You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
[…] Inside the glass, the abstract
“The Empty Glass” from The Seven Ages by Louise Glück. Copyright © 2001 by Louise Glück.
tide of fortune turned
from high to low overnight.
Whirling in the dark universe,
alone, afraid, unable to influence fate—What do we have really?
Sad tricks with ladders and shoes,
tricks with salt, impurely motivated recurring
attempts to build character.
What do we have to appease the great forces?
A view from Artpace.
Pink evening primrose, Oenothera speciosa, via Texas Highways.
Found in a lot in Houston.
Habitat: Roadsides, […], prairie, disturbed ground, at generally low elevations.
Habit/Form: creeping, erect, spreading
East Texas by Kenneth Porter (Poetry (September 1943)) describes a leg of my trip, in reverse.
EVENING PRIMROSE
Poetically speaking, growing up is mediocrity.
– NED ROREMNeither rosy nor prim,
not cousin to the cowslip
nor the extravagant fuchsia,
I doubt anyone has ever
picked one for show,
though the woods must be fringed
with their lemony effusions.Sun blathers its baronial
endorsement, but they refuse
to join the ranks. Summer
brings them in armfuls,
yet, when the day is large,
you won’t see them fluttering
the length of the road.They’ll wait until the world’s
Rita Dove (via UVA)
tucked in and the sky’s
one ceaseless shimmer – then
lift their saturated eyelids
and blaze, blaze
all night long
for no one.
Terremoto‘s blog–Amanda Linares presents Between Islands and Peninsulas at Bakehouse Art Complex.
[…] the viewer is taken on their own journey, mirroring the one Linares represents in Between Islands and Peninsulas, an immigrant’s story that transports you over time, space, and destinations.
Linares’ varied use of materials allows her to create works that are simultaneously delicate yet durable. She seeks to capture the contradictions of the human condition through materiality. In the artist books Todo Sigue Igual, Agua Salada, and Alternative Realities, she uses seemingly disparate mediums to convey the coexistence of the contradictory emotions and ideas. The artist books, constructed geographies of text and images, evoke the feelings of nostalgia, displacement, and disorientation Linares experienced during her own diaspora.
Laura Novoa
North Miami‘s Good Neighbor Stormwater Park.
Elysian Field in a North Miami park. A place designated for the afterlife of American (sub)urban planning.
TIS03 is twelve books by twelve artists, sold both as a box set and as individual titles.
Tim Carpenter / A month of Sundays
Adler Guerrier / Sheltering in, so we can begin again
Will Matsuda / The Potter Becomes The Pot
