studio index: Columbia Drawing Intensive/Day 1 (Morning)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Columbia Drawing Intensive/Day 1 (Morning)

I have the extreme good fortune to be friends with a fantastic artist named Sara Schneckloth; we were serendipitously thrown into a two-person exhibition together several years back--I still remember the fun we had installing our work side by side for two days. Sara is a joy and a great organizer of like-minded folks. She is the founder and organizer of the Columbia Drawing Intensive--a four day mini-residency of seven artists, JUST begun. We are currently ensconced in her lovely home, scattered about at different tables inside and out.

I arrived yesterday and claimed this little loft on the second floor. As I took a bus down to Columbia, I was given the not unwelcome challenge of packing a portable studio in my suitcase. In the above photo you can see my loft studio AND my supplies--nearly all of them packed carefully into a box. I will post highlights over the next couple days. I am giddy at the possibilities of conversation and work while here!

1 comment:

Ellen Campbell said...: What an amazing opportunity...and what a perfect place to do it!; June 19, 2010 at 6:39 AM

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Notes

Within an ephemeral present, we return through memory to things, places, and events in the past in order to find purpose and direction in our lives. Meaningful time is elliptical time.
Vigen Guroian

I have concluded that the whole misfortune of men comes from a single thing, and that is their inability to remain at rest in a room.

Blaise Pascal

May your imagination know the grace of perfect danger.

John O'Donohue

The amount of life I can put through my eyes is the amount I can see.

Ivan Albright

When I painted a chair recently, I noticed that I put the paint on indifferently, smoothly but without particular attention. The results were satisfactory but not in any sense beautiful. Does the attention in itself with which paint is applied in art actually change the effect of the paint? Does the kind of consciousness with which we act determine the quality of our actions? It would follow, if this were true that the higher the degree of consciousness, the higher the quality of art. I think it likely. Training in art is, then, a demand that students increase the consciousness with which they employ techniques that are, in themselves, ordinary.

Anne Truitt, Daybook

It was suggested to me that I would want to preface this reading tonight with a short statement about my philosophy of writing. Of course I don't want to do anything of the kind. My approach to literary problems is very much like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea for him. She put her finger inside the cup.

Flannery O'Connor