Everyday: 12/29/15

Northern Cross (found installation; rural Valle, AZ)

Everyday: 12/22/15

Piece (plaster, debris, newspaper fragment from 1946) 2015 

- excerpt from Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance, by Philip White

Everyday: 12/16/15

2 in 1 intervention

 (parachute survival bracelet)

(wrist-watch face)

our responsability

“Artists are citizens before they are artists. Being an artist does not negate the responsibilities of citizenship. Artists should use [their] voices and [their] capacity for expression to make meaningful noise and rebuttals in these troubled times.”

- Dawoud Bey, quoted here

abstraction ideas I agree with

Insistence on form alone assumes that form arises out of the ether, a priori, without any context or culturally specific symbolic meaning — a theory espoused by the original guy at the back of the philosophy class. In other words, it assumes a universality, a common language across all people, which is not only factually wrong but also ethically and politically problematic, because it asserts that the values of the person making the argument are not only (falsely) universal but superior to other beliefs as well, by virtue of their universality.

There are no universals in form, in meaning, in language, in beauty, in any of the realms that a number of Modernists hoped for. Even the laws of physics lie. There is only multiplicity — messy, chaotic, conflicting, enriching, and life-sustaining.
-from Muddying the Circumscribed Myth of Abstraction, by Alexis Clements

Everyday: 12/9/15

when survival is a:
1. game
2. gamble
3. commodity

Everyday: 12/6/15

(color pencil and collage on book page)

notes (permanent global civil war)

notes from the Hito Steyerl lecture - University of Chicago // December 1, 2012

Everyday: 12/5/15

From the Photos My Grandmother Gave Me After Someone in Her Family Died (digital photograph)

the rocks we throw ourselves onto are a privledge

Everyday: 11/29/15

(found ball and hornet nest)

Everyday: 11/27/15

The 180° Outdoor Motion Security Light is perfect for open country, especially along rivers, also near lakes, and the coast. 

The SL-5412-WH features 180° motion detection up to 70 feet. 15”−21” (38−53 cm). W. 40” (1 m). Crow-sized. Protective bulb shields extend bulb life. Patented swivel arms allow directional lighting with easy thumb screw adjustments. Adults are slate-grey above and pale below, with fine bars and spots of black, narrow tail; long pointed wings; conspicuous black “mustaches.” Young lamps are darker below and browner. Uses (2) 120W Max PAR38 flood bulbs (Not Included) that vocalize with a rasping kack-kack-kack and also a long ascending wail, WEEchew-WEEchew.

Heath Zenith's SL-5412 bundles a motion sensor and a two-light floodlight in a single package and are spectacular on the wing. In former times they were a favorite choice for the sport of falconry, plunging from tremendous heights at speeds estimated at 180 miles per hour to capture flying birds. Unlike most motion-activated security lights, this one features "pulse count" technology that reduces the number of times that lamps are triggered due to wind and rain. 

The Peregrine has a range of up to 70 feet and includes a selectable light timer that allows you to determine the amount of time the lights stay on after motion stops. It has been drastically reduced in numbers by pesticides (it is said that eating a single badly contaminated duck can cause a Peregrine to become infertile) and has completely disappeared from all but the most northern parts of its breeding range. If you want to turn the lamp off or on for extended periods, the lamp includes a manual override that lets you control illumination via an existing indoor switch. This falcon is Energy-Star compliant with 120-watt bulbs but may be used with bulbs of up to 300 watts (bulbs not included), is quite tolerant of man, and formerly nested on windowsills and ledges of buildings in our largest cities, where they preyed on pigeons. For the same floodlight with a bronze finish, see Heath Zenith product #SL-5412-BZ-A.

Everyday: 11/26/15

Buzzcut Piece

think about the need for protests and the nature of romantic love while getting a haircut on a porch, in the rain, next to a tabby cat. the person using the clippers may or may not know how to cut hair.

Everyday: 11/23/15

a couple of things in progress... feeling good and almost there.

 (hatchet head, stick from hurricane Ike, and human teeth)

(antenna and click counter)

Pisen break/walk: café y camote

Everyday: 11/16/15

Untitled (bittersweet nightshade ink, emergency blanket, and trail markers on paper) 

Everyday: 11/10/15

(iodine on paper)

Everyday: 11/9/15

(found object)

Everyday: 11/6/15

Pulse Count (security light and bird head) 2015

#DFI-5412-WH

blink

/\

sensor

/\

180°

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operation

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override

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shield(s)

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flood/spot

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pulse count

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limited range

Everyday: 11/1/15

*x (found object, St. Vincent DePaul thrift store, Morris, IL)

Everyday: 10/31/15

Food in the Farther Places (Torani Real Fruit Smoothie Mix (mango) and metal) 

2: love new artworks (new to me)

Rodney McMillian - Untitled (carpet) 2005

Alexandre da Cunha - Fair Trade XX (embroidery on burlap sack in collaboration with Luisa Strina) 2014

Everyday: 10/21/15

(pencil, collage, and inkjet printer ink on paper)

Everyday: 10/11/15

(digital photograph) Pine Bluff Road, Morris, IL

Everyday: 10/14/15

(hedge apples)

Everyday: 10/?*/15

affective sketch for Deluge (collage, inkjet ink, and India ink on paper)

*made in the last couple weeks some time

Everyday: 10/12/15

There is No Away (outboard motor cover) 2015

Everyday: 9/26/15

Being socially aware white cis male means understanding that you take part in and benefit from systems which disenfranchise, segregate, and ignore people on an everyday basis

ongoing performance

Everyday: 9/22/15

one photograph from a new ongoing project, Ruin

Everyday: 9/17/17 - 9/20/15 (Art in Odd Places 2015: TONE/Orlando)

Adam Farcus & Lucinda Rex - 43 - 20 (acrylic on canvas) 9-17-15, Orlando, FL

Catalina Correa Contreras, Fara Faidzan, & Adam Farcus - 9 - 8 - 6 (acrylic on canvas) 9-18-15, Orlando, FL 

And this is only two! There are a bunch more over on the blog for my Dots and Lines project.

Everyday: 9/16/15

(graphite on paper)

Everyday: 9/12/15

(cut book page)

Everyday: 9/7/15

both: acrylic paint, collage, and Gorilla Glue on cardboard

Everyday: 9/3/15

(collage, acrylic paint, graphite, and matte medium transfer on paper)

Everyday: 9/1/15

Unintentional Sculpture Made by the Mail Carrier (mail for 2017 S. Hoyne Ave, Chicago, IL) 2015