has been like the cry of wolf! wolf!" said Bowie. "I hear that great numbers that were under arms have gone home to plant their corn and cotton. Do you want Santa Anna to murder them piecemeal--house by house, family by family? Great George! Which of us would accommodate him with a prolonged pleasure like that? No! he shall have a square fight for every life lie gets"; and the calm, gentlemanly Bowie was suddenly transformed into a flashing, vehement, furious avenger. He laid his knife and pistols on the table, his steel-blue eyes scintillated as if they were lightning; his handsome mouth, his long, white hands, his whole person radiated wrath and expressed the utmost lengths of invincible courage and insatiable hatred."
To learn more about the Mexican gray wolf, visit http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/es/wolf_reintroduction.shtml Look for Wolf Biz on Etsy in the near future.
Image c/o Dolan Geiman
Here's a short excerpt from Remember the Alamo, Chapter 13:
"The cry of Santa Anna has been like the cry of wolf! wolf!" said Bowie. "I hear that great numbers that were under arms have gone home to plant their corn and cotton. Do you want Santa Anna to murder them piecemeal--house by house, family by family? Great George! Which of us would accommodate him with a prolonged pleasure like that? No! he shall have a square fight for every life lie gets"; and the calm, gentlemanly Bowie was suddenly transformed into a flashing, vehement, furious avenger. He laid his knife and pistols on the table, his steel-blue eyes scintillated as if they were lightning; his handsome mouth, his long, white hands, his whole person radiated wrath and expressed the utmost lengths of invincible courage and insatiable hatred."
To learn more about the Mexican gray wolf, visit http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/es/wolf_reintroduction.shtml Look for Wolf Biz on Etsy in the near future.
Image c/o Dolan Geiman
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