Jimmy Jalapeeno
artist
The past is a mountain, and memory is a shovel. The Common Present Moment, the Here and Now, is already gone. The name of the Mother of the Muses was Mnemosyne. Taste=Sex=Politics. The perception of an image is as important as the making of it. The afterburn of an image is as important as the initial impact. The Five Remembrances of the Buddha are these: 1. I will grow old, as it is in my nature. 2. I will become ill, as it is in my nature. 3. I will die, as it is in my nature. 4. Everything I ever had I will eventually lose, and I will eventually be separated from all those I love. 5. In the end, the only part of me that will stand will be the deeds I have done. Taste is really everything, there are no heroes.

These are photos intended for my current show at the Annetta Kraushaar Gallery at Texas Lutheran University, 1000 West Court Street, Seguin, Texas, 830-372-8020. Click on an image below for a slightly larger view.

The show will be appearing from Ausgust 21 through October 10. Not all of these pictures are appearing in the show. These are presented as large prints, varying from four feet by three feet to as large as six feet by nine feet. The title of the show is Chance Encounters.

The images are intended, I think, to be nmemonics for very large and complicated memories. Most of my pictures, though not all of them, are several pictures overlaid as multiple exposures or other operations of compositation. Some of these images date from as long as forty years ago, at which time I often would just run a roll of film through the camera three times and wait for the memory I wanted. Doesn't everybody wait for the memory they want?

For further information email me at jimmy@jalapeeno.com.

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Here are some installation shots of the show.
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