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Category Archives: New work

Painting in Negative

Monday, February 20, 2012

When I was a teen in the 1970′s, I had a reel-to-reel tape recorder, a wonderful experimental toy in the pre-digital era.  One time I wrote a “message from the aliens”, analyzing the words into phonemes and then trying to speak the whole thing into the recorder in reverse order, to be played backwards by [...]

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Dancing/Drawing Performance

Sunday, February 12, 2012

On Saturday, February 18, I was drawing as part of this performance by one of my longtime collaborators, Kayoko Nakajima.  Kayoko is a dancer and a deep student of the anatomy of movement.  Here are all the details:  ”ARt Seeds to ARt Sprouts Project 2012″ Concept: Kayoko Nakajima Improvisational/Contact Improvisational Dance: Kayoko Nakajima, Carly Czach [...]

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The Body Contemplated

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

a person is a bit of this and a bit of that fuzzy tendencies overlapping, interacting forged and scourged in the kiln of embodied life   eyes ions, black magnetic pools   zone in on tones undertone, overtone, midtone let the parts fall where they may   body takes a beating just doing the day [...]

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Wax and Water

Sunday, January 8, 2012

A few months ago, I made a change in my regular life drawing practice.  My primary drawing medium for over fifteen years had been Caran d’Ache Neocolor II aquarelle crayons.  Aquarelle means watercolor, and the pigments laid down by these crayons can be thinned or blended with water, but I always used them as a [...]

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The Light Returns

Friday, December 23, 2011

To all my readers, a wish for the season:  As the longest night finally awakes in ultramarine glow, may the sun without and the sun within commence to wax! (Digital illustration by Fred Hatt.  Tree silhouette from here.)

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