keener yellowed interlaces

A Little Plea From an Old Art Teacher:

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.      David Duchovny

So, I was trolling the web today and came across this statement by an artist I thought you might enjoy.  'BBB' as my friend Nancy says.  Bullshit Baffles Brains.  City and name removed so I don't get in trouble. If she does see that I have...ummm...USED her quote, I hope she takes a minute to read it back to herself and perhaps rework it to be readable.

"Since arriving in _________, ______ has trained her eye on the city's industrial/agricultural complex as a nexus of transitivity rich with possibility as both metaphor for the provisionality of painting (and its relation to commerce)---as well as an experience of the urban sublime. 
This recent work is experiential: about transition from one place to another, cultural juxtaposition, and the collision between raw and refined, familiar and unknowable material."

Well, OK then. I forged over to the studio today to capture up little spider shrouded captures, a stash for a rainy day ya know.  Vacuumed up a whole bunch so the place looks neater again.  I just never thought I'd have to actually clean this place, a house is enough, isn't it?  I do have to say there is nobody to blame for the mess but me, but damn it always looks like a hoard of gypsie stitchers camped there for the last month.  Today I actually broke down and tossed a whole pile of used parchment paper-  I use it for glueing and table protection because nothing sticks, but after I use it twenty times it gets pretty ratty.  I threw it out.  Just like that.  After I got the place spiffed up I wound another bunch of yarns, scanned and printed the patterns so I can write on them, and pulled the needles and equipment to keep all the projects separated in individual ZipLocks ready to go.  I also put jump rings and the old dog rabies tags onto my dog-theme necklace.  And I found some additional tags and stuff for that too.  Hope I have occasion, besides walking the dogs, to wear them.  

Akio Takamori is a widely-recognized artist originally from Japan, now based in Seattle. I love Judith Schwartz‘ description of his sculptures as ”loose billowy puffs of clay seeming to encapsulate air.” These figures all share the same illusion – that they’re made of something else besides ceramics. It is also intriguing that Takamori makes a habit of showing asian figures in historical European clothing full of pomp and presige.

Now you're gonna cry~

Jenine Shereos:  the intricacies of a leaf’s veining are recreated by wrapping, stitching, and knotting together strands of human hair.  Inspired by the delicate and detailed venation of a leaf, I began stitching individual strands of hair by hand into a water- soluble backing material. At each point where one strand of hair intersected another, I stitched a tiny knot, so that when the backing was dissolved, the entire piece was able to hold its form. Creating this work was a very meditative process

But now you're gonna laugh!

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