El Disco Explicado

Hamlet de Parinacota

Misho Vallejo
[click image for evolving provenance]

Shikoku, Japan

Shoshone

LOCA Locato

The Integratron

Landers, California, credit and date in dispute. Provenance: Considered a hoax. Accordingly, El Disco obtained a 60's style Polaroid print from a Mr. Plowman, who claims to have obtained the photo directly from the photographer [unknown] while at the 1997 International UFO Congress in Laughlin Nevada. According to Mr. Plowman, "the photo is a gag relating back to the whole affair here and at Giant Rock down the road a while back in the 60's where some guy [George Van Tassel] who built the Integratron was wooing rich folks into the desert and charging large sums of money to bring them into contact with the UFO aliens around at the time."

Harold Splint & Other Revolutionaries

Prince Halak the 6th, French Revolutionary
Photograph, 6 Août, 2008; Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present

Tennyson Mason Woodbridge Hammersmith Oaks, pencil manufacturer
Data unknown, 2015; Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present

Now and Soon Again

Coming Soon Jesus
Honolulu, 2016; copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present

FORNAX

Fornax, 11 August 1990
w/c pencil, graphite, paper; 12 x 8.5"
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present; Collection Eli Davey

El Disco Vertigo

Unarian March

Lap of Gods >> El Disco

Owl + Rat

Virgin Mary // Pope Visit_CO

Liberace Museum, Las Vegas [click for evolving provenance]
June 22nd, 1997
Time of day still unknown

String Bling

Untitled, 11 August 1990
Acrylic, w/c, graphite, paper; 12 x 8.5", 1990
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present; Collection Marsie Scharlatt

Untitled Theory
Charcoal, conti, assembled paper, 56 x 32", 1990
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present; Collection Michael Davey

Members to Public Short Ratio
Acrylic, ink, w/c, graphite, paper, ~48 x 28", 1992
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present; Collection Eli Davey

Light Science (older drawings)

Untitled 1990
1990; charcoal, acrylic, graphite, conte on paper; 17 x 13 3/4"
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present; Collection Beki Coagan/Damon Scharlatt

Primordial System, 7 August 1990
1990, ink, w/c, paper; 12 x 8.5"
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present; Collection Michael Davey

Primordial System, 29 August 1990
1990, ink, w/c, graphite, paper; 12 x 8.5"
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present; Collection Eli Davey

23 August 1990
1990; charcoal, graphite, w/c pencil on paper; 9 3/4 x 8"
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present; Collection Michael Davey

Titus Canyon

Partagas Polaroids are a series of drawings executed onto Polaroid photographs, often as they were still developing, from 1987-1992. The group fit nicely into Partagas cigar tins and remained there for many years, if not since.

MARS Loire_1

Root Matter_assembly4; photograph
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present

Root Matter_assembly6; photograph
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present

POLAROID ® K713501C

POLAROID ® K713501C (backside)
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present

Partagas Polaroids are a series of drawings executed onto Polaroid photographs, often as they were still developing, from 1987-1992. The group fit nicely into Partagas cigar tins and remained there for many years, if not since.

Saginaw II

Sandra Coleman, 1953
Saginaw_18, February 2015, found photo, 4 x 2.5"

Sandra Coleman, 1975
Saginaw_19, February 2015, found photo, 3-1/2 x 2-3/8"

Saginaw_9, February 2015, found photo, 4 x 4-7/8"

Calm Balm

On March 6, 1853, exactly all of 550 passengers climbed safely onto the beach while fourteen chests of gold were salvaged as the S.S. Tennessee steamship broke itself apart.

On December 29, 2012, the landmark arch at Tennessee Cove collapsed, forever affecting a photographic landmark made popular for more than 150 years.

And seen here, January 19, 2015, few seemed even concerned and none much worse for wear.

Stuart Bedford Said Nothing (1985/2014)

Stuart Bedford Said Nothing

Stuart Bedford Said Nothing as his wife came out of the plane and into his arms.
Suddenly Stuart recognized an old friend. "Stan! Stan Goldsmith—how are you? I knew you'd turn up somewhere but what are you doing here?"
"I'm on vacation," Stan replied, looking at Stuart's wife. "This must be your lovely wife."
"Oh yes, this is my wife Audra. She's just returned from Chicago."
"Chicago? I just came in from Chicago. We must have been on the same plane—though I can't see how I wouldn't have noticed you."
Stan winked as Audra gave a short smile. She recognized him as the man who'd asked for a second meal over Denver.

Stuart Bedford Said Nothing
Photograph, October, 2014; prose from 1985
Copyright © Tennyson Woodbridge, 1963 to present