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Mar 9, 2021
MINI POST: Fluorescent Oil Paints in Review
Mar 9, 2021
Mar 9, 2021
DO THE READING #3
Dec 7, 2019
DO THE READING #3
Dec 7, 2019

If we accept Solnit’s definition of empathy, this active emotional connection and curiosity, then I wonder how it would feel to search through that metaphorical labyrinth only to find oneself alone. When we personify our heirlooms and keepsakes, we are acting out of desperation to achieve a sense of empathetic intimacy with an absent person. by picking up the things that they interacted with everyday, one can envelop themselves in the ruins left by their absent loved-one. They can smell the soap as they wash the kitchen sink, can wrap themselves in their coats, and go for walks on the same sidewalks. After all of that is gone, they are left to scour the snapshots and the outdated documents for any traces of that unknowable life.

Dec 7, 2019
DO THE READING #2
Aug 3, 2019
DO THE READING #2
Aug 3, 2019

FEATURED TEXT: “How Frames Define our Perception of Art” by Andrew Graham Dixon for Christies

Fixating on enlarged fragtments isolated from the geographies of the “pictorial machine” leaves viewers oblivious to the richness they might have gleaned from the uninterrupted whole.

FEATURED RESOURCE: Chicago Public Libraries

Plus…new work!

Aug 3, 2019
DO THE READING-A new blog project
Jun 23, 2019
DO THE READING-A new blog project
Jun 23, 2019

Research is a vital aspect of my studio practice. Almost every session in front of the easel is punctuated by forays into the jungle of the online art world. Strangely, the most fruitful finds are often only tangentially related to the original query. Once a week, I plan to post a couple of these web-based gems. Hopefully, my fellow creatives will see their utility (or at least use them to locate new and exciting rabbit-holes to chase).

Jun 23, 2019

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Elements of Frost

February 15, 2016

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