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Dancing/Drawing Performance

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 [...]

The Body Contemplated

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 [...]

Wax and Water

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 [...]

Painting as Drawing

I am by my essential nature more drawer than painter.  In taking on painting as a challenge, I have approached it as a form of drawing.  I seek spontaneity, linear expressiveness and energy, and a direct connection between perception and mark-making.  I’m not particularly concerned with sophisticated composition or illusionistic realism.  In drawing, perceptions are [...]

Form as Energy

The Center for Remembering and Sharing, or CRS, is an organization devoted to supporting and teaching healing arts and creative arts.  Their studios near Union Square in Manhattan host dance and yoga classes, bodywork sessions, film screenings, performances (music, dance and theater), and meditation and energy healing circles.  I got involved with CRS several years [...]

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