started a new project today. couldn’t figure out why i was feeling a little stagnant…i didn’t have any creative projects of the cut and paste and paint variety happening. i was at utrecht for some matte film paper and spotted 6 x 6″ wood canvases. now i’m inspired.
we’ll see where it goes. i think i’m going to need some more canvases.
one of my favorite things to see in a house is prominently displayed artwork made by children. this one is in the kitchen hanging on the door to the garage.
and these are both in the basement.
i just love them!
there was this cute cafe on the corner of houston and elizabeth. it closed, and a clothing store opened up. rag & bone paid homage to cafe colonial with a painted message on the wall recognizing it as a neighborhood landmark.
someone painted “AFRICA” in cerulean blue below the homage. then someone wrote “fuck” above africa in lead. i noticed it one day walking to the store from broadway lafeyette. i though it was kind of fucked up. weeks later i noticed someone wrote “Love” covering the “fuck”. nice.
as all things must pass, rag & bone is establishing its presence on the corner of houston and elizabeth, new art on the side of the building emerges.
this is one of the things i love about ny. constant change. none of it is good or bad, it all just is. there. to do whatever you want with it. keeps your mind, body, and soul active.
yesterday i had the pleasure of visiting kevin teare’s exhibition, Spring Reverb. excellent show.
this one, with the guitar, is my favorite.
i would love to have one of these smaller pieces in my collection.
this is another of my favorites.
the show will only be up until june 1, if you have the opportunity to see it. here’s the address of the gallery:
551 w. 21st st. 4th floor
you can see more of kevin’s work here.
it’s been an eventful week for news coming out of dallas. first erykah badu and her nakedness without a permit. then the unstable guy who blew up his house and part of his neighbor’s house. then this guy who clearly is in need of psychological help.
i don’t mind what erykah badu did, whether it was just part of a big publicity stunt or not. i support the arts. dallas needed that. the song and the video are solid.
tab brewer, the guy who blew up his house, had shown signs of instability for weeks through his facebook status updates. his wife filed for divorce, he was hoping she’d reconsider. apparently, she didn’t and he’d planned to kill her, their 5 children, and himself. fortunately for his family, he was only successful in killing himself. his wall is no longer public (probably in a google cache somewhere), but i have to think of the 352 friends he had, there were some who were paying attention to his status updates. why didn’t anybody do anything? what could have been done?
joey lo, the anti-abortion nutbag was angry because the people at the clinic wouldn’t tell him if his wife had an abortion there. hello, HIPAA laws, why would he think they’d give him any information?
what i can’t figure out is, has our society gotten more crazy, or are we just more aware of it because of modern technology?
maybe part of it is that it’s an 8 year. a time of revolution and change, and a tiger year no less. we’re in a 3 nine-year cycle…thunder. and a 9 81-year cycle…fire. these kinds of things should be expected. volcanic eruptions and earthquakes…sometimes it seems as if everything is unraveling. which i guess is a good thing if you’re a survivor i suppose.
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