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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: ink
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.
How to Solve Problems
Eric Waldemar provides his unique slant on how small behavior changes shift one’s awareness and also make it more plausible that Earth survives the century. Continue reading
Wish-granting Lamp Now Available!
The magic lamp grants three wishes, and the only catch is that you need to clarify your intentions. So, for the new year, think carefully, rub the screen and make your wishes. Then make your resolutions in order to help … Continue reading
A place to sleep, a place to pee.
When a dog sniffs the ground, it usually anticipates either sleep or urination. It’s not clear to me what dogs look for in a sleep spot, so I can only speculate. It may well be that the tang of their … Continue reading
Kickstand
Sometimes you just need something to lean on for a minute. My friend Greg Sadowy took the kickstand off his bike (as well as the brakes) for aerodynamic reasons, but I’m not willing to go that far for speed. Decades … Continue reading
Gao Xingjian’s “Return to Painting”
This is a favorite book, 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’ early … 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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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
Tagged beer making, drawing, Eric Waldemar, Foxfire, ink, lemonade stand, Prohibition, Rumrunning, Salt Book, skunk cabbage, waldemar
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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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