A week later, another afternoon out drawing, starting with the quiet cafe (Common Grounds). Homare Ikeda’s show opened last night at Wm. Havu Gallery, and it is all I’d hoped from the early versions I saw a while back at his studio. I’ll return to the show with more time to spend. Today’s work ended with studies of clouds. Engaging with the world with a pencil again is beginning to make me sane, as I’d hoped. It’s been years since I’ve spent so much time gazing attentively, attentively, questioningly at the objects around me. In any case, at the moment, the play of light on objects is more interesting than anything I’ve got to say. Just looking around, which is fine for now.
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- Back to America
- On my own for a couple of hours. Cloudy afternoon.
- No time for ideas.
- Light Plays On Everything
- The Rock Feels Watched
- Querulous
- plant, chair, and WordPress for iPhone
- Cafe faces, cranky I
- 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)
- 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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