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- Back to America
- On my own for a couple of hours. Cloudy afternoon.
- No time for ideas.
- The Rock Feels Watched
- Querulous
- plant, chair, and WordPress for iPhone
- Back at the cafe
- Into Blinding Light
- Denver, from the Auraria Campus Parking Lots
- New Header Image. Something a bit simpler.
- The Pelican, the Alembic, and the Concealing Wall
- The Helmet is a Veil
- Live Iron Sculpture Casting at Auraria Campus March 10th (my poster)
- With Enough Masks and Tails, I Am All Animals
- Hi, I’m your “Grader”: The Dehumanized University
- For all the art talk and theory, an artist, regardless of their specific beliefs and cosmology, knows that when it goes well, the moment of making is a moment of grace, some kind of gift, a treasure and a privilege. This experience is as old as art is, although a lot of contemporary art talk belittles it. We, as artists, the kind that I mean, are not just content providers for... a luxury market, a network of institutions, a sophisticated discourse, and a social scene. We are, at our best, much more than that. What, then? I don't know, still. I just have a thread that I need to follow.
Time Casts Shadows
Edges soften or harden depending on the light source. Months merge to quick glimpses in the shadow of memory.Flashes are given sequence, and from the mind's turbulent puddle, we conjure up a stream.
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Gao Xingjian’s “Return to Painting”
This is a favorite book, a gift from my sister a few years ago. Gao draws astounding forms from black ink and paper, pulling image from abstraction and bleeding ink in a way that reminds me of Joseph Beuys’ early … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Ink, Reviews, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Artist, Books, Brushwork, Chagall, Chi Hsu, Chinese, Contemporary, Fuentecilla, Gao, Gao Xingjian, ink, Joseph Beuys, Nobel Prize, Return to Painting, Reviews, Soul Mountain
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Odin-Odeon Cinema Fragment One
Each Wednesday (Woden’s Day) night this Spring, when possible, I went over to the studio to make prints. I had several etched plates lying about, each of them suggestive of image, while not quite readable without interpretation. The ways in … Continue reading
Old Tongue
“Old Tongue is a piece of nearly-abstract visual music that rushes forward repeatedly, then pauses, breathless. A tiny screen invites one to focus close, and the attentive viewer is rewarded, as rhythm, shape, color, and glimpsed imagery meld in a … Continue reading
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Mini-’Pipney
I love the feeling that I’m coming to an understanding of something that’s very complex, that’s too intricate and layered to put into words. Like jazz harmony this afternoon, when it began, as it sometimes does, to get out of … Continue reading
Posted in Aphorism, Uncategorized
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