Two is too few to call it a Canuck jag, so hold your horses. Troy Lovegates/Other (Derek Mehaffey) belongs in here so much I can’t believe we haven’t posted him before. Lovegates does trains and he does galleries (despite finding indoors work “a bit pretentious and limited to an audience that is already interested in Continue reading →
Recently I lapsed into an old conversational tic I’d thought extinct in my language: emphatic declaration. Specifically, I declared as bullshit the declaring of Patti Smith’s work as bullshit. The irony pierced me instantly, and I retreated into bemused introspection for a couple of sips. The experience improved my reading of this interview with Katharina Continue reading →
Today I spent some time looking at this, and thinking about playing cards, and my parents, and patterns, and paranoia. My parents recently introduced me to a board game that involves playing cards, but not in the way I was used to. Instead of trying to make patterns with the cards you are dealt, you Continue reading →
So much to latch onto here. The splendour of nature, invisible witnessing, contemplating the everyday. But the wand waved over it all bestows the sense of “a moment”. Alex Roulette
Acknowledging that there is very little new under the internet sun, we do still avoid insta-reblog, particularly from heavy traffic sites like Wooster. Unless forced. And forced we are, by the captivating garden installations of Julio Costa. Feel the delight! Then visit his Flickr, which contains much much more, like painting with light, just plain Continue reading →
Supernumerary, acrylic on canvas, 2010 No, it’s someone else’s now. But you can still get yours at Corey Helford until May 5. Or tell Mr. Petker you’d like more notice next time. Joshua Petker.
Chinoiserie, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2007 I’ve read some interesting texts on representation lately. One of them was the thoughts of Mark Tansey, from at least eighteen years ago, in Arthur Danto’s Mark Tansey: Visions and Revisions. The other was by Alicia Paz, on her website, linked below. Paz says that her current practice is Continue reading →
This is a sister post to Curiosity Killed Some Time, on Till Gerhard (also seen on our #1 Webcrush Booooooom!). It’s not a twin sister, as I’m not going to be doing any digging on this – you’re on your own this time. But it is a sister in terms of rhetorical inquiry. This one Continue reading →
Imma dig deeper on this, but you might as well be looking at it while I do so. Just clicked around a bit after seeing this on sweet Booooooom! and didn’t find much, at least not instantly. Part of my problem will be that I am seeking not just biographical information, but commentary on ideas Continue reading →
