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Here's a quick tour of the inside of my habitat from Saturday's HFA event. I've posted a few images over at maykr with more to come.

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Ingredients for discovery: soft architecture and toasted whole grain oats. I remember building forts, when I was young, in the kitchen or living room with random furniture joined with ligatures of blankets. Having that veiled sense of comfort. The world softened, filtered to meet my eye. I can’t remember now when I learned about it, and I don’t want to project preference onto memory, but at some

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It mayks a village. Here's a glimpse of the habitat enclave as it looks now - nearly. After you fill your belly at Kamp Maykr, run around to a few other sites in town, make it back to Spire by early afternoon and start imbibing whilst you check out what might turn out to be a weird analog to Colonial Williamsburg. "Come see and experience artists in their natural habitat." Check out the

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I arrived home this evening from two days of a painting job in Ridgefield CT. to find Michael Natiello standing in front of our lawn looking like a deranged farmer. Michael began work on his mowing piece for Kamp Maykr. Angelika took some photos of him doing his thing... I'll post those shortly. As for other beginnings, it's taken nearly a month and a half after the skeleton of my Habitat went

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Ever since we moved into our apartment, a little over a year ago, I started dreaming of potential "project spaces" that could be created both inside and outside. I'd invite various artists to stage a visual intervention in a closet or in the crotch of the tree out back. Alas, with all the other halfcocked inspirations that promote within me the excitement of potential, mixed with a wee bit of

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Two of my canvases in the foregrown. Three of Peter Acheson's toward the back. I currently have work on view at the CCS Bard Library located at the CCS Hessel Museum at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The exhibition of my work, along with that of Peter Acheson, Daniel Berlin and Mark DeLura is installed throughout the library and was curated by CCS Hessel Museum director, Tom Eccles.

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Kalene and Dan at Open Space here in Beacon gave me and over a hundred other artists plain canvas shopping bags to paint, cut, sew and otherwise manipulate for an exhibit and auction to benefit Clearwater, an environmental educational and advocacy organization in the Hudson Valley. Tote Bag, the exhibit which will run through May 3 , boasts a fun range of bags created by artists from all over

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Greg Gunder has been documenting the erection of the various artist habitats/studios. Below is the video Greg shot as I began painting part of my structure. Greg's other habitat videos can be seen at his youtube channel, and at the Habitat for Artists blog.

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More updated photos of my habitat over at Spire. I've rigged up a transparant roof, and temporarily blocked up some of the open areas just so I can get to using the space, and continue working on the structure at a more leisurely pace. I'll be adding one more of the Garden Variety pieces to this facade, an arm that will protrude to support a hanging sculpture I'll be working on. You can see

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image source Last week I was struck with a revelation that isn't so much a revelation as a realization, one which I've had in the past, but this time it was particularly profound. Once again, I found myself acutely aware of how valuable the Pythagorean Theorum has proven to be in my life. Not on a daily basis, but frequent enough (ie, more than once) to be surprising to me, and perhaps utterly

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A few days ago, I assisted Simon Draper in putting up a couple of structures that are part of his Habitat for Artists project. The two structures we put up in next to the parking lot of Spire Studios will serve as a studio space for me, in one, and a writing/work space for musician Dar Williams. We transported the materials up from Simon's studio in Peekskill on Tuesday, when Dar's structure

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In Feb of 2007 while waiting for a train home I witnessed a frozen action in Grand Central. Soon afterward I posted a blog entry on the happening and even searched the internet for any mention of it; there was none. Then just last week I perused Bruce Molsky's facebook page where another friend of his posted a youtube video that caught my eye. Eerily familiar, I knew this had to be the action

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Early this year I began attending Quaker Meetings every week in Cornwall, NY. The meetings are a time for silent worship. Occasionally, when someone is so moved, they speak. This past meeting, one friend spoke of current developments in her life. She was asking about relevance and what is relevant in one's life and then she said that death asks us to ask difficult questions. This phrase struck me

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Ligature:umiekjr, 2007 oil on canvas 11"x14" The above image is the piece that will be included in this year's Artma auction which will be taking place in Denver on February 23 from 6-10pm. This piece is among the work that, as a body, is the latest iteration of of the work begun with the spamwerk paintings and more immediately, the Ligature studies, all of which are born from my recent habit

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Ms. Cramer - er Mrs. Rosenberg's art classroom. In connection with the SOTT exhibit in November, I met several times with an upper level painting class at Littleton High School. Mary Rosenberg contacted me about talking to the students about the exhibit, and helping them embark on an assignment that dealt with personal more thoughtful personal interpretations of a literary source. I was a

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Since I've been on my own, I've never had a Christmas tree. I love the season and my nostalgia for it seems to grow every year, but my experience of it is pretty internalized, and this has continued since I've been living with Angelika. We don't do much for Christmas generally, and usually drop out of the broader xmas machinations whirling around us, finding a serene corner in which to pass the

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William Stockman Puddle, oil on canvas 2006 My final days in Denver in November allowed me a chance to stop into the opening ofWilliam Stockman's "Nothing is Hiding" in the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Art Center at the JCC. I have always been taken by Stockman's drawings, and I've not coveted an artist's work more. I can't say why I never bought any. I remember stopping into Ron Judish Fine Art

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Angelika flew out to join me for a few days around Thanksgiving, and with her came wintery, snowy weather infused with wonderful holiday atmosphere. The weather prior to her arrival had been in the '60s and 70's which is nice, but I was ready to feel the impending holiday season. The plaza outside of the Denver Art Museum. On Friday after Thanksgiving, we headed down to the Denver Art Museum.

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Veteran's Day Parade on Nov. 10th. 2007 in Denver, afterward, I wandered around my old neighborhood for a bit. Kids on cow. The sculpture is "Cow and Calf" by Dan Ostermiller, located just South of DAM. Plus+Gallery, sculpture by Michael Whiting. After visiting with Michele Mosko at her gallery, I went up to Plus+Gallery to see the exhibit of sculpture by Michael Whiting and paintings by

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Here are some images from the exhibit, I'll be posting other views and other pieces soon. View from the outside: we placed quotes from Calvino's Six Memos on some of the gallery windows. My Spamwerk paintings line the entryway, well above eye level. Looking from the South gallery into the North gallery. My piece untitled(backmount) is in foreground, Marc Willhite's "Diagram for a Gesture"

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Here are a few images from the opening reception of In The Spirit of the Text at the Curtis Arts and Humanities Center on Nov 3.

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One of the ceiling sections at the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse. In the Spirit of the Text opened Saturday night (images coming shortly,) but on Sunday, for my special-after-opening-treat, I headed up to the Boulder TeaHouse for a little Sunday Brunch and quiet time. It's been years since I had last been there, but for a while, some time back, heading up there was my Sunday morning ritual. The

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I left Beacon on Tuesday, Oct 23. Pennsylvania looked incredibly primordial in a dramatic mix of fog, rain and fiery foliage. I wish I had snapped a pic. Early the next morning in Eastern Iowa clouds of birds far denser than I’ve ever seen danced beside and across I-80. I snapped a few pics, but they didn’t look so cool. I rolled into Denver Thursday night and met up with Marc at an Old Chicago

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Here is the postcard with all the details on the upcoming In the Spirit of the Text exhibit at The Curtis Arts and Humanities Center in Greenwood Village, CO. The opening is happening from 5:30-7pm on Saturday, Nov 3. Marc and I will be giving a gallery talk on Thursday, Nov 15 at 5:30pm. click on the images for an enlarged view.

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I've been hashing through pieces for my upcoming show out in Colorado in November. I'm doing the show with my buddy Marc Wilhite who just moved back out to Denver from Boston. The show is a meditation of sorts on a series of speeches written by Italo Calvino that are collected together in the book Six Memos for the Next Millenium. In this collection, Calvino explores five elements (he died prior

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