Dispatches from Milano

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Happiness

“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”  Vincent van Gogh

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Thinking Deconstructivism in a Canyon

” In recent years , the modern understanding of social responsibility as functional program has been superseded by a concern for context. But contextualism has been used as an excuse for mediocrity, for a dumb servility within the familiar. Since deconstructivist architecture seeks the unfamiliar within the familiar, it displaces the context rather than acquiesce [...]

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Letters to Water

You can write anytime you like, But you can never reach.

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Confession of a Lurker | Entry for ONE LIFE International Photography Competition

I decided to participate ( characteristically last-minute) to ONE LIFE, an international photography competition, in the ‘City Imagery’ category. Click here (or on the image above) to see the entry at a higher resolution and, if you like what you see, vote and share my photograph. The prize is $10,000 or a trip around the world. [...]

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Finished project and the [abstract] underside of things.

The reverse side of “The City” reminds me of a Situationist psychogeographic map. I toyed with the idea of letting go of all the work on the map and apply this abstract work on the backback. This would have been the gutsy thing to do but, in the end , i couldn’t let go of [...]

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Fabric City, Kisses and Beads

The Fabric City is finally finished! Yay! Back to collages and sketches now. From this… …to a process of cutting and puzzle-making… to this: Tomorrow the ‘city’  will be cut and applied to a presently plain backpack and signed. I also want to share this impromptu jewelry design, my second, kindly modeled! Finally, work inspired by [...]

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Work in Progress/Process

Almost finished with my city of felt. ArtWalk in Little Italy provided the inspiration and urgency to come back today. Good people and my new San Diego coffee love, Caffe’ Vergnano, provided the energy. Happy May.

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Love Quatraine

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Welcome to my Piazza, my outdoor living room.

This is my piazza, do you want to join me? We can walk inside the Battistero and talk about Islamic influences in the architecture of the Rinascimento in Firenze…or maybe just stroll about like tourists. Let’s take that via,the one on the left, do you want to come with me? Every time I consider  imaginary [...]

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Fading to Cheshire: An Art Exorcise

From Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951). Cheshire Cat: Oh, by the way, if you’d really like to know, he went that way.  Alice: Who did?  Cheshire Cat: The White  Rabbit.  Alice: He did? Cheshire Cat: He did what?  Alice: Went that way.   Cheshire Cat: Who did?   Alice: The White Rabbit.   Cheshire Cat: What rabbit?   Alice: [...]

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Mango (della gelosia)

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Sections of the Brokenhearted [Find another Sun]

Soundtrack of  ‘Apart’ Soundtrack of  ‘The Center cannot hold’ Soundtrack of ‘Spooning (one. is broken)’ More on Gordon Matta-Clark

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It’s still your birthday, Cammellino

NaBloPoMo writing prompt of today: Define ‘freedom’. Traveling.

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Words…Words…Words…..Swords

It is said that the tragedy of Hamlet is consumed between ‘words’ and ‘swords’. Words, words, words murmur the duelling characters… Some may say words are swords, of the most insidious kind, and that that which is uttered – or written- has a potential for far more damage than a weapon meant to plunge in [...]

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Artuesday | Students’ Work!

I spent the better part of last night ‘curating’ and putting up a small show of my students’ work. Last quarter I promised my Neoclassic to Modern Art students I  would organize an exhibit of their art in the main foyer of our school and I am happy to announce that that’s one promise kept:) [...]

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Artuesday: Sketchbook Exchange II and the wonders of Tara Donovan

I started a new sketchbook exchange with Mike Riggin, a Teaching Assistant at my school. My initial contribution: illustrating two of my friend Sarah‘s poems, and an origami heart– due to my recent infatuation with Between the Folds). Also I must, must, must tell you about an art show that could have possibly changed my [...]

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Surface Furniture :: Studio Photoshoot | The Poetry of Craft

Some of you, as I write this, are partaking of the festivities (and revelries) at Glashaus in Barrio Logan , San Diego for the Moustache Masquerade – Anniversary Party . Last week, Jamie Huffman of Surface Furniture was so kind to let me roam around the studio with my camera, arrange his tools and wooden [...]

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Healing Art

Art is a wound turned into light. Georges Braque (Thank You Lamees)

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A [visual] parting note…censored

This was my small parting gift to my art-sister Ghadah. I went to Kuwait without a proper gift for her, so I thought I would leave her with a low-tech collage, on tracing paper, of my trip. In keeping with the theme of censorship, which fascinated me- and was the basis for a project of a [...]

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Imagine…

I have been observing and pondering the gossamer pieces, and more and more forms appear to be floating, swaying as if under water. A benign medusa of sort. I would like to try my hand at creating a video with this images, and simulate motion. The only videos I’ve done are 3D animations, so working [...]

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La Razza- The Ray Fish

You can see straight thru an X-ray fish to its heart. We are just as transparent so be true, gentle, honest, just. . . . From : AN AQUARIUM Poems By Jeffrey Yang

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Digital ReadyMades

I hope everyone was able to enjoy domesticity during the just past holiday. I indulged my inner  domestic goddess by cooking a pretty good ‘Pasta al Forno’, which actually gets better two days after baking, keeps well in the fridge and will feed you for half a week! I have also been surfing the web [...]

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Tempus Fugit

“Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense. Rumi     This is what may happen if you move [...]

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Persimmons and Patterns

    I have been involved in few art and architecture related events lately , among them a wonderful sunday visit to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles- of which more next.  Meanwhile, Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos came and went, and the persimmon tree in the yard has been heavy with wonderful, golden [...]

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Mail Goodies and New Projects

So , I have been busy doing some art here This the bounty I received by mail this week! 1.  A wonderful watercolor postcard from my blog/artsister Ghadah, especially made for me! 2.  A new sketchbook (and drawing project) from Jennifer at  habitofdesign.blogspot.com. Jennifer has started a wonderful project called ‘ A Study In…’ This is [...]

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Experiment in Jewelry Design

  Concept for jewelry piece ‘twomoons’ I designed this piece in the summer of 2008. Here is the concept on a Post-It (where else?). I then took it to a friend of mine in Calabria who has a jewelry shop and, from this design,her and the metalsmith first made a wax model then used  brushed silver to [...]

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Munny – Putting the fun back in dysfunctional

This was a fun art ‘project’ I did in the Fall. It reminded me that art should be, above all, fun. It should never feel like a chore or like “work”. Making a Munny is pure fun, and could be a warm-up for more serious endeavors. Sometimes, as adults and as artists, it is a [...]

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My Father’s Kimono (stolen)

This is an example of extemporaneous art. Art happens all the time, on the edge of our consciousness. The difference between the artist and the art-aware, is that the artist captures the object of wander and preserves it for future use.  We do not/ cannot let go of  a moment in which Art manifests herself.  We [...]

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