who are you?

I am abandoning these, they are too beautiful.

slow design

 

  

My ideas don't occur in a specific moment.
They are more like processes.

nina canell  sculptor

focus

 

 

I love how the world fades away when I am alone here.
It's just not important.
from January 2000 journal.

vertical dignity

 

 

a monumental presence yet
intimate because made by hand

longing cloths

 

 

Because the velvet is not wide enough.
to cover the piecework or fit neatly with the dot border

I make more.

metaphor and beauty

 

 

I've been interested in metaphor for ages.
I want my artwork to be all metaphor and beauty.
The kind of beauty that hits you hard, in the heart first, and then the mind.
That causes you to remember your own deep secret life, and also my work.
Together linked.

Susan Rothenberg

be pleased, you living one

the back of the mourning cloth
a long dark center
indigo velvet

be pleased, you living one,
in your delightfully warmed bed,
before Lethe's ice-cold wave will
lick your escaping foot

Goethe
from Roman Elegies 1790

Lethe is the river of oblivion.  It flows through Hades.
When one drinks the water, one forgets one's earthly life.

night

night with full moon

night with no moon