Guillermo Vargas Habacuc
I’m not going to link to the photos / video of artist Habacuc’s work. If you want to see a dog starving to death as an art installation, you can search on the name.
Proposal for funding: An art installation: Guillermo Vargas Habacuc comes to my house & we tie him to a tree out back [...]
Postcard Collage Project
I’ve started a project to send handmade postcards to poets & artists I know around the country, with comments about poetry & poetics. You can see the very beginnings of the project by clicking the project link in the Sharp Sand header. Thumbnails link to somewhat larger images.
Collage & Poetry: Just to See What Would Happen
I have continued to work on making collages over the last weeks, though not quite at the frantic rate at which I began. At the same time, I have returned to a pile of old drafts of poems I thought I was going to have to abandon. [...]
Philip Jones Griffiths Dies
I found Griffiths’s work only after I’d been to Vietnam in the mid-1990s. Once you’ve seen it you can’t unsee it. A weirdly loving portrayal of the effects of savagery. I think the greatest art, regardless of the horror it portrays, is motivated by love.
Pretty Brains
From one of my favorite blogs, Neurophilosophy, comes this lovely image of a 19th century papier mache brain. Be sure to click through the caption so you can see the whole thing in multiple views. Speaking of brains, I enjoyed reading Jonathan Mayhew’s inventory of his own neurological state, especially as it relates to music. [...]
Diebenkorn
I just discovered Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes (an Arts Journal blog) & wanted to recommend it to anyone with an interest in contemporary visual arts. I found Green’s blog because I had begun checking out Arts Journal after finding that cultural critic & book reviewer Scott McLemee’s blog Quick Study was hosted there. McLemee, [...]
Starting Out Late
I was talking to my friend A. at dinner last night about getting older as an artist & about the way age & reputation interact in the culture of the arts. A. is a sculptor. We started out by agreeing that in the current artistic culture, one has to “make it” at a fairly young [...]
Collage No. 4 / 4a
These two pieces are opposite sides of the same page in the handsewn book Carole helped me make & in which I have been making all my collages. I’ve actually made thirteen so far, working my way almost to the end of the book’s first signature (of three). If you click on the images [...]
Collage No. 3
Considerably more subdued than the earlier ones in this series. You can see the stitching holding the book together on the left. It seems odd, but I have been using this series of collages to think about how to complete & organize a sequence of poems I have been working on for many years. All [...]
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s monumental work of landscape art is being threatened by oil-drilling interests. On the one hand, I agree that this is a travesty & a threat to the existence of a pure & beautiful work of art. Anyone with a shred of aesthetic consciousness ought to contact Jonathan Jemming in Utah (801-537-9023 jjemming@utah.gov) referring [...]
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