Further Afield

so, finding a pigment leads you to a bar from your very young self. Stanley’s.

Pigments, those little things that go into so much — they come about in many ways, so to find them look to a store that specializes such as Kremer. https://shop.kremerpigments.com/us/shop/pigments/

” ‘Jack was one of the artists who has probably tried the most of our products here. I spoke to him a week before he passed, and he asked me about this aluminum powder and these mica pigments he had been trying over the last five years; he was experimenting a lot with light. He’d always been interested in this idea of how you can capture light with expressionism, and he was essentially using these pearlescent pigments to achieve this mimicry of transition.’ https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/26548-brief-history-georg-kremers-quiet-revolution-color/

The Jack is Jack Whitten whose book “Notes From the Woodshed” is under my mouse now. https://shop.hauserwirth.com/products/jack-whitten-notes-from-the-woodshed

‘The definition of ‘woodshed’ comes from the world of jazz. To go to the woodshed or to woodshed means to practice in private, which gives room for different types of experimentation, but also suggests a space where real and rigorous work can be possible, where rehearsal and radical vision away from a particular type of gaze has been vetted before it enters into a public realm.’

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/jack-whitten/

doubts and their defeat.

on the bookshelf, under a carry along 120.

/// Along this trail will be another post.

Meaning Comes from

Ideas, histories are built of parts. Combined, recombined. Taken apart for a gear here, there. A phrase, Tones. Related. distorted. We talk and listen to the past. The past we passed through. The past we are making. Nothing is purebred. This isn’t genesis. This is synthesis.

Cormac McCarthy forms words from his landings. Driving, looking, reading. His books holdout the anti-western. Not the formations of Carl Chiarenza, a PhD. worder of photography, photographers, those histories. The only thing McCarthy and Chiarenza share is my studio table.

Pictures Come from Pictures. We do not know who gave birth to the first — or why or how. We can speculate on the cave or on its source of inspiration; we can speculate on how the first pictures were perceived. But we can’t be sure. — Carl Chiarenza, Landscapes of the Mind, 1988.

McCarthy wouldn’t have punctuated it as correctly. Probably wouldn’t have said that much without making a new, better fitting word. That’s why his pictures are formed of letters not shadows.

the ugly fact is books are made out of books. . . . The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.” Cormac McCarthy