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
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- End of Empire
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- Odin-Odeon Cinema Fragment One
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- 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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Category Archives: Writing
News from Babel, Chris Cutler, and the Legacy of the Cow.
The other evening in the wee hours, I heard News From Babel’s “Letters Home“ (1985) for the first time in a few years. This is music that continually surprises, with melody that takes sudden turns and twists, alternately giddy, melancholy, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Art Bears, Chris Cutler, Dagmar Krause, File Under Popular, Fred Frith, Henry Cow, Lindsay Cooper, News from Babel, RIO, Robert Wyatt, Rock in Opposition, Slapp Happy
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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
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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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
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged beer making, drawing, Eric Waldemar, Foxfire, ink, lemonade stand, Prohibition, Rumrunning, Salt Book, skunk cabbage, waldemar
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MCA Denver as Edifice.
This is part of a piece I wrote for the Invisible Museum’s Eye-Level late last year. The original article compared MCA and Redline as architectural experiences, relating their design choices to their very different missions. That particular issue of Eye … Continue reading
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