I’m at the stage of production for this show that’s the most intense on all levels – emotional, psychological, mental and physical. Each piece has its’ own trajectory and arc, and I work in collaboration with this. There are sixteen different painting ‘trajectories’ to define and follow to completion – in 22 days – if […]
A facebook friend of mine wrote this in his status update this morning: May 18, Facebook: T.M. – 7 mins · New York, NY, United States : Everything we do is a selfie. (see MMcL) If you’re reading these, I do SO agree T. And Marshal. Blessed long weekend. I’m grateful to be here in […]
Mama said there’d be days like this. It’s been weeks of days like this. When you need to change your mind about something that’s buried deep in your blind spot, getting a good, swift sucker punch or two from someone close will do the trick. It’s best if the motivation behind the attack is baffling […]
There’s a subtle art to avoidance – one can accomplish a great deal when motivated by discomfort with a project’s requirements: Go work out – more often. Coach at GBSS’ annual music clinic; play at elementary schools in Bruce County for GBS. Go see Art of Time’s Cadmium Red with Aruna; wander introverted and happy […]
Easter. Into a cave for three days, where you find the old stuff – the callouses, the excess, the muck and the clog. You cut it all off or out, and let it go. Amazing how long three days can be, when you do this. Amazing, how it feels to surrender to what you already […]
I’ve begun to think of my face as a mask, in all this clicking, writing, posting and painting of it. It’s a mask that I make and change according to what parts of myself I wish to present. Actually, that’s not even completely honest – sometimes I use parts of other people in my […]
This project has required a great deal of mirror-gazing. I’ve noticed while doing so that my eyes each have a different gaze, left and right. My left eye (on your left in the photo, above, which is a ‘double-mirror’ shot) tends to have a gaze that is outward and direct. My right is inward, […]
I honestly don’t have a clue what I look like from the outside. Or- I have clues, from friends (hopefully most honest, but still undeniably subject to mood changes & emotional wellbeing), family (often distorted by… family), men who have been drinking in bars (predictable), random encounters with strangers… and more recently in my Selfie […]
Week 2 of Selfie Project: goin in… I need to come clean and report that I experienced two days of work paralysis after the shock of posting my face online 4.5 days ago. I actually needed to sleep off the bewilderment of feeling exposed before I could find my focus again & get back to the work. I […]
This show project has turned into a kind of Selfie Pilgrimage for me. I must say, my initial resistance has been a challenge to overcome – I DO so resist, especially when reading articles like this one by James Franco (The Meanings of the Selfie, New York Times, December 2013) who rationalizes his recently acquired […]
Leafs and St Louis Blues are skating like mad 2.5 feet above my head, with a soundtrack announcer who could clearly like the Leafs to tie it up & stay in the game. 2nd period, 13 minutes to go. I’m writing in a local bar so I can get some distance from the #Selfie project that so […]