Art, Teaching and Meditation

I wrote an essay for Chicago Artist’s Resource on the relationship of art, teaching and meditation in my life. You can read it on their site.

Sentient, Studio, Press

Today was a fun day in the studio. Above is the new configuration of Sentient for the exhibit at Northeastern. Anna Poplawska will be writing about the work in Yoga Chicago. She writes about spirituality and art and has a monthly column in Yoga Chicago. She came to my studio today and I am pretty excited.

I am sorry.

Recently I accidentally did not conceal my emailing list, when I sent out an announcement for the White Balloon performance, and someone (ian_mclaughlin8@yahoo.com) must have taken the liberty of "replying to all" on that email, which included the email address for this blog. So he directly emailed and posted to this blog, which I (foolishly) had email set to auto post. So sorry to anyone who read his posts or got his emails.

I am always learning something new, the hard way.

Three Conversations

Last night at Hilary's annual Festivus party I had two interesting conversations.

Hilary and I talked off and on about consciousness in reaction to another conversation she had. She had recently read the answers to an annual question posed to a community of scientists and mathematicians: "What do you believe in, but can not prove?"

Also, Tesia, George and I talked about the idea of souvenir in relationship to contemporary art. Like when a video artist sells still images from her work. How this is a simplified and thus consumable version her practice. This idea has interested me in my work. But until last night I hadn't thought about the relationship that may exist between the "dumbing down" of work and its saleability. But upon writing the word "souvenir" here in this blog, I realized am very interested in a sovereign and consumable version of my art!

And, I think Brian Gillis an I are starting to really talk about curating and exhibiting in a religious art and topics in contemporary practice show, hopefully for Chicago, but maybe we could even get it to travel? He just sent me a really interesting statement, via email.