Although I still have a tremendous amount of prep work to go, I wanted to give you all a glimpse of the project that’s made an absentee landlord of me for the last week or more. This is my exhibition space at Artomatic 2012, mounted this year in Crystal City in Alexandria, VA (just across…
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Chicken Alley
Make no mistake, Asheville is a very small city. Nevertheless, it displays urban qualities that many larger cities lack. It has the remnants of an old manufacturing base: the brick and steel bones of industrial production. It has train tracks running through it, with active freight (if not passenger) traffic. This gives it a little…
Sea Box
I bought this small pillbox at the Smithsonian Craft Show last weekend. Like virtually everything in that exhibition, it is beautifully made. The appeal for me of this item is its Cornell-Smith-like shadow box construction. The sea-horse, shell, and grains of “sand” are mobile under the glass window. And the little parade of turtles at…
Drop by Drop
I’ve never been anywhere where the level of support and engagement with the arts, artists, and artisans/craftspeople was so ubiquitous, enthusiastic, and egalitarian. This small city is absolute steeped in art-love. Amazing. A Year Ago: Grains of Gold Today is Tax Day in the U.S… [read more]
Inspired by Crop Circles
I don’t have anything new for you today, but I recommend you have a look at these wonderful sand drawings by Andres Amador. The mind boggles at the attention to detail and precision under time-pressure that are required to make these works of art. ↬ Tip o’ the hat to Bob. A Year Ago: A…
Run for your lives!
A hugely popular seasonal celebration takes place at Albuquerque’s Botanical Garden: the River of Lights. The entire grounds are decorated with light-sculptures depicting everything from flowers, insects, and sea creatures to submarines and dinosaurs. Some of it is quite kitschy, some rather attractive. It’s sort of the lighting version of etch-a-sketch. The fun of it…
A Sign
We spent about three hours clambering around Rinconada Canyon in Petroglyph National Monument. The jumble of basalt boulders hides a cornucopia of rock drawings, some ancient, some modern, some somewhere in between in age. It was exercise for body, intellect, and aesthetic sensibility all at once—trying to spot and then reach the petroglyphs, high and…
Dubstep Delivers
Street dancing has come so far from the old school pop-and-lock it’s not even on the same campus anymore. Take this video. It’s a five-minute-plus work of art; minutely choreographed and performed with a degree of physical control and grace that is just uncanny. It’s shaped to its own internal aesthetic logic and makes a…
Pendant
If this looks to you like a macro shot of a modern piece of jewelry, all I can say is “GMTA.” It isn’t, though, it’s another photo from the Thai restaurant, a detail of a ceiling decoration.
Creative
One of those ideas that, once realized, seems obvious and inevitable. But coming up with it for the first time? Genius. I love how what looks like litter comes to life in an unexpected and delightful way.