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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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Tag Archives: Eric Waldemar
Early Abstractions has gone to the Getty.
I had Harry Smith’s own 16mm print of Early Abstractions for about 20 years, since he got it out from under the bed at his little apartment on the Naropa Institute grounds. I just passed it off to Rani Singh … Continue reading
Posted in Harry Smith, Uncategorized
Tagged Eric Waldemar, Getty Museum, Harry Smith, Naropa Institute, Rani Singh
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Black Ink
Several people asked me about relationships between the ink drawings in Time and Attention and the prints. Many of the drawings were made during a period when I was working on images for Richard Loranger’s book Poems for Teeth. Working … Continue reading
Posted in TIME & ATTENTION at Ironton, Uncategorized
Tagged Arts, Denver, Eric Waldemar, gestural, ink
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Things that appear:
Representation may not be the point, exactly, but I often do enjoy it when “pictures” appear. In general, I find that in general, apparently non-objective works tend to begin as deliberate “pictures of something,” while on the other hand, virtually … Continue reading
Posted in Prints, TIME & ATTENTION at Ironton
Tagged Eric Waldemar, Ironton, monotype
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