containing voids

here are some shapes i drew this morning (instead of writing a statement of purpose). usually my doodles take on a chaos-wielding, map like quality. but here i felt a small breakthrough in containing shapes.

doodles, i realize, have their own history. these are some images from a collaborative project i had my intro to digital art students work on.






my shapes next to a student work.

knotting

i bought a dress form for myself (very exciting) a few months ago. without a sewing machine, i've been experimenting with ways of just knotting a garment onto the dress form itself. the actual thing i've worked on is rather (eek) but a close up of the knotting is tolerable and, in some way, oddly comforting to me.

For no reason other than--

Towards a Megaprairieland Triptych

THE POSSIBILITY OF WINTER PASSAGE

The very air of the room roamed off
with little floating dollar signs and fat slab
serif punctuation marks used to indicate
an interruption in a thought, a confused art
terrorism cell, counter claims of fakery.

You know how much “enough” is, How
to Directory, to “bludgeon the mass mind,”
the right to do whatever it wants with Pretty
starry glimmers. And then, unexpectedly,
words begin to come and splashing hippos.

Sound is the motion of a body or connected
bodies displaced and Everyone Is Invited.

Beginning

A part

Detail of GA Collider, ink, acrylic and collage on paper, 2008

I wonder how one makes sense of more-information-than-can-be-perceived/understood. And what does "more-information-than-can-be-perceived/understood" even look like?

The above image is just a part of a much bigger image that wrestles with making sense of too much.

Notes on what I see

a drawing made/comprised
of fragments and residual mark

an expanse made of ruptures

emptiness populated by fragments--so that
the initial ground remains unmarred/empty
--that which rests on top populates

a center sinking in

one emanation above/on-top-of another

right side-
small lines snaking right,
wavering some
kind of pathetic in their in:elegance
(dumb accumulation)