A friend wrote me a letter and after thinking about it for a while I decided that I wanted to respond to it here. He consented graciously to me reprinting it: hi Nayland, I hope you’re enjoying your travels. Can you answer me this? How do I keep the faith when everyone tells me my… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: making things
In the alley..
Tags: daily photo, making things, new york in black and white… Continue Reading
Scary oatmeal…
More puttering around the office. Just a few weeks left to the school year, and there’s a lot to get done. Efforts at drawing last night yielded little in the way of results. Let’s hope that tonight is better. Tags: daily photo, making things, work… Continue Reading
Crankcase and Creation…
On the way to work today, the thought struck me that it’s hard to talk about not making art without it sounding like an alarm. I (and I think most of us) are used to thinking about the process of working as one of dramatic highs and lows, where every stumble is something to be… Continue Reading
Eye opener.
Current Book: Louis Menand – American Studies Last night I read “The Long Shadow of James B. Conant” an essay from the above mentioned book. I case you don’t know who Conant was (I didn’t), He served as Harvard university’s president from 1933 to ’59 and was intimately involved with the creation of two items… Continue Reading
Sometimes I worry….
…about not posting enough. The past week has provided two states of being: feeling ill, thus too limp to reflect and type or doing stuff, in which case there is no time to type. The result? A week slips by with nothing. So now finally some time is wrested from the job, which allows for… Continue Reading
It's official….
http://www.matthewmarks.com/exhibition.php?view=detail&stat=1 Tags: art, making things, openings… Continue Reading
Five more questions – courtesy of Thor
What, if anything, have you learned from your students, and/or the process of teaching? Teaching continually confronts me with the dilemmas in my own process. When I talk to my students about their difficulties, their stopping places and moments of fear, I am able to see the similarities in my own situation. So from listening… Continue Reading
Protected: LJ interview
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Flying Back…
No real time to post any of this during the trip. The panel went fine, with me being much less negative than I thought I was going to be. I did end up using SFMOMA as a negative example a bit much more than I thought I would I was feeling very skeptical about the… Continue Reading