Art

Art is fun, it’s a laugh, it’s entertainment, it’s spectacular, it’s cool … art now aspires to be all the things fashion is. And so it cannot accomodate the awkwardness of a Kossoff: cannot be a bone in anyone’s throat. Its success is totally bound up with the same fiction that anything is possible that has inspired banks to lead us all into a looking-glass world.

I’ve tried to resist this fact for a few months, but I’m done with illusion. Art as we know it is finished. It is about to be exposed as nothing more than the decor of an age of mercantile madness. On what bedrock might a new art arise?

Fun, Science, youtube

Q: Are we not men? A: We are Devo

March 6, 2009 keith

Seems that scientists have found a resurrected gene

A gene that is active in humans today died out during our primate evolution and came back to life again. This is the first time such a “resurrection” event has been identified, researchers say.

Since we seem to be devolving, I thought Devo might be appropriate.

Art

Interlude

March 6, 2009 keith

Some amazing encaustic on panel work from Mark Rediske at Foster White Gallery, Seattle

Samana Cay

Art

Woodcut–work in progress

March 2, 2009 keith

I’ve started working on my first woodcut ever, and I’m doing what’s called a reduction print, which uses one piece of wood for all the colors. Basically what you do is, cut away what you don’t want to print, and with this method you have to plan your cuts carefully, and should, probably, print from light to dark. It’s a two color print (three if you count the white of the paper: which is actually important for this print.)and I printed the first color today.
Here’s some pics, and some explanations.

The block

Here’s the block, with the areas that will only have the color of the paper cut out. (The whit areas are wood filler that I used to fill some areas that I cut out, but didn’t want to.)

carving
Carving