Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Social Sculpture

i live in a world of image-meaning.
Social Sculpture, in and around Baltimore

Druid Heights, Baltimore, MD

Halethorpe, MD

Morell Park, MD

outside a church, Druid Heights, Baltimore, MD

Pennsylvania Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Druid Heights, Baltimore, MD

along McCulloh St., Druid Heights, Baltimore, MD

Sunday, July 29, 2012

the grey sea


In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without joint and in the luminous space the tanned sails...
--reading the first page of "Heart of Darkness" on the toilet. a centipede runs across the floor. i throw the book down and smash it.

Bas Jan Ader - In Search of the Miraculous

Caspar David Friedrich - Fog (oil on canvas) 1807

Gerhard Richter - Seascape (oil on canvas) 1968

Fairfield Porter - Calm Morning (oil on canvas) 1961

Saturday, July 28, 2012

crows and beached buoys

for an installation that i would like to do... on the east coast, somewhere.
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and a sketch i made to work through some of these ideas

Saturday, July 21, 2012

security and stained glass

not everything is unpacked yet, there are many errands yet to do, but Allie and i have made time to work in our studios a little bit every day. this is a drawing/sketch i made today. it is a rubbing of the fence/gate that is over our downstairs windows and acrylic paint. (please excuse the bad photo, we haven't found out studio lights yet... or painted the walls)

Adam Farcus - Window, Baltimore (charcoal and acrylic paint) 2012


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

soduim-vapor and gold


Making due and getting by
 
the sodium-vapor lamps warm on, to tint our block with orange, "Squash Blossom", light

across the street some old porch steps cast shadows that curve like mountains
        a building in bad need of some graffiti
                no roof or floors, but a tree in the middle

as kids we made potions with shampoo, Windex, whiskey, dirt, milk, and hid them behind our TV
        mom told us that our feet were too wide for Nikes

I've since added gold, like jewelry, to my allergy list


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i had to exhaust myself while at my studio table (reading about MoCA and Jeffery Dietch) last night 'till something creative fell out of me. i wrote this poem, from notes that i took last night and from some things that i've kept in the back of my head for a while. i'm not sure about the title, or the "Squash Blossom" part, but that's ok. the title is a reference to a Richard Wentworth piece of the same title, and idea. [the formatting is a bit off here because of the size of my blogger. the lines that wrap, and are not indented, are not supposed to wrap - they are long lines.]

Richard Wentworth - Making Do and Getting By

Monday, July 16, 2012

Cy Twombly & the rapture

on my last visit to the Art Institute before i moved out of Chicago i spent a lot of time in the room of Cy Twombly sculptures, saying goodbye. for some odd reason, that i have yet to figure out, i kept thinking of his work together with the idea of the biblical rapture. perhaps something about the white surfaces, or the violence, or the ascending marks and forms....


Thursday, July 5, 2012

Hiatus (part 5)

[markers]

Roussillon, France

Saignon, France

Saignon, France

along a trail near Valbigonce, France

along a trail near Valbigonce, France 

next to the Roman ruins in Riez, France

 along the Verdon Gorge, France

along the Verdon Gorge, France

Hiatus (part 4)

[graffiti]

Berlin, Germany

Paris, France

Paris, France

Paris, France - outside Palace de Tokyo

Paris, France

Paris, France

Paris, France

La Ciotat, France

La Ciotat, France

Hiatus (part 3)

[cats]

"Picasso," Paris, France

in a crepe restaurant in Paris, France

Paris, France

Gordes, France

Gordes, France

sleeping at a restaurant, Gordes, France

 La Ciotat, France

La Ciotat, France