Stop Looking...

Literally stop looking. Close your eyes and just go on automatic pilot. Your visual imagination will simply ooze images: notice them as they spontaneously emerge. Don't label them or identify them: just watch them pass into and out of your awareness. We are an endless and automatic font of unique and universal imagery. Stop working so hard to force it out. Instead, loose your hold on all the determinations, and allow what is already in there to stream out. Example there are lovely moments that occur often as we slide into sleep. No More Secondhand Art by Peter London.

PACEWILDENSTEIN ....presents

I saw a ad for Tony Feher in Artnews just today. Clustered cheap wine bottles, remind me of David Hammons early works. However, I do feel something fresh is happening here in Mr Feher's approach with these materials. Most of all it is compelling. When I know more, I will play it forward. I am impressed, so far.

Storm King, NY......

Last night on the VOOM channel 714 I was reminded of a wonderful place not far from Manhattan. Storm King in the Hudson Valley area is where environmental art coexist in the great out doors. Active farmland and sculptures blend in perfect harmony and contrast. 10 acres of nature and man intertwined in primal power and simple lines.

Fried, Dyed and Laid to the Side...

I am working on three sculptures titled " Fried Hair " depicting the long standing cultural effects of white hair on African American communities. Fake, synthetic, unnatural hair made to look like and behave like European/ Asian hair is not insignificant in a lopsided image era. Extensions, weaves and wigs as normal, needed and natural obsession is crazy behavior. Is hair a powerful, seductive and mystical revolutionary tool, still in operation?

"Madame Walker Didn't Live Here" by John T. Reddick Attributes the Harlem Renaissance as an example in time when white hair adaptations became necessary for many reasons. Furthermore, and prior to the Harlem Renaissance Madame Walker became the first black woman to successfully capitalized on urban-hood, vanity, and values related to reforming and modifying black hair.

My work "Fried Hair" is about longevity, assimilation and hair worship.