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This thing we all do . . .
In response to an assertion that his environmental works are impossible to visually document— James Turrell: “Well, someone has to make up for all the work that photographs better than it is.” Mr....
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On reworking a “finished” piece . . .
“. . . the completion of a work is only ever an abandonment, a halt that can always be regarded as fortuitous in an evolution that might have been continued.” — Paul Valéry Whether one thinks of the...
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March Exercise | year nine, day eighteen
“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett I cannot lay claim to having unraveled any of the perplexities of Worstward Ho...
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Happy Birthday, NB . . .
“I am really not famous enough to have a cottage industry devoted to my identity theft.” — Brendan Adkins My sincere greetings to the man behind the curtain at Xorph.com, the domain that brings you The...
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G A B B F
“Design is moving an existing condition to a preferred one.” — Milton Glaser I attended the first Great American Brass Band Festival in 1990 with my wife and partner, Dana, the same summer that we...
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Many Waters Under Heaven
“Put stardom and success aside and just go out and do it. It’s like painting. Don’t talk about it. Or, like writing. Put it down.” — Jonathan Winters “Don’t think about making art, just get it done....
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“Oh, the Places You’ll Go”
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” — Twyla Tharp Places to go, ways to travel, and flights of fancy . . . A series of local exhibitions at the Boyle County Public Library’s Mahan...
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All Things Collage: Year Two
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” — Mark Twain “Take what you can, All you can carry. Take what you can, And leave your thoughts behind.” — Tom Petty...
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Pearental Discretion
“When people think about creativity, they think about artistic work — unbridled, unguided effort that leads to beautiful effect. But if you look deeper, you’ll find that some of the most inspiring art...
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WYOMING by Brendan Adkins Leonard and I were in Wyoming just long enough to stop for gas off the Laramie exit. The Vagina Monologues was my second college play, and The Laramie Project the...
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Selective Fusion
“Schwitters subjected his bits of flotsam to an organizing principle resembling the vertical scaffolding of Analytic Cubism, thus transforming the diverse components into formal elements.” — Nancy...
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to Chicago from Kentucky . . .
“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky because it’s always 20 years behind the times.” — commonly attributed to Mark Twain One of the best things about Kentucky is that everyone...
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a birthday salute . . .
“In 1998, Ma founded Silkroad, a nonprofit outfit that connects diverse cultures and musicians not only through Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble (for which more than 80 pieces have been commissioned), but also...
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Ninety Naughty Gnats
“A special thank you to Helen Reiss, who brought me this crazy manuscript and thought I might like to illustrate it. I had a better idea!” – Allan Bealy I am pleased to share an announcement from...
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Spot Checker
“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” — Marcel Duchamp The generous invitation to create new works for JUXTAPOSE had me thinking about constructing my...
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Much more about JUXTAPOSE . . .
Friend and fellow collage artist Kathleen O’Brien is in the midst of her countdown to a big solo show in April. She asked me to do a favor and share a guest review as part of her final promotions for...
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Until April . . .
“. . . just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.” – John Steinbeck If I am to be honest with myself, there must be the...
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March Exercise | Experiment Fifteen
“Habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is...
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JUXTAPOSE opens in Danville, Kentucky
An outstanding group show of Kentucky-based collage and assemblage artists has opened in my hometown at the local Community Arts Center, and it is an unprecedented exhibit of these mediums for our...
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DAAP MADE
“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.” – Mark Twain Yesterday I finished participating in the Malton Gallery’s DAAP MADE: The Exhibition, a...
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