Tag Archives: Denver

With Enough Masks and Tails, I Am All Animals

All animals indeed. Hmmph. Alright Mr. Shape-changer, how about those dishes? OK, but I’ll be back, and not for the first time. What is this thing? The minimum standard: is the paper improved by being marked? I think so, yes, … Continue reading

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Secret Tunnels Under Denver & Boulder

This clumsy little scrawl fell out of my brush a long time ago, about 15 years before I actually had an actual little girl shuffling around the house in my big boots, sporting huge hats and dragging bulging carpetbags full … Continue reading

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The Bird Steps Up

There comes a point when the bird just has to step up to the front and begin. There’s a certain awkward charm and anxious magnetism to starting out, but it doesn’t last all that long. The question is, what to … Continue reading

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Design Justified

This is from the syllabus for my 2-Dimensional Design course at UC Denver this Spring. I sat here for a while trying to make something reasonably concise, so I thought I might as well share it on the site, too, … Continue reading

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Jack: Re:Beanstalk

Here’s the step and the step gone as the foot fumbles at the stringer, finds a notch for the toes, which claw for purchase and a little friction. Rising always borders on falling, as steam inevitably condenses.

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Mage’s Boat

When someone is sent to find the old man, all else has already failed. If he’s not out in the boat, he’s out walking, some way off the paths, in-turned, but aware of each sound and scent, and each combination. … Continue reading

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Nibble on the Yellow Wallpaper at RedLine

I spent yesterday helping to install “Kitchen Wallpaper,” a piece by Rian Kerrane, which Jessica Gross had already been working on for days. This food-encrusted room is part of “Artists’ Footprints” at RedLine in Denver, a show curated by Viviane … Continue reading

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End of Empire

Some kind of Gene Wolfe parlor of tarnished escutcheons, faceless poise, and rotting velvet, with remnants of ruling families maintaining the procedures of dignity as any trace of distinction and inbred purpose fade. Ancestral identity becomes mere cashflow and costume. … Continue reading

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