kathy wash 2012

materials I have played with that I would like to explore merging/combing–tar, plaster, rubber, domestic thresholds (doors/windows and parts), mattress quilting, found metal and LANGUAGE. ha, all of which are a bit heavy or loaded. other skills sets I have...

I love my weeds

25 May 2013

gone for a week and bam, i reap what i did not sow! i find this to actually be the norm. much in life is a reaping of what has not been sown in our lifetime or as an extension...

not that I actually spend time indoors

17 May 2013

hermitage

hermitage

but I've moved my grown up furniture from storage a plopped it down in the hermitage. a little large for the space.0

pretty much yup

12 May 2013

All our life, so far as it has form, is but a mass of habits. — William James, 18920

diggidy dogineering

07 May 2013

toady from Pan's labyrinth, wonderland or Chinese take out. dopty I know I was late today, but….0

Not once did I bore an art historian in grad school in spite of my failure to comply with typical standards! Revisiting old writings and laughing as my narrative stands still. What was I thinking? Bahahaa.

01 May 2013

art, essay, post modernism

Essay excerpt written by Kathryn Kelley, 2007. Essay “like a dog gets excited about going for a walk on a leash” on Post Modern art for Dana Padgett was written in response to several questions Dana posed to the group....

Not once did I ever bore an art historian in grad school in spite of my failure to comply with MLA standards! Revisiting old writings and laughing at Greenberg’s great Pea-ness.
what was I thinking? Bahahaa.

01 May 2013

art, bad painting, essay, feminism, greenberg

I contemplate developing time to start writing about art again. I need to direct my writing more purposefully. Why? Besides because I need it for myself my writing is highly accessible, funny, and educated. I am not always funny, but...

morning in my neck of the woods

30 Apr 2013

good morning microforest!0

dearchived [old] but somewhat relevant in my contemplations.
definitely school work.

In the space of silence Dada || Yes! Yes! You are such a wooden horse Surrealists || In need of therapy Formal cunt positive bad painting Futurism Skewed view || you are here First flush visual...

revisiting old writings as I think about seriously picking up my pen + a tad of design again

[in the space of silence] Kathryn Kelley 2006 [intro] Silence is space. In fullness, silence seizes emptiness. In absence, silence seizes presence. Sense and nonsense merge. The temporal dissociates. The knotted unknots. The cluttered, clotted mass of knowledge and experience...

it baffles me.

27 Apr 2013

I get up, wash and fluff = okay, okay, it will do. but I go out for an hour of sweaty chain saw therapy, tubular art making or pretty much anything dirty and sweaty and, bam, my hair looks glam,...

Parameters?

24 Apr 2013

WRITING morning. outside. emotionally set aside my to-do list. prewalk the dopty (or she’ll bug me til i do). UN-lined slick paper. hate lines on my page. pen not pencil. pen that easily slides glides. write with intent to post....

the twits and twitches read uncannily accurate in the foretelling

19 Apr 2013

i walk when i should run i dread when i should dream i hold back the scratch of pen the keys silenced from their clickedy click visceral visual gesture dissipates in this silence smallness pinpointed from bulgaria with love yes...

sod that!

08 Apr 2013

bought one pallet. the depot tossed on another on for fun. sod that. after prepping and laying 60 or 70, I haven’t quite reached the half way point on the first pallet. omgosh! I guess I know what I am...

From Bulgaria with love: Yup it is why it becomes problematic for me internally; but that it is seen feels good.

07 Apr 2013

“Kathy, I have always liked your work. There is something about it that has its own existence…yesterday I thought about your work again. I wanted to see why I like it so much…There is art that works with the superficial,...

it's early when it is for the parental units

06 Apr 2013

chicken, corn on the cob, carrots, and baby portabella are all on the grill. not typical nursing home food. well, plus I serve them a little fermented beverages0

a day of abusing one of my fav art slave

01 Apr 2013

a huge thank you dean Liscum!0

find the closest green space and go there now!

I happen to be so fortunate as to live embedded in it. ummm. though, when the insurance company called to do a wildfire evaluation of the hermitage in the woods, I felt my pocket book groan knowing that living in...

spherical sisters reunite in the microforest

29 Mar 2013