How to be PERFECT
June 10, 2017
A rough excerpt-adaption of Ron Padgett’s wonderful poem: HOW TO BE PERFECT (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57243)
A visual study
June 8, 2017
– of missing ears
For a Moment
June 6, 2017
by Ron Padgett It’s funny how if you just let go of things they will come to you. That is to say sometimes. So what good is such a generalization? Ah, it makes you feel good to say such things from time to time, as if you actually and really and truly knew something! “For … More For a Moment
wayfaring
May 29, 2017
Xirles, Polop, Valencia
Spitting Toxotes
May 19, 2017
Every morning I receive news from a web-site called forskning.no, a site passing on research news from all kinds of areas. The other day I learned that there is a fish that seems to be able to recognize fases, even if it – as usually go for fish – lacks neocortex. I had never before heard … More Spitting Toxotes
A custodian of larger issues (cont.)
May 14, 2017
“To require perfection is to invite paralysis. The pattern is predictable: as you see error in what you have done, you steer your work toward what you imagine you can do perfectly. Your cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do, away from risk and exploration, and possibly further from the … More A custodian of larger issues (cont.)
A custodian of larger issues (cont.)
May 14, 2017
Some people who make art are driven by inspiration, others by provocation, still others by desperation. Artmaking grants access to worlds that may be dangerous, sacred, forbidden, seductive, or all of the above. It grants access to worlds you may otherwise never fully engage. It may in fact be the engagement—not the art—that you seek. … More A custodian of larger issues (cont.)
A custodian of larger issues
May 13, 2017
“It is a widely accepted notion that making art is about self-expression. And it is – but that is not necessarily all it is. It may only be a passing feature of our times that validating the sense of who-you-are is held up as the major source of the need to make art. What gets … More A custodian of larger issues
Ekphrastic poetry
May 12, 2017
For those of us working in all kinds of genres: Moonrise, Aurora, Nebraska by Twyla Hansen No Ansel Adams but the snapshots we captured through the open car window on our eight megapixel cell phones on the side of the road off an exit ramp as truck taillights streaked eastbound opposite the earth’s rotation in … More Ekphrastic poetry
A Life In Hand
May 10, 2017
A blog is for many of us a kind of verbal & visual journal. I also like to journal on paper. A traditional journal does obviously allow for more privacy, but the main reason I journal is that it gives me the opportunity to make things with my own hands; text, drawings, photos, collages etc. … More A Life In Hand
