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Archive for December 2009

THE READING LIST, SHORT VERSION

WONDERING ABOUT LISTS AND WHY WE MAKE THEM

I can’t sleep, so I’m laying in bed doing the “awake and exhausted” thing and thinking about our society’s obsession with list-making. What initially sprang to mind was an image of the Lascaux cave paintings — I know this is random; remember I’m sleep deprived — and the thought, Oh, so what if instead of [...]

A VERY SHORT POST ABOUT THIEVERY AND ART

So, I started with this:

And now I’ve got this:

I consider the painting to be about 92 percent complete. There’s something still missing, though I’m not sure exactly what. The text within each state I’ll reproduce here soonish, but not right now. I’ll give away the title, though, which is in the floating ribbon near the [...]

SMALL SPACES, SPIDERMAN, ART PROJECTS

I watched Sam Raimi’s Spiderman 3 tonight while contemplating two blank canvases in front of me. Also while calculating opportunities for chance encounters, thinking about rearranging some furniture, experimenting with different travel dates on my calendar, and wondering in general about everything and everyone in my past that may or may not be in my [...]