The cleft was infested with woodlice.
the burn was forever there
soon, going to the table, took up a large book there,
No more my splintered heart and maddened hand
This soothing savage had redeemed it.
Wood Lice
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My New Years Goals
Research more
Talk to more artists about their work
Read more poems
Read more novels
Read more non-fiction
Listen to more music
Ask artist more questions
Work more, at the end of my life I will have said I should have worked harder.
Cook more for more people
Grow my own food this summer
Photograph more
Exercise more
Sleep in
Ask more questions
Stop giving answers
Learn new songs to play on my guitar
Sing more ( it’s yoga for the inside of the body- Stephen Colbert)
Write about other artist MORE
Interview artists
Learn to bbq Ribs
Learn to smoke meat
Set up my wood shop
Fix my girlfriends car
Create a flower garden for my girlfriend
Be patient when I am trying to learn to speak Portuguese with her.
Love more
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Top Ten Collages of 2011
Top Ten Collages of 2011
This is a list of my favorite collages of 2011. There are hundreds more that I would like to include in the list. I picked these collage for a number of reason, some because they influenced my work, some because they are just gorgeous and deserve to be seen by as many people as possible and some I picked because they are funny and made me laugh
NUMBER 10
Prayer Time : Nicholas Lockyer this guys work is just poetic and dream like. I emailed him a few months ago and asked if I could put some of his collage on my Collage Fancy page. I still need to do so, I have been neglecting collage fancy.
Number 9 Nick Sitton
This work is really influencing my current work. I really love how simple the process is but they create complicated forms and shapes. WONDERRFUL
Number 8 Vanessa Lamounier de Assis
Vanessa’s work is beyond amazing. I look at her flickr page often, sometimes waiting for her to post new work. She is truly a remarkable talent.
Number 7 Diego Gravinese
I really was blown away by the sheer raw power of these collages. So simple of a process but a beautiful poetry exists from the selection of images.
Number 6 Lewis Minor
I can’t say anything but GORGEOUS ! I love this work.
Number 5 DECK STYLE
This KILLS
Number 4 Derrick Tyson
Bizzare and wonderful use of abstraction of form.. check out more of his stuff it really is remarkable.
Number 3 Mumuri
This collage was a real stand out for me when I first saw it and made the rounds in my email with several other collage artists I know..
Number 2 Otto Magnus
He has been one of my favorite collage artists over the past year, his work is absolutely wonderful, what I like about his flickr page is that he is not afraid to show is process and his progress. He is really a dedicated artist and is always commenting on others work and really making more work than other artists I know..
Number 1 lucas chimello simões
This work continues to inform my work every single day I work. I am constantly looking at his process. If you look through his flickr page he has a few photos where he shows you how he made these truly unique and amazing collage.. I suggest you go back in time to his very first photo that he posted on flickr and then you really get a chance to see how his style developed into what he is doing today..
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Bottling pears and banishing turnips
There was that day of days when days floated like days and in between softness and haze more dazed that appeared. There was a day that when dazed floated and in between the saltness and laze that sprained. That was their daze of daze when days filtered like daisies and in between taught and praise more days appeared. They were that dime of daze when days flaked off days and in between seaweed and trumpets more craze that strained. There were those diseases that insisted whilst diseases forcibly persisted and in between butter milk and lifted.
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Hilda Hilst: Of Desire (IV)
VI.
What if I tell you that I saw a bird
Upon your sex, should you believe it?
And if it isn’t true, the Universe will not change at all.
If I say that desire is Eternity
Because the moment burns without end
Should you believe it? And if it’s not true
So many have said it that it could be.
In desire we are touched by sophomania, ornaments
Immodesty, shame. Why can’t I
Dot with innocence and poetry
Bones, blood, flesh, the now
And everything in us that will become misshapen?
IV.
Se eu disser que vi um pássaro
Sobre o teu sexo, deverias crer?
E se não for verdade, em nada mudará o Universo.
Se eu disser que o desejo é Eternidade
Porque o instante arde interminável
Deverias crer? E se não for verdade
Tantos o disseram que talvez possa ser.
No desejo nos vêm sofomanias, adornos
Impudência, pejo. E agora digo que há um pássaro
Voando sobre o Tejo. Por que não posso
Pontilhar de inocência e poesia
Ossos, sangue, carne, o agora
E tudo isso em nós que se fará disforme?
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Lies and lies and lies and…
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—
Success in Cirrcuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind—
We are magicians, we artists, we are liars to the core, sometimes our delusions of our art, our desire to communicate what we want can come in the form of lies that are not part of the art.
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No nothing new
I have been following the Occupy Wall Street Protest now since its start. I cannot get enough of it, while I am a virtual house plant working away at my cubicle job, barely able to keep up with my bills and save, I can really relate to the protestors, I am there in spirit, sadly I am not able to be there physically.
I have still been slugging away at my daily practice of collage making, but I have changed my routine slightly, I used to listen to NPR or some other news source while I was working. I had to turn off NPR because of their lack of interest in reporting on the protest. While listening to Talk of the Nation the other day I couldn’t help but become irritated at the hosts question “where as the left gone?” The left has always been here, they have been ignored by what many of us now call National Petroleum Radio. So now I listen to music and enjoy soothing sounds instead of out of touch pseudo-liberal mouths afraid of actual journalism because the cow toe to the radical right who have taken over this country.
It’s been nice to work in this new manner and my work has changed because of it. I’ve started thinking about how to work with my images with the idea in mind of working with negative space and have started to develop means to create “accidents” with overlapping of images. The way I have gone about this is I have started looking at the root of the image, or what makes up the whole of the image I start with, then after staring for awhile I start looking at it’s parts and then look to see what parts of the whole do not add up to the whole and start removing those. Before I was looking at things as wedges, things that came in between the complete image and starting images, which created this issue of either part of images, could be included or they had to be excluded, there was no room for allowing for a plurality of images to work together. So I’ve started photographing bits of paper, rubbing out inks with erasers, photographing, again and scanning images in and then introducing new elements by cutting on top of dissolved and distorted images. This week I’ve given up on having different images in my collage speaking to each other as opposites or rhymes and started melding the images together into a cohesive whole. I am really excited to see where these images take themselves and me.
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