I saw a number of videos on my last spin through Chelsea, including Thomas Demand’s meticulously animated “Pacific Sun” (a total of 2,400 individually shot frames, in case you weren’t sufficiently impressed). But it was Adrian Paci’s “Inside the Circle” that really drew me in. I think you can see why.
On Friday I took a break from work and went to check out the show at Sperone Webster down the street from my office. Upstairs were 11 luscious blue ballpoint drawings. Ononimo a piece by Alighiero Boetti. The gallery writes: Boetti’s biro works were systematically colored by others, yet always based on a code or playful schematic …
On Sunday Huck came running into the room saying “I have something very important to show you”. We followed him to the window. And indeed, something very important was there for us to see. A huge woodpecker was outside going to town on chunk of wood. He cut into it as if it were butter. …
I visited galleries before heading into work. The first stop was to see Brent Green’s inventive and engaging installation To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given. I didn’t read the notes before going in and was initially confused, wondering why I couldn’t see the animation anywhere. Turns out unless you view the screen through one …
In spring of 2009 I planted two rare Northeastern corn varieties for the first time as research for what would become the Maize Field project. And now I’m hooked on growing corn. This is now my fourth season. This summer I’m growing another rare Northeastern variety named Abenaki Rose in my community garden patch (pictured …
I’ve been thinking about making this tile puzzle for a while now. So this is now the start of it…
In my opinion America’s great gift to cinema is Comedy and our snappy, spirited comediennes. The French basically invented cinema and their gifts are obvious, great and many. I never really considered comedy to be one of them. But up until yesterday I had never seen Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, J.Rivette). The joyful …
Toothsome May 17-June 10 at bulletspace 292 East 3rd St “Toothsome” brings together artists that work with sugar, honey and candy. Rather than being turned off by the materials’ inherent susceptibility to humidity, time, and vermin, the artists instead explore its seductive qualities, its loaded history and its metaphorical possibilities. Sculptures, installations and videos touch …
Here’s a sketch for a proposal Husk submitted for a project in the park across the street from the BAM Opera House: And here’s a picture of a building in Chelsea I passed by last weekend. (exactly what I was thinking):
Taken in 2008. Kind of summed up my feelings about motherhood at the time.
Another corn project in the works. The beauty and diversity of corn varieties reflects the cultures that cultivate them. What do we make of a culture whose dominant corn variety is genetically engineered and unfit for human consumption until it’s processed into a food sweetener?