minimalism and bulletin board vernacular

Two bulletin boards I found at the AME Zion Church in Baltimore last night:

and some artwork/friends for those two boards to live next to:

 

Harold Mendez - Better off then than when life was babble? (acrylic paint, staples, tape, paper, graphite, transparent enamel, black silicon carbide) 2007

Joseph Grigely - Bulletin Board (pigment print on Dibond, Acrylic glass (two panels)) 2010

Joseph Grigely - Bulletin Board II, 2012

 

Paul Cowan - Untitled (enamel on canvas) 2011

 

Paul Cowan - Untitled (enamel on canvas) 2012

 

car tires and weather symbols

the sky as witness

a light bulb that i've been meaning to paint grey

two stills from a screening i saw tonight at Johns Hopkins:

Trevor Paglen - Drone Vision (still from video) 2010

James Benning - Ten Skies (still from film) 2004

a video i've had in the works for a while now, maybe to be titled Witness:

 http://vimeo.com/73437264

notes from the past few weeks

1/16/14
US national fear index, 1950 - 2000
 belief in climate change, 1950 - 2000

1/28/14
Northwest passage
Northeast passage
- ice free arctic summers
- Canadian gov. firing weapons into the sea
"windfall"

1/29/14
"maybe comfortable w/ his diss-comfort" - Fishel

1/30/14
low impact
no impact

2/3/14
list of the dead

2/3/14
driving home, naming the darkness

Scott Ross - Ghost (woodfired stoneware) 2009

Low - Breaker (from "Drums and Guns") 2007