tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61675241310101188002024-02-20T04:51:22.328-05:00*kbe*:: musings on life and art by kristin brenneman eno ::k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-43354744978612979102011-12-13T00:44:00.000-05:002011-12-19T15:41:00.176-05:00Advent<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything changes when you have an almost-three-year-old around the house. For one thing, exhaustion is more frequent (well, count that magnified, with another pregnancy). But on a more joyful, thankful, wonder-inspiring note, Christmas takes on its true magic again: the tree is a marvelous sparkling wonderland of friends who enjoy being taken off to go on adventures around the house; blow up snowmen and Nativity scenes (Carroll Gardens at the height of its decorating prowess, or should I give Halloween that distinction?) are transformed from sinister into sweet; advent candles are special each time; the advent calendar is a mysterious treasure trove; the manger is a holy place again; Jesus is really and truly the sweetest baby Ever.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In honor of seeing the celebration of Jesus's birth through my daughter's eyes, I finally spent some time making--constructing, painting, sewing. All activities that I say I want to do every day, but usually find excuses not to do. For once, the excuses didn't hold up, and I needed to finish these projects:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Advent Calendar. A fabric monstrosity I had started cutting and sewing a whole year ago, but which I had given up around Dec. 10, 2010, and which gathered dust for much of 2011 until I put it away in a box for safe keeping. This project needed to be finished, simply because three-year-old girls love to find special treasures in little pockets:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wreath: made from seeded eucalyptus and seeds of all kinds that Noli and I painted gold, silver and white: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally, the stocking. Sean and I have had these lovely felt stockings made by <a href="http://hableconstruction.com/" target="_blank">Hable Construction</a>--a stripey and a <i>Peace</i>--for a few years, and I had been wanting to make another comparable stocking for Noli. It finally happened, with this green one on the left:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's hoping we can maintain this energy of creating throughout 2012. It's so much more fun this way.</span></div>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-80748827793845569112011-10-05T12:47:00.000-04:002011-10-05T12:48:09.251-04:00drawn into scripture<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Until recently, I had only been exposed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Begbie">Jeremy Begbie</a>'s work through <a href="http://www.internationalartsmovement.org/">IAM</a> conferences in NYC, where I had been completely awed by his presentations. This past Spring, I found out that my brother in law Andrew had a friend who was pursuing an M.Div. in the new "Theology and the Arts" program at Duke Divinity, and my ears perked up. So Begbie had brought his great wealth of wisdom and experience honed by writing and presenting on art/faith, and teaching at such prestigious institutions as Cambridge and St. Andrews, to my home state? When I saw that an arts exhibition was related to the upcoming conference, I submitted work. </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fast forward to this coming Monday October 10: </span></span></span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be exhibiting a selection of collages and screening my film </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/6443158">Spirit Ship</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">at </span></span></i></span></span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Arts Fair hosted by the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1096478975">2011 </a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives-centers/lifelong-learning/cps-2011">Duke Divinity School's Convocation and Pastor's School</a>, "</span></span></span></span></i><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drawn into Scripture: Arts and the Life of the Church</span></em><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">While the conference runs both Monday and Tuesday, the Arts Fair will be happening only on Monday, from 9:30am - 5:30pm, in the Great Hall (next to Page Auditorium), on Duke's Main Campus. Dr. Begbie will speak, as well as author Marilynne Robinson, and <a href="http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/issues/070811/depreg2.html">Anthony Kelley</a> and the BLAK Ensemble will present the "new blues", in a performance entitled "Instantaneous Infinity…or,Thinking Beyond the Page in Musical and Human Connection and Communication.” </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">In preparation I have been reading Begbie's book </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> (2007), and I hope to pick up Robinson's </span>Housekeeping<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">, which</span></span></span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> I have been meaning to read for some time. </span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The collages I will be showing will be a combination of works on paper and fabric, with the common theme of incorporating biblical text into the work. The way I use various verses from scripture might be considered "taken out of context," but that is just a way I have found of working that enables me to approach the text in a deeper way. So while I don't hope to comprehend the meaning of the Bible when only taken in fragments, I do want to be open to the Still Small Voice and how it speaks, in whispers and in the unexpected moments. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Juxtaposing those bits of text with my images has become a visual and thought-provoking exercise that keeps me coming back to the text as a living and breathing entity. It was before this, but this act of making just gives it fuller life for me, a visual artist who needs to constantly make and remake the world, in order to understand it, to feel and to truly live.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also have two very different, sculptural pieces in the current juried exhibition at the Redeemer Presbyterian Church offices, <a href="http://www.faithandwork.org/art_exhibition_opening_reception_page3729.php">Looking for Transformation: Inner and Outer Sight.</a> This show runs from October through January, with an opening on October 7 at 1359 Broadway, Suite 400.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2006 I was commissioned by BRIC Contemporary Art to make a documentary about an arts-in-education residency in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn middle school IS 49. One of the teaching artists I documented for </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Partnership Grows in Brooklyn</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> was Ellie Balk, who was making large-scale maps with her classes based on each student's home in the neighborhood. I was struck by her use of color and the bold style that resulted from her very involved collaborative art/teaching process of mapping the neighborhood, placing each student's home on the map, projecting maps onto the wall, mixing colors, and drawing off then painting the finished product on 6-foot-high wooden panels, which later went on to be exhibited at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn Heights. I was intrigued by this beautiful, colorful and empowering (to the youth involved) use of mapping, especially because I was personally involved in making </span><a href="http://k-b-e.net/painting/seedsempire.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my own map paintings</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> at the time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ellie and I kept in touch, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> began to have fun art adventures around the city . . . here is a <a href="http://vimeo.com/29528157">video</a> of a case in point: a creative excursion to Eyebeam</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We kept comparing notes on our similar art-making tendencies and dreams, and soon o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ur conversation evolved to a plot to create a project together. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In late 2007 we began planning a collaborative endeavor called </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://dollneighborhood.blogspot.com/">Doll Neighborhood</a>, which took shape in the Spring of 2008</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Our call-to-artists, series of sewing/making events with 29 local artists, and culminating exhibition and video proved to be a transformative experience. Through it I could see Ellie come alive in her element of shepherding artists through a collective vision, toward an awe-inspiring product. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever since I have known her, Ellie has been working tirelessly to create community-made murals throughout Brooklyn, particularly in her home neighborhood of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill. She even <a href="http://tilliesmuralproject.blogspot.com/2009/04/paint-by-neighborhood-by-scott-olster.html">spearheaded a Mural Arts Fund</a> within the South of the Navy Yard Artist community group, to further her mission of beautifying the public walls in the area. Ellie's murals always involve her community, especially the pre-teen to high school set, and they all carry Ellie's beautiful marks of distinction: that rich, summery, color-field-referencing palette, and those carefully placed lines that create a beautiful symbol of the landscape around the mural, and yet mark a place of their own. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This past summer, Ellie took her mural-making to the surface of a piano, and participated as one of artists in <a href="http://pianos.singforhope.org/">Sing for Hope's Pop Up Piano</a> project. Various painted pianos were installed all over the city (see map at link above), and Ellie's was placed near t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he Prospect Park Carousel in Brooklyn. You can see more information and some videos of people playing Ellie's piano <a href="http://pianos.singforhope.org/pianos/brooklyn/prospect-park-carousel/">here</a>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below are some photos I took, and a short video I put together of the culmination of the project, a performance Ellie did with pianist Samantha Bassler on June 26:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mural work has been about collecting data and visualizing it in an artistic way. In the form of a map, graph or web, the work is seemingly abstract when you first look at it, but as the viewer gets closer, they can "read" the image and formalize the data. In the Soundwaves mural project, I worked with pianists and drew the distance between their hands as they were playing the Moonlight Sonata. This "data" was then layered together to create an over-all landscape. In this way, I am mapping out the music. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In doing research about the BQE, I came across this fact: "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once [Robert] Moses drew his proposed route for the BQE on the map, his engineers were able to transform this "line on a map" into a highway. This often meant clearing block after block of neighborhoods, often in the name of "slum clearance" (</span><a href="http://www.nycroads.com/roads/brooklyn-queens/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">source</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">). I was inspired by this insensitive idea of drawing a line on a map to design the highway. In Clinton Hill, the devastation from this "line" is obvious. But there is some life that has been springing up on the cut off block between Park and the Navy Yard. I wanted to create this bright, colorful mural for that community. It's exciting to work in that area and to start to visualize that space in a different way. I hope that we can reclaim and better utilize the area under the BQE.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like the Moonlight Sonata found me, before this mural project was conceived. Over two years ago I was hanging out with Jazz Musician Mike Brown and I was really inspired by our conversations about improvisation and avant-garde composing. I became really interested in this idea of composing music through drawing line. He worked with me on my initial ideas of just listening to music. I have no music training and when we started I was just trying to separate the instruments that I was hearing in compositions. He started with classical music. On my own, I continued this journey into learning how to listed and I starting listening Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. When I was accepted to paint a piano for the Sing For Hope Piano project, I started concentrating on piano sonatas. When I heard the Moonlight Sonata, I was so moved by its pace and emotion, I didn't put it down. In the beginning of this journey, I was drawing the music through headphones. I was drawing with my left and right hand, trying to get the distance between the hands as it was playing. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The placement of this piece under the BQE, just makes sense. The lines on the mural match the design of the space under the overpass. The colors are reflective of the buildings near by. And the lyrical base of the line connects with the sound of the bustling traffic above our heads. I really hope that one day, I can get the pianists together for a performance where they can play the lines on the mural and compose a new score! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love meeting the people who live in the areas that I paint in and the collaborations that grow out of that. I enjoy giving people the opportunity to be part of the piece and claim ownership of their neighborhood. One of my favorite moments was when I was introducing a mural project at a school near where I had organized a collaborative community </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><wbr></wbr></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mural. I was going though some slides and a girl in the room yelled out "I did that!" That's why I love what I do.</span><br />
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<br />k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-58049335870957212242011-06-24T19:20:00.004-04:002011-06-24T19:52:29.306-04:00last known surroundingsThe following video confirms not only that <a href="http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/">Explosions in the Sky</a> is one of the most mighty, otherworldly bands out there these days, but that their comrades <a href="http://ptarmak.com/">Ptarmak</a> are wonderfully talented as well. Check it out, this will send you out into another dimension:<br />
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</a></div>On that note, <a href="http://sissyemmons.com/">Sissy Emmons</a> is my new favorite illustrator. Do you think her amazing piece of work resembles my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/46580737/village-original-acrylic-on-unstretched">Village</a> painting at all? <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00BT2JSJ_HtFXreZGNJF5oP4GVof5Dwy9B3Bhshimea-9Rqjm3unTn1mnxr-WsxM3QAJfpFO_waB51Li6OsYHawzFVR3BmpUXgmqnDTI5XR9cUq-ublRKGWgcIeZ200Lr51rAmwZlxFE/s1600/village_painting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00BT2JSJ_HtFXreZGNJF5oP4GVof5Dwy9B3Bhshimea-9Rqjm3unTn1mnxr-WsxM3QAJfpFO_waB51Li6OsYHawzFVR3BmpUXgmqnDTI5XR9cUq-ublRKGWgcIeZ200Lr51rAmwZlxFE/s320/village_painting.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-42144724246052642552011-06-20T15:02:00.001-04:002011-06-20T15:11:18.816-04:00day of the triffids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK8h63eoYmSSo1nUuR-7KCUzajOUM8p8AkX8C1FaQ3LWDE8G22CEuqQ-uRD67Dyhns2YznhXttL_Fl0cutwT1BYGGtnns4K_uqOV3dsTV1iLykcG1-HZerSRZ1nlCNhwfRFoskgo2Crs/s1600/triffidstreasury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK8h63eoYmSSo1nUuR-7KCUzajOUM8p8AkX8C1FaQ3LWDE8G22CEuqQ-uRD67Dyhns2YznhXttL_Fl0cutwT1BYGGtnns4K_uqOV3dsTV1iLykcG1-HZerSRZ1nlCNhwfRFoskgo2Crs/s320/triffidstreasury.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/8312586/orange-cells-original-painting-on-paper?ref=tre-351172833-10">paintings</a> was featured in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/wintergarden?ref=pr_shop_more">Wintergarden</a>'s perfectly beautiful and whimsical Etsy <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTYwMzY3OHwzNTExNzI4MzM/day-of-the-triffids">treasury, "Day of the Triffids</a>." I love so many of the other pieces included in this selection . . . for example, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/wolfieandthesneak?ref=pr_shop_more">Wolfieandthesneak</a>'s <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/38764975/pods-poster?ref=tre-351172833-9">Pod Poster</a>, which feeds my pod obsession, is something I've been eyeing for a year or more! Also I so love the wonderful watercolors by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GollyBard?ref=seller_info">Gollybard</a>, a shop I check often. Finally, what a wonderful undersea world <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/MagnoliaMoonlight?ref=seller_info">Magnolia Moonlight</a> created in the aptly named</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/49385745/view-from-a-little-submarine-window?ref=tre-351172833-1">View from a Little Submarine Window</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">! And for any of those out there (like myself) wondering just what a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid">triffid</a> is, why of course, it's "</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">a tall, mobile, carnivorousprolific and highly venomous fictional plant species." Indeed. Worth some further exploration!</span></span><br />
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</span>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-31629449476703692952011-06-18T21:54:00.002-04:002011-06-18T21:59:10.774-04:00CSA: See Some Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We joined the <a href="http://redhookcsa.com/">Red Hook CSA</a>, and life is looking brighter by the minute. This is week one and it's already feeling like water in the desert, especially after months of missing the Park Slope Food Coop's heavenly cheap and great organic produce (that's another story), compounded by the horrors of Fairway and Trader Joe's produce . . . Needless to say, Community Supported Agriculture is the way to go. And <a href="http://www.added-value.org/">Added Value Community Farm</a> is rocking it out with urban gardening and community activism at is best. These line drawings/watercolor paintings, the first in what will be an ongoing CSA series, are for sale in my <a href="http://halflight.etsy.com/">Etsy shop</a>. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><a href="http://www.etsy.com/">Etsy</a> did a call for sellers to come out for a photo shoot back in the Winter, and so the girl and I went out to the city for an adventure. We had fun waiting our turn and having our picture taken in a light-filled loft in midtown, but then I forgot about it and it only just now occurred to me to look for the magazine. Turns out that we made the cut! And we (yes, Magnolia is there too....looks like the youngest Etsy seller of the bunch!) made our way into the April issue of <a href="http://www.inc.com/">Inc. magazine</a>. Seeing as how I'm just one of 400,000 Etsy sellers, hundreds of whom were photographed that day, and dozens of whom ended up in a feature spread in the magazine, I'm not surprised that I never received official notification that I had made it to print. My <a href="http://thistlepixie.etsy.com/">Etsy jewelry shop</a> has not received any spikes in sales (though on <a href="http://halflight.etsy.com/">Halflight</a> I did sell 7 paintings to one person the other day, what a lovely treat!), so I can't say that this form of press was effective for me personally, but the adventure in the loft was worth doing! See pictures for evidence of one of NYC's hidden treasures, <a href="http://garysloft.com/">Gary's Loft</a>. And here's a link to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52534028@N00/sets/72157626396799406/">the article itself</a>.<br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Life of Heaven Now</i>, Acrylic on canvas, silk, thread, found objects, 10 x 8 inches</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There's heaven here now, somewhere else.<br />
There's heaven here, sometime else.<br />
And then there's Jesus's invitation to heaven<br />
here <br />
and <br />
now,<br />
in this moment,<br />
in this place. </span></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Try and paint <i>that.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Rob Bell, <i>Love Wins</i>, 2011, page 62)</span></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rob Bell's book is waking me up. So when I saw the words, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">try and paint that, </i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I knew that I had to. I've been collecting shards of heaven and hell from NYC streets for years, waiting to one day begin a series of paintings (some combination of </span><a href="http://www.k-b-e.net/painting/seedsempire.html" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Superimposed Cities</a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.k-b-e.net/painting/flood.html" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lost Cities</a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> series) based around these cryptic, beautiful and heartbreaking objects. So here is the first. My heart beeps (as my 2 year old daughter says) in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hook,_Brooklyn" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Red Hook, Brooklyn</a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, a neighborhood with a long history of intergenerational poverty, unemployment, and low levels of high school completion, which is also home to </span><a href="http://kck.st/fr0eMg" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">my little friend Heaven</a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, who turns nine today. Here are some things I have discovered on the ground in Red Hook: 1. Sycamore seed pod 2. Heroin bag 3. Shell 4. Nail 5. Sea glass 6. Metal heart pendant with peeling pink paint 7. Plastic gun 8. Puzzle piece. These lost remants remind me that heaven and hell are here, now, with us in Red Hook and beyond, and they act as miniature yet tangible reminders that "if we want hell, if we want heaven, they are ours" (p. 118). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">[Taken from the original <a href="http://images.occasionalreligion.com/">Occasional Religion post</a>, Kristin Brenneman Eno, April 19, 2011] </span></span>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-68913820246788840212011-03-08T23:20:00.002-05:002011-03-08T23:23:38.358-05:00occasional religion<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A friend from college, Cabell King, launched a really thoughtful blog, <a href="http://www.occasionalreligion.com/">Occasional Religion</a>, and I'm honored to be a part of it. He has invited</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> a fascinating selection of scholars, poets and visual artists to weigh in on current events through the lens of our respective faiths and academic and/or artistic perspectives. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is the <a href="http://images.occasionalreligion.com/2011/03/by-kristin-brenneman-eno-following-is.html">series of collages</a> I made in response to the current conflict in Libya:</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing," Ezekiel 47:12. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-89880560274466191342011-01-11T23:52:00.002-05:002011-01-12T00:16:41.879-05:00Wanna hear angel music<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Rember the snow? </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It's 1.11.11. You are two, and the snow has returned. <i><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Let me tell you somepin. </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Now that you're two, Noli girl, I'm going to play the special Angel Music. It's <a href="http://mum.is/">Múm</a>. It's floaty and scratchy and must have been recorded during another era. Look at the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alovelyday/sets/72157622565101284">angels in the cemetery</a>. Remember when we saw them? It was October, the light was coming through the trees. We were walking. Angels were everywhere. The ladies were singing "Somewhere over the rainbow" from behind the vines. You watched and you listened. You held an acorn. You didn't know that song yet, but now you do. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhECzkAyofhJiim0sDlpTYpFhzxBJ6Q8Wr0mM9E8CK-mtSufcQVHxfljwiI-iqK-qfecmO3GJA01ABbWieJqYiKMIw7RjqiFUtHqHtKFB_TQuTv9a5TjFqkL3a5jgW_0eJGhWgBAmkLWOU/s1600/ultblkparty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhECzkAyofhJiim0sDlpTYpFhzxBJ6Q8Wr0mM9E8CK-mtSufcQVHxfljwiI-iqK-qfecmO3GJA01ABbWieJqYiKMIw7RjqiFUtHqHtKFB_TQuTv9a5TjFqkL3a5jgW_0eJGhWgBAmkLWOU/s320/ultblkparty.jpg" width="320" /></a><i> </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Emme hold you a minute?</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Why, just because I was looking the other way? Did you think I forgot you? OK, I will hold you. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbwhWAFpZCE0XwMswOM4_mMVT3VP_EqJCEzIvEOtJOy221KkPHKQE5AsuIeZ8uBlbH9OalCyHdBdhZmcTzP9YdQPH7Pmnt8W9tB4MGPkqfxYU-Fln0kcBDjlfwzvUFxcev8y0i7UgEt0/s1600/thanksgiving1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbwhWAFpZCE0XwMswOM4_mMVT3VP_EqJCEzIvEOtJOy221KkPHKQE5AsuIeZ8uBlbH9OalCyHdBdhZmcTzP9YdQPH7Pmnt8W9tB4MGPkqfxYU-Fln0kcBDjlfwzvUFxcev8y0i7UgEt0/s320/thanksgiving1.jpg" width="239" /></a> </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhGWeGFx2mryiTvMH1qr-cdx3LtrSCXR0UOmquLHEKPynZknjXX2uLgDMSJ3UAYiMYG8BEPKjOUYX9-UOpF-8e7dXz81hurxoBGOKyh7IFFBUnmk7iTnMDd6AmbAo5ZstvmZric8WS9cU/s1600/xmaskiss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhGWeGFx2mryiTvMH1qr-cdx3LtrSCXR0UOmquLHEKPynZknjXX2uLgDMSJ3UAYiMYG8BEPKjOUYX9-UOpF-8e7dXz81hurxoBGOKyh7IFFBUnmk7iTnMDd6AmbAo5ZstvmZric8WS9cU/s320/xmaskiss.jpg" width="320" /></a><i>Let me hink about it. </i></span> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You are two. You sing <i>Jesus loves me</i> under your breath, on your exhale. You breathe by singing. That one, and <i>Jesus loves the little children</i>. Did I really sing those enough that you could learn to breathe them? Or were you born knowing these things? </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I feeled my heart beep.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Every time I saw you. It beeped. I've felt your heart beep, and it beeps fast. Faster than any human I know. I suppose because you're a miniature human. But that's always relative.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXPkxVM1c0xTgtMK0Sl84bXsYQtkDb4TLRbB_HvXbTdfDbv5vro-x7AyRTkK6urG-4A0R4K4A4axn9ovBzsAwJj0lFVZORKbQwou66s3nDlr8KUabbCD-V4jgNZ-uVFTy4a05i-FODRW8/s1600/IMG_0618.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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Don't forget it.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibqQLzeYWVKy7sp57Uim-KjttSzbrsKfxzPuSRgx4MKLwq3XRRkKKyy-p4eZhuelY1nV2f6a9VtDsowUVYjdtU5PvfLUri_8bOfdsg9IZ2x7QEsTDRM2L_COPgyEoquWE_kiHy26Sas_Y/s1600/mommykiss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibqQLzeYWVKy7sp57Uim-KjttSzbrsKfxzPuSRgx4MKLwq3XRRkKKyy-p4eZhuelY1nV2f6a9VtDsowUVYjdtU5PvfLUri_8bOfdsg9IZ2x7QEsTDRM2L_COPgyEoquWE_kiHy26Sas_Y/s320/mommykiss.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-34867348848344989852010-12-22T12:13:00.000-05:002010-12-22T12:13:34.081-05:00Spirit Ship :: Heaven Speaks<iframe frameborder="0" height="410px" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kbe/spirit-ship-a-mysterious-short-film-narrated-by-ch/widget/video.html" width="480px"></iframe>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-26299693142227247422010-11-03T13:50:00.002-04:002010-11-05T01:26:50.832-04:00first child in the woods<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Another year, another birthday....So strange how it's all rushing out from under us. The things I love in life are so ephemeral, it's hard to remember how precious life is, until I or someone I love has a birthday, or someone I love dies, or our little one says something we didn't know she knew was capable of thinking or saying. Like when we walk outside in the fall light and she says "it's beau-ful." Or when she watches </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.littlecreaturesfilms.com/spiritship.html">Spirit Ship</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and says, </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >I want children right now.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" > Painting somepin inside.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" > Rainbow, rainbow, yes!</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So just when my hope is faltering, these sweet words bring me back and make it all okay. And I remember that we are living inside a gift. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So I wanted to post something to honor the adventures we've had this year, in the outdoors . . . All too often M and I only went as far as our own ridiculously urban concrete courtyard (<span style="font-style: italic;">Oh Mommy,</span> she must wonder, <span style="font-style: italic;">why do you have so much work?</span> and I answer, <span style="font-style: italic;">it's for the children, for the children</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Which children?</span> She wonders . . . <span style="font-style: italic;">I'm a girl, right Mommy, what about me</span>?), but thankfully we experienced some sun-dappled grace throughout the year. And it all makes me wonder, Have we really come to the Last Child in the Woods, as <a href="http://richardlouv.com/">Richard Louv</a> proposed in his book? For once let's see the glass as half full (I'm talking to myself here, with end-of-year resolutions and such) and let's imagine that we're the very First Child in the woods. It's wonderful to be there, light dappling through, crickets chirping, leaves falling. It's so good to be alive.<br /></span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidBZjfNA-g7nJ8K5zhy7ze_FF3Qj6kxJULtHee8xCFt0S1smyLqk_yTcJNkmURf72PS53YHdrnPdB2m8CznSn4XiMCgjG3PAXSf9l9g7gDn6uOuVXMOXII1VVdY9Z5FYCMTkTmVT-BAjk/s1600/mmeocean.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidBZjfNA-g7nJ8K5zhy7ze_FF3Qj6kxJULtHee8xCFt0S1smyLqk_yTcJNkmURf72PS53YHdrnPdB2m8CznSn4XiMCgjG3PAXSf9l9g7gDn6uOuVXMOXII1VVdY9Z5FYCMTkTmVT-BAjk/s400/mmeocean.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532508383040183842" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdg_4xZP4un8VbOIjounHbCaZ3ZbivCgHAPCOoSs2I_nP1mhpQNqLFv7wOa-NxT8zXIjo5UxgQdnpx2J43bN_lsoOvFb0uOa-hDsS8VidfxA198c1q99Ln7d7DcUaJgmpTbKyIjdXgpJ4/s1600/mme_dougherty2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdg_4xZP4un8VbOIjounHbCaZ3ZbivCgHAPCOoSs2I_nP1mhpQNqLFv7wOa-NxT8zXIjo5UxgQdnpx2J43bN_lsoOvFb0uOa-hDsS8VidfxA198c1q99Ln7d7DcUaJgmpTbKyIjdXgpJ4/s400/mme_dougherty2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532508376002518802" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9_CVuEmwT6aqRueDg-upM9gAgsTj3NQnYJ7nKNiLAO_0EISedBDIsmwScLvaKycfRDn_ZiMMG5nKYkn95Ji5jmuefze8wczoN8XO9GecnIzB2TUP9h84FKWOhUKf9rtW7xpo6VudukY/s1600/mme_vineyardbranch.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh1fcfpT4hDwyp4yYo_vPn2AeYwYjuKPMoXWOtjWuhAPuFe0c8Wi1rmdavHCEz3ruyTQ_oqwYhvEd809mETuNlOyp0SBIsPXbc6NaOZLWioW5tKVInCRaWPUZapejOZxPpCAdrH-_bOsk/s400/mme_roxypaine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532503140328446146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This last image is a reminder of the artists who do great work to bring the outside in. When we cannot be out there, we can at least honor the outside and reveal aspects of it that invoke a sense of reverence and help us to see the beauty of life and living more fully. So this is <a href="http://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/2010-10-16_roxy-paine/">Roxy Paine's mushroom world</a> at James Cohen Gallery this fall. And further above you see <a href="http://www.bbg.org/discover/gallery/dougherty/">Patrick Dougherty's work</a> at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden....a fairy house built of sticks, which is up for a year for all ages to run through with all abandon and mystery. This is the stuff....<br /><br />And just to remember the Little Creatures, the bush babies of the world, here's one more message from "M-Nolia" to take us on our way:<br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">No cryin</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >No tears coming out</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /> 'Pecial treat M-Nolia and a bush baby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /> M-Nolia's bush baby</span><br /> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-54132962340974446202010-09-12T01:00:00.018-04:002010-09-15T23:49:38.539-04:00hold out two hands to catch the light<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC0M3Qgq1-AFhLw9ItnFsRIiUrc9lOrYc_H3O1cjO5qChPR8a9zzoesllAYLSXPJrg-VFUcup-YGe3LU1u6qcmI5MGtarsK1djqKQ1BEjGp8AI8zgfGDaSc5IeAgouo1N6oKhlm-AOCcI/s1600/17_eno01defenders.jpg"><img style="float: left; 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margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdX8OntRgcLXn8Bo7Zlp88KwDR_z0f1sWketSttJegNzgIHnwMh4mbO9dokp_ZBQZZBp0oUNrHolImB4rgGW9GjxW6DI4F5vKpQ0Xx-skdu0r2UIDUAO671QTzExAPqCfxR3NsFAxm0s/s400/IMG_0373.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516637994002274674" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIEdYKQzKWtuwEmh6le5fhMRs805qMBs3rQl4raEjghVGm-KjY96hJ_lu-jlUj4rHafvfPPHKmzJKXDtdvNdsP8sbbeknR6E0L7ei8oWFz0e8d7o_IJsrav3IfPlQnb-IffW85wSvAaM/s1600/bubblecatch.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIEdYKQzKWtuwEmh6le5fhMRs805qMBs3rQl4raEjghVGm-KjY96hJ_lu-jlUj4rHafvfPPHKmzJKXDtdvNdsP8sbbeknR6E0L7ei8oWFz0e8d7o_IJsrav3IfPlQnb-IffW85wSvAaM/s400/bubblecatch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516644089509868450" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Some pieces from Sean's new <a href="http://www.seaneno.com/index.php?/projects/what-are-defenders/"><span style="font-style: italic;">What Are Defenders</span></a> series were featured in a show at <a href="http://www.kiddyellin.org/">Kidd Yellin Gallery</a> (curated by <a href="http://www.redtinshack.com/">Work Gallery</a>) that opened on September 11, 2010. Yes, that was the date (that one's just out of place). We were so happy to see friends and family including <a href="http://www.hookinvitations.com/">Liz</a>, <a href="http://www.weirdbrooklyn.com/">Mike</a> and company, <a href="http://www.jeremycox.com/">Jeremy</a>, Shariffa, <a href="http://vimeo.com/whofu">Masa and Maggie</a>, <a href="http://thecosmas.blogspot.com/">Damijan</a> and the illustrious <a href="http://monique-truong.com/">Monique</a>, who graced us with her presence on the very week her <a href="http://www.monique-truong.com/books/bitter-in-the-mouth/">amazing new novel</a> came out. </span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br />We took Magnolia for the first hour and she was </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > immediately </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >drawn into Richard Oliver Wilson's bubble machine, perched atop Yellin's hulking yet elegant old printing press in the doorway of the warehouse, that was sending larger-than life-size bubbles out into the sinking sun at the edge of Red Hook. As she</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > wobbled and skidded to and fro, chasing, popping, jumping at and into shiny orbs</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >, following ponderous glowy globes as they morphed one into another and alighted on the floor, turning to half-moons, as they increasingly took on a supernatural outline from the falling sunlight, I noticed a beautiful thing: she would every so often turn in the direction of the bubble contraption, and stand still and wait. Then she would reach out both hands, turn palms up to the sky, and wait for the bubbles to come. The upturned palms would then cup the air and the fingers would beckon, <span style="font-style: italic;">gimme</span>...<span style="font-style: italic;">come here</span>, those so-sweet fingers we've watched grow from fetus to baby to girl. "Come over here, bubbles, I'mmonna getchyou," the fingers said. "But </span><span style="font-size:85%;">I'll wait patiently," the stillness of her body said. </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >I was struck by the quiet and mournful and spiritual nature of the pose, and considered the phenomenon of a 20-month-old child raising hands as if praising something or Someone. I whipped out my phone and started snapping a painful amount of pictures, telling myself the whole time, "how ridiculous, to need to document this much, to take so many pictures of my child," but all along never coming close to capturing the bubbles or the golden light or the otherworldly joy on the face of my daughter. The phone camera simply wouldn't do justice to this unbelievably lovely scene in our lives. <a href="http://daltonrooney.com/">Dalton</a>, a talented photographer, offered some solutions to this problem. I chatted away with him and others, but all the while I kept doing what I consider pretty rude (even to photographers?): snapping pictures. Was that as bad as texting while having a conversation? Worse? All I could process was that my daughter was tasting heaven and I was trying my best to see through her eyes and behold just a touch of the glory she was feeling. I knew Sean had brought his Real Camera and I tried to get his attention to find out where it was. Later I found it in the bottom of the stroller . . . it stayed there all along, never used by either of us, even throughout this insane display of light and joy, never even then. I kept seeing her body go still with palms upturned, fingers curling sweetly, back and forth. I was riveted--this looked not only beautiful and amazing, but very much like something that I knew well but could not place. When I asked <a href="http://wabisabibrooklyn.com/">MaryAnne</a>, she said <span style="font-style: italic;">The Red Balloon</span>. Yes yes of course, that wonderful film that is over and under and through everything I ever do, that one, yes. But that wasn't it. That body, prone, straight, not moving, but waiting, standing, looking. </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Those hands, upturned. </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >I couldn't place it.<br /></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Until I was riding home on my bike (every time I ride my bike at night in Red Hook I ask myself why I haven't done this every single night of the five years I've lived in this lost and broken land by the sea). That's when I discovered what it was. My daughter was re-enacting her father's animated film that he made about his father. She stood still, waiting for those bubbles, exactly as Sean had stood when those bubble-like dots came out of his hands and heart, and floated up toward the sky, toward the ghost of his father, toward the future and the past, in his film Father/Son. I've posted both images so you can see for yourself. If you'd like to see Sean's film, I guess you'll have to <a href="http://www.seaneno.com/">ask him</a>.<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0C8ReO0gIYNjTKwkcfL-eo5W-O7EDCqAHYfoLyZT2ywR1YiwLM9FuIj4_36_RhUL2r8vU1XZHQc1W3HZaK95hyphenhyphenNr4NoG9x2akbO_b3eVrF2xGBk2qnS1eriQtEd-MZsb460g4ntNuq4k/s1600/fatherson1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0C8ReO0gIYNjTKwkcfL-eo5W-O7EDCqAHYfoLyZT2ywR1YiwLM9FuIj4_36_RhUL2r8vU1XZHQc1W3HZaK95hyphenhyphenNr4NoG9x2akbO_b3eVrF2xGBk2qnS1eriQtEd-MZsb460g4ntNuq4k/s400/fatherson1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517352963539641586" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIEdYKQzKWtuwEmh6le5fhMRs805qMBs3rQl4raEjghVGm-KjY96hJ_lu-jlUj4rHafvfPPHKmzJKXDtdvNdsP8sbbeknR6E0L7ei8oWFz0e8d7o_IJsrav3IfPlQnb-IffW85wSvAaM/s1600/bubblecatch.jpg"><br /></a>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-25355925654634553292010-08-23T20:08:00.012-04:002010-08-23T22:47:53.554-04:00bew-fuls<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCao-IgJom4Q85pR-Yrhoi60ubJPWDnf-ODzqIyVS_t24RJIemRnPo_n_77eiwGkOo6blFkqfYeHn7bUMFRixiVcwv8gPOR2Naem8FdnZ5vjXE31vd47F_WmP4wsbIWEx2qZv_S4b52To/s1600/P1160840.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCao-IgJom4Q85pR-Yrhoi60ubJPWDnf-ODzqIyVS_t24RJIemRnPo_n_77eiwGkOo6blFkqfYeHn7bUMFRixiVcwv8gPOR2Naem8FdnZ5vjXE31vd47F_WmP4wsbIWEx2qZv_S4b52To/s400/P1160840.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508778378925886466" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfFz3I74cPQhPFieqBqIl4BBwH7ItGxPrq5BUjaf9zi81uaxisKD8zyle88i5Qd-MuO1xJLmNHkWdaIt8kLgwIS6RkCW0FV9yQVAufVs0tUhxId3zlFn9GgjMhMfzbfZ-PiEgOLBIIHA8/s1600/P1160798.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfFz3I74cPQhPFieqBqIl4BBwH7ItGxPrq5BUjaf9zi81uaxisKD8zyle88i5Qd-MuO1xJLmNHkWdaIt8kLgwIS6RkCW0FV9yQVAufVs0tUhxId3zlFn9GgjMhMfzbfZ-PiEgOLBIIHA8/s400/P1160798.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508769000729796082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My daughter is teaching me how to speak, and by extension, how to see and to feel (abilities I have all but lost).<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWE9wyo880AGtLkjDkf3b-Pg4QazFGtn1PCFtdR6p_IvPilQEh3WT6q9wraqKYcDjXuEZmTY4ksj0WNEsRR2_bZcgmcrpgH9hMmn5fiDxtI7PcYqUi1_uj1-W54k4iU_xn09PcCVGdxEc/s1600/P1160848.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWE9wyo880AGtLkjDkf3b-Pg4QazFGtn1PCFtdR6p_IvPilQEh3WT6q9wraqKYcDjXuEZmTY4ksj0WNEsRR2_bZcgmcrpgH9hMmn5fiDxtI7PcYqUi1_uj1-W54k4iU_xn09PcCVGdxEc/s400/P1160848.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508801161196837298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">"Bew-fuls, bew-fuls," she says, while looking at the shells we collected at the beach in NC last week.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Does she really say <span style="font-style: italic;">beautiful</span>, now? I can't even believe this. "Water comin," she says, when the ocean is roaring toward us, and there is no way to convey how absolutely perfect that word "comin" sounds when she says it. It is the sweetest thing. "Rainbow fall down" she says while reading and re-reading the Noah story, with which she has become sincerely fascinated. For that matter, "Animals comin" and "Fire comin" also feature prominently in the Noah readings.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EgUvILKMNE9SiYj3MuXv-hZvUrpHUGp5noytLpN2zS2r8O1OyB6Y984rZsTuJhxuZipGTwuVX4OabpHfUlqchBVhvJmpYe5rQ_3Qp_03yrOFs2KKtObzop9mJGPXQiV-NcjIQaBfqdo/s1600/IMG_0117.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EgUvILKMNE9SiYj3MuXv-hZvUrpHUGp5noytLpN2zS2r8O1OyB6Y984rZsTuJhxuZipGTwuVX4OabpHfUlqchBVhvJmpYe5rQ_3Qp_03yrOFs2KKtObzop9mJGPXQiV-NcjIQaBfqdo/s400/IMG_0117.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508798543829552050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />Which brings me to the "deep fire," or dehumidifier, which was required when I flooded the bathroom at the beach house (oh no, no, no, but all too true). "Petties, petties (pretties)," she says of the small stones we collected on Martha's Vineyard earlier this summer.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhcLSEV2XdbEjx2HjswOfikEZSY9_fVglCqffWy7S9oUTFW63LAWYE25aKXdCHmFuIxX7P5t5ou5ek1VZQf5CJ7MeSnaarBbcjx3B5SBMN5U9m2nohxPM3eI_WPe79h8UFEEu7rGl-NA/s1600/IMG_0112.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhcLSEV2XdbEjx2HjswOfikEZSY9_fVglCqffWy7S9oUTFW63LAWYE25aKXdCHmFuIxX7P5t5ou5ek1VZQf5CJ7MeSnaarBbcjx3B5SBMN5U9m2nohxPM3eI_WPe79h8UFEEu7rGl-NA/s400/IMG_0112.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508784954796280962" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />"Rainin, poh-in" she sings, then, "ah, moh-nin, ah, moh-nin." Sean and I can't figure out if this is some song abut Morning that we don't know where she learned, or if she's simply singing in her own language, as sometimes when we say "I love you," and she responds, "Ah Mohnin," and then starts singing this poetic phrase over and over. It's what she sings when feeling happy or comforted, and more than anything, it comforts us. It tells us that it's all going </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">to be alright--really Mommy, really Daddy, really it is.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2CqKJsjazaxb1PzsJ_SwLg5VtJ5SK66pG80dvBCSy-6yZmFn6uy4QlZMBm9ZxMV-lktKokk8o30RVMNq5FaZFzpCybOQBUVMomJBSbPehJN34F2jBjPIYJ5DYVrlqooqQGc0bryuXi0/s1600/P1160866.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2CqKJsjazaxb1PzsJ_SwLg5VtJ5SK66pG80dvBCSy-6yZmFn6uy4QlZMBm9ZxMV-lktKokk8o30RVMNq5FaZFzpCybOQBUVMomJBSbPehJN34F2jBjPIYJ5DYVrlqooqQGc0bryuXi0/s400/P1160866.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508767237871236274" border="0" /></a>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-42764899286068931672010-08-06T23:10:00.005-04:002010-08-11T00:01:21.114-04:00salvage, redeem<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Whenever the Broken Land feels just too broken to be salvaged, and I want to run away, it is somehow redeemed. Today the Brooklyn Botanic Garden rescued me from slow and steady decline into mommy malaise.<br /><br />A divine lotus and its roots, some intricate star/leaf formations in the same pool, Magnolia's joy at looking up at trees ("I'm just laying down," she said, while looking up through the branches at the sky beyond), her joy at touching the sprinkler over and over and over, and the wonderful environmental sculptor Patrick Dougherty working on <a href="http://www.bbg.org/discover/gallery/dougherty/">a new installation at the garden</a>:</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iyt6kQ5k6JJ52gVM6hDpkbLse373ppnWBJToDcF557_cW8vuhL5_jQJkveKRth-xDSzo2oV3isim14Z2iIBwj4g74DK56XL-r6yMv6BfUuaUCzSq8nYytjM3J1-VPFn4uuEW79_nIvE/s1600/pinklotus.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iyt6kQ5k6JJ52gVM6hDpkbLse373ppnWBJToDcF557_cW8vuhL5_jQJkveKRth-xDSzo2oV3isim14Z2iIBwj4g74DK56XL-r6yMv6BfUuaUCzSq8nYytjM3J1-VPFn4uuEW79_nIvE/s400/pinklotus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502514624088351330" border="0" /></a><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXuXAgSUORwDLJ43wNoqQQNI3pMDMGC2ZUzlGB8sYGPx3fJMhfYzIlYboyahyKqmPEUaUjnnw52fU_2h7gdJ8ERXsVSqudzTRNAI_AOpbpCcoTv16gHON5AmcswMrQtlG3po7ThOECRE/s1600/lotusroots.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXuXAgSUORwDLJ43wNoqQQNI3pMDMGC2ZUzlGB8sYGPx3fJMhfYzIlYboyahyKqmPEUaUjnnw52fU_2h7gdJ8ERXsVSqudzTRNAI_AOpbpCcoTv16gHON5AmcswMrQtlG3po7ThOECRE/s400/lotusroots.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502536983536258418" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-fqwbWdSTFN4Jet9nChtukEsSucHtI_8oM4etCiLez61UOJrY5Xs_dRcE3kwBRVtfKQ1YE_HerRDqakAvGcf3VW_QNY1MeEfgYYmB5tnLCyZvi9k2dnqJyM7j0yhAbT4InMJ5ghMX384/s1600/waterstars.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-fqwbWdSTFN4Jet9nChtukEsSucHtI_8oM4etCiLez61UOJrY5Xs_dRcE3kwBRVtfKQ1YE_HerRDqakAvGcf3VW_QNY1MeEfgYYmB5tnLCyZvi9k2dnqJyM7j0yhAbT4InMJ5ghMX384/s400/waterstars.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502514614859007026" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MD2iA5NPO4cW70Qm0VwZSB9JBPxFIx0qpLH_2OFLhcHkAIKzm_Bb7nD7BqsU8L2nj82TkOXC3oGtaNaJ_Tlsw7SANL5LFlZYBHxq3Xal7ur_4uVuZ6LvV8bF4chLqu6ZYgd1f36zrtI/s1600/magbbgaug610.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MD2iA5NPO4cW70Qm0VwZSB9JBPxFIx0qpLH_2OFLhcHkAIKzm_Bb7nD7BqsU8L2nj82TkOXC3oGtaNaJ_Tlsw7SANL5LFlZYBHxq3Xal7ur_4uVuZ6LvV8bF4chLqu6ZYgd1f36zrtI/s400/magbbgaug610.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502514605975594898" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GRuE9IiNXGNm8TdnDYgd7BDSD-sL4UV7U5xwizl7_VLGdJwzOpXu5CXK3VJmOCPk4j_kvfZdq6TNK6NT7R8D3iz0dZYxp22jHccplss_J-_GZILEyC7-qAbGg9EolzmX_jsGbp2v-vE/s1600/feelwater_bbg.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GRuE9IiNXGNm8TdnDYgd7BDSD-sL4UV7U5xwizl7_VLGdJwzOpXu5CXK3VJmOCPk4j_kvfZdq6TNK6NT7R8D3iz0dZYxp22jHccplss_J-_GZILEyC7-qAbGg9EolzmX_jsGbp2v-vE/s400/feelwater_bbg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502514599707583042" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJw4l-vXcbQizEVhwwPFiGJMagAMFL_7F0mZcT7t0vbtk34BJLTmQ0pHCJcAEpu5iH61FkBzQolQ2ji5UZI9iu5PLdpsMuxD4mjPJbtbV0eHG87teCUPJD6grEhBQxVI1hCwqCz1d-y4/s1600/dougherty.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJw4l-vXcbQizEVhwwPFiGJMagAMFL_7F0mZcT7t0vbtk34BJLTmQ0pHCJcAEpu5iH61FkBzQolQ2ji5UZI9iu5PLdpsMuxD4mjPJbtbV0eHG87teCUPJD6grEhBQxVI1hCwqCz1d-y4/s400/dougherty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502514591758013954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-64169809791744692912010-07-25T22:19:00.017-04:002010-07-26T01:18:15.659-04:00ruminate<span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Two of my Superimposed Cities paintings have been published in Issue 16 of <a href="http://www.ruminatemagazine.org/">RUMINATE</a>, a gem of a magazine "created in 2006 by a few fellow writers, artists, and believers who wanted a space for the thoughtful expressions of those who are nudged forward, backward, and sideways by faith in God." The images are not in the online issue, but here at least is the <a href="http://www.ruminatemagazine.org/issue-16/">Table of Contents</a> with links to a few sections of the issue posted online. I am posting the two paintings here and you can also see them on my <a href="http://www.k-b-e.net/painting/waterblood.html">site</a>:<br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg188imXM8u9dDAJyIMq3IeazigEoo2KI2DqXI-UHqWXeK8OMXTxScwD2TAoqEDmVJS3jdcL0AcU1AZhfBZufm5RLHKyfKeXKuQQhyphenhypheneMpoV_iTUmtmyBCfQEjd2SxyppeYnvvLM17wAh3I/s1600/watersintoblood.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg188imXM8u9dDAJyIMq3IeazigEoo2KI2DqXI-UHqWXeK8OMXTxScwD2TAoqEDmVJS3jdcL0AcU1AZhfBZufm5RLHKyfKeXKuQQhyphenhypheneMpoV_iTUmtmyBCfQEjd2SxyppeYnvvLM17wAh3I/s400/watersintoblood.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498046944628473010" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXXJ1WhSFEUx2FkP0SuviASQNnRsqI543hXgqDvv-KkQRt6MLVEVelN_OgHLxuIH-5orszGLMM2dm7a4PAxyNJrpGv3uS1ieg6t8rbnTGvt1qc9iSv8y1XoO5KUOEj8uHjfvhWkT2G05g/s1600/BrennemanEno_K_2006_Sow_Jerusalem_NewYork_14x14in.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXXJ1WhSFEUx2FkP0SuviASQNnRsqI543hXgqDvv-KkQRt6MLVEVelN_OgHLxuIH-5orszGLMM2dm7a4PAxyNJrpGv3uS1ieg6t8rbnTGvt1qc9iSv8y1XoO5KUOEj8uHjfvhWkT2G05g/s400/BrennemanEno_K_2006_Sow_Jerusalem_NewYork_14x14in.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498046945512354818" border="0" /></a> <br />Both of the paintings, like the rest of this series (started in '06 and as yet unfinished) feature overlapping city maps. ‘Sow: Jerusalem/New York’ (2006, blue) marks the death and resurrection of Christ and the city where I live; ‘He turned their waters into blood’ (title from Psalm 105:29</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >2007, red) marks the cities devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the U.S. War in Iraq. Sheer pockets containing seeds hover in the footprints of historically significant landmarks, from Calvary to the Iraqi National Museum to the New Orleans Superdome. (See key to <a href="http://www.k-b-e.net/painting/waterblood3.html">Waters into Blood here</a> for more details).<br /><br />I am honored and so happy that these pieces are being published the same month that I sold another piece from the series, <a href="http://www.k-b-e.net/painting/hearland.html">Hearing the land that was now of my blood and flesh</a> (title from Faulkner's <span style="font-style: italic;">As I Lay Dying</span>). This piece will eventually go to live with its new owner in Japan--I'm thrilled that what started as a document of and about the place where I make my home, will make its own home in a far away place that intrigues and mystifies me, a place I hope to visit again soon.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdgbyf9vs-1gIibKJ5C-yS2NgTRZo9TbBKlOvbhUAfevS73gkD6QNOlbQfinTOGXOloEc8Qq6frDEaiWR1qrdF9Q268jCwpyAt0oz31J6g8btuBFag2rCqAl43jalrYgdRsRGFd6dHog/s1600/hearingtheland.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdgbyf9vs-1gIibKJ5C-yS2NgTRZo9TbBKlOvbhUAfevS73gkD6QNOlbQfinTOGXOloEc8Qq6frDEaiWR1qrdF9Q268jCwpyAt0oz31J6g8btuBFag2rCqAl43jalrYgdRsRGFd6dHog/s400/hearingtheland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498061332671692290" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Perhaps this convergence means that I need to sit down and take stock of this work, lest I forget to make more of it, forget to continue where I left off (when I had my little creature and became obsessed with making <a href="http://www.littlecreaturesfilms.com/">Little Creatures</a> live and breathe). So, while the spotlight is on these pieces that I often think of as my "real work," (as opposed to the many small paintings and mixed media pieces, not to mention the jewelry and mobiles and toys and oh, did I say . . . films? Oh yeah, the other "real work," fill the space around me), it might be worth noting here how many times I have written and rewritten my artist's statement concerning these Superimposed Cities. The pithy statement that ends up in my Ruminate bio, "Using a range of materials to collapse space and time provides a transformative way for me to process meaningful and traumatic events," has come a long way over these past four years. So as if to prove that "artist's statement" were the most ridiculous oxymoron, here are some previous incarnations, from dozens of grant and show applications . . . tracing the idea from its genesis, back in 2000, when I was simply cutting into canvas and suspending seeds within sheer fabric attached to the edges of holes, to 2006, when I started drawing cities one on top of the other, suspending the seeds and other natural materials within footprints of buildings:<br /><br />• My cuts and stitches into my canvases, my stuffing of bits and pieces of the earth, further connect abstract to real.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br />• I am intrigued that a painting might rupture and give way to sculptural forms, almost of its own will. Perhaps this is a way that I can reconcile my need to make both two and three-dimensional work. Perhaps this is a rebellion of the will, because I know that painting can always reach for the illusion of beauty or reality or life, but can never truly become something that I can hold in my hands and love. Just as I chase light with strokes of a paintbrush, I chase form so far that I must bring the surface and build out from within.<br />• I cut into the canvas and stuff sheer pockets of fabric with bits and pieces of the earth and its elements--seeds, twigs, moss, stones and glass, to disrupt the picture plane and create a more dynamic interplay of image and object, and to include the actual reference points of my paintings, in the paintings themselves.<br />• </span><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >By combining disparate elements, I am seeking to make sense of life, death, the injustice of war and the possibility of grace.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >• The streets of Ancient Rome intersect those of present-day Washington, D.C. ('Seeds of Empire'); the streets of my neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, intersect those of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, of the 1920's ('Hearing the Land'), collapsing time and space and welcoming stories into dialogue with one another through visual relationships.<br />• 'Seeds of Empire' asks the viewer, what is empire, where did it begin, where is it going, and will it implode within our lifetime? Buildings represented by roots and seeds shown in their fullness: the Imperial Fora, Colosseum, Basilica Julia and the Capitolium. Buildings represented by seeds shown in late and rotting stages: White House, Capitol, Senate and Congressional Buildings, and the Supreme Court.<br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >• I cut into canvases to stuff and sew sheer pockets of fabric with bits and pieces of organic objects, marking significant points on these maps where the course of history has changed.<br />• I am incorporating drawings of superimposed city maps to create imaginary cities from disparate yet sociologically relevant urban areas, as seen from above.<br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >• I </span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;color:black;" >superimpose city maps on top of one another, such that new, imaginary cities spawn from disparate, yet sociologically relevant, and very real, times and places. </span><!--EndFragment--><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">• I superimpose cities, fabricating locales out of disparate times and places. I stuff sheer pockets of fabric with organic objects and sew them into the canvas to mark significant historical points on the maps.</span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >• These pieces serve as the personal account of the horror I have experienced as these cities have crumbled in more ways than one.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >• These pieces serve as a personal account of the horror I have felt as these cities have crumbled in more ways than one, and a meditation on the ephemerality of civilizations.</span> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>80</o:Words> <o:characters>459</o:Characters> <o:company>Little Creatures</o:Company> <o:lines>3</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>563</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>10.1316</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; 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mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br />• I create a new reality as a collapsed space-time continuum, where far-flung places and events are inextricably entwined.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >• </span><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >Through these painted and sewn documents, I challenge viewers to see reality as a collapsed space-time continuum, wherein related current and past events are inextricably entwined.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >• Through these painted and sewn documents, I challenge viewers to see reality as a collapsed space-time continuum, and to see the beauty and horror of current and past, true and fabricated events for what they are--inextricably entwined.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:13pt;color:black;" ><o:p></o:p></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:13pt;color:black;" ></span></span> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > </span>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-91698691532596374992010-04-28T13:18:00.007-04:002010-05-03T14:34:27.687-04:00Much dreaming . . .<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSshPzhUexzgIzQnaTBDbnb-unfKcxPNrUMHsR_nzXiAT5pOJqtmvYoS4ce4uFN272LR8KopoXkYeaOIEfp36vzwDhPyLTr6aKcGqtlz3PDVKO76vxEcY4m5WEWvY8LkAPVGhkKAewMk/s1600/muchdreaming_cu.jpg"><img style="float: left; 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margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbhG4lM5RO-Ow6LpSE1QdtpvyDqlR6p7yoW6EaDtl_zBKgqG-1qYqiSub8mBPCo2Kj3q7uNxT8uuMTtZgZHyrKIZCpaOkXYSgvQhqyxvT6FEBOKZdwLbfxs5ovprHAzjBlrTwIMjjPXq4/s400/pods_wall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467104196071936498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFaJEgNMgfMPcgUcLQH_RzCBXEOdqAD3RWwl2ooGiC3dJDfgk1kK04YDWr2ArEHmQsZaiXnIU2V_El_ij_wtmsFmqPyLtpQnQ3JVKRvoNwyqOVCL-fUKfosArkO_kXrpgqSgtWuRvShBQ/s1600/map_wall.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFaJEgNMgfMPcgUcLQH_RzCBXEOdqAD3RWwl2ooGiC3dJDfgk1kK04YDWr2ArEHmQsZaiXnIU2V_El_ij_wtmsFmqPyLtpQnQ3JVKRvoNwyqOVCL-fUKfosArkO_kXrpgqSgtWuRvShBQ/s400/map_wall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467104183227972578" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Much dreaming and many words, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">a show featuring a selection of my paintings and mixed media pieces from 2003-2010, will be on exhibit for one more week at the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.brooklyncreativeleague.com/">Brooklyn Creative League</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> in Gowanus. </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://harmonyandfaith.blogspot.com/">Faith Evans-Sills</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and her husband </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://francissills.blogspot.com/">Frank Sills</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> put this show together, in collaboration with Neil Carson and Erin Carney who founded BCL, a very inspiring "Workspace + Community for Independent Professionals."</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> I'm grateful for this opportunity to show my work and look forward to seeing more art that Faith and Frank curate in the space. </span></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVo9zp0ic04FtrTGZoX7A_gnOec_j3k-1kx77OxoU_yLiplfLIzDYc14cqPXcwzbWY_2x3sNh7oyfNYLW-rMAxccAIPpbo3Bq2ymgbdFBnT0y7ehYgw0Pf-UP9MLxCiKu8uUT69VPRb0/s1600/waitquietly_800.jpg"><img style="float: left; 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We are missing you.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix6eV9Oa9m5RsmjWqyyHGxnF92lTAhrKL8mgSJqL4MovQx98JCh9rFnOlB4wwE2DJh44m4z0tT3ttRWzSYNTSn4zmpx6yR0VynRB5SORwyum7aChYchxiIXZS25sZ08kNo4ZyUAMxyYT4/s1600/papaw_crewel.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix6eV9Oa9m5RsmjWqyyHGxnF92lTAhrKL8mgSJqL4MovQx98JCh9rFnOlB4wwE2DJh44m4z0tT3ttRWzSYNTSn4zmpx6yR0VynRB5SORwyum7aChYchxiIXZS25sZ08kNo4ZyUAMxyYT4/s400/papaw_crewel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454276465920135522" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFAfGWh0L4l3JSOQ0YNphcjhgGE5nghtkMmIUYtoK4mZ4uVGbIfBwveRSuG9XmzEmwBAI9eifD5LUgQ3Pq4GWtV-UYTwac9nKWXWWnahHp-6QvmyL2lfJfQ7zsmGHxr5_8e6R37iw23vE/s1600/papawmmesmile.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" /></a></span></div>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-579910938088392992010-02-11T18:10:00.006-05:002010-02-11T18:47:09.976-05:00Trees for Haiti<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8TcAKNRfLe0b1CpdDOsnOHgcg1Vee12TJciabPaG5zSguMzmnciT-9JiPzQT_hSABES6jIPnfsEuVYA-lccAHpzWN3IZefTZGgJJ9aPuzZ-9Tc4WTn-vyYKyDVCI8ftJSLcbEXsv1SU/s1600-h/treefernhaiti_1000.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8TcAKNRfLe0b1CpdDOsnOHgcg1Vee12TJciabPaG5zSguMzmnciT-9JiPzQT_hSABES6jIPnfsEuVYA-lccAHpzWN3IZefTZGgJJ9aPuzZ-9Tc4WTn-vyYKyDVCI8ftJSLcbEXsv1SU/s400/treefernhaiti_1000.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437127443191066002" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >It has almost been a month since the earthquake devastated Haiti. Here is the first of a series I am painting in honor of the 230,000 (+) people who lost their lives, and as a gesture of solidarity with the hundreds of thousands more people who are injured and/or left without a home.<br /><br />How can I hope to make a dent in the overwhelming collective pain that Haiti has experienced?<br /><br />I really do not know. I'm just painting some pieces and offering 100% of the sales to Partners in Health, the nonprofit medical relief organization that founded its first community clinic in Haiti in 1985</span><span style=";font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:85%;" >.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > I chose this organization because its co-founder, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Yong_Kim">Jim Yong Kim</a>, is currently president of Dartmouth College, where I spent four years as an undergraduate. From the <a href="http://www.pih.org/where/Haiti/Haiti.html">Partners in Health website</a>: </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">"Zanmi Lasante ('Partners In Health' in Haitian Kreyol) is PIH’s flagship project – the oldest, largest, most ambitious, and most replicated. Today, ZL ranks as one of the largest nongovernmental health care providers in Haiti – and the only provider of comprehensive primary care, regardless of ability to pay, for more than half a million impoverished people living in the mountainous Central Plateau</span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >."<br /><br />This first piece is called "Tree Fern for Haiti." It is a tree fern leaf, painted on a dictionary page that includes the entry "Haitian." This comes out of some research I've just started on the flora and fauna of Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one that is over 90 percent deforested.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> I don't yet know how many tree ferns are still growing in Haiti, but I know they are an indigenous species. When I looked at the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/">digital specimen image library</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> of the Freie Universität Berlin, I found this particular leaf shape as a specimen from Haiti.<br /><br />This original watercolor painting is <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40538482">on sale in my Etsy Halflight shop</a> for $35. The complete proceeds from the sale of this and following paintings from this series (Trees for Haiti) will go directly to Partners in Health, for their efforts there.<br /></span></span>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-47130561958645078822009-12-31T18:26:00.007-05:002010-01-01T11:37:43.872-05:00from snow to snow<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOk9UPFaCFjU8cGeuTjqyMMLgjfcNcbp-S4SZZ6Is9YyLpPp8SaB95G2uQMSNh4kbI-lteDqGuFB63JzdybP3u4cnTX_oL06ofSsR5_PHYVvVGaew2UBDRp3L_naEP-ytB3hIiL6dHM-w/s1600-h/winterR.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOk9UPFaCFjU8cGeuTjqyMMLgjfcNcbp-S4SZZ6Is9YyLpPp8SaB95G2uQMSNh4kbI-lteDqGuFB63JzdybP3u4cnTX_oL06ofSsR5_PHYVvVGaew2UBDRp3L_naEP-ytB3hIiL6dHM-w/s400/winterR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421808943317746514" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3i3TQMkx3j9yntjdeiae4X5UloROF9-ElafbKrAHhj15EIpP4sqP8-Z4IAApu92xFxo_0u3BV0TU7T02UvteumDP3MctAaovjpOMUifQMi29Tnsz9trjyxhloPu_JlWitY13-nK1C6kc/s1600-h/dayoldmme.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3i3TQMkx3j9yntjdeiae4X5UloROF9-ElafbKrAHhj15EIpP4sqP8-Z4IAApu92xFxo_0u3BV0TU7T02UvteumDP3MctAaovjpOMUifQMi29Tnsz9trjyxhloPu_JlWitY13-nK1C6kc/s400/dayoldmme.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421811298959920674" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFLuuyEZXbFzjboNYT3F6IGoAcVO31Tv8pvg7cf0TcR8Vz6I1GjaL2eMhigS_z1w6Cx_c8-dYPP7qqIqzKvuffZ_tWYEUD0fwsdKpmo_0CUPCo8QriD92pZg-g5S7m1rnyobm3VLzcalI/s1600-h/wintersnow09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFLuuyEZXbFzjboNYT3F6IGoAcVO31Tv8pvg7cf0TcR8Vz6I1GjaL2eMhigS_z1w6Cx_c8-dYPP7qqIqzKvuffZ_tWYEUD0fwsdKpmo_0CUPCo8QriD92pZg-g5S7m1rnyobm3VLzcalI/s400/wintersnow09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421811302548561954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">2009 came and ended with a snow, and a new life. We'll never be the same.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSn5rX4Fe8RGMMYxO3XJHFdCipOon78KXM5YMJzPD97bSC4w1xisTRFtUk8B8FI-ODPJNRNctenY2vsGkCryMbSZm-Wa1DmOZJg5usZsASsK8wRX-M2R1c7f2vBewsbsOlwzKo0g9pcRA/s1600-h/winterboop.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSn5rX4Fe8RGMMYxO3XJHFdCipOon78KXM5YMJzPD97bSC4w1xisTRFtUk8B8FI-ODPJNRNctenY2vsGkCryMbSZm-Wa1DmOZJg5usZsASsK8wRX-M2R1c7f2vBewsbsOlwzKo0g9pcRA/s400/winterboop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421808962362770402" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzk_71aTn9Tg5lOJ3A5qXWJWlBEi4d5K55t3jD_0uc3xed3pIsIGTqrhGezlnp5sh-VB4qP9tKh9zVmBGE80leBcVtDfRkTp2cflTbD-eiJKXQHdduIOUR3dTpuNIRKvy9nvT6l3Z3A08/s1600-h/wintergrills.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzk_71aTn9Tg5lOJ3A5qXWJWlBEi4d5K55t3jD_0uc3xed3pIsIGTqrhGezlnp5sh-VB4qP9tKh9zVmBGE80leBcVtDfRkTp2cflTbD-eiJKXQHdduIOUR3dTpuNIRKvy9nvT6l3Z3A08/s400/wintergrills.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421808954497136514" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieE-vD5O-s24Js_Pgu5GxaK9VCPZxfx-30P6DJRqCNcKwIzID0bBpPh7Q3uz236uu0Y257qH7TjRxlVeAF3y9YqEPVuDK_Uj4Twy5Bs5Vb2xv04JM1jf6MRIJBPeWZY-u3tkAxMaAPSSM/s1600-h/wintermouse.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieE-vD5O-s24Js_Pgu5GxaK9VCPZxfx-30P6DJRqCNcKwIzID0bBpPh7Q3uz236uu0Y257qH7TjRxlVeAF3y9YqEPVuDK_Uj4Twy5Bs5Vb2xv04JM1jf6MRIJBPeWZY-u3tkAxMaAPSSM/s400/wintermouse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421810062625721394" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYKseJKvta_hLSrcjDcSWxp4ZDBDqsKa_JC-dCi2EZS5Idhy7jC6f0XSpgAtHgMneySqvOQQ8zThwgFZTeuAYPZIGJNhtS8PSs7ISk009jPgulACXq3nz_x-Q1LwkedVqNMwbk3gx8mNI/s1600-h/winterheart.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYKseJKvta_hLSrcjDcSWxp4ZDBDqsKa_JC-dCi2EZS5Idhy7jC6f0XSpgAtHgMneySqvOQQ8zThwgFZTeuAYPZIGJNhtS8PSs7ISk009jPgulACXq3nz_x-Q1LwkedVqNMwbk3gx8mNI/s400/winterheart.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421808960438959154" border="0" /></a>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-550410641222332332009-11-30T10:59:00.004-05:002009-11-30T23:12:56.065-05:00reference section<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3n5WTvS-9sBKdQftnBq9GtB3pxtdK_K09voyvXStD0Blh2IzYi2mAbhPX49A1kq1LNL-Vo8FvacvKU3Irc53Zx3ytIU3wEhTRujdRgTFObAC4M0tQPzGSLzfwsRaxpZ2jtWanIaEx84Q/s1600/P1120689.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3n5WTvS-9sBKdQftnBq9GtB3pxtdK_K09voyvXStD0Blh2IzYi2mAbhPX49A1kq1LNL-Vo8FvacvKU3Irc53Zx3ytIU3wEhTRujdRgTFObAC4M0tQPzGSLzfwsRaxpZ2jtWanIaEx84Q/s400/P1120689.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409934547815747058" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I have begun a new series that I'll be posting for sale in my <a href="http://halflight.etsy.com/">Halflight/Etsy</a> shop: paintings and drawings on old dictionary and encyclopedia pages. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=35629484"> This first piece</a> is an acrylic painting of a juniper branch in a range of greens, on an encyclopedia page from the 20's (though I can't be sure, Sean and I saved a human-sized stack of a set that we rescued from Pacific St. in 2001, until our move in 2005, at which time I tore out the pages that seemed interesting, none of which seems to be a title page with a date). The pages have all been through some weather, so they are brittle, brown around the edges and water-damaged, but this makes for a perfect surface upon which to paint a simple image. So these days I've been asking myself if painting matters anymore, since I don't seem to be doing it (now that <a href="http://www.littlecreaturesfilms.com/">Little Creatures</a> and MME have taken over life as I know it)...and we shall see. I'm hoping and praying it that does matter, for if it doesn't, it will be like the death of a dear friend, and nothing less.<br /></span></span>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-61930673292983363542009-09-21T23:07:00.001-04:002009-09-21T23:09:22.039-04:00One Week Later<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmpW8ZXMcdyME_IP1iyCO9J4Qwt00fdwNLl_-sSdoknamJZkKdYuRDs29cVMhfmTtzR1UrDBeuL_cEoiEyQ6F7Vfnp3m-WNx9bmlcp4KoiyDA6V7RldHmCmKlxtmBPnIW98KCdpfmakY/s1600-h/milkweed_oneweeklater.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmpW8ZXMcdyME_IP1iyCO9J4Qwt00fdwNLl_-sSdoknamJZkKdYuRDs29cVMhfmTtzR1UrDBeuL_cEoiEyQ6F7Vfnp3m-WNx9bmlcp4KoiyDA6V7RldHmCmKlxtmBPnIW98KCdpfmakY/s400/milkweed_oneweeklater.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384123566199611314" border="0" /></a>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-25045468264285498692009-09-15T13:58:00.003-04:002009-09-15T14:27:10.680-04:00hudson valley pods<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhftAnE0TWSYvIUAecQyVh3ijgGGJPyz7KoC78jrbEiaV-xLX-bToNIWeLLxbUxm8UcNunEFLhEtTHgkw9yBBdBgZCTNqJVIuQYNoJnhNMysjn7pwgC6PBFH-1PKLo9cGwj11FPaYTDeU/s1600-h/upstatefall09pods1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhftAnE0TWSYvIUAecQyVh3ijgGGJPyz7KoC78jrbEiaV-xLX-bToNIWeLLxbUxm8UcNunEFLhEtTHgkw9yBBdBgZCTNqJVIuQYNoJnhNMysjn7pwgC6PBFH-1PKLo9cGwj11FPaYTDeU/s400/upstatefall09pods1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381759707516114850" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sean presented me with a milkweed pod from somewhere around Beacon, where I was selling this past Saturday at the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.handmadecavalcade.com/">Handmade Cavalcade.</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Then, I found a cousa dogwood (my favorite pod in the whole wide world!) growing in the yard of St. Phillips church in Garrison. . . where we visited our dear friends Tinkie and Blake.</span></span>k.b.e.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11933100932670313287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167524131010118800.post-35237373285211967672009-08-29T12:43:00.005-04:002009-08-30T00:22:42.563-04:00summer in red hook<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQaG2fmv4P57PFIZ7TYzuamv9_WJ4RMSeW98NrbaUOmbZ2vUuR0wiQWdTrIGsx2AmWkjVadni2i3gS9mhBiTDk0HUGWocCnV4zJR9NKoAHBf22Pb0PFIo2E9doaMl52HyQjKdo1J7Mcs/s1600-h/summer09_3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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