I stum­bled into an amaz­ing cacaphony of match­books about three years ago. Michael Cable’s Wood­side Antiques, an auc­tion house in Far­mville North Car­olina, offered box loads of stuff at the end of a large estate sale. Cable is a mar­velous auc­tion­eer who inserts bits of trivia with every round of bid­ding. I hes­i­tate to admit how much of […]

I got all happy-​grab and com­mit­ted to five (5) can­vases for the Beau­fort County Art Show fundraiser. See here for details. Joey Toler, neigh­bor and head o’the arts coun­cil, was inspired by sim­i­lar fundrais­ers held by sim­i­lar arts coun­cils, knew he had a great con­fla­gra­tion of artis­ti­cal peo­ple within hol­ler­ing dis­tance of down­town. When I deliv­ered my […]

Welsh artist Sonja Ben­skin Mesher is cre­at­ing an install­ment of the inter­na­tional “A Book About Death” series. The link is for the Call for Sub­mis­sions page. Dead­line is March 16, 2010 for .jpgs of artist’s sub­mis­sions for this seg­ment of the Inter­na­tional Exhi­bi­tion. Obvi­ously this is an abbre­vi­ated post — much more shall be said regarded this […]

You can own an orig­i­nal work of art by one of the fol­low­ing artists! car­olynsleep­er­harold­sim­mon­sjoansearsshawn­wat­ters don­miller­va­leriemace­wankatirieleachkathy­law­soncindi­cuthrell ortrudtylertrue­bres­cia­glend­abar­nes­nan­cyjonesch­ery­lashe art­tyn­dall­wendy­bissingerdeb­bym­c­cul­loughshawn­m­c­claskey jaynewall­sylvi­ae­vans­gretchenkem­merel­len­hath­away danaed­dingslin­danieder­buehlhol­ly­cook­bevlash­er­ju­dith­man­tos bet­tiebon­ner­brad­shawkay­woolard­har­lan­mack­endrick­an­n­franks janet­dixon­dodi­groesser­bren­da­haisletlindabrownchip­shack­elford jef­fer­ey­jakubrober­tamiller­bob­car­rbev­er­lyt­incher­john­groesser mjpeterssue­mans­field­vald­abelyeukathy­da­lymil­dredgay­lord lind­aboy­er­san­dracher­ryjone­ser­sk­ine­spruill­bet­ty­cromp­ton eliz­a­beth­dar­rowk­er­ri­fer­rari­march­ese­johnchrys­tal­pam­toll samwall­dot­tiean­newalk­er­megan­ci­chorz­cathy­clay­ton­may­i­tay­lor kit­tymitchell­nangilbert­jer­ry­bradley­dol­ly­wood­el­lis­abel­fer­rell bill­walk­er­mary­thom­son­louise­sharp­less­jen­nifers­mall­shenavarycherry doug­park­er­sh­er­ry­thurston­pa­tri­cia­bonit­o­mm­cken­ney­su­sancheatham kathy­davis­lisalathamjoshua­mark­land­dav­emid­kiffdeenanobles pame­laz­im­mer­manbrit­tany­daniels­dana­reeves­jack­iemon­roe margiewor­thing­ton­stephen­greer­mered­ithlough­lin­bren­dahughes norm­robinslil­lan­k­noet­gen­bil­lyjones­je­an­dex­terti­na­jandrow lanepat­ter­son­pat­carl­son­bar­bara­smith­marievoos­t­onireiner michel­le­con­nel­ly­wen­dell­pat­ter­son­nan­cy­col­lispat­tiphelps alices­tallings­bet­ty­chris­tian­bar­barageeseykath­leenkennedy nedirviner­obiny­orkneil­lough­lin­lacey­gle­ichrachelmill­s­jan­paysour vail­rum­leymitchell­mor­ton­bernierosage­jrdean­rem­ing­ton galecham­pi­oncathy­whichard­nikki­need­hamandi­jus­tice nancyleachelizabethmichaelsarawoolardannfranks&more Lit­tle Art Exhibit & Fundraiser 1 work for $30/​4 works for $100 BEAUFORT COUNTY […]

I am rein­stat­ing my Soci­ety for the Preser­va­tion of South­ern Ver­nac­u­lar. [that’s not a link, okay, so don’t mouse over it hop­ing for a sur­prise or for clar­i­fi­ca­tion of any sort] It’s time to pre­serve… and reflect. The Kin­dle con­tri­bu­tion to my inter­nal knowl­edge base included last Sunday’s (02÷28÷10) arti­cle on Race in the South. Nat­u­rally, I thought the […]

Okay, I use the term lightly, the PSR of my assem­blage art projects. But it’s not a triple-​threat made in Dead Mule Stu­dio, it truly has a math­e­mat­i­cal pur­pose, a rea­son for exis­tence. I learned of it in “The Sci­ence of Sleep” — an extra­or­di­nary and simul­ta­né­ously dis­turb­ing and bril­liant movie. To those who wish to delve into par­al­lel syn­chro­nized randomness – Imagine […]

I was a one-​girl band in the mid-​1960s. My par­ents some­how pro­cured an entire “band” which could be strapped to one’s chest and hung over shoul­ders. The front con­tained a wash­board with a scrub brush, a floogle horn-​type assem­blage, lots of cym­bals, , a bicy­cle horn, spoons and the rear assem­bly could be acti­vated with a lever. I don’t remem­ber what all […]

It’s a book by Richard Bön­ner, pub­lished in 1929 by M. A. Dono­hue & Com­pany. The chap­ter titles clue us in to the drama to come: A Marine Game of Blind-Man’s Bluff Ned Bangs’ Story The Chad­wick Gas Guns Draw­ing a Rascal’s Fangs Her­rera Is Not Caught Nap­ping “It’s Death To Remain Here!” Dad! — It’s Jack! and the ever wonderful […]

It’s dif­fi­cult to jug­gle cre­at­ing art and know­ing it. Shall I read what’s up with A Book About Death, work on web design ideas with to cel­e­brate the upcom­ing release of The Eve of Fluxus, or fin­ish the final two can­vases for BCAC? Part of me wants to clean house and stop apol­o­giz­ing for my kitchen mess. Dishes […]

I have pub­lished a book, a small phở­to­graphic vol­ume, a Moon Made Book and it is avail­able to the gen­eral pub­lic for a lim­ited time. Avoid future regret and buy one when I offer it which will be really soon. It is titled: The Arrest of Julian 8^th Aboard the Transoceanic Liner Hard­ing Mars Day — June 10^th, 1967 No, really it is. […]

Grow­ing up, our house was filled with scraps of paper. Notes from peo­ple, news­pa­per clip­pings, ideas jot­ted on the backs of envelopes. An ephemera house. Stuck in between the pages of books, like lit­tle truth or fic­tion bonuses — notes of the day, news­pa­per clip­pings, book­marks made by preschool­ers, lists of all kinds. I remem­ber find­ing a faded newspaper […]

I recently dis­cov­ered, via a Face­book friend, UbuWeb​.com and Henri Chopin’s poetry. This dis­cus­sion, quoted from ubuweb, just thrills me. You can lis­ten to Chopin by click­ing here. go ahead, do it… lis­ten to a Can­tata for Two Farts The poem is a liq­uid fluxus, a micro­scopic bio­log­i­cal real­ity, rise and deca­dence of cel­lu­lar struc­tures, a pulp, a «voice from the whole […]

Some­times there is great wis­dom to be found in some­one else’s head. Other times? Not so much. I’ll let Mas­ter Finn offer today’s wis­dom. I tell you every­thing that is really noth­ing, and noth­ing of what is every­thing, do not be fooled by what I am say­ing. Please lis­ten care­fully and try to hear what I am not […]

After 10 days in bed with two Jack Rus­sell bed-​warmers con­stantly at my side, I returned to the liv­ing just in time to take dogs to dog park for some much needed may­hem. Within five min­utes of our return home, Rox­anne the Lump­MuttPuppy rips her shoul­der requir­ing sta­ples — by leap­ing over a lawn chair. Now she’s house­bound on her […]

if you are in a big hurry. Pittsburgh’s UPS decided to CLOSE yes­ter­day, Dec. 30^th, around 8 or 9 a.m. and will not deliver pack­ages. Yes. It’s true.The UPS rep told Ama­zon the same thing I heard, “we’re closed until Mon­day”. Wow. I want my Kindle.

To: The Greek Min­istry of Cul­ture and the Munic­i­pal­ity of Thes­sa­loniki Recently the roof of the build­ing of the Visual Artists Asso­ci­a­tion of North­ern Greece (SKETBE ) was burned away. The offices which housed the Asso­ci­a­tion on Gor­gon Street in the Upper Old Town in Thes­sa­loniki no longer exist (the site was granted by the […]

It’s here! It’s here! Thanks be to Ama­zon, all glory to inter­net com­merce, hail Ceasar! And now my day’s plans change for the bet­ter. I shall immerse myself in Fluxus. Hap­pen­ings, Fluxus, Per­for­mance, Inter­me­dia and Rut­gers Uni­ver­sity 1958 – 1972. Give me a lit­tle while and then More Will Be Revealed.

Read­ing the flux dia­log on the fluxus idea on the MoMA web­site. Herein are a few of the words they speak on George Maci­u­nas and Fluxus. In an all-​illuminating con­ver­sa­tion with FB friend Bil­lie and other Fluxus Folks, it’s all becom­ing clear to me. ergh. MoMA’s col­lec­tion details on FLUXUS says: Per­haps most impor­tant of all of […]

I’m heat­ing up the mini-​crockpot today. It’s time to get the cre­ative wax juices flow­ing or some such ridicu­lous­ness. My cur­rent beeswax is yellow’d and needs to be used up so I can reload the pot. It’s too expen­sive to waste. Work­ing with wax is phe­nom­e­nal. My biggest prob­lems arise with quan­tity. With get­ting car­ried away […]

It is incred­i­bly spe­cial to con­sider a group as part of my whole. Come to real­ize, today on this day of Storm Trooper Apparel and leg lifts, that I am and always have been a “mail artist.” An incred­i­bly sat­is­fy­ing rev­e­la­tion. Have done such since almost pre-​birth era. Send­ing Kaia Larsen all the ephemera I could fit into […]

Ver­ily I say unto you… any­one can join in an argu­ment of Fluxus Rel­a­tiv­ity. Therein lies the rub, the point, the pur­pose, of the Very Fluxus Which We Love. Agree with me not. Fluxus is a post-​World War II inter­na­tional phe­nom­e­non, a sort of anti-​movement that worked between the var­i­ous media, spawn­ing the term “inter­me­dia.” Under its broad umbrella […]

“It’ll be fine. Really… it’s okay. Lis­ten to me.” She shakes my shoul­der, gen­tly at first, then a bit rougher so that my neck joins the move­ment. “Stop snivel­ing. He’ll be back in a bit, just a few… before you can say Jim’s your uncle.” So I stop snif­fling, take a deep breath, and set­tle in to wait for him.

Did it. Sent in pre­lim­i­nary appli­ca­tion for first level of juried con­sid­er­a­tion. Is this a pos­i­tive first step toward Assem­blag­ist Legit­i­macy or an Exer­cise in Folly? Pur­chased Item(s): — Art­space Artists Asso­ci­a­tion Pro­fes­sional Mem­ber­ship: (1) $30.00 Art­space Artists Asso­ci­a­tion Pro­fes­sional Mem­ber­ship $30.00

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS Fifth and Wal­nut Streets Park­ing Garage Per­cent for Art Project Colum­bia, Mis­souri Open to Artists Resid­ing in the United States Bud­get: $110,000 Dead­line: 10÷1÷09 The City of Colum­bia, Mis­souri, invites artists to apply for a pub­lic art project at the planned Fifth and Wal­nut Streets Park­ing Garage. The City seeks an artist or […]