I’ve been watching #NoDAPL, “no Dakota access pipeline,” go down this summer (2016) like a hawk. What’s horrifying is that the culminating political and personal moment in progress right now is the confluence of environmental and ethnic destruction we’ve been watching since the industrial revolution—probably before. What’s amazing and beautiful and hopeful and strong aboutRead more
Everyone loses their way sometimes. Your compass gets wacked and the lodestone is off. Your tuner hits the floor and the D string cannot harmonize for shit. For me, it’s writing. It’s always the writing. If I don’t produce my work, write my mind and the world, everything goes haywire. I literally have to write.Read more
I have seen Xu Bing’s two phoenixes at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine three times. They are huge soaring birds, suspended from the ceiling of the cathedral, and they are made of trash. Trash soaring through a holy sky. Now, I’m either old school or new age, but for me there are otherRead more
This is only a piece, of the whole. Is it curious that we call works of art “pieces”? Pieces of something larger, without which they are not complete. As though, if only seeing one work, we cannot truly see what it is or what it means? And yet, we do. We see words, meanings, worlds.Read more
In every game there are rules. We start playing the game, and figure them out. Good teachers help us understand the rules and why they’re there. You know the rules of your game. I know mine. Don’t mix metaphors, the oxford comma is no longer necessary. Slim down. Cut. Watch. Pivot. Roll. If you’ve everRead more
In 2014, I rebirthed my blog as a way to share art, ideas and poetry. The work is meditations on art, and on life. After sharing new work, works in progress and the work of artists that move me, I find myself thinking in new terms. Maria Lassnig, Lee Friedlander, Romare Bearden, Kehinde Whiley, RobertRead more
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