pinkStardust: My search for time and space

Hello and welcome.   Just as when one explores the installation PLEASE touch  one does not follow a path framed by linear progression, subjects explored on this blog will be free flowing and informed only by inspiration.  In other words I will follow what comes up and share it with you.   For instance, in my last post I mentioned how it may be time to address history - a subject that is attached in more than one way to  PLEASE touch. However, I recently discovered something in the installation that I found fascinating, and so, once again, I am postponing the discussion of history for a bit.  I will be getting to it as it is important to include it, but today the blog is about mud.  Or more specifically about the Mudman . Mudman has been with me since I began making art, in a more informed, serious way.  He began his life as a part of my mini-installation called Systems Within,  in the Honors Show exhibition at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  His concept and creation have

  Good morning to you.  Yesterday I gave an Artist's Talk on the installation at Artworks Center for Contemporary Art (ACCA).  I had some wonderful guests join me and 14 or so more join me via Zoom.  The talk was recorded and will be posted for viewing on Youtube by ACCA soon. The questions that came up mostly attached themselves, broadly and specifically, to the subject of history. The history of the objects I created, the history of materials I chose, and of course the history of the installations that the artifacts in this installation (except for new work) came from.   I too have been contemplating this subject, even asking a friend and colleague to write a piece for this blog about history - focusing on the subject of art vs artifact.  I think it's time to post it. But not today.  Today I am headed outside to put some plants in the ground that were gifted to me by a friend.  They can wait no longer and will suffer if I do not give them a home, other than the temporary one

Hello.  Welcome to my second blog posting about the gallery installation currently open for touching at Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland, Colorado called As the name implies, the installation is meant to be touched, felt, explored with one's hands as well as one's eyes and ears - and even one's nose.  As I will be adding to the installation during the time it is open one of the additions will be adding scents - things that will engage one's sense of smell. The installation is an experiment, and as such, I will be responding to my own inclinations for additions, changes, edits as well as considering the responses of visitors.  If you come in to explore, come back.  Things will subtly change. Here are some images to help you begin to orient to the site and how it is laid out.  Difficult to do with stills, but a start.  They do not document all the elements of the installation.   I will include more pics, with details, in a later post - as I begin to discus

  Good morning and welcome to the first posting of a blog created to accompany my gallery installation PLEASE t ouch .  In the coming days I will be posting information, discussions, photos, video, guest essays by two lovely friends, a 5 question interview of me by another wonderful friend, evolving positions and stances about making art and other very important and life changing thoughts, events, experiences and actions.  Not to be taken too seriously, but sincere in my intent.  Questions that keep the mind and heart activated.  How to write and consider who am I writing to and for will undoubtedly be a part of it all.  Informal, but truly felt, deeply believed (until new information or a good discussion changes my mind), and, as a good friend reminds me, not a good idea to attach to it all.   If you are reading this I am assuming you are interested in  the installation.  I am so happy that you are.   Here is a pic, the first of many.  This one was taken by a very talented phone photo