tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20883993961660085572024-02-18T22:04:01.767-06:00The Enthusiast: thinking about thingsMusings, ponderings, noticings, appreciatings.Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-18058229092042803932013-10-21T12:28:00.005-05:002013-10-21T12:31:56.874-05:00Passerines (Chicago)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="393" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/77191500" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="700"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/77191500">Living Room Sounds: Passerines</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/jlmayer">Jack Lawrence Mayer</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Perked up by these gorgeous sounds from a living room in Chicago.Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-74634705902347545522012-02-17T16:35:00.000-06:002012-02-17T16:35:14.326-06:00Film: Wood Green Jazz Club (1956)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/je24WUx7EcE" width="640"></iframe><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CLQI9-KMoCQ" width="640"></iframe>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-34221240072324455922012-01-27T02:48:00.000-06:002012-01-27T02:48:45.762-06:00Video: Henning Strassburger's "I like my style."<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6cjW4_PIsu0" width="640"></iframe><br />
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<a href="http://www.henningstrassburger.de/">Henning Strassburger</a> is a cool dude. This is hilarious.<br />
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His show with <a href="http://www.wendywhite.net/">Wendy White</a>, "So Athletic," just opened in Berlin. Check it.Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-7665742955593609652012-01-18T05:14:00.000-06:002012-01-18T05:14:15.419-06:00New News: Updates from January 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf12VC9YmXWrD3LQ0PWxokyqNwYeYkRdzUoyNjGd1Fpp3P2fmToCI6QxkOPrdKxlqlkoahwL1duuPNwYsZTuhJiTUANSUuig5TyBGZ6kjNdpO9Q39EoZCtPOwXGYQgaOIFhwRllXD1eMQ/s1600/Issue5_January9b_1_350_453_100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf12VC9YmXWrD3LQ0PWxokyqNwYeYkRdzUoyNjGd1Fpp3P2fmToCI6QxkOPrdKxlqlkoahwL1duuPNwYsZTuhJiTUANSUuig5TyBGZ6kjNdpO9Q39EoZCtPOwXGYQgaOIFhwRllXD1eMQ/s1600/Issue5_January9b_1_350_453_100.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Recent and fun things include:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* Photos from the excellent London Artifice / ILK reading are up <a href="http://artificebooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/reading-in-london-with-pics/">here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* Some really exciting print and publishing projects are in the works for my return to Chicago this summer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* I now have two <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHendrickson%2C+Julia+V.&qt=hot_author">author WorldCat</a> library entries, which is pretty neat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* A review of mine was published in the newest edition of <i><a href="http://artinprint.org/index.php/journal/issue/volume_1_number_5">Art in Print</a></i>, on Richard Deacon's prints from Paragon Press.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* My 2011 poetry collection, <i>Grow No Moss</i>, was recently accepted into the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's <a href="http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm4/index_jfabc.php?CISOROOT=/jfabc">Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* I've been invited to be the juror for the 2012 <a href="http://www.midamericaprintcouncil.org/">Mid-America Print Council</a> exhibition, to be held this spring at Spudnik Press. Quite looking forward to seeing lots of new printmedia work!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've been researching a bunch for school, and after thinking so much about Picasso's 1912 use of printed paper collage last term, I've become very interested in the use of printed, painted wallpaper in early modernist painting and portraiture. I'm starting to realize just how bizarre it looks. This is especially after seeing the <i>Cézanne et Paris</i> exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg (Paris) a month ago—an excellent show.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wallpaper: it was everywhere for a long time! And now it is nowhere! I'm headed to the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A Art Library for more explorations later this week. Very exciting.</div>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-51489641264619431632012-01-18T04:49:00.000-06:002012-01-18T04:49:14.411-06:00Art in Print (Issue 5) Review: Richard Deacon at Paragon Press<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBu0R_cu4sRG3QPchGf8h6o1S3rr6mBAbj9Q3fQKeNl1palNusr5bhNUqXdAATr7rzoAFugAOzOU4EnR4zpRk4_bXtO0pVga2a0qEER7Xn0eVLvrVOLNybnivv_ChPwrMcilA4AevBcIE/s1600/Picture+31.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBu0R_cu4sRG3QPchGf8h6o1S3rr6mBAbj9Q3fQKeNl1palNusr5bhNUqXdAATr7rzoAFugAOzOU4EnR4zpRk4_bXtO0pVga2a0qEER7Xn0eVLvrVOLNybnivv_ChPwrMcilA4AevBcIE/s1600/Picture+31.png" /></a></div>British sculptor Richard Deacon’s newest prints from Paragon Press are, at first glance, linear and flat in the Greenbergian sense of the word, refusing illusion and emphasizing the frontal surface of the picture plane. Based on a series of drawings Deacon completed in 2008 while on a trip to Mali, these monochrome, fractured polygons in metallic red, blue, silver, and gold reference the African patterns and architecture of the capital Bamako, a city in which maps have little function and buildings serve as the main points of reference. The angular lines of the Bamako prints echo the nesting loops of Deacon’s twisting geodesic sculptures, but set against flat white paper rather than within the spatial context of a surrounding environment. The Bamako prints become cross sections, laser-thin dissections of Deacon’s three-dimensional work. Yet despite this deceptive flatness, without a trace of relief embossing the ink stands heavy, with a velvet surface subtly mottled by the pull of the paper from the block.<br />
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The plates have been subtly rotated and layered, forcing depth in the diamond-shapes where color overlaps—the metallic ink forces you to move around the prints, to look from many angles, to consider them spatially, and it is this bodily effect that returns Deacon’s line to sculpture.<br />
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—Julia V. Hendrickson, for <a href="http://artinprint.org/index.php/journal/issue/volume_1_number_5"><i>Art in Print</i>, vol. 1, no. 5</a>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-90295283574183774782012-01-15T14:41:00.000-06:002012-01-15T14:41:49.524-06:00Music: Lianne La Havas / No Room For Doubt<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pBCt5nfsZ30" width="640"></iframe><br />
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She is lovely. Has a nice range, and sounds a bit like Feist.Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-80017098178189719542012-01-14T14:31:00.000-06:002012-01-14T14:31:01.182-06:00Late Styles, Bad Artz: de Chirico and PicabiaThis week I gave a presentation at the Courtauld on Giorgio de Chirico, Francis Picabia, Andy Warhol, "late style," and "bad art". I got pretty excited about it. Here are some tidbits.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/34247028">Jalouse Magazine: Une Fille Comme Les Autres</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/matthewfrost">Matthew Frost</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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This is a clever, self-conscious commercial short film by Matthew Frost. Via <a href="http://jmharper.tumblr.com/">Scribbler</a>.<br />
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His sound editing is really lovely in <a href="http://vimeo.com/33781428">this short film</a> as well.Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-13158871887576394232012-01-14T06:40:00.000-06:002012-01-14T06:40:07.446-06:00Video: Tameka Norris<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yCm-r0-E5mo" width="640"></iframe><br />
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This gal is pretty kick-ass. It's worth going through her performance and <a href="http://www.tamekanorrisart.com/">video work</a> from Yale.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll be reading at this tomorrow night, along with <a href="http://jamestaddadcox.com/">James Tadd Adcox</a>, <a href="http://flotsampoetry.com/">Caroline Crew</a>, <a href="http://www.kerrifrench.com/">Kerri French</a>, <a href="http://www.lesspermanent.com/">Pete Bloxham</a>, and Jack Castle. Probably something related to <a href="http://averyshortintroductiontotheatlanticocean.wordpress.com/"><i>A Very Short Introduction to the Atlantic Ocean</i></a> will happen. See you there.</span></div>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-63083212979739955752011-12-12T07:55:00.001-06:002011-12-12T07:55:39.620-06:00The Artist as Institution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.printeresting.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/4.-Xylander-Poster-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://www.printeresting.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/4.-Xylander-Poster-6.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.) <i><a href="http://averyshortintroductiontotheatlanticocean.wordpress.com/">Ash, London, is what we find inside wood, inside buildings, inside each of us, is the thing revealed by heat, is (as you noted) the secret heart of gray</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">3.) "</span><a href="http://christophermeerdo.com/press/The%20California%20Printmaker%20Meerdo%20interview.pdf" style="background-color: white;">Your Personal Panopticon: An Interview with Christopher Meerdo</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">" [</span><i style="background-color: white;">The <strike>California</strike> Printeresting Printmaker</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">]</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">4.) Oxford once, Cambridge twice. Venice for the Biennale. Paris next week (mainly for </span><a href="http://www.rmn.fr/english/les-musees-et-leurs-expositions-238/grand-palais-galeries-nationales-257/expositions-258/matisse-cezanne-picasso-the-stein" style="background-color: white;">this</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">). Then Ohio. Then, further secret adventures with compatriots await.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5.) It has been collage. Newspaper. Yet. Lately, my thoughts tend toward wallpaper.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I never thought about how Daylight Savings would be different in another country. It makes sense, sure, but I never thought about it. It's weird that for this week only I am only 4 hours away from Ohio, 5 from Illinois. Our time zones are practically buzzing they're getting so close. Being in the future from a past you've always known is a shaky-ground place.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've been reading a lot, which is good. Not enough to feel like I'm making a difference on the void-in-my brain-representing-all-that-I-don't-know-about-modern-art-history, but the act of reading itself is a nice thing to remember how to do. I have begun a French artist-writer-collector-printer-publisher timeline in post-its on my wall above my desk, hoping to find some kind of sense in these overlapping lives. I've been thinking about waves and movements and wondering if feminist political theory can/does apply to the eternal debate about modernism and postmodernism in art history. That the idea of a wave rising up and sucking everything that came before back into it seems really nice for postmodernism. I like waves, too, because they correspond with life cycles. </span><br />
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A few days ago I stopped by the Hayward Gallery in the Southbank Centre to see the new <a href="http://www.pipilottirist.net/">Pipilotti Rist</a> (Swiss, b. 1962) retrospective that opened September 28. Wow. I watched a video installation of hers at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago last month, and really enjoyed the purposeful plush carpeting, bean bag chairs, and low lighting that were part of the experience of her video work. That conceit was used again a number of times in Rist's installations at the Hayward Gallery (which, by the way, managed to make very good use of the space, with tiny cubbyholes to discover and videos projected in very unlikely places: a stall in the women's restroom and the inside of a conch shell). Rist provided cushions (some as stuffed shirts and pants meant to look like cartoonish disembodied people) that forced you down on the floor and on a new visual plane in order to experience and visually interact with the viewers around you. Body (especially the female body) and forcing the viewer to become conscious of body in space and in relation to a projected image plays a huge role in her work. There are lovely video glitches, too, and a use of the machine in unexpected and often startlingly or strangely familiar ways.<br />
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(Apparently she's also made a feature-length film, <i><a href="http://www.pepperminta.ch/">Pepperminta</a></i>, which looks completely and insanely wonderful). She's represented by <a href="http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/pipilotti-rist/">Luhring Augustine</a> in New York, and <a href="http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/25/pipilotti-rist/images-clips/">Hauser & Wirth</a> internationally.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Today I've been reading an essay by T. J. Clark today, <i>Modernism, Postmodernism, and Steam</i> (published in <i>October</i>, Vol. 100, Obsolescence, Spring 2002, pp.154-174), in which Clark brought up <a href="http://www.tonyoursler.com/">Tony Oursler</a> (b. 1957, American) and his Robert Morris-influenced projections of faces onto steam (and trees, apparently). The visual connection to Rist</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span">projections into darkness</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span">is clearly there in my mind, and both are equally bizarre image-makers.</span><br />
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<u>Here are some excerpts from Clark's essay that I found to be particularly interesting</u>:<br />
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"[...] <i>ghosts that the internet itself dreams up</i>" (156)<br />
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"<i>a new form of visuality spreading like a virus through the culture at large</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> — </span><i>a new machinery of visualization, a tipping of the social balance from a previous regime of the word to a present regime of the image</i>" (161)<br />
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"<i>Modernism's motto was the great phrase from the young Marx's critique of Hegel: Modernists believed it was necessary for any art, any Realism, to take the forms of the present deeply inside itself, at the risk of mimicry, almost ventriloquism; but that out of that might come the possibility of critique, of true destabilization</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> — </span><i>they would 'teach the petrified forms how to dance by singing them their own song.</i>'" (161) [Clark quoting Marx at the end]<br />
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"[...]<i> the two great principles that gave modernity its character</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> — </span><i>on the one hand the reality of the machine's regularity and uniformity, on the other that of a profound social randomness and evacuation. You could say of the purest products of modernism [...] that in them an excess of order interacts with an excess of contingency.</i>" (164)<br />
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On Malevich's <i>Peasant in the Fields</i> (c. 1928-32), there is "<i>the will to put the fragments back into some sort of order</i>" (172).<br />
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"<i>Our present fictions of the now</i>" just happen to be "<i>virtuality and visuality</i>" (174).<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">Read the excellent poems "Fragment of the Head of a Queen" <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/185/4#20606858">here</a> and "Scenes from the Battle of Us" <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16826">here</a>.</span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5001524 -0.1262361999999939151.322796399999994 -0.39052969999999393 51.6775084 0.1380573000000061tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-35981586992931132342011-09-30T15:17:00.000-05:002011-09-30T15:17:24.913-05:00Film: Two Brothers Brewing (Warrenville, IL)I liked this neat little documentary about Two Brothers Brewing, a local (to Chicago) craft beer company in Warrenville, Illinois. There are actually two brothers. It's a fun inside look at a brew pub.<br />
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</i></div><div class="p1"><i>You can’t look at anything without the knowledge that other people have looked at it and thought about it. We are made of other people’s opinions whether we like it or not, because we are surrounded by language. That’s what language is—a sharing of ideas that allows us to make up what seem like our own ideas but are in fact just an accumulation of other peoples’ thoughts. The only free will we have is to decide which ideas to agree or disagree with. We exist within language; we can’t escape it.</i></div><div class="p2"><br />
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<i>n+1 Mag</i>: <i><a href="http://www.nplusonemag.com/notes-from-an-occupation">Notes from an Occupation</a></i> by Astra Taylor and Mark Greif (27 September 2011).<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Friday, September 23rd:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eadfc5; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Palatino, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Astra</strong>: It’s a very youthful event, and perhaps naive in a lot of ways, but I’m happy they’re doing it. That said, I’m always a bit irritated by the incessant emphasis on the youthfulness of the demonstrators, which is a way of infantilizing and dismissing them (silly kids, they’ll grow up and get over this dumb protesting stuff!) and also lets older people off the hook. Shouldn’t we all be out there, railing against the vampire squid? The fact is there are plenty of older people at “Liberty Plaza,” a good number of retirees mingling with the recent graduates. Our society, and the left especially, has this strange idea that young people are the revolutionary vanguard (In his famous “Letter to the New Left” C. Wright Mills made the case that youth had replaced the working class as the “historic agency”; Theodore Roszak calls this shift the “adolescentization of dissent”) but of course, being young, they don’t have all the answers (not that old people do either, obviously).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Palatino, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Sunday, September 25th:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eadfc5; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Palatino, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Mark</strong>: Nine days is nothing to sneeze at. I know people keep complaining that the occupiers don’t have a platform, but any real deliberative convention takes time, and these folks were strangers nine days ago. The idea of the occupation, to me, is to remind everyone that Wall Street belongs to the City of New York, the banks’ money belongs to the American citizens and people worldwide who have temporarily parked some of it with them (hoping they’ll do some good with it), and the rules they play by ultimately come from us. I wish the <span class="caps">NYPD</span> didn’t feel obliged to pen the protesters in away from Wall Street, though, and I hope Burger King on the northwest corner continues to be generous with its bathroom.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eadfc5; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, Palatino, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> I made it to the General Assembly tonight. Weird for me, after so much suspicion in universities and professional groups, all my life, of order and parliamentary procedure and quick-running meetings, laughed away by saying, “Oh, since the Sixties we’ve forgotten all that stuff!”—to see an efficient assembly managed by kids, democratically, inclusively, and good-humoredly. I wish <em style="font-style: italic;">n+1</em> meetings ran like this. The left knows more than we think it does, as always. Noam Chomsky had sent a personal message by email. It was predictably long-winded; I wished people would make the “get to your point” sign. I was sitting close to the aisle of waiting speakers and I was surprised to watch participants whom I assumed knew each other well—since they were working together smoothly—whisper to ask each other’s names. They’re the most easygoing bunch I’ve seen at a protest, and the most calmly confident. Very gentle and not rattled by disruptors. Presumably that’s the confidence of nine days. Also the multiple confrontations that they’ve won nonviolently.</span></span></div>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-80541616090069451392011-09-27T19:32:00.001-05:002011-09-27T19:34:00.956-05:00Bonjour. Au revoir.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUiUgMbKf_qGsTCQ4M8x4_-gvpDcbHJ9SgMfEOP41DI2759B0Dk3920AEt-ErSRD_FgRclovP8fX6jyu-zR-JHMVKoUwSFY_qj_PcXuuz1ChcTSvylDMjAhkdWQVdDxmgI7XhPna4yc8/s1600/au-revoir.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUiUgMbKf_qGsTCQ4M8x4_-gvpDcbHJ9SgMfEOP41DI2759B0Dk3920AEt-ErSRD_FgRclovP8fX6jyu-zR-JHMVKoUwSFY_qj_PcXuuz1ChcTSvylDMjAhkdWQVdDxmgI7XhPna4yc8/s320/au-revoir.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tremendously excited about projects in London. Writing a lot. Working on a new poetry/prose collaboration using found and re-edited text, and very much enjoying the freedom and time to read books at my leisure and think about thesis-related ideas. It's nice to allow myself thoughts that evolve into new creatures after hours and days, rather than only having the headspace for short bursts of activity quickly forgotten. I am still myself, I will always have one too many things to do, but for now, for here, in London, in one of the most bustling cities in the world, I've managed to slow down a little. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mostly I've just been noticing how otherworldily-similar this city is to Chicago. Life seems to be the same, it's in the same language, except every third thing is just a little bit different, just that much more removed from what I expect. It's like Amelie changing her neighbor's shoes to a size smaller, or his lightbulb to be a bit dimmer. It's deja vu but not quite. It's a dream lived only in the corners of your eyes when you're trying to test your peripheral vision.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today I visited Christie's South Kensington and had the treat of seeing an upcoming auction lot on display from the mysterious "Travel, Science, and Natural History" department. Loads of very strange and wonderful things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyxxfEE5sc-Jg3WeHGtSZTQr0Ct4dDkUpvwSWGlMYTf5T25d40NlsAkXeXvjNTFG4bYydKZ3RukGFEIiR3BSvv2WHcFpxhdHaxyT4lnILnici1ekGMyrUUs3Uf4wY7LczqWVrjFIxFb0g/s1600/Picture+5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyxxfEE5sc-Jg3WeHGtSZTQr0Ct4dDkUpvwSWGlMYTf5T25d40NlsAkXeXvjNTFG4bYydKZ3RukGFEIiR3BSvv2WHcFpxhdHaxyT4lnILnici1ekGMyrUUs3Uf4wY7LczqWVrjFIxFb0g/s640/Picture+5.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Three taxidermied <a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/three-hummingbirds-john-gould-circa-1850/5480059/lot/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5480059&sid=85e6b395-9979-4a1d-8638-1bc47899d24e">hummingbirds</a>, c. 1850.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="p1">" Paul sat in his baff, wondering what to do next. "Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?" If you know who it is they are whispering around, then you usually don't like it. If Paul wants to become a monk, that's his affair entirely. Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe for that. The root causes of poetry have been studied and studied. And now that we know that pockets of poetry still exist in our great country, especially in the large urban centers, we ought to be able to wash it out totally in one generation, if we put our backs into it. But we were prepared to hide our disappointment. The decision is Paul's, finally. "Are those broken veins in my left cheek, above the cheekbone there? No, thank God, they are only tiny whiskers not yet whisked away. Missed in yesterday's scrape, but vulnerable to the scrape of today." Besides, most people are not very well informed about the cloistered life. Certainly they can have light bulbs if they want them, and their rivers and mountains are not inferior to our own. "They make interesting jam," Hank said. "But it's his choice, in the final analysis. Anyhow we have his typewriter. That much of him is ours, now." People were caressing each other under Paul's window. "Why are all these people existing under my window? It is as if they were as palpable as me--as bloody, as firm, as well-read." Monkish business will carry him to town sometimes; perhaps we will be able to see him then. " </div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1" style="text-align: right;">Donald Barthelme, <i>Snow White</i>, Scribner Paperback Fiction: New York, 1965, 1967. p.61-62</div><div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------------</div><div class="p1">" We were sitting at a sidewalk café talking about the old days. The days before. Then the proprietor came. He had a policeman with him. A policeman wearing a black leather blackjack and a book by Rafael Sabatini. "You are too far out on the sidewalk," the policeman said. "You must stay behind the potted plants. You must not be more than ten feet from the building line." We moved back behind the building line then. We could talk about the old days on either side of the potted plants, we decided. We were friendly and accommodating, as is our wont. But in moving the table we spilled the drinks. "There will be an additional charge for the stained tablecloth," the proprietor said. Then we poured the rest of the drinks over the rest of the tablecloth, until it was all the same color, rose-red. "Show us the stain," we said. "Where is the stain? Show us the stain and we will pay. And while you are looking for it, more drinks." We looked fondly back over the inches to where we had been. The policeman looked back over the inches with us. "I realize it was better there," the policeman said. "But the law is the law. You don't mind if I have just a taste of your stain?" The policeman wrung out our tablecover and tossed it off with a flourish of brass. "That's a good stain. And now, if you'll excuse me, I intuit a felony, over on Pleat Street." The policeman flew away to attend to his felony, the proprietor returned with more stain. "Who has wrinkled my tablecover?" We regarded the tablecover, a distressed area it was true. "Someone will pay for the ironing of that." Then we rose up and wrinkled the entire sidewalk café, with our bare hands. It was impossible to tell who was wrong, when we had finished."</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1" style="text-align: right;">Donald Barthelme, <i>Snow White</i>, Scribner Paperback Fiction: New York, 1965, 1967. p.178-179.</div>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-1858367210670204592011-09-06T12:27:00.002-05:002011-09-07T18:35:04.493-05:00A story of friendship in print.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In the summer of 2008, after just graduating from college, I made plans to move to Madison, Wisconsin to begin a printmaking internship at <a href="http://http//www.tandempress.wisc.edu/"><span class="s1">Tandem Press</span></a>. Needing a roommate and friends in this new city, I asked for the phone numbers of my soon-to-be fellow interns, and called Elizabeth Stoutamire in Georgia. I still have a very vivid memory of that phone call; we did not become roommates, but found an instant affinity with each other, working happily together in the print shop over the summer. Printmaking has served as a thread throughout our friendship, and has brought us together for many collaborations. We have made a tradition of visiting each other every few months, always brainstorming a new project, and excitedly making plans for the future.</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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<div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> In May 2009 during the opening for a print exchange and exhibition Elizabeth had organized in Madison, she mentioned something about a guy named Gabriel who had stopped by. She was unusually excited to see the fellow, and breathless when we hung out with him later that night. Something was afoot!</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"> </span>That August Elizabeth visited Chicago and we made our first collaborative print together, a combination of etching and non-toxic photo-etching. In October of 2009 we printed together again, this time producing the screen printed show posters for an exhibition I'd curated. Gabriel drove Elizabeth to Chicago to attend the opening. A year later, in the fall of 2010 we collaborated for a third time on a series of screen prints and an etching, working into a plate with cotton blooms from Elizabeth's Southern childhood and trillium flowers from my youth in Eastern Ohio; flowers that both bloom white and decay to purple, marking the passage of time. By then, Gabriel had proposed to Elizabeth, and she was already talking about screen printing her invitations.</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> Another year has passed since then, and my life points from Chicago toward London for grad school. Elizabeth and Gabriel are getting married on October 15th, a few weeks after I move, and they've asked me to be in the wedding party. I very much want to return to Wisconsin to help them celebrate, and to give them my wedding gift---a photo-etching of Elizabeth and Gabriel, a hand-made print to commemorate three years of friendship and printmaking---but I can't do it without your help. </span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I've started a <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/Get-Julia-to-Elizabeths-Wedding?a=222460&i=addr">fundraiser on IndieGoGo.com</a> to raise money to get Elizabeth's wedding present to her wedding. Help me do it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px;"><i><b>UPDATE!!! A very generous donor has offered me her frequent flier miles, bringing the cost of the plane ticket down to $200. So now I only need to raise $600 to get Elizabeth's print to her wedding! </b></i></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjelm7yDjUNpBUhIfOUf0YunXbn1frk58pLFchR_VJQerfmlIVImlRQsV7sC_p-yZ9x9nrOFBo4SZx7KDrjm9w-X_DxDc8EkIytDE6-InkrMw2_Tx9v6U0hHtfv025wHMsFEekJNS19wGc/s1600/2009_10_MessHallPrinting4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjelm7yDjUNpBUhIfOUf0YunXbn1frk58pLFchR_VJQerfmlIVImlRQsV7sC_p-yZ9x9nrOFBo4SZx7KDrjm9w-X_DxDc8EkIytDE6-InkrMw2_Tx9v6U0hHtfv025wHMsFEekJNS19wGc/s640/2009_10_MessHallPrinting4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> October 2009: Julia screen printing in Madison at <a href="http://www.messhallpress.org/">Mess Hall Press</a>.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6exx6boFY9Don9MlHVe885KFOVpscUFwYY8NVPOhL4m8LB17mijKe_4rKQ0LCxDCQl_WGcmkW7aLiLZt2eek17D_MpywokNhtg7bWCzjXcwmJcfNdRD6gu7xPn4QjwWsLJ2JWTmSwLY/s1600/2010_02_ElizabethBday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6exx6boFY9Don9MlHVe885KFOVpscUFwYY8NVPOhL4m8LB17mijKe_4rKQ0LCxDCQl_WGcmkW7aLiLZt2eek17D_MpywokNhtg7bWCzjXcwmJcfNdRD6gu7xPn4QjwWsLJ2JWTmSwLY/s400/2010_02_ElizabethBday.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> February 2010: Elizabeth's birthday in Madison.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-i5Sv6DwERnzNDDk-23R3VWr1lwJKOr4CCXYvhuu2va1QjwSPwFyp3k_PL3yOOuTgexQ_pMEi5_1lqAq-XcZw-gc0lfqY2W4Z7JSNPYrel5C3ZQw1dnet3Pgi7OSyiKZcajTzh7yWJUo/s1600/2010_09_Boating2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-i5Sv6DwERnzNDDk-23R3VWr1lwJKOr4CCXYvhuu2va1QjwSPwFyp3k_PL3yOOuTgexQ_pMEi5_1lqAq-XcZw-gc0lfqY2W4Z7JSNPYrel5C3ZQw1dnet3Pgi7OSyiKZcajTzh7yWJUo/s400/2010_09_Boating2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> September 2010: Boating on the lakes in Madison.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFIQCpX3XO3Fe-zauwjpMBt1CAHLYDCpSwH2wTbmnL208QyHuifWt5WBVdr496Gaf8WjjVqXzPhgET5m_qREdA_Xr1rePMaggT6I0-cUbNXx8YynBcMZsnMj5UsE6ZEKmPr7A3XIyx6Y/s1600/2010_11_CollabScreenprint1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFIQCpX3XO3Fe-zauwjpMBt1CAHLYDCpSwH2wTbmnL208QyHuifWt5WBVdr496Gaf8WjjVqXzPhgET5m_qREdA_Xr1rePMaggT6I0-cUbNXx8YynBcMZsnMj5UsE6ZEKmPr7A3XIyx6Y/s640/2010_11_CollabScreenprint1.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> November 2010: Collaborative screen print, Chicago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs4pXK2vkPxf3lFW22OGKE3fTG5taD_SJWBy2XAX6uuEPjktAfbZfQPIfMXy7FxqDruVhWxAoYFlHkszKx06lA2ZO1-ViONc0_uEI6mlgXhwmq26D3y5Bu6zqkjDmEh4yZELs1iH1jnOY/s1600/2011_06_BdayPie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs4pXK2vkPxf3lFW22OGKE3fTG5taD_SJWBy2XAX6uuEPjktAfbZfQPIfMXy7FxqDruVhWxAoYFlHkszKx06lA2ZO1-ViONc0_uEI6mlgXhwmq26D3y5Bu6zqkjDmEh4yZELs1iH1jnOY/s400/2011_06_BdayPie.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">June 2011: Julia's birthday in Chicago.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5KBOwFlw0yiXmCc-g32Zlgkch6K79EQrkZWVv6bDZMshpqacRslTuEfeeg4tiI-LzRp2d4sgobZjneQh3AL6ww3pYZBcuVQ0GUHff9bFS_rfeHKtAtF2MJ9gDJFI_8um9GEOpHu3als/s1600/2011_06_Spudnikopening.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5KBOwFlw0yiXmCc-g32Zlgkch6K79EQrkZWVv6bDZMshpqacRslTuEfeeg4tiI-LzRp2d4sgobZjneQh3AL6ww3pYZBcuVQ0GUHff9bFS_rfeHKtAtF2MJ9gDJFI_8um9GEOpHu3als/s640/2011_06_Spudnikopening.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> June 2011: Julia's print exhibition at <a href="http://www.spudnikpress.com/">Spudnik Press</a>. Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maureen_sill/">Maureen Sill</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1dmsldLXMlPiTE6T6-o8vpjfS3Eug9IvyACL_xmZVlmALwvz6ZImwX8RK9rWnTOtGPJXV4NbG5S_eCgSwzFihK9aJ5sI2y8D5gfZ6PGUi9VvL3zuqm273_fHOIIa3pcOMPlsPlbxYAY/s1600/ELIZABETH-GABE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1dmsldLXMlPiTE6T6-o8vpjfS3Eug9IvyACL_xmZVlmALwvz6ZImwX8RK9rWnTOtGPJXV4NbG5S_eCgSwzFihK9aJ5sI2y8D5gfZ6PGUi9VvL3zuqm273_fHOIIa3pcOMPlsPlbxYAY/s640/ELIZABETH-GABE.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Elizabeth and Gabriel in Wisconsin.</div>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-5388831942759849702011-08-23T18:08:00.000-05:002011-08-23T18:08:02.129-05:00Grow No Moss: Process, Prints, & a Shop!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I recently posted on Printeresting about my time in the Ox-Bow print shop, and there are lots more photos from Ox-Bow on Flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliavhendrickson/">here</a>. I thought I'd share some of the process behind making the lithograph that was printed as the cover of<i> Grow No Moss</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some shots of the book being printed at Spudnik Press are below as well. Everything is being trimmed and bound at Salsedo Press today! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And! <i>BREAKING NEWS</i>! You can place actual online book orders (pre-sale until August 25th) and check out more prints for purchase on the snazzy new <a href="http://www.grownomoss.com/">Grow No Moss website</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpWWeoz1VhAUGzmGNA68y-yHVySeKHxyWOLomNXnZ_njcYMDFiAa7i-zcgDSZPhmie_WqMfOaSbfKkHdH5Ag1NzpWOAQVFBfKv_HH66NOyGJv2l3ZfziOHS9xurTk9rfLph-f2Lu4rib8/s1600/GNM_Moss_Cover1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpWWeoz1VhAUGzmGNA68y-yHVySeKHxyWOLomNXnZ_njcYMDFiAa7i-zcgDSZPhmie_WqMfOaSbfKkHdH5Ag1NzpWOAQVFBfKv_HH66NOyGJv2l3ZfziOHS9xurTk9rfLph-f2Lu4rib8/s640/GNM_Moss_Cover1.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Original lithograph in black ink on Kitakata paper that serves as the cover artwork for the book.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-46480843621287200702011-08-15T23:12:00.000-05:002011-08-15T23:12:53.100-05:00It's real! GROW NO MOSS release and reading August 25th. <br />
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</div><div class="p1">On Thursday, August 25th, please gather for the GROW NO MOSS book release and reading at Andrew Rafacz Gallery. </div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">Doors at 6:30, reading begins at 7:00pm. </div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">Joining the metaphysical poetic-prosaic dance floor will be new work read by the excellent, dashing, and fabulous: </div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1"><a href="http://maireadcase.tumblr.com/">MAIREAD CASE</a> (Proximity Magazine, Dil Pickle Club)</div><div class="p1"><a href="http://www.featherproof.com/zachdodson/">ZACH DODSON</a> (Featherproof Books)</div><div class="p1"><a href="http://www.concrescentpress.org/category/denise-dooley/">DENISE DOOLEY</a> (The Next Objectivists)</div><div class="p1"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2h6ZKQrjk4">GABRIEL WALLACE</a> (The Great Sheboygan Panty Raid of 18977)</div><div class="p2"><br />
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</div><div class="p1">Books, zines, and prints will be available for sale. </div>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088399396166008557.post-45692500885260260472011-08-14T20:03:00.000-05:002011-08-14T20:03:46.529-05:00Excerpts: "An Elemental Thing" (2007) by Eliot Weinberger<b>38 - 39</b>: Liu Hseih wrote <i>The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons</i>, the first extended book of Chinese literary criticism.<br />
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"'<i>Look toward the present and create the unusual; consult the ancients to establish the laws.</i>'"<br />
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"'<i>The perfect combination or balance of wind and bone, the metaphor for the ideal poem, is a bird.</i>'"<br />
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<b>42</b>: "A Kaluli lives in two worlds: the visible world of people and the world of their reflections, where people live as wild pigs or cassowaries on the slopes of Mr. Bosavi. When a person dies his reflection also disappears, and turns into a bird in the invisible world. Birds see each other as people, and their calls are people talking to one another. The passage of life is from infant to bird."<br />
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<b>116</b>: "Against Descartes' <i>Cogito</i>, [Ezra] Pound's letterhead read: <i>J'AYME DONC JE SUIS</i>, I love therefore I am."<br />
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<b>150</b>: "In the British Library there is a box of fragments and dust from a birch bark scroll buried two thousand years ago on the Jalalabad Plain, west of the Khyber Pass. It is the oldest known Buddhist text, written in the Gandharan language. Some of the chips contain only a single letter, but the scholars have pierced them together to reconstruct a sutra:<br />
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'<i>Doing no violence to living things, not even a single one of them, wander alone like a rhinoceros.</i>'<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">[...]</div>'<i>Fire does not return to what it has burnt, wander alone like a rhinoceros.</i>'<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">[...]</div>'<i>At home anywhere, wander alone like a rhinoceros.</i>'"Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00234032163519088988noreply@blogger.com0