Wednesday, May 30, 2007

"Eight Fish Under Water"


Today, when not watching TV on DVD (where/when is The Wire s.4?? I need thee!) reading essays in Agnes Martin: Works On Paper, a book which is apparently out of print

Thank Mike for Libraries

"...refusal of exhaustive description...a relentlessly limited vocabulary...small scale....small scale...a love of grids....small scale...heartbreakingly tactile & intimate in the openess of the ground....[address the quiet of the mind instead]....Art may be losing the artist's hand...but for [her] painting still carries moral weight......more perfection than possible......and so cannot be reached by theory alone..."

Koala Bees Means...

Yesterday, I heard this on NPR...If you listen to the very end of the story, they play recordings of Koala males bellowing songs in order to convey where their boundaries lie -- make what comparisons you wish - I know I did - but it's really quite fantastic (the koala's bellows, I mean)

Aphids, Always