sunday tune

saturday poem

A cold night crosses

our path

                  The world appears

very large, very

round now       extending

far as the moon does

                                        It is from

the moon this cold travels

                                        It is

the light of the moon that causes

this night reflecting distance in its own

light so coldly

                                          (from one side of

the earth to the other)

                                        It is the length of this coldness

It is the long distance

between two points which are

not in a line        now

                                       not a

straightness       (however

straight) but a curve only,

silver that is a rock reflecting

                                                      not metal

but a rock accepting

distance

                     (a scream in silence

where between the two

points what touches

is a curve around the world

                                                      (the dance unmoving).

'Winter Solstice' by Hilda Morley

new york, 1969

friday cartoon

Katherine Litz in the Dining Hall taken by Hazel Larsen Archer

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

Merce Cunningham taken by Hazel Larsen Archer

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

― Albert Einstein (on the Board of Directors at Black Mountain College)

Cy Twombly

Read to following: Tulips, photographs, photographs, prints and works.

www.cytwombly.info

Robert Rauschenberg and Elizabeth Schmitt Jennerjahn taken by Hazel Larsen Archer

Josef Albers teaching

Josef Albers teaching at Yale by John Cohen, ca. 1955 from Josef and Anni Albers Foundation on Vimeo.

I LOVE the movement in this silent clip.
I've never seen a separation between my art and movement teaching/practice. It's all the same thing. I get that from both Anni and Josef Alber's work.

you are a journeyman

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

-- Josef Albers

Josef Albers

Photographs and paintings.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of materials. 

--Anni Albers Weaving in a College.

Anni Albers

Wallhangings, weaving's, drawings and jewellery

Merce Cunningham at the Boston ICA

dreaming of dance

Merce Cunningham

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

― Merce Cunningham

cunningham technique

Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil

Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil,
'Female Figure' and 'Untitled'[double Rauschenberg], circa 1950