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Wegman :: note :: ... walking by the river encountered a jogger with dog ... the innocent eyes & curious gaze captivated me ... " Wish I were a dog", I exclaimed ... partner responded "You are - You are!" ... finally found myself ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... a wild few days around here ... high winds, tornado touch downs ... trees falling onto roofs & streets ... above is a picture down the street ... look through the window of the fire truck to see the fallen tree ...

... imagine my surprise when out of the blue artist Chris Ashley offered to ship a work simply as an act of gratitude for my following his html pieces throughout the years ... asked if i had a request & shocked i replied whatever comes will be appreciated ... ... we don't "know" each other ... have never met ... a sporadic network connection at best ... the last few days he posted another of his gifts hanging ... here's where mine hangs ... above my computer work station flanked by my sons piece done at age 11 ... the reflected light line seems appropriate (to me) ... his recent work may be viewed at David Cunningham Projects in San Francisco & his most recent recent work may be viewed each day on his blog Look, See which links & reviews other work as well ... the last month has been particularly stunning as the daily practice demands & challenges both form & impulse ... daily looking means to see & to see I have discovered is to ...

( via LookSee ) - See: Image Artist :: note :: ... this is a work that might fit into SL ... able to fly around & even into ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... Drollic Dream ... a flickr toy ...

- See: Image Gallery Artists :: note :: ... entered the Ten Cubed Gallery to visit the works of Chris Ashley ... although love the idea of Second Life the virtual gallery fails to create or enrich ... launched by the real world gallery Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists the traditional web pages give all of the works more vibrancy ... second life feels very secondary ... granted there is the walking a gallery & a spatial effect ... perhaps i need more practice and better equipment ... still second life with the ability to fly and teleport demands fresh new ways of viewing ... would love to fly around works ...

Waldman on Theater - See: Theater Image :: note :: ... as sessions end with young circle of voices think on my spirit mentors ... did not see Constant Prince but did see the next works & more ... Max Waldman documented an important theater moment ... everytime I work thanks go to Grotowski's Actors Lab ...

photos by Iryn "Knots? I queried myself in the midst of the chaos. I brought the words softly to my lips ... all sorts of things were connected. Some connections led to confusion, he'd said. Because I lost track of what I wanted. So were all my ties meaningless?" ( Murakami. Dance Dance Dance . 94 ) - See: Image :: note :: ... just friday the 13th ...

photo&words by Iryn - See: Images :: note :: ... yikes ... what to do now? ...

picture by Iryn - See: Images :: note :: ... the wind streams through the windows ... quick cooling after hot day ... the brilliant sunlight ...

"I love this exhibition. It shows how juxtaposition and instinct and a freewheeling approach can make for curatorial brilliance, when passion rather than cold logic fires the selection. "I experimented with sounds that make the listener feel loved," said Wilson of Pet Sounds. That is how this show makes you feel." ( guadian unlimited arts| Still waters run deep ) - See: Image :: note :: ... the principle instinct & passion practised with diligence & imagination takes work & transforms the work into play opening into an intelligence of feeling ... that's what I think ... accessing instinct & passion requires a complex bundle of energy, excitement, enthusiasm with precise impulse following associations & abandon ... it demands being treacherous in safe places ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... biking down back alleys came across this graffiti ... the bizzare thing is this post broke the last seven posts which will be fixed tomorrow ... i hope ...

- See: Theater :: note :: ... reflections on a work ... a work that may be called SleepWork ... entering something from the sleep side ... an incognito glimpse ... unrecognized, hidden, unknown because we judge something of worth is hidden ... SleepWork is hopeful ... SleepWork premises "to awake to a reality more real than the waking world" (Anne Carson | Decreation | 22) ...

- See: Theater :: note :: ... students create Tableaux of moment in "Run" ... explored FASD & more ...

A slide show will appear here shortly. - See: Terms :: note :: ... testing this slide show from flickr ... treetops from the temple ...

See: Images :: note :: ... the hoarfrost touched trees around the temple ... compliment another earlier set ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... cd cover done ... all pleased ... space was at a premium with the middle hole ...

" Guild stressed that the white poppy was in no way intended as an insult to those who died in the First World War but that it was a 'pledge to peace that war must not happen again'." - See: Image :: note :: ... am so tired of war ... when will leaders listen to the people ... please stop sending our children on missions of killing ... why I can't wear a poppy ... a white poppy can be a salvation ...

"... [power] lies in the fact that [repetitive musics] cause the forgetting of what is being repeated and they make for a nonforgetting of time as a beat in place. Tradition is that which concerns time, not content. Whereas what the West wants from autonomy, invention, novelty, self-determination is the opposite - to forget time and to preserve, acquire and accumulate contents. To turn them into what we call history, and to think that it progresses because it accumulates. On the contrary, in the case of popular traditions ... nothing is accumulated, that is, the narratives must be repeated all the time because they are forgotten all the time. But what does not get forgotten is the temporal beat that does not stop sending the narratives to oblivion. " ( Just Gaming . Lyotard . ) - See: Image :: note :: ... the whole dada movement about spontaneity in process, work & performance lives & is continually documented ... it is a practice of devising and a response to the...

N.V.N. There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross,- even if lips draw near in awful silence and love tears at the heart. Friendship is weak and useless here, and years of happiness, exalted and full of fire, because the soul is free and does not know the slow luxuries of sensual life. Those who try to come near it are insane and those who reach it are shaken by grief, So now you know exactly why my heart beats no faster under your hand. (Jane Kenyon's rendering from the Russian of Anna Akhmatova via Slate ) - See: Image