Zac + I went to an art lecture at Rhodes College the other night. Here are some of the things I wrote down:
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What is it to see + sense the world?
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Matter + consciousness
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Lessons of landscape: body has relationship to shape, urgency, painting a response, a dance. Trains the imagination.
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Lessons of light + color from landscape.
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Finding truth through doubt, truth becomes the process.
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Layers of form: give + take
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Framing an absence, showing an absence- obliquely.
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Framework for viewer to fill in
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Pairing paintings as a conversation
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Became a mother + was influenced by watching daughter form language
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Color has amazing power: disarming, sensuous + affects the whole body
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Painting layers over time: refusal + erasure, boundary of painting: strata of process
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Negative capability: Doubt + Confusion= Playfulness
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Childhood + Child developing: stacking, linking, boundaries of inanimate + animate
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Process of construction- how paints + bodies are made
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Paint is dualistic: covers but also reveals
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The release + the control- going back + forth. Tight vs. Loose.
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Sees process as collaborating w/ materials + the body + giving up consciousness + control. Pure potential + strict limitation.
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Compositions are a process of trial + error, not preset ever
And a sketch I did:
I'm looking forward to seeing the show soon.
