Mark Ari's Blog, page 8
July 13, 2013
Wheels and Smoke
One from the vault. In the UNF Gallery, 2005.
June 26, 2013
Provence
The days and evenings spent with my students in Provence made a rare and remarkable time. There are moments when one wants to bless the world. I’m grateful for those. Thanks to Fred Brown, Louise Brown and her lovely students, and to Caroline, Heather, Jeff, and Phil.
May 29, 2013
Stealin’
The first version I heard of this song was the Grateful Dead’s, back when I was a kid. I’ve heard plenty of others since then. I’ve done a few of my own. It was first recorded in 1928 by the Memphis Jug Band, listing Sam Shade as composer. He was band’s harmonica player. Great name, [...]
May 1, 2013
The Workman Series
The Workman Series More Paintings
April 13, 2013
March 17, 2013
Introduction to 396 Hours
There’s nothing greater than to be inspired. All that makes life a glorious endeavor derives from that. Love in its transient or perennial bloom, the letting go of all restraint in the service of the heart’s reach, the making of things that fly. Something blows on the coals of imagination, and we have our [...]
February 15, 2013
Double-jointed, Too.
Maybe Sarah sent this to me because she knows I’m ambidextrous. I don’t know how she knows. It’s not like I amaze crowds by composing essays while juggling a quill fist to fist without mucking up the rythm or flow of consciousness. It’s not like I flip my guitar around and over my head, spinning to catch [...]
November 5, 2012
Fibonacci, Bread, Mathematics, and Some Mention of Sardines and Poetry
Fibonacci, frustrated by a career of mathematical obsession on the question of spirals and how they got that way, gave it all up, opened an Italian bakery and invented the lovely grilled bread—crusty and dipped in herbed garlic—that came to bear his name. READ MORE AT THE MONARCH REVIEW.
October 20, 2012
Igniting the Spark Gap
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