Get the marshmallows

Posted on June 19, 2006 by Dave Bonta
This entry is part 6 of 15 in the series Self-Portraits

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My sixth entry in the self-portrait marathon

I got an email from Lorianne this morning:

Do you realize your two most recent posts are “Flag Flies”????

Oops.

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Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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7 Responses to Get the marshmallows

  2. Brenda says:
    June 20, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    Irreverent, surely. Smokin’ flag of the self-portrait. After the flies, this made me laugh (well, that made me laugh too). It’s postmodern, oh it is. Witty, self-abnegating, pastiches of tradition, the whole crumbling artifice of art. Burning of the boy scouts of America. Now where’d that come from? You could be a Mounty (stand on guard, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police). Investigative Eye asks, why are the flames on the same side as the flies?

  3. Dave says:
    June 20, 2006 at 2:22 pm

    Gotta burn out my sinister side, I guess!

    I view this one as a blueprint; the real art would be in the actual execution of what it depicts. I should see if cafepress.com, or some similar outfit, offers print-on-demand flags…

  4. Brenda says:
    June 20, 2006 at 9:47 pm

    A flag of your self portrait on fire on a t-shirt, rather. Oh, go for the t-shirt! Mug-shot on a flag, uh uh. Well, if you want…

    Dave, there are better ways to deal with sinister sides, but it does depend on what sort of sinister.

    And the type of fire.

  5. Dave says:
    June 21, 2006 at 9:21 am

    Not to worry. Custom flags are well outside my budget – I checked.

    Type of fire? You mean like brush fire, wildfire, ring of fire, great balls of fire?

  6. Brenda says:
    June 21, 2006 at 1:13 pm

    You gave me a good morning laugh. Then I googled fires, and came up with this site.

    Lots of types there, and more. Weirdly done, centered and all, but a gov site apparently. Choose your fire, I say!

    Again, we don’t know what sort of sinister. Was thinking perhaps of the karmic fire:

    And he trembled with inner fire…

  7. mary says:
    June 25, 2006 at 3:03 pm

    Hi Dave

    I’m just catching up on your portraits, in reverse chronology.

    Yup, a bit sinister. I like it though.