bis bacio and gaman, all things eh?

 that was fun.

EXHIBITION a

these kookaburras might not look familiar, why would they? although waris is pretty recognizable. anyhoo, they have something to say about art. some of it's quite rather a bit interesting and the site itself is a good concept about a thing that you can't conceptualize.

go here to read.

american craft

and on the topic of art...this knocked off my socks. the people in the camps carved whatever out of whatever (and they had NOTHING), they had to scavenge materials and make their own tools all while trying to function in what must have been very challenging circumstances for many of them. i didn't realize that isamu noguchi and george nakashima were interned in these camps but of course they were. humans are really quite amazing. Delphine Hirasuna is awesome for collecting this work before it disappears completely. you can see it at the smithsonian american art museum or check out her book here. read the article here or pick up the dec/jan issue of american craft. these people were artists who went back to their day jobs and most of them seem to have never made art again. i've been thinking about dharma and how it finds you, and about art and intellect and how they are each a counterbalance for the other, and about walking barefoot more often and floating in the pacific ocean off of Mexico, and about an artistic life that favors the silence, and about Marfa, Texas and South America, about cutting my hair and growing it out again, about love.