Baltimore

We like stuff. So do visionary artists. I can't believe yesterday was my first visit to the Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore. Chris Roberts-Antieau and J.J. Cromer are a couple of my new favorite artists. Self-taught, outsider art.  Over the winter I saw the James Castle exhibit at the PMA. Like a lot of the artists in the Visionary, he developed his own visual language and used any/all of the materials he had on hand to make his art. 

Justin was reminded of Dan Deacon while we were there. It did seem appropriate that such playful, glittery, silly things were housed in Baltimore where: 

There is a mountain of snow, up past the big glen.
We have a castle enclosed, there is a fountain
Out of the fountain flows gold, into a huge hand
That hand is held by a bear who had a sick band

Of ghosts and cats
And pigs and bats
With brooms and bats
And wigs and rats
And play big dogs like queens and kings
And everyone plays drums and sings

I want to make my graphic design more fun. More absurd. 

Still, this The City from Below poster is a step in the right direction - more me.