Art Spirit

Kia Soul

This is just a great commercial. Hamsters. It's the rough city version of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Awesome :)

Multi-Layered Thinking in the art studio/classoom

A big title for something I have just started to think about.  Interdisciplinary thinking isn't new --- and there are volumes written about   how this is the next generation of thought --- and this is the thought that is happening right now.

We, when thinking creatively, imaginatively think in layers. Discipline is not like a turnip that we slice through for the 'correct' resolution. What are we teaching and practicing n the art making in studios and art studio classrooms? It is layered. Art calls upon  understanding of story telling,emotion, idea, identity  and applications of craft, color, rules that are operated within  a set of guidelines --- but what are we teaching?  How to make ? How to follow directions?  

Reading about art and writing about art falls into this bin of creative application.

Portraits on Paper : The Ladies

I am excited about these ladies and am also looking forward to making many many more of them. In a culture of creative ambivalence and constant change--Is that so wrong to say? It is interesting to imagine what will come forward with these faces --- how they could be incorporated into other images and other ideas. There are things about color and painting that are interesting --- and as a sculptor --- although I would not think of myself as one now --- I appreciate the imagined space these portraits are in and how they are singular , individual as well as a small community of 'people' that I just am starting to get to know and work with--- not unlike when you first start a job --- there is a categorization of people both by those around and myself in order to manage , to understand. I see these ladies as strong , as vital and each having their own singular and collective story to tell.

Portraits on Paper : She is growth.

Portraits on Paper : She understands.

Portraits on Paper : She's good.

Portraits on Paper : The watcher.

Portraits on Paper : The listener.

Portraits on Paper : The one in charge.

Portraits on Paper : She is certain.