newness and freshness

^image: by the illustrious Jen Corace^

I've updated my website to make room for some of the work in Overgrown that was shown at 4culture in April.

And, over at Asthmatic Kitty Records, I've posted a new art (review? not really...) meandering thought chain. I'd been thinking about things I'd recently read about bibliovores (people who literally eat books) and the phenomenon of relics (both sacred and profane), when I saw work by Laura Mackin, who is showing in the gallery/project Half/Dozen where I'll be having work this August. And it all kind of knit itself together into a post about proximity and the idea of objects being infused with some sort of power through being touched by famous or holy people. And the flip side of that-- which I feel is present in Mackin's work-- ignoring the associations that history stains an object with, and trying to make stuff just stuff.

Here at home on week three of three sons? In turn: exhausted, grateful, teary, aimless, amazed, amused, claustrophobic, overwhelmed, poetic, despairing, touched, confused, panicked, comatose, adoring...