John Burroughs by Timothy Herron
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John Burroughs - drawing (and photo of the drawing) by Timothy Herron - 21 August 2009 at the Literary Cafe
Members of Tremont's Pretentious Artists Association draw at the Literary Cafe in Cleveland every Friday from 9 p.m. to midnight. Last night I had the privilege and pleasure of being their model and taking home four very cool portraits by artists Timothy Herron, Larry Zuzik, Jim Gerber, and Rick Scolaro. It was like each of them captured a unique aspect of my soul (this is the mischievous one!). But don't let their name fool you — they didn't strike me as pretentious at all. Good people....
Next time you're at the Lit, put your name and phone number on the calendar and you, too, can be a model. I believe their next opening is in December. Thank you to the artists (sorry I can't remember every name) and all the other folks who came out — as well as to Andy and Linda of the Literary Cafe for their support of this fine happening.
See the Pretentious Artists in action some Friday night at 1031 Literary Road in Cleveland — http://literarycafe.net
And check out Tim Herron's Manly Pad studio & gallery at http://www.manlypad.net
Peace and poetry,
John
Posted by Jesus Crisis at 8/22/2009 11:01 AM 
Categories: Art and Photography
Tags: Timothy Herron Literary Cafe Pretentious Artists
Categories: Art and Photography
Tags: Timothy Herron Literary Cafe Pretentious Artists
hey that's a very cool drawing - I'd like to see more of Tim's work. Check out the google tranlate gadget I put on my blog. It's amazing! you pick the language and can read in any language you like.
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Cool! Thanks, Joy!
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Great drawing. He really captured your eyes.
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Thanks, Tara!
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Thank you, for sharing all this cool stuff. Especially the on-line library. I LOVE it! I have a dream of starting, or adding to, or enhancing an existing library to honor Charles and Joseph that's been with me for years. It never crossed my mind before I met you that a library doesn't have to have walls. I actually have an idea now for a library without walls of my own. You're an inspiration!
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You're very kind, Tara! Thank you!
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my portrait by Tim Herron done back in 1991 is now hanging over the cashier's in Mac's Backs books - as is Daniel Thompsons and ray McNeice's. There's also a portrait of perhaps my favorite living poet, Clevelander Wendy Shaffer on the wall.
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I love that portrait of you - got a picture of it somewhere. Didn't realize that Herron was the artist....
Yes, Wendy's awesome. I've been meaning to ask her if I can post some of her work in the Online Library - not sure why I haven't yet. Guess I'm a little bashful (believe it or not) when it comes to certain people - at least till I know them better.
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did tim explain the meaning of the symbols in the background - the crescent moon, 3 trees, 3 birds, odd doorway with 3 stones leading to it?
i might guess since you're jesus crisis, the 3 could relate to the holy trinity.
by the way, congrats on being tim herroned.
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He didn't say - and I didn't think to ask.
You might be right about the 3's Jesus/Trinity significance. I also gave him a copy of my chapbook 6/9 - and it was sitting on the table in front of me while the drawing took place. So maybe that had something to do with it. Two sets of three on the left side (trees and bats = 6) plus three stones on the right (= 9?). He did say they were bats -- and someone joked that I'd settled into a Count Dracula pose - which caused Tim to show off his best Dracula vocal impression. So that seems to have made it into the portrait as well.
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