Continue Reading Endless Pigeons. Malia Jensen at The Reser “To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.” ~ Jean (Hans) Arp “Jours effeuillés: Poèmes,…
Continue Reading Green Colonialism History connects the dots of our identity, and our identity was all but obliterated. Our land was taken, our language was forbidden….
Continue Reading Green thoughts in a green shade. In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise. On Auden’s grave marker, in Kirchstetten, Austria. *** Their Lonely Betters As I listened…
Continue Reading Musings on a hot day. Walk with me, in the wetlands around the Tualatin River, during almost 90 degrees at 10 am on a quiet Sunday morning….
Continue Reading Shape, and Shifting Too hot to write. So I borrow words and burrow in the archives to find the matching images. Have not yet made…
Continue Reading Taking stock of the body New work by Kate Simmons at the Alexander Gallery at CCC. British artist Helen Chadwick fought much of her life, a life cut short way too early, against society’s demands for idealized female…
Continue Reading Kitsch and Kunst – the Visual Representation of Consolation. “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” — Samuel Beckett, “The Unnamable.” In a recent interview Rebecca Solnit talked about hope amid…
Continue Reading SOCIAL FORMS: Art as Global Citizenship In partnership with CONVERGE 45 The Reser presents Jorge Tacla, Karl LeClair, Malia Jensen and Miroslav Lovric. We are 5,000, here in this little corner of the city.How many are we in all the cities of the world?All of…
Continue Reading This Sleepy Backwater Housekeeping first: I am taking part of next week off from the blog, need to spend some time photographing, something that has…
Continue Reading Jurisprudence for the Bad Times 7/25/023 This appeared in my inbox yesterday, after Netanyahu and his brethren had pushed through legislation that a majority of Israeli citizens opposes….
