Sunday, July 30, 2006

Simon Evans

(click on image for more detail)

Friday, July 28, 2006

"The power of theory is used against artists as much as for them."

Ceal Floyer at 303 Gallery (New York):



(a projected image of a nail)

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Rimbaud:

Tales from Ovid:

Pygmalion saw the wickedness of particular women
Transform, as by some occult connection,
Every woman's uterus to a spider.
Her face, voice, gestures, hair became its web.
Her perfume was a floating horror. Her glance
Left a spider-bite. He couldn't control it.

So he lived
In the solitary confinement
Of a phobia,
shunning living women, wifeless.

Yet he still dreamed of woman.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Artemisia Gentileschi:

"Cleopatra", 1621

Art Historian Mary Garrard: "Cleopatra's love for Antony, secular and impure, is destined for the grave, like all vain human endeavor, yet she could be admitted to the realm of "good women" because, as a pagan without access to Christian redemption, she might serve as a spectacle of courage, self-awareness, and self-definition..."

The Serpent Mound:

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) 1987-1990

(Two synchronous battery-powered wall clocks placed side-by-side, marking the passage of time until one or the other falls out of sync, slows and stops.)
"Without regular events of beauty, we live estranged from all existence, including our own."

--Peter Schjeldahl

Monday, July 17, 2006

For My Sister-in-Law Corinne Sewell, who was very loved and very kind:

Peter Schjeldahl:

"Beauty makes a case for the sacredness of something--winning the case suddenly and irrationally."




(A Oaxacan Bride, June 2006)

Sunday, July 09, 2006

A Few Monuments of the Mighty Cuyahoga River:

Essroc Italcementi Group:

Norfolk and Western Rail Bridge:

River Residence:

Mittal Steel Corporation:

Mittal Steel:

Mittal Steel:

Monday, July 03, 2006

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
--Emerson