Creating A Forest Where None Exists

This a clip form a new multi channel video that
I am working on. The finished work will be seen at
Red Saw Gallery in Newark in June. The working
title is Creating a Forest Where None Exists.

Here are a few more clips from the project:

Theory + Practice

ennui
|änˈwē|
noun
a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.
ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: French, from Latin mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me.’ Compare with annoy .

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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tabula rasa

tabula rasa
|ˈtäbyoŏlə ˈräsə; ˈräzə|
noun ( pl. tabulae rasae |ˈtäbyoŏlē ˈräsē; ˈräzē|)
an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate : the team did not have complete freedom and a tabula rasa from which to work.
• the human mind, esp. at birth, viewed as having no innate ideas.
ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘scraped tablet,’ denoting a tablet with the writing erased.

tabula rasa #1, 8x10, ink on paper, 2007

tabula rasa #2, 8.5x7, ink on paper, 2007

tabula rasa #3, 5x9, ink on paper, 2007

tabula rasa #4, 4x8, ink on paper, 2007

tabula rasa #5, 6x10, ink on paper, 2007

tabula rasa #6, 9x10, ink on paper, 2007

tabula rasa #7, 8x10, ink on paper, 2007

tabula rasa #8, 6x10, ink on paper, 2007

tabula rasa #10, 6x6, ink on paper, 2007

It Is What It Is

It Is What It Is
The Man Is The Man
The Creative Class
My Creative Ass
The Wolves At The Door
Can't Get Blood From A Stone
Stone Soup
Stone Cold
Just A Little More Than None
Not Much More Than Nothin'
Here And There
This Is Us
Now Or Never
Not For Nothin'
Game Face
Game Plan
Gunnin' For It
Name Of The Game
For Fucks Sake

What She Saw

What She Saw
A Photographic Exhibition
Curated by Evonne M. Davis
207 Gallery
634 West 207th Street
New York, N.Y. 10034
November 2-23, 2007
Opening Reception November 2, 2007 7:30-9:30 pm.



Alicia Ackerman, Kathryn Allen Hurni, Manuela Paz and Emma Wilcox are exhibiting photographic explorations of personal space and reflection. While all the images in What She Saw compare public perception with private perception, each artist’s labors end in a different result. Alicia Ackerman’s photographs invoke a very private kind of humor, creating an eerie sense of being caught, found out or discovered. Beauty eroded is a theme in the work of Kathryn Allen Hurni’s manipulated Polaroid self-portraits, as well as the dark side of what is traditionally considered feminine. Closer to visual poetry than photography, Manuela Paz’s images are filled with longing, and questions. Emma Wilcox’s images of delicate pink baby shoes afloat in an ominous sea of black are challenges to ideas of gender identity in early childhood development.