David Lynch on being an artist. Something that is so easily forgotten, and artists need reminding of when aiming to be commercially successful.
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Georges Valmier
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This gallery contains 8 photos.
An Important Influence in Cubism The painter, lithographer, costume illustrator, and stage illustrator Georges Valmier was born on April 10, 1885 in Angoulême. He first visited the Montmartre in Paris at the age of five and continually returned to it … Continue reading
Encounter on the Beach
What is it?
This object
Thrown across the sand by the tide.
Where has it been?
This object
Which nestles in it’s own crater.
Who’s seas has it seen?
This object
Buried deeply, a mystic thing.
Is it treasure?
This object
Overwhelmed by the flood.
Was it ever yours?
This object
A weapon under the sea of Mananon.
Can it ever be mine?
This object
If it was ever yours.
Too Late?
That object
Lost to me for a time under the closing tide.
Souvenirs
The World in my Apartment:
a coffee mug with Haida fish
a Grecian vase and soapstone Inuit owl
Laura’s black pot from the Fraser delta
two perfectly spherical stones
from the Capilano river
another (flat) stone
picked from the ground at Wounded Knee
my guitar
leaning against the wall
with a capo on the third fret
and souvenir buttons on the strap:
Graceland
Grand ol’ Opry
Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame
(to name a few)
a photograph of my father
as a young man in India
in the uniform of the Royal Air Force
trilobites from Ontario
my Mexican blanket with the Mitla motif
six pieces of charred paper blown from the
World Trade Center on 9/11
and picked off the streets of Brooklyn
photographs of Lake Louise
On the Spot
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This gallery contains 4 photos.
A project that might work in many places On the occasion of the ‘Ab in die Mitte’ initiative, supported by the Federal State of Germany, NRW, in 2006, I selected some streets and squares in Krefeld for my project ‘On … Continue reading