Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 22, 2021

Pick up a fig leaf at the door.

I hope to remember this past year with at least a feeling of having learned something. But have to admit, my life under covid wasn’t MUCH affected… though my absolute favorite thing (pattern dancing in large groups) was put on hold entirely. Even there I found out that I could manage.

That’s how I feel every time I go to the movies.

Those works were done in Photoshop. I can see how layer masking was applied.

Life is a masquerade.

Just wondering: why weren’t masquerade balls allowed?

Interesting. The paintings are wearing masks but the people aren’t. Maybe the paintings should have been like this one of the Black Death in Paris:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#/media/File:Chevalier_Roze_%C3%A0_la_Tourette_-_1720.PNG

American Gothic couple feeling free to flash wide grins.

So long as the nudes only covered their faces, I can’t see what the problem is. Oh, dear, how sexist …

The exhibition artist had a very productive year. He had to stay home and work instead of going down to the bar (claiming it was in search of ‘inspiration’) and he was never very good at drawing faces.

Oh, ‘Inspiration’ is the name of a particularly cheap gin.

Wondering . . . if calendar art still exists, has it changed to include masks?

Someone would thing it was the Prisoner In The Iron Mask from all the moaning and groaning.

Was reading about past epidemics and. . .guess what? Seems many wore masks during the dreaded bubonic plague outbursts. . .and saw PLENTY of pix during the Spanish flue outbreak in 1918-1921 or so. WHAT IS THE FRIGGING BIG DEAL? Have never heard such ridiculous pouty/whininess for absolutely nothing.

Funny how art imitates life but not the other way around.

I’ll be so glad when we can get 2020 way behind us. Even in the comics.

all of those cartoonists who made story archs around masking, have dated their work. Wonder if someone will “not get it” in a decade or two. I hope so.

I see in the news, t$$$p’s portrait is hung in the White House, does the White House have a vomitorium? That would be the best spot for that turd’s picture. Second choice, the loading dock, hang it over the trash compacter.

I can hardly wait. Imagine in 100 years we can do this again. Or still? In the meantime, Wiley, keep up entertaining us.

Not Mona Lisa’s smile. No!

Art is history.

“No one can escape life’s problems. That’s life. When we spend more time looking for a means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles. We never discover that the best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

The Museum didn’t want their Art to “Go Viral”.

Masking didn’t work then, and it doesn’t work today UNLESS you have the proper mask, are fit tested, and have been properly trained. Otherwise they are just placebo masks to make you feel good without actually doing anything.