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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life… the companion… the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.” ~ Mark van Doren, an American writer (souroe)
Art—To Some Stitching Past and Present Together
Since my diagnoses with HIV (AIDS), I literally sobered up. I’m about twenty-years sober and I feel blessed that I have found my way to sobriety. Sobriety has allowed me to go places and do things that I never dreamed possible. It’s been far more exciting than those haze filled days. I’m lucky I didn’t have to lose anything to find my way to sobriety. Never lost a job, never a DWI, and still have my partner.
For me, art is stitching time and place together…. Finding a way to connect the past and future together in some fashion. Whether it that is using a narrative or metaphor.
As I live with HIV, taking multiple medications a day, I think of how the present is connected with the past and how we experience the world. Our senses that we relay on to explain our surroundings and interpret the world are faulty at best. In a way, we all live in Plato’s Cave staring at the shadows on the wall.
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Tags: iPhone, North Dakota, philosophy, Spring 2012
Monday, November 7th, 2011
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence.”
~ Milton Glaser
Morning Hours... A Day's New Color
One of the most profound and inspirational artist I enjoy listening to and reading is Milton Glaser. At eighty-some, he is still creating, teaching, and being inspired by life and his surroundings. Here is a noted illustrator, graphic designer, and artist that keeps blurring the lines between that of artist and designer. His work is smart and direct. His words are that of a mentor and of a grandfather. His life and mark will influence graphic design for a longtime to come.
A video I love showing my students when they first step into my classroom was produced by Hillman Curtis, Milton Glaser: Art is Work. Here Milton Glaser highlights the role of the artist. The role of the artist is to provide a gift to the culture, so we have something in common with one another.” Words that I feel underscore what a gift the artist and designer has, no matter what their status in the marketplace.
Posted in Daily Entries, Ideas, iPhone images, Lake Harriet, MCTC, Milton Glaser, Minneapolis, Painted images, Photography, Process | Comments Off
Tags: Autumn-2011, clouds, education, iPhone, Lake Harriet, morning hours
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The best part of us is not what we see, it’s what we feel. We are what we feel. We are not what we look at… . We’re not our eyeballs, we’re our mind. People believe their eyeballs and they’re totally wrong…”
~ Duane Michals (1932– )
Seeing... Is the Start... Feeling is the Next Step or Not.
I love reading Daune Michals’s words and viewing his works. I ran across his work as a grad student and he moves beyond seeing and each work evokes a feeling. He takes the viewer pass the mere obvious and causes the viewer to feel the work and carry it beyond the gallery’s wall or outside a book’s cover.
Ansel Adams or any great photographer has this gift to record what the eyes don’t see or record what we miss.
Posted in Daily Entries, Duane Michals, iPhone images, Lake Harriet, Minnesota, Painted images, Photography, Process, Quotes, Sabbatical | Comments Off
Tags: Autumn-2011, dusk, Lake Harriet, Quotes, reflections
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Just because of Rubens I am looking for a blonde model.”
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The Perfect Model--A Stop in Idaho Early Morning
Looked through some of the photos I took along the way back home and found this one taken in the early morning hours in Idaho. Idaho was one of the highlights of our trip out west. And no, I am not looking for a blonde model, happy with the one I have.
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Tags: Autumn-2011, Idaho, iPhone, iPhoto, Quotes
Friday, October 14th, 2011
I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.”
~ Samuel Beckett
Gathering for the Trip South--Lake Harriet
Accomplished one of my main goals that I set for my sabbatical yesterday. The courses that were written for the Tech Prep agreement between Minneapolis Community Technical College (MCTC) and Minneapolis (MPLS) K-12 were approved. Next step… Meeting with the MPLS faculty and see who is participating and hammering out the details. I am excited about working with them. This is good for MCTC and the city’s graphic design programs at the high school level.
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Tags: Autumn-2011, Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, morning hours, Quotes
