well, the webmaster funky flash has shown me at least
3 times, but i still can’t seem to get it, so in the meantime
i’m posting images from the recent show in ohio here.

The installation is called “questioning proximity
on the way to becoming atmosphere”

it had a very personal point of departure, but
i really think it moved into a very universal
conversation…

the polkadots carry on throughout the piece,
as a formal element, but also as a continuation
of the open ended thought implied in the
“dot dot dot” at the end of the quote.

i loved the rawness of some the elements…

…in combination with some of the more fastidious
elements, like this cross-stitched duck (or the
cross-stitched soldier posted just a little below.)

i’m back from ohio, where i was installing a piece for “weight of
the world” curated by the beloved ryan mulligan and the
bedazzling maiza hixson, and now i’m digging out from under
the glorious chaos that my studio had become. i enjoyed the
entropy when i was working on my own stuff, but now that i
have statue deadlines, time lost looking for the needlenose is
time i could be doing other things.

ohio is already a blur, but i know that a. ryan and kathryn
have the most glorious guestroom on the planet

r and k in love

and b. it is an honestly wonderful show.
i’m proud to be part of it. i’ll post images of my piece in the
gallery section of this site in the next week or so, but if you find
yourself anywhere near w.k.r.p. town, it is so worth the visit.
there are many pieces that will break your heart just a little…
and videos in the gallery – that you’ll actually watch in their entirety.

One visitor had this lovely response to the show in general:

I felt lucky to be introduced to those artists and to be reminded
that others wrestle with love and loss too… It takes the rarest bravery
to make and say these kinds of things to ourselves, let alone in full view of an
audience of strangers. I can’t imagine a more right moment to spend
time thinking about those left and lost when our world is filled with
so many distant and close examples. When our work can offer
space for people to think and feel then we have done our best service.

i think i’ll write more about the show and specific pieces this weekend…

still from laurel nakadate’s video “stars are blind”

i’m working this week on an installation for a show at the reed
gallery in cincinnati. i’m more excited about it than about anything
i’ve done in several years. i’ll post images soon, and write more
about what’s been happening in my head and heart with this project,
but here’s a tiny cross-stitched detail from the overall piece.

the word from the gallery:

Weight of the World
January 10-31

University of Cincinnati’s Reed Gallery is proud to present “Weight of the World.”
Curated by Maiza Hixson and Ryan Mulligan, “Weight of the World” testifies to
art’s potential for self-healing/coping/and emotional survival. The exhibition
features 17 artists, each of whom examine his/own own life through the practice
of art making, using the process of making as a step in healing. The works are
simultaneously self-centered and universal. With subjects ranging from
homemade support groups, coping with death and grief, self-actualization after
a break-up, financial difficulties, and an artist place in a post 9/11 world, the
show resonates with sincerity and humble self-reflection. Please join us for an
opening reception Thursday, January 10 th at 5:30 pm. Press preview is
available Wednesday the 9 th.

this is summer, the brand new baby of my nephew, christopher
and his wife, amanda…. born just in time for 2008.

hello little lovely.

the ultimate in the “every ending is also a beginning” approach, this is the un-colored drawing for bill watterson’s last “calvin and hobbes” strip, published on dec. 31, 1995

HAPPY NEW YEAR. GET YER MIND RIGHT. TAKE CARE OF YOUR SELF AND YOUR SOUL.
love, george