{"id":5770,"date":"2013-07-12T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2013-07-12T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:49:15","slug":"blair-drawson-explains-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/blair-drawson-explains-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Drawson Explains It All."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Blair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own words, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the story behind Dreams of Patoot\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some time ago I rediscovered a metaphorical Horn of Plenty crammed with images &#8212; good, bad, and indifferent.  These were my own works, the products of years of work-for-hire, plus many of my \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself-commissioned\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 paintings.  At any rate, I had a lot of them. I was called upon to interpret certain causes, tropes, and ideas that found their way into print.  Celebrity portraits.  Jocular entertainments.  Works of fashion, fiction, and friction.  Scientific or socio-economic concepts shown in less abstract, more graspable depictions for the common reader.  All of these were painted in styles that seemed appropriate to the subject matter, and which varied considerably in tone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from the broadly comic to the gravely austere and beyond.  And all were filtered through my own personal artistic sensibilities.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It occurred to me that perhaps there was a story somewhere within these many images.  Was there a narrative here, really?  And isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it working backwards to contrive a story after the fact of the pictures, especially when there are so many of them?  The mule goes before the wagon; he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t push it from behind, like an ass.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes indeed.  But sometimes when one doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really know what one can or cannot do, or where one is, one blunders into a fool\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s paradise. Plain enough was that Dreams of Patoot would be no children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book.  Far too many pictures in the cornucopia were of the naughty variety.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The big hurdle was the problem of consistency of characters from one page to the next.  Obviously, the raw material had been originally done for any number of purposes and applications.  How then does one contrive a flow of action that shows a central character that the reader can identify and follow from scene to scene, no matter how outlandish the setting? The answer: one doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.  The key was contained in the word \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcoutlandish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Make the story a sort of sci-fi one!  Set the action some place, to something like what we are used to &#8212; but not the same!  And give the denizens of that place the ability to change their appearance, willy-nilly, and at any moment!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ergo: the Periodic Form Changement.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And while you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at it, have some fun with language!  Make up bad translations that demonstrate the silliness of idioms and expressions which we use every day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And while you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at that, might as well take some pot shots at the customs and mores that we live by.  But entertain them too!  Give them Plafunda!  Give them Plafundatongue!  Give them Patoot!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamsofpatoot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5771\" alt=\"Reactor-Blair-Drawson-Dreams-of-Patoot-wallpaper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Reactor-Blair-Drawson-Dreams-of-Patoot-wallpaper.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Reactor-Blair-Drawson-Dreams-of-Patoot-wallpaper.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Reactor-Blair-Drawson-Dreams-of-Patoot-wallpaper-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blair Drawson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interactive visual narrative for the iPhone is <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/dreams-patoot-interactive\/id624099332?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>now available for downloading from the iTunes Store.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/dreams-patoot-interactive\/id624099332?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5752\" alt=\"freedownload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reactorart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/freedownload.png\" width=\"182\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Blair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own words, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the story behind Dreams of Patoot\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some time ago I rediscovered a metaphorical Horn of Plenty crammed with images &#8212; good, bad, and indifferent. These were my own works, the products of years of work-for-hire, plus many of my \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself-commissioned\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 paintings. At any rate, I had a lot of them. 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