More from my side of the room, where I’m having trouble speaking (and painting, to be honest) but so appreciate finding the words of others that hit on target. I’ve had a life long frustrating dance with the complications, transparencies and overt discrepancies around gender. It is one of those ambient weather systems that I […]
Rose Art Museum, from a Distance
I’ve been following the Rose Art Museum’s undoing here and on Slow Painting. Over the weekend London-based The Guardian ran an article about this unfortunate state of affairs as well. Reading about the Rose from that Eurocentric point of view brought on another layer of frustration for me. Funding crisis … Visitors tour the Rose […]
I’m Talkin To You
Jet Sometimes I wish I were still out on the back porch, drinking jet fuel with the boys, getting louder and louder as the empty cans drop out of our paws like booster rockets falling back to Earth and we soar up into the summer stars. Summer. The big sky river rushes overhead, bearing asteroids […]
Lovin’ the Light
Collaborative group Lead Pencil’s “Arrival at 2 a.m.” For those of us with pioneer DNA, being lazy is tantamount to committing the worst criminal acts, like dealing drugs or murdering baby seals. So posting a shout out here instead of coining my own words is not, I repeat, not laziness. I’m getting ready for a […]
Dreamy Present, Dreamy Past
My friend and frequent co-traveler Lesli during a trip to Florence last December This is a great description of what can be so intoxicating—and effective—about traveling as a way of assuaging a sorrow or loss. This passage is by Liesl Schillinger from her review of the novel Brooklyn by Colm Toibin in the Times Book […]
Withinside of Honeycombed Consciousness
These days I’m finding a welcoming berth in the words of others, probably since most of my allocation of expression energy is being spent in the studio getting ready for an upcoming show. The coinage I’m minting in that travail happens outside language, so encounters with well languaged and well spoken wisdom are particularly appealing. […]
Seeing is an Inside Job
Rothko Chapel, Houston The truly great ones are fresh continuously, repeatedly. Like a painting you can sit in front of for hours and never fully grasp. When I was just beginning to study art, I asked my professor about Mark Rothko. He and de Kooning were the giants of the generation of artists who inspired […]
Boyled
Over the last two weeks I’ve talked about Susan Boyle more than any other popular culture event in a long, long time. I’ve been discussing it at such length because the whole phenom is so layered—emotionally complex, endlessly arguable, and unabashedly wonderful. I wasn’t the only one captivated by her performance and the global response […]
Gender Diversity and Financial Success
The arguments have been active and unresolved for most of my adult life. The gender issues that continue to lace through our lives, politics, organizations, educational institutions et al will probably never be “resolved” since they aren’t equations with definitive answers. I’m alternately discouraged and encouraged, heartened and disheartened, struck by the fractal, “haven’t we […]
Duffy Gets the Nod
Carol Duffy (AP/Paul Thomas) This late breaking news is fabulous on so many levels. Congrats to Carol Duffy! This report from Rene Rosechild includes a poem by Duffy that was posted here back in October: The post has been held by William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson but until two days ago, never by a […]