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Divinatory Poetics

August 22, 2018

Not knowing, waiting and finding — though they may happen accidentally, aren’t accidents. They involve work and research. Not knowing isn’t ignorance. (Fear springs from ignorance.) Not knowing is a permissive and rigorous willingness to trust, leaving knowing in suspension, trusting in possibility without result, regarding as possible all manner of response. The responsibility of the artist […] is the practice of recognizing.
                                                                                                            ~Ann Hamilton

Divinatory Poetics  describes a particular approach to composition: the cultivation of attention, entering in to a sort of lucid trance, experimentation with modes of thinking and angles of perspective.

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In Creative Process, Divination Tags divinatory poetics, mixed media, collage, divination, improvisation, liminality
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Collage: Image of Revelation

August 14, 2018

...Collage presumes a non-linear interpretation, as well as simultaneous and circular imagery that creates, "shocks". Collage emerges from the point at which desire and freedom hold sway [...] the sense of beauty that is sought is that defined by the surrealists: a break with past conventions and with rational thought.

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In Creative Process Tags mixed media, collage, surrealism, found objects, creative process
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conjuring soul

July 5, 2018

Listening to an On the BlackChair interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM6cHlBfgxU with Orion Foxwood (a Southern Root Magic and Appalachian Conjure Man) as I re-work an incarnation of the painting I call Soul Retrieval. 

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In Creative Process, DreamWork/InnerWork Tags southern root magic, conjure, painting, mixed media, soul retrieval, ancestors, creative process
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Preparatory mayhem. Storming the Stockbridge arts fair this weekend. Stockbridge Massachusetts at Bidwell Park. August 20 10-5pm and 21st 10-4pm. 
#artfairs #massart #massachusettsartist #summerart
Order. chaos. The sound of these words… I get a sense of flux, of going wild and splashing color and then honing in with pencil getting in close with lines, scoring lines in crevices and box shapes. I wonder, is chaos a feeling? Not being able
“A Score”
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mixed media/reclaimed wood
$550
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“In the most general sense, it is the very order and harmony of its appearance that distinguishes the art object as an oasis in a disturbingly chaotic world. An
Second floor old Victorian,  shades drawn, three vintage cage fans churning up the sodden air, scraps of tissue paper torn pages feathers swirling like a dust devil on the street corner. Im dripping paint dripping sweat swigging home brew kombucha wa
I’m just really not sure about the so-called edges of objects. I don’t want to re-present what I think I see. I am here to transmit. To let God through my animal body and my human mind and articulate/channel that life/love. 

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