the relapse of 1991

"If there's a problem, yo I'll solve it, check out the hook while my dj revolves(not resolves) it."

1991...just a few years MTV has been out and dances and dance parties are the thing to do. An obsession of self expression, a next generation of working class kids who could learn nothing of self expression from their uniformed nurse mothers and their mechanics' suit fathers were going for it, our eyes were not tired from images, we had the subtlety of our communist enemies in relation to culture, but we broke their backs and so they continue with their fire red lipstick and pegged pants as we move through the subtle gray period, the natural eye shadows and Morandi.

But perhaps this relapse you predict will be so...but never back to my favorite neon sweatshirt worn inside out, this can only be for the kitsch, the rich...only the rich will risk or afford(in time, energy and funds) the french cut thai pants. We will have utility with hype:see $300.00 Uggs for example..."

(written by cheryl robinson)

walking,

going with the prospect of good tomatoes and beets and finding the best earth
which accepts plants, the meanwhile talking of summer, renting cottages if it's
not too dear ("we shall scrimp and save") & getting muddy without care
in the plateau of thought by a lake designed for that purpose by someone.
horses, so de stil and prancing that they are creamed, and the tails of little striped
birds fluttering as if in perpetual love of the last few hours of daylight in

a reappearing forest

rem koolhaas onward & sideways

paving the way for buildings to be "about diagonality"...(that's a new one)
the staggered floor heights revealing the secret of the structure is the best part, I think.

related: great FT article about the New New York.

grass collage!

some serious manicuring going on!!!!!!

long is the arm, short is life

"The word 'technology' comes from the Greek techne, often
translated as 'art', but closer in meaning to 'skill'. The first
translation is particularly misleading because techne included
both what we call 'art' and what we call 'technology', which,
since the modern emergence of the aesthetic and the 'fine arts',
have become so separated as almost to be opposite. Techne was
was originally related to words having to do with building, like
the buliding of walls. The Latin ars, from which our 'art' more
immediately descends, is related to 'arm', perhaps associating
skill especially with the making of weapons ('firearms', 'armour')
and tools, but also with the shoulder (armus), the arm of the body,
and more specifically, the skillful or 'dextrous' arm (and hand),
activity as it were using the stronger right hand, or perhaps most
generally activity increasing the power to act effectively. When it
began its historical life, then, 'art' had meanings rather like that
preserved in the kinship of the word 'craft' and the German Kraft,
'power' (even though 'crafts are for us now 'minor arts', another
casualty of the historical emergence of 'fine arts'). In antiquity,
the terms now translated by the word 'art' referred to useful adult
human pursuits running the full range from perfumery and
beekeeping to geometry and astronomy. The arts were regarded
as teachable and cumulative, skills to which some practitioners
made new contributions as the generations passed. Teachability
implied codification and principles, and those arts with theoretical
principles came to be regarded as higher than those without them,
so that, to keep our examples, geometry was higher than beekeeping,
even though it was necessary to be taught to be a beekeeper, and even
though it was possible to be a good beekeeper or a poor one..."

(From Real Spaces, by David Summers, a massive volume of
world art history. Found this passage after seeing the Elgin marbles
again last week, after not having seen them in a while... "if you can
hold a chisel, come to Athens!")

revisiting budapest (pt.1)

these wall-drawing pictures are coming out of art storage,
about 7 months after the fact...this piece was at its best at
the moment of the top photo (rounding the corner it got
a little too cerebral)


hard to shoot because of the morph


other work from the same show (this one was based on
Marshall Islands navigation charts)



and an imploding drawing

You can read all about the show in Hungarian on the gallery's own blog here,
and there's an enlightening review of the show here, which pointed out that
the saxophone music was too short compared to the curator's opening statement.

revisiting budapest (pt.2)

scenery, real and imagined.

fireworks through anti-perch wire

updates

"She took the crowd along."

to here

&

bees dance!

to here
and here
and possibly here

untitled pictures, 2008

Events around New Brunswick

abstraction house

of course this throwing the shoes up onto the wire thing is pretty common,
but I always think, what's it supposed to signify?


TBC....

terry winters-related

Terry Winters has a show up:
Knotted Graphs
Matthew Marks Gallery Nov 6 - Jan 24, 2009

What about the color in these paintings?
Seemed like an interesting flashback to the thin line between light and mud
in the Robert Bordo show at last month...

since I didn't take any pictures, here are some related tissue sample
drawings meticulously noted by an anonymous 20th century
medical student (probably Italian).