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 [...]
Collage No. 2
This is a collage I’ve made over the last few days consisting of a two-page spread in the book I sewed together last week (with Carole’s help). The first page was not built up very much, but in these I did more layering. I’m still trying to work quickly without much premeditation using [...]
Collage No. 1
When Carole was showing my Project Challenge students how to bind books yesterday, I made one too. I’ve decided to make collages in the book rather than write in it. For a while on my old weblog I was posting my paintings fairly regularly, but I haven’t been painting lately, mostly because I’m not a [...]
Search Phrases
Looking at the search phrases that brought viewers — I won’t say readers — to one’s blog, little stories suggest themselves. This one, for instance:
Poem Analysis of “dead boy”
The grammar belies a certain — how shall we say? — lack of sophistication that makes one think of a desperate high school student who has been [...]
Pattern
I tell my poetry-writing students that art is about pattern. That human beings are pattern-making & pattern-recognizing animals. That playing with patterns is what we do. It turns out that we have been making patterns for a long time. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could hear the songs that were sung when that wall [...]
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