Monday, July 25, 2011

A Lesson in Perspective from Ai Wei Wei


Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Mona Lisa
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Berne
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Hong Kong
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Eiffel Tower
Eu  Lição em Perspectiva com espirito de Ai  Villa Verde
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Tienanmen
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  San Marco
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  White House
Eu  Lição em Perspectiva com espirito de Ai  Villa Verde
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Red Square
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Tibet
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Tour Eiffel
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Maison Blanche
Eu  Lição em Perspectiva com espirito de Ai  Villa Verde
Ai Wei Wei   Study in Perspective  Tienanmen

All kidding aside, I hope the men lives a long and healthy life doing what he does best, which is making great art that speaks to his condition and that of his fellow men (people).

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

ahead with the project of making art again

Katya Cohen
line etching

I have to stop thinking in terms of my reality; that is, the context, time, and space in which I currently find myself.  I have to go back to thinking like I used to 15 years ago; back to thinking solely in terms of the contextual existence of the project.  The here and now are quite irrelevant.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Commission Completed

My parents-in-law commissioned a painting from me a million years ago--- I finally had time to finish it and photograph it.  They (my parents-in-law) spent a large part of their lives living in Africa.

sad day

STS-135 astronauts strap in.

Woke up this morning... Radio on.  Last flight of the Shuttle. Reporter reports: "There are no other shuttles, the last two are being prepared for display in museums.  If something happens to Atlantis while the astronauts are in the Space Station, they will have to wait for Russian rockets to come get them".

Well, that's that.  Could there possibly be a more poignant metaphor for the end of American hegemony.  President Kennedy, time to roll over in your grave.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Secret to Life?

David Hockney
Piscine Avec Trois Bleus,
 1978  colored and pressed paper pulp 72x85 1/2 in

....So was putting my shoes on at the gym, and an old (er) woman came up and asked if I had been swimming “all this time”.  I asked her, why, had she seen me come in?  She had; and she said she was about to go swim herself.  Since she had on cool pink weight-lifting gloves, I asked her if she had been lifting weights.  She said that yes. She also said that she and her husband come together and do a Tai Chi routine.  I excitedly asked if the Tai Chi teacher was back, since last I heard there was no more Tai Chi class, and I've always wanted to try taking one.  She said that no, but that her husband and she knew how to do it, so they did a couple of routines together.  After that, she told me, they go into the basketball court to "do a little dancing; ball room dancing, you know (?)".  I thought of Axel and how she used to ballroom dance, and asked if there was a class for that. She said, “No, we do it by ourselves”.  After dancing, they go up to the exercise machines, where, she told me, her husband lifts weights and she, poopooing herself, lifts just a little.  She then said they swim together to stretch out "you know".  I asked if they did this everyday.  She said, “Oh no!  Just three times a week, it takes half a day to do all this!”

--- I left wondering if this was the secret to life...  It certainly is their secret...