Found Painting

...en route to the gallery I am working in for now.

Red

We live a few minutes away from a strawberry farm. On Friday, I stopped by and purchased four flats of strawberries.

Over the weekend, I froze 10 half-pints of strawberry puree, canned 8 half-pints of strawberry jam, made a strawberry cake, strawberry bread and froze 20 bags of strawberries.

I am not sure what encourages my pioneer woman tendencies--I am a new kind of feminist I suppose, and there are many of us all over the world of blogging (and in a recent NY Times article.) We possess a delight in the waning domestic arts--perhaps because we can afford to engage in them if we wish. There is more to it than that though--much, much more.

For me as an artist, there is also the sensual, visual pleasure of taking on mountains of red, red, sweet, ripe strawberries--insuring we'll all be able to partake of them in some form or another well into the dark days of winter.

Notes

"Letters"

think about letters you do not know, you have not learned
(Alex learning to write)

making letters

my old vs t-shirt--a favorite-now-decrepit, how could it be a painting

Barbara/EUC Installation/Beginning

By the end of the day some things began to come together--

Still in parts--but in dialogue

I think about what a painting would look like if it sank in and out of a wall--if parts of the painting were periodically buried IN the wall--only to reappear just a few feet over.

painting constructed
painting in proximity
painting on the wall

I listened to Krista Tippett's interview with John Kabat-Zinn two times through. He said, "The key to creativity is cultivating more spaciousness in the mind."

And then he read Derek Walcott's Love After Love--

Bryan/EUC Installation/Beginning

Three images of parts of Bryan's work--made within the first two days of our time in the gallery together.

Monday was Bryan's day of endless frustration/Tuesday was mine.

Notes

Raising a tent--
all the lines derived from the space like a hidden matrix, subtext, sub-drawing/under-drawing

lines sinking in and out of the wall, could be added or erased, could come out of wall or go in

how to move across a space?
how to get from one side to another?

Portable Studio

My studio all packed up and portable--today Bryan and I begin our collaborative venture.

Dirt

Just this afternoon we witnessed a scaled-down, much less theorized version of Robert Smithson's Asphalt Rundown--a big, blue dump truck let loose a massive amount of dark, dark, beautiful dirt--the key ingredient for our in-progress vegetable garden. As far as aesthetic experiences go, this one was thrillingly engaging.

And now we have a mountain of dirt.

A start--

Summer oh summer--grades are posted, we've been eating dinner on the porch for awhile now, and all the lawn chairs are OUT!

I wrap up the last few strands of my semester and look forward to working collaboratively with a friend and colleague come Wednesday--in a little space on campus. Lots, lots, lots more soon; I am finally catching my breath.

Potential

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