UCCS GOCA has a brilliant feedback wall with note cards and a lovely old typewriter. Someone shared their thoughts about my Powers of Ten series on this little note. Thank you!
One of My Lightning Bolts
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I just discovered this photo of my nephew that I took the night of my What I Thought Was Once Mine is Now Ours opening at RMCAD in early September. A huge storm was brewing as friends arrived and I was grateful for the dynamic weather that paralleled my tornado sculpture. The sky felt enormous and saturated. Unbelievably, my sweet five year old nephew Sam found a plastic golden lightening bolt in the dirt right in front of the gallery. He held it up to the sky and I shot this image. So much beauty. I love that a plastic piece of otherwise junk takes on so much significance and relevance.
Awesome Eraser Collection
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The amount of erasers on this site is mind blowing. Great forms and colors and patterns. Check it out: http://borrandoque.wordpress.com/ Her collection puts mine to shame, in fact, now I don't think I even have one. Enjoy.
Found: God's Eye Drawing
Found: God's eye drawing on the back of a ski sign in Snowmass
One of my favorite UFO drawings
UFO drawing by Joseph 2004
When I was living in New York City and commuting up to Columbia University from Greenpoint, Brooklyn for graduate school, there were lots of times the subway ride nearly did me in. There were only so many National Geos and only one Moby Dick. There's a point when transferring from the L train to the 1,2,3,9 trains requires a long walk through a bleak tunnel. If I was having a hard time, this portion of my journey struck me as particularly trying. However, one day in the future I enjoyed the commute when I discovered an older street artist selling crayon drawings of UFOs that had landed in the city. I bought one for 20 bucks, and for a long time, this was my favorite drawing of a UFO. It's the image of a yellow UFO sucking up a white dog-aardvark with it's orange beam in front of an abstract brown landscape.
But I discovered an image not so long ago that offers me something more. In this black and white picture there is a UFO sitting atop a perfect circle which is labeled with an arrow as a "decoy white ball, clear edges, not fuzzy." It's about geometry, balance, and what I love most about the illustration is the way it blurs the boundary between two dimensional and three dimensional space. To me there is the potential to have a real spaceship atop a flat circle, and this somehow blows my mind.
Saucer: One of my favorite examples of where two points meet
The juncture where the ball meets the base of the UFO perfectly depicts a space I have recently become obsessed with -- the single point where two lines touch. I'll keep bringing this up as more posts arise. There is something about this meeting point that I love, the balance, the potential energy, the tenderness.