Alias Arts

12×12 inches, maple sized with wood glue, oil

Not only am I preoccupied with water, now there are also birds. Earlier, there were ducks, here and here; now, my first raven.

This is a double posting,  ruminations from Day 29 of my Residency at the Goldwell Open Air Art Museum. So if you’re reading the residency journal, this is all old news.  And it’s really an essay ruminating about the experience during the last few days of our stay. I will …

Months have passed since I posted anything. Like others I have been distracted by a number of competing priorities, but have kept my hand in as much as possible.

The affair with plastic as a medium continues – in fact has perhaps gone over the edge a little bit – as …

Yi-Fu Tuan, in Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience says:
It is not possible to look at a scene in general; our eyes keep searching for points of rest. p. 161
If time is conceived of as flow or movement, the place is pause. p 198
Distance is a meaningless spatial concept …

Gerhard Richter, 1985, 57.4 cm x 86.4 cm, Oil on paper

The Henri Art Magazine (written, I think, by several authors) has a fascinating continuation of a discussion of color, “Color: Simulation,” published on Wednesday Nov. 4, 2009.

The author discusses how the perception of color has changed with technology, the technology …

oil on a maple, 12 x 12 inches

A meditating duck in the Banter Lake outside Liselotte’s cabin in Wilhelmshaven.

The color that I chose for painting water in Northern Germany differs from my usual Lake Michigan color mix. Today, it consists of Ultramarine Blue, Dioxane violet, Titanium White …

Sunset, from a Dune at Lake Michigan,

What are the accompanying sounds? Below, waves splashing against the shore and all around me, happy voices articulating multilingually.

It wasn’t until mid Renaissance times that anyone other than the church was wealthy enough to afford decorative commissioned paintings. People wanted to show their wealth by asking painters and sculptors to do this.
Roman Art was almost as wallpaper, it covered most of the interior walls, outdoors murals, shop …

The phrase, “Sloppy Craft”, the title of a recent panel discussion and a forthcoming exhibition at Portland’s Contemporary Crafts Museum, had to be checked out. Whatever could it mean? How could the Contemporary Crafts Museum have been drawn into featuring sloppiness? What kind of provocation was intended by the title? …

Early morning walk in Greenwich Village.

Inspired by one of my heroes, Richard Estes. Reflections, reflections, reflections…