@ the CLUI now (click here)

BIRDFOOT: Where America's River Dissolves into the Sea
"The end of the Mississippi River Delta - the Birdfoot - is a national landscape of disintegration, a fractal labyrinth of dendritic channels, a blend of water and earth, bisected and rerouted by linear, engineered forms of pipeline canals and levees. The people who live and work here, beyond the reach of roads, do so tenuously, in a delicate, disappearing place that is battered by hurricanes, and eroding into the sea."

Coricos:

From the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston:

Theseus slays the Minotaur, Artemis slays the children of Niobe, and a man tells his companion to "hold still."

The Mighty Dipylon Krater at the Met (Greek: 8th C. BCE):

This huge vase features a funerary procession. Check out the mourning women tearing at their hair in the detail. For particularly important funerals in ancient Greece, extra women mourners were often hired to create an extra noisy and melodramatic spectacle on behalf of the deceased.

Gesture drawings by Gee Vaucher (for my students):

Some words I like:
"Romanticity"
"Lubricity"
"Unfundamented"
"Evolutionate"

A couple of cross-contours from last semester. (We'll be doing this assignment again on Thursday.)

After weeks of torment its finally done--suffering under the tyranny of the precious object!

Duplex, 2008, oil on panel, 11"x14"

"Video art represents a possible way out of something, out of the renewed tyranny of the precious object, out from under a boutique art market that has amassed grotesque wealth and power while making art itself seem small and utterly dispensable."

"When you have YouTube at your disposal, who needs Chelsea?"

--Holland Cotter

"Its better to regret something you did do than to regret something you didn't do."
--The Butthole Surfers