Tuesday, 27 Sep 2005 | 9:04 PM

Sketches/drawings for larger pieces. I continue to explore new approaches to artmaking--new for me, that is--illustrations of the mythological world I've created.

The top drawing delineates some of the main rules by which Star Trippers must live, (e.g., "No one alive will ever know what you discover. An entire universe will be your own") accompanied by a loose schematic drawing of the star tripper's tower. The bottom sketch is "Fig. 2.4. The star tripper's dreams are tracked and correlated to their universe of optimum expression."

It just occurred to me that I have done this sort of radical recalculation before, stopping one approach to art and picking up another overnight. It was a little different back in '99 though considering I was changing from not having an approach to having an approach. Then I was completely pulled from the front, that is to say, drawn by an excitement over exploring a new way of seeing things. That excitement gave rise to all the gridded portraits.

This time it's equal parts being pushed from behind and pulled from in front. That's hard to admit. But it's true that a very large part of doing this new work was out of the realization that the portraits were for me exhausted, limiting and ultimately a statement that had finished being stated. So I pry a new world open, crack its splintery shell and poke around at what's inside.

I stopped by AMOA in a rare morning visit to the museum, went back to look at what I had missed during the opening of "22 to Watch." It was about what I'd remembered, although without the crowd in the way, I finally "got" Lidia Carroll's (I'm sure that's spelled wrong) amazing indoor/outdoor sculpture of transparent plastic tubing that moved the museum's fountain water throughout the space of the building. Nice work. And no, Roy, photography is not allowed at the museum. "Insurance reasons," I was told.

current music: Citizen Cope, Clarence Greenberg Recordings

Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 | 8:29 PM

They were predicting tropical-storm force winds and rain for Austin this weekend. Instead we got:

luck.
current music: Vacation Gold, December 1972

Tuesday, 13 Sep 2005 | 9:52 PM

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announced last Friday the launch of the Katrina Artists Trust (KAT), a grant-making trust to provide financial support for visual artists in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. "By focusing its support on the painters, sculptors, and other visual artists who lived in the regions damaged by the hurricane, the Museum’s KAT program provides a unique source of revitalization for a community with a long artistic tradition." More info here: http://www.camh.org/kat

Also, the Austin Convention Center still needs computer volunteers for the evacuees still housed there. http://www.austinfree.net/katrinavolunteer.htm

current music: 2001: A Space Odyssey (in my head)

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