ey-way

Find me a Forest

2011-05-27T21:01:00.009-05:00

I've had a strange feeling lately. The one where the sound of a song puts a knot in the back of your throat, that you can't explain. Like something you heard hit a chord.

I used to come here for comfort. In the past my life felt like a series of books I shut 1/2 way through because the characters were too boring or the plot didn't sit right. You know it won't end well.

It's no surprise that pencils with intact erasers were a commodity when I was young. Turns out there aren't enough erasers around to fix the world's problems. If only we were better artists, writers, mathematicians... Is it wrong to hope your laundry will come out brighter in the wash this time?

Bedposts, Dimestore, Sour Lily

2010-10-17T17:24:00.004-05:00

"The redundant design, which one associates with suburban lounges, together with the faded colours, suggests the sofa has done its time, as if stuck in a kind of limbo wherein images and objects from the recent past are at their most abject and invisible, invested with neither newness nor nostalgia. Now damp, the sofa has sprouted dozens of delicate white mushrooms from its folds and creases."
-Frieze Magazine on Richard Hughes

After the Summer of Like (2005)

It's an easy shot to miss. Something got in the milk, and spoiled it early. Certainly fair to say it's difficult and dangerous to swallow.

Turn Around, Tex.

2010-06-14T12:34:00.002-05:00

Barrett Browne
April 4, 2010

The darkest corners of storage
are the corners that keep curling up
unsolicited, ever-present truths.
icy, infinite concrete.
Never warm, like that summer platform
where I used to go to clear my head.
Always the stranger in this, and every town.

La Prima Corsa

2010-05-31T11:19:00.004-05:00

Maria Francesca Tassi- October 2009

Privacy

2010-05-31T11:08:00.007-05:00

FRP2 (Filippo Roberto Piantanida Prosdocimo)

Conversations

2010-05-31T10:49:00.004-05:00

"I’d drawn constantly since childhood: large drawings of every creature alive in the ocean; Spanish missions with Indians camping in the foreground, in the background Spanish men throwing cowhides over a cliff to a waiting ship; hundreds of Cinderellas on five-by-eight pads, all alike but with varying hair color and dresses."-Jennifer Bartlett

Always Stuck With Leaving

2010-05-31T10:34:00.009-05:00

"I create chaotic drawings with elliptical narratives that are at once lucid and surprising. I use the narrative of failure, ambiguity, and discomposure to explore the obscure terrain between our internal desires and the external world."-Jeffrey Beebe

Hansel & Gretel

2010-04-29T10:39:00.008-05:00

As Performed by the Austin Lyric Opera
I think I might buy season tickets, it was brilliant! So many talented singers, such a beautiful Opera!

As Long As I Live

2010-04-19T11:52:00.008-05:00

Fernando Sanchez Castillo
2004

"That's why I wear my rubbers when it rains, and eat an apple every day, then see the doctor anyway. What if I can't live to love you as long as I want to?"

Death for the Vertical City

2010-04-15T10:06:00.005-05:00

Let's focus on the ground for a minute.
That closest-to-a-solid, bone & joint
moves, though inaudible.

I can't work with this any longer.
This Rem-Koolhaasing of my life.
blocks only stack so high before tumbling.
closed in a clumsy slump
it looks precarious because it is precarious.

Ever Fallen in Love with Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen in Love With?

2010-04-01T09:03:00.003-05:00

The best way to get over someone is to run until you're too exhausted to think about them anymore.

Panorama at Pinnacle Peak

2010-03-25T12:21:00.011-05:00

Hexomniscope Pinhole Camera

But when the woods were painted, He, too, did fly away

2010-03-24T09:02:00.008-05:00

Regrets Only
Colin Tuis Nesbit

Top floor (private space) aspect of the installation Regrets Only. (Detail) 2009
Royal icing, food coloring, colored sugar crystals, paper streamers, styrofoam, floral wire, wooden benches Casket 23 x 28 x 84 (life-size); Installation dimensions variable. Floral spray contains over 300 royal icing roses piped by the artist.

I was one of Colin's students during his graduate studies at BYU. Consistently when I view his artwork (during various stages of completion) I have been overwhelmed with a sense of reverence for life, and a deeper desire to understand my place in this infinite scheme. It makes me feel there is much to profit from a vast human heritage. The delicate attention he imparts to each lithograph, and the hours of deliberation over subject and content has reminds me that many good, and beautiful things, sometimes have to be painstakingly sought after before they are obtained.

"The impetus for my body of work is my longing – brought on by near paralyzing fears of loss and death in my youth – to connect with something beyond my own mortality. Inspired by my own synchronistic encounters with people, stories, or objects from the past, both ancestrally related and wholly unconnected to me, my work serves as a reminder of inevitable death, yet also as a cautiously optimistic tribute to bygone entities that are allowed to, in a phenomenological sense, live on through the artwork..."

Image(s) are property of the artist, please explore the link to see more of the artists' work and statement.

I had a guinea golden;
I lost it in the sand,
and though the sum was simple,

And pounds were in the land,
Still had it such a value
Unto my frugal eye,
That when I could not find it
I sat me down to sigh

I had a crimson robin
Who sang full many a day,
But when the woods were painted
He, too, did fly away.

Time brought me other robins, --
Their ballads were the same, --
Still for my missing troubadour
I kept the 'house at hame.'

I had a star in heaven;
One Pleiad was its name,
And when I was not heeding
It wandered from the same.

And though the skies are crowded,
And all the night ashine,
I do not care about it,
Since none of them are mine.

My story has a moral:
I have a missing friend, --
Pleiad its name, and robin,
And guinea in the sand, --
And when this mornful ditty,
Accompanied with tear,
Shall meet the eye of traitor
In country far from here,
Grant that repentance solemn

May seize upon his mind,
And he no consolation
Beneath the sun may find.

By Emily Dickinson

Docile Bodies

2010-03-16T12:11:00.013-05:00

Lewis Baltz
c. 1970

For you: Uninterrupted, constant coercion.
For you: Discipline, but mostly self Punishment
For you: An Edict against wasting time.
For you: A Pining, Slowly Borne
For you: Every moment of my unconscious thought

When will these 4 years quit becoming 5?

American Surfaces

2010-03-16T11:34:00.010-05:00

Stephen Shore
circa 1973-1993

History is Heavy, But Well Worth it's Wait.

2010-03-16T10:19:00.016-05:00

Bernd & Hilla Becher
The Heritage of our Industrial past.

A Butcher and His Thief

2010-03-16T09:03:00.016-05:00

Alla Esipovich
From Happiness Series

Pulse Room

2010-02-22T08:35:00.005-06:00

"Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is best known for creating theatrical interactive installations in public spaces across Europe, Asia and America. Using robotics, real-time computer graphics, film projections, positional sound, internet links, cell phone interfaces, video and ultrasonic sensors, LED screens and other devices, his installations seek to interrupt the increasingly homogenized urban condition by providing critical platforms for participation. Lozano-Hemmer’s smaller-scaled sculptural and video installations explore themes of perception, deception and surveillance. As an outgrowth of these various large scale and performance-based projects Lozano-Hemmer documents the works in photography editions that are also exhibited.

In 1999 he created Alzado Vectorial (or Vectorial Elevation), where internet participants directed searchlights over the central square in Mexico City." source

Scheduled Task: Potentially Endless

2010-02-22T08:22:00.005-06:00

Object of Desire Control Chair
2007
SPIN_LOCK
2004
Schedule Task
2004
Sleep mode
2004

Yael Kanarek
bitforms gallery
New York, NY

In a Dark, Wintry Tokyo

2010-02-22T08:10:00.000-06:00

Who was it that said true love conquers all? Well he was a fool, cause it doesn't at all.

The Face That You See in the Door Isn't Standing There Anymore

2010-01-28T08:22:00.004-06:00

Nicolai Howalt
Car Crash Studies, 2009.

they say we will go far, but they don't know how far we'll go.
even the slightest movements can bring unexpected results.

Used To Be

2010-01-16T14:12:00.000-06:00

"even if I try so hard
would we still be coming to an end
even if we spoke the same words
would we still return as friends
even if its simple from the start
we will give the pieces of the heart
and when there is nothing left to pretend
we will know its coming to an end."

Touch: Solo Exhibition

2010-01-14T10:21:00.007-06:00

Song 7

Song 6
Song 5

Song 4

Song 3

Song 2

Song 1 2006

Entry 1 2005

Veikko Hirvimäki (2007-2009)

aye gallery

Beijing, China

For Most of it I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory

2010-01-14T09:44:00.007-06:00

"Kingdoms rising, Kingdoms falling, bowing nations, plumed wars, weigh them in an hour of dreaming cooking chestnuts on the bars." In the Firelight- W.B. Yeats 1891

Simon Norfolk

Bonni Benrubi Gallery

New York, NY

Boxers

2010-01-14T09:06:00.005-06:00

Nicolai Howalt
Galerie Asbaek

Copenhagen, Denmark

Still Life, After Death

2010-01-14T08:34:00.011-06:00

Polly Morgan

Fine Art Taxidermy

Silver Soul

2010-01-14T08:17:00.011-06:00

Hiro Yamagata

Wexner Contemporary

Guggenheim, Bilbao

"It's a vision. A Complete Illusion.

It is happening again.

We're feeling moved through our skin."

Nuptual Donuts

2010-01-06T07:47:00.007-06:00

"The Groom appears to be a battle Toad"

a "Hahahaha" on the scale, easliy. Every groom is a battle toad.

via VANDER YACHT

Xu Zhongmin, Trekking Around the Mountain No. 2, and other Kinetic Sculptures

2009-12-30T12:08:00.004-06:00

Xu Zhongmin, Trekking Around the Mountain No. 2,

Skeletonwalkers

kinetic sculpture

These kinetic sculptures are brilliant. Identical movable dolls are fixed to a device that slowly spins, each doll is set in a position that would simulate progressive movement, and a strobe light creates the illusion of the dolls physical movement (similar to the concept of a flip book).

A Sign of the Times/ Pic-Nic in the Room

2009-12-30T11:27:00.012-06:00

"Anthony Kleinepier and TTTVO, two designers based in Eindhoven, started to present their products together since the end of 2002 and have exhibited in the important designer's events worldwide. Their works, presented in a mixed arrangement which recalls a certain staged setting, challenge peopleﾕs conformist idea about interior design and at the same time interact with the audience, encourage them to take part and not only observe."- From Art-U Room

Now and then you can bend, it's okay to lean over my way.

2009-12-30T07:40:00.003-06:00

Carolina Raquel Antich
Naval Battle (2007)
Art U-Room, Tokyo

"If something in the deli aisle makes you cry you know I’ll put my arm around you and I’ll walk you outside, through the sliding doors, why would I mind? You're not a baby if you feel the world. All of the babies can feel the world. That's why they cry."

Melting Ice Pops (1999-2006)

2009-12-28T10:14:00.016-06:00

Paquatuck Avenue (darth vader)

Tuttle Point (hulk)

Lashley Beach (poof)

Ocean Avenue (blue martian)

Montauk Avenue (tweety)

Toledo Road (spiderman)

Evergreen Avenue (powerpuff girl)

Moriches Bay (marvin the martian)

Moriches Island Road (Supersonic)

Turtle Point (Jimmy Neutron)

Maple Ave. (Panda)

Atlantic Ave. (Bugs Bunny)

Atlantic Ave. (Spongebob)

By Meredith Allen

"My photography depicts the ever-changing landscape of the world around me. I look for opportunities to introduce a new context to my surroundings. And through this exploration, I aim to incite the subtle tension between nature and culture, innocence and cynicism and the beautiful and the grotesque."
Meredith Allen

Mongolian Feast

2009-12-28T09:52:00.008-06:00

Fu Jijiang, Mongolian Feast (2007)
Krampf Gallery

While Rome Burns

2009-12-28T09:35:00.005-06:00

Water Series #22 2009

Kenya #1 1997

Himalayan Landscape 1999

Patagonian Landscape The Horns 1990

By Jan Aronson

When asked why he writes, Vladimir Nabokov answered "so I can find out what happens."

"After over forty years the smell of oil paint and turpentine is as delicious today as it was in my youth. The process of making art is magical and intoxicating . It suduced me all those years ago and it still does." -Jan Aronson

Sweet Darlin'

2009-12-07T22:25:00.003-06:00

we are the tenants of circumspect

the foragers of the illusive eucharist;

the "miners for a heart of gold."

would we still be so shy?

we are absent a paperfold

will you lay that crease?

I would like to see you here.

unidirectional

2009-12-07T22:15:00.005-06:00

Ftown building
Sendai, Japan
Atelier Hitoshi Abe

Night and Reality

2009-11-30T09:55:00.017-06:00

Yoshi Abe At Night circa 2001

"Simplicity is an appreciation of scenes or objects as ends in themselves. Not as anything symbolic, or literary, but simply as things-in-themselves. Everything has its own nature, its integrity [...] If art is the selective recreation of reality according to the artist’s own value judgements, then one must have the ability to see that which is worth recreating. While random objects, scenes, and events crowd out the vision of the artist, and impose themselves on the viewer, the ability to single out the important– to home in on it – is what singles out the artist as blessed with a unique ability" -Yoshi Abe

The Good is Oft Interred With Their Bones

2009-11-27T11:44:00.005-06:00

“Quello che voi siete noi eravamo, Quello che noi siamo voi sarete.”

Capucin Crypt below the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione

Via Veneto, 27 – Piazza Barberini

Rome, Italy

Marmol and Radziner

2009-11-24T16:53:00.004-06:00

Forte de Casa

2009-11-23T09:52:00.010-06:00

Rineke Dijkstra

Bullfighters

I suggest you stay in the safety of your own Home.

Aesthetische Paranoia

2009-11-23T09:30:00.003-06:00

Jürgen Klauke Aesthetische Paranoia 2003-2006

"In his staged photographs Klauke himself becomes the object of his observation, openly portraying the drama of points of human conflict by taking up fictitious identities. He shows existential issues from a personal vision: the relationship between objects and spaces, the ambiguity, the theatricality, the absurd, the sexual identity. As a result, his photographs function as a mirror of the human soul, often confronting the viewer with his or her own unspoken and repressed desires. [...] it's about being alone in space and in the world. What he considers most important is to create space for new ideas and visions, inviting the observer to immerse into a different world. "

For Now, I Need Your Hidden Love

2009-11-23T08:28:00.007-06:00

Ritterschlacht (Knight's Battle) 2003, Martin Honert

A Model Scenario of the Flying Classroom 1995, Martin Honert

And we learn about the world, through the mouth of a polar bear.

Movements of Escape

2009-11-21T13:31:00.005-06:00

Olaf Nicolai, La Lotta, 2006. The Sander Collection, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, Foto: Uwe Walter, Berlin

“A child in the dark, gripped with fear, comforts himself by singing under [his] breath. He walks and haults to his song. Lost, he takes shelter, or orients himself with his song as best he can. The song is like a rough sketch of a calming and stabilizing, calm and stable, center in the heart of chaos. Perhaps the child skips as he sings, hastens or slows his pace. But the song itself is already a skip: it jumps from chaos to the beginnings of order in chaos and is in danger of breaking apart at any moment. ”

--Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

Things Start Splitting at the Seams

2009-11-21T13:21:00.000-06:00

Planet in the Fog 2008 Mixed media on canvas
190x250cm Courtesy Gabriele Senn Galerie Hans Weigand

Return to the Planet of the Apes in Los Angeles II, 2008
Mixed media on canvas 190 x 250 cm / 74,8 x 98,43 in

Courtesy of Arndt & Partner, Zurich

Hans Weigand

I've tried, but I can't look at you any other way.

A Trimming Prospect

2009-11-04T11:45:00.003-06:00

Thomas Heatherwick - East Beach Café, Littlehampton, West Sussex, England (2007)
Swiss Museum of Architecture Re-Sampling Ornament

I have a range of feelings about this building. Initially I think it is childish and playful, like some kind of 3d puzzle, that has been completed and displayed on a shelf. But I also feel attached to it, as a living creature, and I am saddened to see it beached and immovable, like a mechanical whale that became distracted from its course, and came to its final resting place in a rusted heap.

My Bird Can Sing

2009-11-04T10:43:00.001-06:00

1. Being hot / Keeping cool 'You should see the sweat under here, it's like a river'

2009-11-03T13:54:00.009-06:00

"Most people I interviewed said they weren't keen on making contact with their fellow passengers, which is an awful waste of casual face to face socializing. I was looking into animal shields, scares, warning systems and colours for ways to attract and also repel (you wouldn't want to look too attractive waiting for the night bus in back end of Brixton). A frilled lizard has an excellent collar which I borrowed for this image. It can spread it out for scaring or keep flat for inconspicuous look. The slippery suit is for slick crowd movements (- how smooth it would be if everybody wore them!)"

Riitta Ikonen Costume Series

For those who love all things Nylon!

Xerox Astronomy and the Nebulous Object-Image Archive

2009-11-03T13:41:00.010-06:00

"Xerox Astronomy and the Nebulous Object-Image Archive is an installation in two parts: 1) a central kinetic sculpture and 2) the presentation of the image archive the sculpture produces. The first part places an office photocopier at the center of a mechanical model of the universe. In this model, a group of desklamp-esque arms orbit robotically, maneuvering light sources above the bed of the copier, the system's observation and recording device. By continually documenting, through photocopies, the paths of the orbiting objects, the copier produces images suggestive both of various forms of scientific vision (astrophotography, sonography, etc) and paranormal/hoax photography. The sculpture at once models the movements of distant bodies and presents itself as the the primary object of observation, creating a self-reflexive, self-imaging media production system. Its form refers to pre-industrial astronomic models, and the incorporation of office aesthetics is intended to evoke the "informational everyman-ism" typified by amateur astronomy, paranormal enthusiasts, and internet DIY culture. "

You Are Still the Most Adorable Dessert in Town

2009-11-02T16:11:00.008-06:00

"I wanted a junction and often there was one
You'd surface face first and we'd share our thought bubbles
And I still believe in the phrases that we breathed
But I know the distance isn't fair to cross

I was out of your league
And you were 20,000 underneath the sea
Waiving affections
You were out of my league
At a distance that I didn't wanna see
Wanted you nearer

Your depths made a pressure that punctured my works and all your fluids
couldn't tolerate the force of my thirst
I love the place where we shared our tiny grace
But just because it's real don't mean it's gonna work

And true affection floats
True affections sinks like a stone
I never felt so close I never felt so all alone"

quand je l'ai embrassé, je n'ai pas réfléchi

2009-11-02T09:11:00.012-06:00

Cy Twombly, Fifty Days at Iliam 1977

"J'ai fait juste un bisou. C'est un geste d'amour, quand je l'ai embrassé, je n'ai pas réfléchi, je pensais que l'artiste, il aurait compris... Ce geste était un acte artistique provoqué par le pouvoir de l'art"

"It was just a kiss, a loving gesture. I kissed it without thinking; I thought the artist would understand.... It was an artistic act provoked by the power of Art"

At Times Like These, I'm at My Lowest Ebb

2009-10-31T01:01:00.002-05:00

Long Nights of Pasty Faced Tunes Echo in Rooms

2009-10-27T16:06:00.005-05:00

Living Room Tent+Naps+Cantaloupe+Beach House
I have 1000 cures for loneliness, but none of them work as well as your company.

Come With Me to the Edge

2009-10-26T18:10:00.005-05:00

"There is a beautiful saying by an American philosopher Alan Watts, who says that '...through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself and through our ears the universe is listening to its cosmic harmonies. And we are the witness through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory...of its magnificence.'"

-Stefan Pashov

The Inside Out Building

2009-10-23T12:33:00.008-05:00

51 Lime St. London, England
Though the neoclassical-slapped-on facade of the Lloyds Building in London is Howard Roark's (Ayn Rand's) worst nightmare, the water pipes and electrical power conduits on the outside of the building do so much more than dazzle tourists with a mediocre knowledge of architecture (someday I hope to be that tourist!) It also opens up a lot of useful space in the interior of the building. Leave it to an industrial designer to make such a functional beauty.

maybe it's just me, but I think the interior is reminiscent of the Bradbury building in L.A. (the first image shows the interior escalators of the Lloyds of London Building, and the second is the staircase of the Bradbury Building as seen in the movie "Blade Runner")
top photo cred: Stanton M. Woods

So Many Directions

2009-10-22T00:45:00.005-05:00

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room (Phalli’s Field), 1965, sewn stuffed fabric, mirrors, 360×360 x 324 cm. Installation, Floor Show, Castellane Gallery, New York

But no confidence in the proposed inclination.

∞

2009-10-20T14:07:00.002-05:00

I choose to wait.

Some In, Some Out

2009-10-20T11:32:00.007-05:00

Miroslaw Balka
White Cube

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

2009-10-20T09:59:00.013-05:00

Francesco 1985

Andre Smith; 28 years old; Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Marylin; 28 years old; Las Vegas, Nevada

Chris; 28 years old; Los Angeles, CA

Brian 1988

Gianni 1984

Mike Miller, 24 years, Allentown, PA

Ike Cole, 38 years old, Los Angeles, CA

Brent Booth, 21 years old, Des Moines, Iowa

[link]

"During the late 1970s, during diCorcia's early career, he used to situate his friends and family within fictional interior tableaus, that would make the viewer think that the pictures were spontaneous shots of someone's everyday life, when they were in fact carefully staged and planned in beforehand. He would later start photographing random people in urban spaces all around the world. When in Berlin, Calcutta, Hollywood, New York, Rome and Tokyo, he would often hide lights in the pavement, which would illuminate a random subject in a special way, often isolating them from the other people in the street."

Jacob Escobedo

2009-10-14T21:39:00.008-05:00

Kerry, Jake , Brandon , Sophie

This series of drawings was started in 2007 to make a connection to friends and loved ones by interpreting each of their favorite animals. Each drawing is named after that person.

Baisers volés du cœur

2009-10-11T01:03:00.008-05:00

SECRET CONFESSION
I would rather be with you!
I wish you would feel the same.

Crustacean Island

2009-10-05T19:57:00.002-05:00

There could be an island paradise
where crustaceans prevail.
Click, click, go the lobsters
with their china mitts and
articulated tails.
It would not be sad like whales
with their immense and patient sieving
and the sobering modesty
of their general way of living.
It would be an island blessed
with only cold-blooded residents
and no human angle.
It would echo with a thousand castanets
and no flamencos.

By Kay Ryan

Love Resigns

2009-10-05T13:01:00.002-05:00

Excerpt from Blood Wedding
By Lorca

Beggar Woman:
that moon's going away, just when they's near. they won't get past here. the river's whisper and the whispering tree trunks will muffle the torn flight of their shrieks. It has to be here, and soon. I'm worn out. The coffins are ready, and white sheets wait on the floor of the bedroom for heavy bodies with torn throats. let not one bird awake,let the breeze, gathering their moans in her skirt, fly with them over black tree tops or bury them in soft mud.
Oh that moon! that moon!

Moon:
But let them be a long time a-dying. So the blood will slide its delicate hissing between my fingers. look how my ashen valleys already are waking in longing for this fountain of shuddering gushes!

Yerma:
I didn't come to these four walls to resign myself. When a cloth binds my head so my mouth wont drop open, and my hands are tied tight in my coffin-then, then I'll resign myself

For the Times I Spent, Trying to Fill Small Spaces

2009-10-04T22:11:00.004-05:00

perhaps we will meet again
along an edge, or below a bottle cap.
but until then, an anagram poem,
because Love always has to be hidden for a time.
and sometimes Love must resign itself altogether.

[Her]

Yodel Sillies, sonny
only solely inside
Lonely, Noisy Slides

Kingdom of the Blind

2009-09-24T19:56:00.004-05:00

Kingdom of the Blind
Hew Locke, 2008

EMBANKMENT

2009-09-22T11:29:00.012-05:00

The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread: EMBANKMENT
11 October 2005 – 1 May 2006
Tate Modern
"Although the inspiration for EMBANKMENT came from the single box she found in her mother's house, Whiteread selected a number of differently-shaped old boxes to construct the installation for the Turbine Hall. She filled them with plaster, peeled away the exteriors and was left with perfect casts, each recording and preserving all the bumps and indentations on the inside. They are ghosts of interior spaces or, if you like, positive impressions of negative spaces. Yet Whiteread wanted to retain their quality as containers, so she had them re-fabricated in a translucent polyethylene which reveals a sense of an interior. And rather than make precious objects of them, she constructed thousands."

Animal Logic

2009-09-17T10:49:00.008-05:00

Richard Barnes

Lenient, Yielding

2009-09-17T10:30:00.001-05:00

Tilia Japonica

Under the lime tree
on the open field,
where we two had our bed,
you still can see
lovely both
broken flowers and grass.
On the edge of the woods in a vale,
tandaradei,
sweetly sang the nightingale.

Walther von der Vogelweide

But when the time comes for us both to die, I will turn into a Linden, and you an Oak, on a mountain, as far away as an arrow can shoot in one pull.

Systematic Landscapes

2009-09-17T10:25:00.008-05:00

Maya Lin

Since We Last Loved

2009-09-14T10:56:00.008-05:00

It was first, when you were a flower
You called out to me three times,
and three times I passed by looking only at the trees.
And then when you locked yourself to the bike rack,
waiting for me to be ready.
But two seasons passed, and you were a hungry heap.

I wish I knew what more to say.
But I think we have spent all of our candles now.

Marshall in the Days of Longing

2009-09-09T14:00:00.004-05:00

I am honest that way.

Leaf Swords and Clover Flower Necklaces

2009-09-08T15:16:00.004-05:00

BEAUTIFUL

The Thief of Baghdad

2009-09-08T00:52:00.000-05:00

is for tonsil delirium.

Shouldn't Oughta Promise

2009-09-07T23:26:00.000-05:00

Cause it's just Pretend

Shouldn't Oughta Try

2009-09-07T21:10:00.002-05:00

To be that way

Should Have Known Better

2009-09-07T21:07:00.000-05:00

To this very day

Just to Prove That You Were Sorry

2009-09-07T04:53:00.003-05:00

How did the time pass us so quickly? How is it that devotion cannot be matched?

Moth of the Vanity, Moth of the Living Room.

2009-09-07T01:01:00.008-05:00

I am unsure of how you got lost in here. It seems you were cheated: by that charlatan, a dark tunnel suggesting refuge, where you hid your weary eyes. Why is it then, that light is your immutable captor? I have seen this confusing misfortune far too often. I hope that my gentle coercion was not too much for your delicate limbs, I hope that plastic cups and paper can be forgiven. I hope that one day, when Grey Drifts beguile me, you will return my favor.

Courting the Dark Means Counting Your Days Til the End.

2009-09-02T23:15:00.002-05:00

All Without an Airlock

2009-09-02T12:55:00.008-05:00

I am wandering through a snowy mountain, in search of a missing shoe. Mid-fall in a cavernous void of poorly executed attempts at being inconspicuous.

Hey Honeybee

2009-08-31T12:58:00.005-05:00

I spent all morning finding the words to alter moods. =tunnel vision, because we're all silly-in-love, but it mostly travels in broad circles with very few intersections.

Like You Would Do To One That You Loved

2009-08-29T22:39:00.004-05:00

The lights are put out. Dishes cleaned and put away. as I sleep the apartment ghost turns down the thermostat. And I always wake up with the chills. From here, I make only a shallow effort to keep warm; an unending lack of desire, a fault to the eagerness that was once reserved for obscure objects.

Take This Longing From My Tongue

2009-08-28T17:37:00.010-05:00

via
There are so many useless things these hands have done.
forgive me for being a little crestfallen. I will keep running until I am free of feeling. Until you are free from thinking I assume some sort of privilege. Until I can will this body to disappear at the slightest sign of embarrassment. Until the pangs of regret can be mistaken for a hasty stretch and careless form.

Number 1 Reason You Should Stay in School...

2009-08-28T08:33:00.000-05:00

You might end up spending entirely too much of your time making things like this.

I Know All of Your Tricks

2009-08-26T23:10:00.000-05:00

I am knee deep at the APL

Tractor Baby

2009-08-26T15:11:00.000-05:00

who wants to go on a roadtrip to see tractor baby?

Now That I Know What I Want, See, I Think That it Haunts me, I Want You Too Much.

2009-08-24T11:02:00.004-05:00

My Polygamist Wedding Song

2009-08-17T11:58:00.000-05:00

Brought to you by Admiral Perry Peterson

For Small Creatures Such as We the Vastness is Bearable Only Through Love.

2009-08-15T16:12:00.005-05:00

Robert Longo: Men in Cities

2009-08-15T14:55:00.014-05:00

I would love to go to work and pull people around with ropes and throw tennis balls at them...but I would not love to spend another 1000 hours doing life drawing. Maybe that explains why I have never directed a New Order Music Video, or one of many terrible Keanu Reeves Films, and I don't have my artwork hanging in the Met, but a girl can dream.

Simón del Desierto

2009-08-15T10:52:00.001-05:00

The Devil Tempts Simon for 45 minutes. It turns out the prophet is a Beatnick. What does it say about me that I wish I owned every single one of the Devil's outfits?

Michael Golembewski

2009-07-24T17:10:00.010-05:00

The Scanner Photography Project

And Lovelier Days Still to Come

2009-07-24T13:48:00.005-05:00

David Hockney
A Bigger Spash 1967

David Hockney
A Lawn Being Sprinkled 1967

Hockney on Photorealism:
Secret Knowledge

Brooklyn 1979

2009-07-24T11:10:00.011-05:00

Mike & Suzanne Zufolo's daughters. 480 13th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn. June 25, 1978. (1978)

Sonya Freedman. 2219 Quentin Rd., Flatbush, Brooklyn. August 1, 1978. (1978)

Connie Slater & sons. Richelieu Apartments. 385 Clinton Ave., Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. April 7, 1978. (1978)

Howard & Connie Dabney, son Louis. 624 Macon Ave., Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. April 23, 1978. (1978)

John & Elinore Koechley. 122 76th St., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. December 26, 1978. (1978)

Joe Roifer & friend. Apt. 9E, Turner Tower. 135 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. June 20, 1978. (1978)

Anthony & Marjorie McAllister. 1510 Albemarle Rd., Flatbush, Brooklyn. March 14, 1979. (1979)

Erskin & Eleanor Agee, daughter Kim. 165 Argyle Rd., Flatbush, Brooklyn. October 19, 1978. (1978)

Home of Ted & Ronnie Johnson. 151 Willoughby Ave., Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. April 11, 1978. (1978)

Yvonne Ladato at home. 8820 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. August 6, 1978. (1978)

The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get. You're Wasting Your Time

2009-07-22T14:57:00.005-05:00

It Ain't Hard to Adore You

2009-07-18T10:37:00.005-05:00

When you finally break my legs,
and I can never leave the house again
Then I'll finally love you, and we can have some kids.

Big Mouth Strikes Again

2009-07-15T09:40:00.005-05:00

the fall > joy division
and I think that the fourth gender would agree with me (though "incredibly boring" may be a bit harsh)

ALSO:
Endless Pretension

what brand of Clove cigarettes were you smoking when you wrote this one "Dr." Thorpe? Better stock up before 2010, you'll have to go to Mexico--best to avoid being surrounded by all those Smiths Fans. But I will make a few concessions- "Meat is Murder" is way over the top, the meat sizzling in the frying pan was too much. That, and Pavement is terrible.

This Will Be Our Year

2009-07-11T11:58:00.000-05:00

It took a long time to come!

At Your Window

2009-07-10T13:48:00.004-05:00

"After a showing of TITICUT FOLLIES the mind does not dwell on the hospital's ancient and even laughable physical plant, or its pitiable social atmosphere. What sticks, what really hurts is the sight of human life made cheap and betrayed. We see men needlessly stripped bare, insulted, herded about callously, mocked, taunted. We see them ignored or locked interminably in cells. We hear the craziness in the air, the sudden outbursts, the quieter but stronger undertow of irrational noise that any doctor who has worked under such circumstances can only take for so long. But much more significantly, we see the 'professionals', the doctors and workers who hold the fort in the Bridgewaters of this nation, and they are all over...TITICUT FOLLIES is a brilliant work of art…" - Robert Coles, The New Republic

Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies - 1967

Sleep in the Canyon

2009-07-10T13:09:00.013-05:00

window please watch the sun go
hope that the stars know it's time to shine.
daydream - be born on dark wings
let every sky sing this song of mine.
- Townes Van Zandt

Via the art of memory

Extraterrestrial Results

2009-07-10T10:38:00.005-05:00

Dear Ariel Pink,
I think you're a little scary in person, but will you marry me?