ART - P. Kurz & C. Hatfield

HOLY FOOL file box

"Holy Fool" - box of writings/poetry from 1970's to 2016. Covered inside and out with mementos, photos, hand written sticker-notes and a layer of packing tape as protection.

HOLY FOOL

Phil enjoyed, collected, created and used boxes of all kinds. Two were collages of his musings - a constant attempt to divide his paranoia from valid intuition, true spiritual insight and what most of us see as day-to-day reality.
From this box cover "Holy Fool"
We all have what the American Forefathers called Inalienable Rights. Human Rights that can be violated but not taken away. We all have the right to demand those rights. Unfortunately we often don't recognize that plants, animals and things have unspoken inalienable rights too.
Demand Rights,
Recognize Rights.
- Do It -

Doing What You Should Be Doing

"You're Doing what you Should be Doing" - box of writings

Of Butterflies and Lions

"Of Butterflies and Lions" - seems to be some sort of manifesto.

Crazy Phil's Insanity Notes on His Crazed Easel

Phil Kurz' easel is filled with small sayings and dialogue. Some sad, some amusing, some astute. He has named it,"Crazy Phil's Insanity Notes On His Crazed Easel"

Easel Center

"WOAH! HARDNOSE!" seems to be a central message.

Easel Close up

It's Not For You To Make Bargains with God - We Must - Not That Important - What Price Forgiveness?

The Universal Symphony - set of 13 9x12 oil paintings & 382 color drawings

Random 1 of 13 oil paintings, this one is titled The Garden of the Other Side.

>Note the hand-sewn pouches and the bamboo & bead titles identifying 12 of the 13 Compositions. These pieces are abstract communications annotated liberally on their backs and meant to be read as poetry and heard as music. 

sample of The Heart of Love fragment

This is the first of 13 titled sets of: a prelude painting and 20 to 50 haiku drawings (called Concertos, Compositions or Fragments) in the Universal Symphony Series; done between 2010 & 2011. Each, but the most recent, is contained in its own handmade burlap pouch.

Oil Paintings from the Universal Symphony, 3 of the 13 selected at random

The following quote pertains to all 13 of the series and is written in various ways on each set of the series. This is on the cover of the last Composition (Born in Confusion In The edfe of Wilderness, Late Spring 2011) in the Universal Symphony Series

>note, His habit of capitolization is quite conscious...adapted from A.A. Milne as a tongue-in-cheek way of aknowledging and identifying with the importance of the words of a stuffed fantasy bear-of-little-brain (and lack thereof.) 

These Compositions Are Each A Little
Part Of The Universal Symphony
We All Take Part In & Help Compose.
Each Piece In This Composition
Is Like A Haiku In A Linked Haiku.
They Are Meant To Be Kept Together & Viewed 
In Sequence Or As Individual Pieces.

Thank you.

(signed "Phil")