Just a few of the audible essentials when I'm driving down Ponce. Lemonade // Gucci Mane Bad Bad Bad // Young Thug Gang Gang // Migos Bad and Boujee // Migos Yuck! // 2 Chainz Flip // Future Wheelz of Steel // Outkast B.O.B // Outkast No Hands // Waka Flock Flame Asap // T.I. … Continue reading Atlanta Playlist
Carmen Herrera
Two months ago I saw my first Carmen Herrera painting - Blanco y Verde. It was on display at the Whitney Museum as part of the Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s exhibit. A squat, wide tip aimed into a white background. Look at it long enough and the green triangle looks like a cutout. Or an applique. … Continue reading Carmen Herrera
Sunflower
How do flowers do it? Making time for each other. Finding each other. Their discs are open. Rays wide and wanting.
RVA
"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language" - The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami. A summer walk along the James River in Richmond under a bright sun, big clouds and well-timed breezes.
Dan Flavin // The Diagonal of May 25, 1963
It is on a wall just off the Camp fashion installation. A quiet, singular respite from the volume, color and shuffling congestion of the adjacent exhibit. One white fluorescent bulb. Tilted on a 45-degree angle (I'm guessing) in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The piece is Diagonal of May 25, 1963 by Dan Flavin. I … Continue reading Dan Flavin // The Diagonal of May 25, 1963
The Jam 