Stuart, How timely this email is for me. I am about to embark on a residency at Ballinglen. The first works of yours I ever saw were from your residencies there, and here I am, about to embark on my own chance to look and feel and try to wrestle all of that into something that is a possibly weak facsimile of the experience.
No matter, I shall save this email and re-read it once I have completed the residency (and I hope to return , I'm sure). thank you. Jennie
Jennie, thank you for your note. ah, going to the coast of Mayo! enjoy. best road in: give up any expectations or even a sense of what you want to happen or even who you are and walk around for a bit open to anything, sniffing here and there and see what kinds of impulses you're picking up that might feel like wtf is going on here, and who am i and what is this, and from that place, there will be a way forward. on the mayo coast, when you have no clue what is going on, then the train is right on time and jump on.
“Across the now empty lot we now have such a choreography of shape and weight, the back sides of the houses on the next block over, the arrangement of shapes back there, by visual association, reminiscent of the organizational architecture of Morandi.”
I find this picture that you refer to so incredibly intriguing - gorgeous tones and interesting shapes. I am drawn to it for even more than that, but can’t say why. Thank you for helping to describe a bit of the magic of it. Fascinating stuff!
thank you Lynn. and yes, the things so easily passed by or not even noticed because they're not what we consider as significant, those opportunities are often so deep and fertile.
all around us is very rich soil but we're often too distracted by what's 'important'.
Stuart, How timely this email is for me. I am about to embark on a residency at Ballinglen. The first works of yours I ever saw were from your residencies there, and here I am, about to embark on my own chance to look and feel and try to wrestle all of that into something that is a possibly weak facsimile of the experience.
No matter, I shall save this email and re-read it once I have completed the residency (and I hope to return , I'm sure). thank you. Jennie
Jennie, thank you for your note. ah, going to the coast of Mayo! enjoy. best road in: give up any expectations or even a sense of what you want to happen or even who you are and walk around for a bit open to anything, sniffing here and there and see what kinds of impulses you're picking up that might feel like wtf is going on here, and who am i and what is this, and from that place, there will be a way forward. on the mayo coast, when you have no clue what is going on, then the train is right on time and jump on.
“Across the now empty lot we now have such a choreography of shape and weight, the back sides of the houses on the next block over, the arrangement of shapes back there, by visual association, reminiscent of the organizational architecture of Morandi.”
I find this picture that you refer to so incredibly intriguing - gorgeous tones and interesting shapes. I am drawn to it for even more than that, but can’t say why. Thank you for helping to describe a bit of the magic of it. Fascinating stuff!
thank you Lynn. and yes, the things so easily passed by or not even noticed because they're not what we consider as significant, those opportunities are often so deep and fertile.
all around us is very rich soil but we're often too distracted by what's 'important'.
stuart