Alaska cont'd

Alaska

RT@vvoi, work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray

Love the piece found on this blog here:  http://new-art.blogspot.com/2009/05/abstraction-game-myra-mimlitsch-gray.html

Good commentary on subjectivism and abstraction too...

RT@DarrellDavisson

Check out this awesome lecture on Modern art and trauma.  A different world view of the phases of "recovery" after what Dr. Davisson calls post-bomb art. Heavy but worth it.

http://www.dddavisson.com/trauma-in-late-modern-art.pdf

writing/painting/reading

Train in the distance

lonely night call

the earth ripples and moves

under your weight

Time in motion

and endless miles

could not make me wish more

for what

I don't know.

                                                      

Cloud ceiling running past

Indigo skies and thunder

Detect in me a portion of your anger

This tumultuous thing that 

turns me round and round

despite my hope.

More in progress....

       ...although I think these are for the most part finished.  May rough them up in spots with some sanding.  My response to the red one at this point is "Eww, I made that?"  but it is what it is, and there's something about that attraction/repulsion thang.... besides, I tend to overwork so this is a good stopping point until I really HAVE to change something.  

   "Travelers Among Mountains and Streams"  

Fan Kuan, 

11th century

          Weightless and effortless

Of moonwalking and slowed time

To roam without bounds

And little collisions

My will and yours in a 

Peculiar dance of

Attraction and repulsion

Of direct hits and near misses

  It's the in-between, 

the not, the seam, 

the line, the edge, 

that is.  

And in those cracks and crevices,

a million worlds collide.