Bubbling
I’ve been uploading a large project I was working on most of last year…while doing that I’m surfing through Red Bubble and the inspiration factor is exploding my mind! It’s thrilling to see the creativity here, and the skill level in which it is being expressed. So much originality, and fresh concepts. I’m really proud to be part of it. Red Bubble is a very cool plac…
Red Bubble Prints Quality Cards
One of my images was included in Gaia. I just recieved my Gaia gift from Red Bubble-I spent it all on cards from both my own images and also from my favorites list. The print quality is truly excellent and the paper that the cards is printed on is really nice-super heavy. I am really pleased. Thank you so much Red Bubble!
Desire
More and more I realize that I don’t want to create imagery that leaves a residue of oxidized desire. So many things in our culture seem ultimately to be about: “choose me buy me”. Will I merely be the tool of the salesman? Will my love be chained to the marketplace? What I dream of is an art that undoes desire and liberates the immaculate presence of the subject. But I wonder; …
Self Taught
As an unschooled photographer I don’t consider myself self taught. I worked for and was trained by a lot of great photographers. It is this training I wrestle with. I approach photography as: problems requiring solutions. This especially as a result of working years in advertising, a very muscular venue for image making. You can really get off on it. But something essential was transmuted i…
The Temple Of Failed Works
Strangely as I organize these unfinished, never to be finished, slated for destruction prints and paintings I am just as intrigued by them, if not more, than any of my finished work, which seems in contrast, shopworn. Their fatal artlessness suddenly allows them a quality that makes them feel holy in my hands. These are the efforts of mine that will be cast into the fire being born only for my ey…
Buddhist Magazines
I am still not working, however been very busy. One of the things I am doing is cleaning up and organizing my hard drives-what a mess. Normally I don’t take time to keep up with it. This is a big job and I am in the mood to do it. Also think I’m going to take down all my unfinished paintings and lay them flat in a dark place-tired of looking at them. Mostly though, I am going through …
Great Polish Photographer
I’ve been happily spending much time of late online with the vast portfolio of Abigaill Berenika over at AltPhotos.com. She has infused my love of photography with a new excitement. Her work seems quite personal, as she shoots the same model over and over-perhaps self portraits. I don’t know, she doesn’t write much about her process and I’m enjoying getting everything I ne…
Something Happened
The most important thing, I think, with my work, is to actually physically take the steps required towards manifesting the idea. The longer I think about what spontaneously arose in my mind the less viable it seems. I vacillate. I literally go around in circles between the three rooms I work in tapping things like an eccentric old woman. But when I commit with feet, hands, brain, eyes, materials,…
Pour The Ink
In between my two yoga classes this morning I went to Annie’s for a cup of her magical Oolong tea. While I was there she gave me an impromptu intro to calligraphy. She was using phrases like " pour the ink" and “open the brush” that were making me crazy with delight.
I’ve just discovered that she is the infamous 60’s drop out known as Tie Dye Annie:
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Awagami Factory
I’ve discovered a source of Japanese paper that is now being coated for inkjet printing. The <a href="http://www.awagami.or.jp/en/">Awagami Factory</a> is so nice they will actually send you a sample pack from their factory in Japan. The coated 70 gsm Kozo is much sharper and the blacks are immensely richer than any uncoated Kozo I’ve used. The website is a wealth of info…