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

hot hots (in sketches)

two sketches I made in Morocco

 

 

 

 

digital mock-ups displaying possible types of handles (to be installed directly onto the wall)

"Why is the galaxy shoe in the water?"

two windows found on my walk home

found as is along 33rd St, Baltimore

found as is along Chestnut Hill Ave, Baltimore

We go to bed, but we don't sleep too hard.

We are crying out. We are black cats. We are lucky pennies. We are rotten food. We are cut zombie legs. We are building a raft. We are the ocean.