Local Hīro – Moon of Alabama

January 13, 2006

Local Hīro

Local Hīro
by beq
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… in Ra’iatea he at last conceived a strong attachment for a most beautiful woman named Vai-tu-marie (Clear-still-water), who was the wife of a noted warrior named Tutae (Dung), and he determined to possess her himself. So he made advances to the man, sometimes feigning friendship and again aggravating him to hostility, until one day the warrior raised his spear to strike him, when Hiro caught him by the head and broke his neck. Thus freed of the husband, Hiro took possession of the wife, …
Hiro (text added by b)

Posted by b on January 13, 2006 at 13:11 UTC | Permalink

Comments

but, but…Is this the same wife he later kills?
I like my tricksters a little more Anansi and a little less Zeusical (except in the case of Dr. Zeus).
in any case, beautiful conceived. what is that movement in the feet? struggle or other?

Posted by: fauxreal | Jan 13 2006 15:12 utc | 1

outstanding as usual, beq
have been waiting for your return &
you show up in style (heh)
kudos
hanshan

Posted by: hanshan | Jan 13 2006 16:21 utc | 2

jeez louise beq, i’m getting horny just looking at it. better scadoodle out to my studio, there’s work to be done.

Posted by: annie | Jan 13 2006 17:13 utc | 3

After the fun there’s Aussibum. [couldn’t resist]

Posted by: beq | Jan 13 2006 17:48 utc | 4

haha
Lends new meaning to the concept speedo
….

Posted by: hanshan | Jan 13 2006 19:39 utc | 5

downunderwear
Beautiful beq. Nice text b.
May I add that I find a certain androgeny to both forms.

Posted by: Malooga | Jan 13 2006 20:38 utc | 6

Beq, I love the pants.
How big is this piece, can you tell us what media you used, anything.
Did you all notice that there’s a bum on the foot in the lower left, and that it looks like fingers waving?
If you look at the picture itself you’d have to imagine one figure reclining and another above leaning over. Is beq’s other work that we’ve seen as erotic as this one.

Posted by: jonku | Jan 13 2006 22:13 utc | 7

@ jonku. I had to look again. You’re right (one of the toes looks like a mini-bum too). I actually sold this a few days after I finished it more than a year ago. I never really got to know it. Since I’m working on some new ones I thought I’d send this to Bernhard in the meantime. It is 18″x18″ as are most of my recent paintings and it’s acrylic on canvas. Sorry, I should have included that. I also have to admit that I can’t remember what the tag says. (Jape?) I wrote it on the back and now I don’t know. Thank you for the text b.

Posted by: beq | Jan 13 2006 23:21 utc | 8

beq & b
these gifts of yours & anna missed bring me great pleasure – mediating the horror story that constitutes life under the imperium

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jan 14 2006 4:58 utc | 9

I’m wondering what the ideograms mean as I enjoy the
pleasant ambiguity.

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Jan 14 2006 8:03 utc | 10

lovely painting beq – just great, thx.

Posted by: Noisette | Jan 15 2006 21:20 utc | 11

brilliant, beq. i wondered if they were tattoos? thanks for sharing. how lucky (and wise) the buyer of this wonderful painting.

Posted by: Anonymous | Jan 16 2006 1:11 utc | 12

oops, last one was i.

Posted by: conchita | Jan 16 2006 1:14 utc | 13

Very nice. I have to admit at first I thought, not as overtly sexual as much of Beq’s work, and then I realized, that’s not a duvet, that a bum! Some of us are just slow.

Posted by: Ferdzy | Jan 17 2006 15:02 utc | 14

Visiting Aliens “Uneasy” With Alito Nomination:
Can’t resist this either.
Thank you MJS (+++)

Posted by: beq | Jan 17 2006 15:46 utc | 15

The characters read: “gen’ei”, the two characters meaning respectively illusions and shadows.
The whole word translates as visions; dreams; a symbol of things that barely exist and yet manage to, briefly.

Posted by: citizen | Jan 17 2006 16:20 utc | 16

@ citizen. Thank you for that. I try to make the “tag” and the title relate in some way like a word game. The “local hero” as a profligate rake and the ephemera of a one night stand. Must try to hang onto my notes.

Posted by: beq | Jan 17 2006 16:36 utc | 17

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