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Ritual of Enchantment: Human Clay

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

One of the most venerable functions of art is to transform the environment, to create a sacred space or a magical moment, to inspire the imagination or to open the mind to contemplate mysteries.  This may be the impulse behind the painted caves of the Ice Age, and it is why places to pray and [...]

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Golden Hour and Blue Hour

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Photographers and Cinematographers sometimes use the term “magic hour” to refer to times of day when natural daylight takes on special qualities that beautify nearly any setting and imbue it with drama and grandeur.  Unfortunately the phrase is used inconsistently to refer to times just before or just after sunup or sundown.  I prefer the [...]

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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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Liquid Light

Monday, January 30, 2012

In the ’90′s I was known for a blacklight body painting act I developed with a dancer and performance artist called Sue Doe.  It was a sort of Pollockian erotic ritual of pouring, smearing, hurling, and squirting fluorescent paints.  Glowing colors would drip over contrasting hues in an ever-changing visual explosion, choreographed to music.  Our [...]

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