No.53 Make your days the way you make art
Have you been paying attention to where you put your attention?
The Flat Files
Twice-a-month missives on art mediums and processes, and what I'm working on. I do drawings paintings, and printmking in Brooklyn NY.
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No.52 The Elusive Promise of Summer
The indelible imprint of a thousand summer days
No.51 My whole approach was misguided
Making art is how I know who I am— what would I be without it?
No.50 Printmaking as a way to recycle take-out containers
Time to start asking people to save plastic containers from their recycling
No.49 Mineral Springs and Ancient Stones
Tuscany, Part the Second: A tale of two Lucias
No.48 Diving Swifts and Towering Bells
Tuscany, Part the first: In which I make some new friends while painting outdoors
No.47 Water and wax don’t mix, brilliantly
In which I achieve some curious effects with a slippy substrate
No.46 ‘In winter and in woods, I am a pilgrim’
In which some of my drawings and writings transformed into a ’zine! Also: a confession.
No.45 Melting, Meltwater & Magic
In which I discover a bit of material magic, and observe details of passing towns that drift past my window
No.44 In Little Falls I Met a Cat and a Crow
In which fiction rushes in up where fact fears to tread, and other verisimilitudes of art-making
No.43 Time Moves too Fast and Things Make Me Tired
In which the daily drawings are the most serene moments of the day, yet a preponderance of ‘doing’ can be depleting.