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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Recent Posts
- Redmond Herrity, Letterkenny Stone Sculptor
- Krazy Kat Desert Justice: Is Humor Art, and Art, Humor?
- Mage’s Boat
- ArtWorks Letterkenny Exhibition Scandal
- News from Babel, Chris Cutler, and the Legacy of the Cow.
- Nibble on the Yellow Wallpaper at RedLine
- Old Tongue Peeled
- End of Empire
- Gao Xingjian’s “Return to Painting”
- Odin-Odeon Cinema Fragment One
- Old Tongue
- Mini-’Pipney
- Primordial Soup Cartoon
- Speechlessness
- Animations from UCD
- 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.
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Author Archives: Eric
Gao Xingjian’s “Return to Painting”
This is a favorite of mine, 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’ … 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 would go over to the studio and make prints. I had several etched plates lying about, each of them suggestive of image, while not quite readable without interpretation. The ways … 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, Writing
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Primordial Soup Cartoon
Primordial Soup Cartoon from Eric Waldemar on Vimeo. Several notable curiosities came out of last fall’s “Time and Attention” show, and not everything got included in the gallery exhibition. Here’s a sort of image poem that tells of the emergence … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, TIME & ATTENTION at Ironton, Uncategorized
Tagged animation, Arts, ArtWorks, Denver, Eric Waldemar, Ireland, Ironton, Letterkenny, movie, Speechlessness, visual music
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Speechlessness
Here’s one still image from a movie called Old Tongue, part of “Letters and Speechlessness” at ArtWorks in Letterkenny, Ireland. This is the first time I’ve worked through the material I shot last summer, and again and again, I wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Ireland Exhibition Summer 2010, Letterkenny
Tagged Eric Waldemar, Ireland, Letterkenny, movie, Speechlessness, video
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Animations from UCD
Once again, we did short animations in my courses at UC Denver. Here’s a selection of strange, intense, and/or accomplished moments from this crop of “Intro to Art” students at UC Denver. I’ve been meaning to trim out a few … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Denver, Eric Waldemar, FA1001, movie, teaching, UCD
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Lemonade Stand
I’m not sure what age I was when I had my lemonade stand – let’s call it eight years old or so. I don’t know if it even lasted an hour, but in any case, I nailed legs onto a … Continue reading
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Tagged beer making, drawing, Eric Waldemar, Foxfire, ink, lemonade stand, Prohibition, Rumrunning, Salt Book, skunk cabbage, waldemar
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