Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-23 Thread David-Baptiste Chirot
Just as I was about to reply to this disucussion, a letter arrived from my mother with the following, appropriate to the matter at ahnd: My favorite idea for sorting out my apt. has always been to put a dumpster under the back + throw out EVERY THING IN IT. Have it carried away

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-23 Thread David-Baptiste Chirot
Just as I was about to reply to this disucussion, a letter arrived from my mother with the following, appropriate to the matter at ahnd: My favorite idea for sorting out my apt. has always been to put a dumpster under the back + throw out EVERY THING IN IT. Have it carried away

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-23 Thread David-Baptiste Chirot
Just as I was about to reply to this disucussion, a letter arrived from my mother with the following, appropriate to the matter at ahnd: My favorite idea for sorting out my apt. has always been to put a dumpster under the back + throw out EVERY THING IN IT. Have it carried away

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-22 Thread Kathy Forer
On Apr 22, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Melissa McCarthy wrote: Has anyone on the list ever done anything wildly destructive and/or cathartic with old work, then used the remains to create something new? (I'm thinking of an art bonfire in a metal trashcan in my own case, an idea I've toyed with for

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-22 Thread Ann Klefstad
Great story, Kathy! I love the sense of the drama of that age, you know you're sort of discovering the scale at which you want to live, and at that age the desired scale is pretty big, and one's abilities are really not up to it. You discover how much courage you have-- a lot, I think, in your

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-22 Thread Kathy Forer
Thanks Ann. Enough courage to retell the story years later but nerve to destroy the stuff of dreams then just to to gain attention. Also newfound awareness to recognize that even the most planned events take on another life when enacted and impulse takes over. Hasn't photography created

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-22 Thread Kathy Forer
On Apr 22, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Allan Revich wrote: I remember when I was 20 or 21 I took a whole series, maybe more that a dozen paintings, each 4 feet by four feet, and burned them in the family fireplace. It felt good and I have never regretted it. There felt something vengeful about my

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-22 Thread Ann Klefstad
O the Mark Twain Trio is wonderful! It is good they weren't swept away. On 4/22/06 3:04 PM, Kathy Forer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 22, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Allan Revich wrote: I remember when I was 20 or 21 I took a whole series, maybe more that a dozen paintings, each 4 feet by four

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-22 Thread Madawg Painterofdark
--- Kathy Forer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . I made these same time, but they didn't get swept away. I'm glad they didn't. http://kforer.com/gallery/?album=figurative_narrativeimg=6 your lovers entwined is beautiful-Dawg __ Do You

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-22 Thread Kathy Forer
It's tough enough, we excavate this Stuff -- something out of nothing, that's good -- with great difficulty or ease, but then sometimes go beyond integrity to make capricious judgments or use the work for other purposes, rejecting it, repudiating its truth or validity. But the cycle starts anew

Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff

2006-04-22 Thread Carol Starr
about twenty years ago when i had a wood burning stove i tore and burned about a hundred paintings on paper. it was a great cleansing and i really had to stop myself or i would have burned everything. i have never missed what was tossed on the fire. i no longer heat with wood and we are forbidden