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January 21, 2021
A Whole Slew of New Playlists
I haven’t posted any playlists for a while, so here goes. All of my playlists are seven songs long these days. Find and follow me on Spotify!
January 19, 2021
Paintings Make a Wall
The new painting, Space Buffer, hanging in the living room so I can study it some more.
January 17, 2021
Space Buffer
Here it is, my first painting of 2021. Still thinking about the future: space travel, physics, quantum theories, multiple time lines, first contact, the singularity. If I could have a superpower, then I would choose teleportation. Wouldn’t that be sublime? If we can imagine it, can we create it? Does it already exist?
Space Buffer, 2021
The Sublime art
January 16, 2021
Finally Finished
I am pleased with how this painting turned out. The long period of thinking over what was bothering me about it paid off. Here is the new version. Thank you for visiting the site. Be sure to check out the shop and galleries.
L' enchevêtrement, 2020
30”x24”
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January 15, 2021
Progress & Process
I’ve been working on a new painting, but it has been a slow process. Here are a couple details of my progress. We’re all in process, aren’t we? It’s hard to live in transition. I hope your new projects are progressing along.
January 9, 2021
No Peace of Mind
After finishing this piece, I hung it on the wall in the living room so that I could live with it for a while. I knew that I still wasn’t happy with the flatness of the blue triangular areas. Today, I went back into the painting in an effort to deal with that flatness. I think that I like the result, so I will hang it in the living room again where I can study it when I’m actually trying to relax, haha.
before
after
January 6, 2021
Today, I Teach, by Dylan Miner
I needed a boost tonight and I turned to poetry.
"Today, I Teach" is a powerful poem written by Michigan State University Director of American Indian and Indigenous studies, Dylan Miner. I wanted to share this piece with the community because making this video and spending some time with it tonight has made me feel better. I post this with Dylan's permission.
Be well, poetry peops.
Dylan AT Miner (b. 1976) is an artist, activist, and scholar. He is currently Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, as well as Associate Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. Miner sits on the board of the Michigan Indian Education Council and is a founding member of the Justseeds artists collective. He holds a PhD in Arts of the Américas from The University of New Mexico and has published more than sixty journal articles, book chapters, critical essays, and encyclopedia entries. In 2010, he was awarded an Artist Leadership Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Miner has been featured in more than two dozen solo exhibitions. He has been artist-in-residence or visiting artist at institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, École supérieure des beaux-arts in Nantes, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Rabbit Island, Santa Fe Art Institute, and numerous universities, art schools, and low-residency MFA programs. His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island was published in 2014 by the University of Arizona Press.
January 1, 2021
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December 31, 2020
Processing 2020
2020 has been such an emotional rollercoaster, and the rollercoaster is going to take us right into 2021. I am hoping 2021 is better.
I am thankful for the opportunity to continue to work, reflect and try to grow during 2020. Thankful that my family and friends have remained fairly safe and pulled through some bad moments. Sad that some of them have had some serious struggles and unfortunate outcomes, and sad and angry that so many other people have been experiencing the worst.
I am hoping that science can save us from the worst this pandemic can unleash upon us. I am hoping that more people can continue to lean into changes which result in equality and equity for everyone.
I am thankful for each and everyone of you who has visited my website, browsed the pages, stopped by the store. I am thankful to everyone who has been genuinely interested in my work, and my message, and supported those efforts with purchases. Many, many thanks!
I thought posting this image would be a nice segue into 2021. This painting has stalled over the past two weeks. I like where it is, but I haven’t decided where I want it to go. And so, instead of being the last piece I create in 2020, it will become the first piece I finish in 2021!
And so, here is wishing you a Happy New Year! Be thinking of you.
Unfinished, 36”x24” on canvas.
