Monday, October 25, 2010

Jessica Jones

Revisiting




During the fall have been working on light paintings using my old art pieces. Am in the process of getting rid of some things, trying to make things easier as my sight worsens and worsens. I have to force myself to confront this, so by physically sorting, trashing, papers, sketchbooks, journals, doodles, letters, paperbacks, clippings, notes, video tapes,negatives, I can start to grasp the reality. My art books I just cant let go of-never. The shelves of "Art in America", I have to say goodbye to.
I'm fortunate in that I have time. Some blind people, like Victorine, lost her sight very rapidly and weren't prepared.
In this Revisit series, painted images, monotype prints and sculpture are united with real objects and settings, all blended by the flashlight into a new whole. These revisitings are a good way to make something more out of some neglected, half forgotten art work, I'll have a bon fire one day with most of this, but these light paintings, hopefully, will retain an echo. More soon.
Above,Objects 9 9 2010 #15 , Revisit #1

Friday, October 8, 2010

Russian Esquire

Russian Esquire has a series of Seeing With Photography's images online - Sept 20 2010. I've been going through the pages there, and its a very impressive collection. Really high quality art work. I especially like  John Delany's images of Asian nomads. I guess the print issue must be out now too, am just too excited. Our group has 12 images, am grateful to be included in their selection.

With Jacques Montel, 9 11 10