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Monthly Archives: April 2009

A Useless Tree

Sunday, April 26, 2009

“Tzu-ch’i of Nan-po was wandering around the Hill of Shang when he saw a huge tree there, different from all the rest.  A thousand teams of horses could have taken shelter under it and its shade would have covered them all.  Tzu-ch’i said, “What tree is this?  It must certainly have some extraordinary usefulness!”  But, [...]

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Visual Cacophony

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

New York City is like the rainforest, dense with competing and coexisting lifeforms.  When I moved here in the 1980′s, the most striking aspect of the city was the level of anarchy and disorder that prevailed, both in the people and in the physical environment.  It was frightening but also exciting to me.  It said [...]

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Art & Fear

Monday, April 20, 2009

Among artists over the years, I’ve often heard mention of a little book called Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, by David Bayles & Ted Orland (1993, Image Continuum Press).  The title never appealed to me, but the book kept rising to the surface, one of those things artists recommend [...]

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Composing on the Fly

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

This is one of my big black drawings, made about three weeks ago.  It’s 48″ x 60″, or 122 cm x 152 cm, aquarelle crayon on black paper cut from a large roll.  Excepting a little finishing work, this drawing was completed in one three hour session working from life with model Jessi.  I made [...]

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Dorsal Emblems

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Most of the body art shown in my online portfolios here and here is full-body work done in my studio.  But I have also frequently done body painting at festivals such as Sirius Rising, Starwood, Dance New England Summer Camp and the American Body Arts Festival, at pageants such as Earth Celebrations‘ Rites of Spring, [...]

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