Safely ensconced at the Vermont Studio Center, where there is good food, temperate weather and a few hours of work a day, chatting with artists about their current projects and art, art, art. Last night I gave my lecture, showing most of te work images that are up here on the site, and trying to… Continue Reading
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The eye decays…
Looking through a bunch of previously posted pictures, I start to have the creeping suspicion that I used to do everything better. Things seem more startling, more sharply seen. Was it my camera, have I just become more conventional? Is it just that a few months or years have defamiliarized myself with these images, so… Continue Reading
Why do you need to know that?
Finishing up on various job tasks in anticipation of my trip to London. Today I had a discussion with the the Graduate Committee that supports the MFA program I work in, talking about the past year and our upcoming strategies. Later on I went to see the latest work from my friend Marc Swanson, who’s… Continue Reading
You should come…
To the show. If you’re in the Bay Area as we call it. Because I promise to have it finished by 5:30 today. And we can all use a free Pelligrino. Not a whole lot to report today, beyond more working, more refining, some good conversations in the midst all of my rushing back and… Continue Reading
Listen to me talk about, of course, me.
The talk that I gave at the Art Student’s League on the 15th of this month is now available as the first download in their new podcast series, hosted by Grady Turner. Hear me waffle on about race, sculpture, sexuality, teaching and other subjects barely of note. To download, point your browser here. Thanks to… Continue Reading
Why you should teach, which is also why I should…
Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve got a bag problem. Every where I go, I carry a bag, usually a large and heavy one. I own more bags and packs than I can really count. And I’m always on the look out for another one. Tale a look inside the one I’m toting, and… Continue Reading
A time for venting…
The quickest route to fury or despair is to look at what people post in forums on line. I’m a fool to do it. But I have been sucked into the reading a lot of the reactions to last night’s Lost finale, which, I will admit was the background noise to my ongoing paper shuffling… Continue Reading
I’m a simple guy…
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to make me happy. Today I heard from Lo about the feasibility of turning a drawing I had made into a patch, and it made me almost giddy. Any time I’ve designed a t-shirt , or gotten something back from the printer it has seemed the same way: somehow more… Continue Reading
Hell wiener says Welcome…to Hell!
This is one of the many left over photos from Sylt. These bags seemed to depict some Boschian Wurstdemon who enthusiastically greets the souls of weekend Weber enthusiasts when they enter the afterlife. (note to self: register www.boschianwurstdemon.com in case I get that band started) Yesterday after work I got together with my friend Lynne… Continue Reading
Internet killed the video star…
Did I mention that there’s a TV in my apartment? There it is, right where I like it, at the foot of my bed. Same spot as back at home. When I got here, all the electrical devices were unplugged (except for one clock radio that was oddly set to go off in the middle… Continue Reading