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Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 11:07 AM
Ever since I got my Polaroid Spectra, I've been experimenting diligently with various "guerrilla" techniques for making and altering instant photos. One of those techniques, the double exposure, is particularly wonderful for adventurous people who want to make equally adventurous images. The exciting truth is that these methods allow you to set up a double-exposure--combining subjects and textures and lighting conditions using your imagination & experience--without completely controlling the results! |
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Posted on Monday, February 27, 2012 11:33 AM
 Emergency INDEXis a great new annual focusing on documentation of performance. It's put out by the wonderful Ugly Duckling Presse, and I'm looking forward to its release. I can't make the release party at the Kitchen (as announced here). But those of you in the NYC area should try to make it. It looks great!
Oh yeah, I'm in thisINDEXtwice: as part of the Human Micropoem, and for the "Restrictive Andragogies and Ex-Citation" performance with Nicholas Alexander Hayes, in the Red Rover series. |
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Posted on Friday, September 30, 2011 10:18 AM
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Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:15 PM
This is my desk, in my studio.  I'm looking at it. It's full of stuff I've been working on, and tools I've been using in that work. Sometimes it's both enticing and repellant, a place of simultaneously great comfort and great irritation.
I've been spending too much time at it recently, but I've also been spending more time than usual away from it this past week. I've been seeing friends, going to poetry readings and performances, being more social and less studio-bound. But it's still largely poetry/art-oriented activity. |
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Posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:09 AM
Not all these tributes are
tales of loss or regret. I'm also grateful to many editors and
curators with whom I'm still in active contact--or with whom I've
resumed contact.
The
"Web Publications" page on my website mentions that I have
worked with Eric Lorberer, ofRain Taxi Review of Books,for about ten years. There's a reason for the durability of this
partnership: Eric lets me write as I write, and then makes whatever
tiny changes are needed to allow my words to be even more true to my
own voice and vision. |
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Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:28 PM
I'm
in the process of forming some new editorial and curatorial
partnerships. Thinking about the future in this way got me thinking
a bit about where I've come from and the people who saw
something--and still see something--of interest in my work. I
wouldn't be anywhere if it weren't for the people who made room for
me and my work. This is my salute to them.
One
of the first editors to respond to my poetic oddnesses was Don
Wentworth, the force behindLilliput Review.
He has quietly been reprinting some of the work I (and others) have
offered him in the past, mining back issues of his magazine, on |
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Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2011 4:28 PM
Want to
know a secret? How about two secrets?
When I
was in eighth grade, I got a D in art.
When I
was in ninth grade, I failed English.
How was
such a thing possible for a kid who was practically born with a pen
in one hand, a pencil in the other? (Ouch...sorry, Mom!) How could
I, who loved (still love) art and writing more than anything else in
the world--even tamales--how could I have made such a poor showing at
the things I loved to do? Obviously, there's no single answer to
that question. |
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Posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 10:40 AM
Yesterday, I wrote about how to make photograms using paper treated with UV-sensitive cyanotype emulsion, available from various manufacturers. Now I'd like to share some ideas for how to take that process a little further, by using the same paper to create a more traditional photographic image. I'll be showing you two very similar processes using inkjet-printer transparencies. One procedure creates a print with inverted values--like a photonegative. The other procedure uses a negative transparency and produces a fine blue-as-blue-can-be photo print. |
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Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:23 PM
 Now that it's properly summer in Chicago, it's time to take the art outdoors whenever possible. One way to do that is by taking the camera out and roaming the city (country, world); I've been doing that for a long time and obviously I love it. But there are other ways to make photographs even without a camera. One of these ways is to make solar photograms (often called "sunprints," in the same way that facial tissues are called by the brand name of their most popular manufacture). |
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Posted on Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:01 PM
One of the things that folks (including me) find interesting about my paint-out poems--like "errata" and "double double" in theGallery--is that the text is readable in more than one direction. Even as the creator of these pieces, I often read them in different ways at different times. Each piece changes depending on what elements stand out in the interaction between word, image, texture and color. So if a viewer notices a new texture or if the combination of words brings up a new association when the eye hits it a new way, the whole piece can change--regardless of how it was experienced and interpreted the first time (or hundred times) it was viewed. |
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