Field Notes | The blurring of art, text + life | Kathy Kelley

textual + physical influences. if i were to pick again tomorrow, the list would shift about a bit. at the moment of writing this is what i called to mind.

Five nonfiction texts (scholarly sort of) – In order of exposure 1. Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone Books, 1995. Encountered – 2005 I read this while drifting maplessly afoot through Paris’ historic district in a...

Read More 0

A responsive textabation #1
Author as object. Author writing under the influence [cultural, historical, social, etc]

21 Sep 2014

academic textabation, Author, Roland Barthe, Sally Macarthur, TT course work

kathy wash 2012

original blog, response to texts

I’ve a need to re-enter my blogging practice. In this case I shall simply dump a responsive reading assignment. The task at hand was to pull a quote from the text, explain how it functioned in the author’s argument and...

Read More 0

memory is often far too big
not actual size and most certainly not to scale

18 Mar 2014

kathy wash 2012

original blog

stripped loveseat. who knew i could learn so much from its undoing. i did extend back new legs reassembly wing back ottoman. plus Home Depot rubbermaid lawnchair for full sized humans as a measure of scale. oh yes. it is...

Read More 0

upcoming outdoor exhibition

07 Mar 2014

art, exhibition, public art

kathy wash 2012

original blog

Color Up/Color DOWN Art Installations Opening March 15, 5-7pm Russ Pitman Park – 7112 Newcastle, Bellaire How does an artist respond to the theme: COLOR UP/COLOR DOWN, within the context of a nature conservancy? Now a sixth year tradition, this...

Read More 0

disremembered

26 Jan 2014

mundane ramblings, poems which aren't really poems just thinkings

kathy wash 2012

original blog

the wind stops my gait slows rhythmically while the sun dappled canopy whispers to nothing i swing to an ever slower stillness the groan of rubber soles speak the absence with each foot fall awaiting a single delicate trickel of...

Read More 0

the social barometer of the made or at least a twist an turn

25 Jan 2014

art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

throw back thursday on a slightly warming saturday. PG 13 yet more moderate than a Victoria secret catalog contemporary art lecture remembered…i show the first image and it took 15 minutes before anyone identifies how offensive my choices were. the...

Read More 0

Mark making, devices, movement, methods, mood, meaning

25 Jan 2014

art foundations, teaching, thinktank, WASH foundations

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

ha. perhaps it is FATE that has me rethinking, reexamining and revisiting the mark and the facilitation of its practice. perhaps. (Link to associated handouts for projects) the mark and its exploration is not a new thing but ever beautiful...

Read More 0

gnarled trees, red dragons contained and in tow

24 Jan 2014

hormonal humor, mundane ramblings, perimenapausal humor

kathy wash 2012

original blog

i bite into the most fertile of a sam’s club globular red dragon. an explosion of spring expands in my mouth prematurely as i roll out amongst the dormant grasses and gnarled trees, red dragons contained and in tow. how...

Read More 0

experimental reduction
[of financial merged with sports column]

14 Jan 2014

mundane rambling, poem

kathy wash 2012

original blog

one one chance the most one chance only to upset ...

Read More 0

it is the problem with writing
no matter what is penned to the page an unimagined selfie emerges. the single click image allows for deeply masked lies.

13 Jan 2014

kathy wash 2012

original blog

there is a space in me dark and dank it is not a real space instead it is one of negative imaginings echoing with words both real and inferred that I’ve wrapped and wrapped hidden away i fight to stay...

Read More 0

Spring 2014 Workshops with Kathy Kelley

Listening in the Gaps: Writing Workshop +Artist Way WorkshopBegin NEXT week, January 8/9, 2014 Register today@ kk.creativehabit [at] gmail.com Listening in the Gaps: Writing Workshop Kathryn Kelley Open to non-writers and writers [adults] Thursdays, 10:00 am – noon Begins January...

Read More 0

the four legged beast plunges off course

27 Nov 2013

mundane ramblings, poems which aren't really poems just thinkings

kathy wash 2012

original blog

and the leafy fodder rustles freeing from the moisture’s cling and the wind catches the loose tendrils escaping the warming of my hood the rhythm of each swung gait a slowing pendulum when the crisp breath of morning whispers would...

Read More 0

i suppose it is the same just highly unedited; a first draft of sorts

i am reading Anne Truitt’s Day Journal. i picked it up (so to speak…more downloaded) i suppose for many of reasons. i am interested in why visual artists write. i write. i need to write. i am compelled to do...

Read More 0

very few, except the ones that read me

my life narrows and widens. many tethers severed. probably more than i can actually handle, more than i can protect myself from (dangle). yup. there are definitely parts of me that dangle flipping about, dismoared. yet, the widening is an odd...

Read More 0

i might be booked for that

it was suggested that the first line of my book should read, “i make nine foot vaginas and i make a lot of them…” well for sure that is one way to start. of late i’ve been contemplating a phd...

Read More 0

i laugh as though i were a place, a specific space. of course i amneither

[just an exercise] i do laugh for instantly two spaces call to mind when asked, “if you were a place, what place would you be?” a fun game of sorts but perhaps a tad too deeply revealing. but i will...

Read More 0

my attachments have always run extremely deep

I’d say I am good at hiding this, attempt to pretend it isn’t so. a material shuffle surely leads to deep heart felt pangs and tears as I touch each object and realign it in my microforest studio. it drives it all...

Read More 0

concur

“Try and hang on to some people. It’ll get lonely out there.” it might look very different but do hold on. I would very much like and want that.0

tired.

unsureness and second guessing each turn I take. quite tired. but writing again. that is good.0

sure, i know. i know. i'll work on my bootstraps, there is no other way.

i act like i know what i am doing. i think most people have this same bluff. clearly i’ve no idea. sure i have areas of expertise. i am pretty intuitive at some things. i get startled at what others...

Read More 0

original blog

textual + physical influences. if i were to pick again tomorrow, the list would shift about a bit. at the moment of writing this is what i called to mind.

A responsive textabation #1
Author as object. Author writing under the influence [cultural, historical, social, etc]

memory is often far too big
not actual size and most certainly not to scale

upcoming outdoor exhibition

disremembered

the social barometer of the made or at least a twist an turn

Mark making, devices, movement, methods, mood, meaning

gnarled trees, red dragons contained and in tow

experimental reduction
[of financial merged with sports column]

it is the problem with writing
no matter what is penned to the page an unimagined selfie emerges. the single click image allows for deeply masked lies.

Spring 2014 Workshops with Kathy Kelley

the four legged beast plunges off course

i suppose it is the same just highly unedited; a first draft of sorts

very few, except the ones that read me

i might be booked for that

i laugh as though i were a place, a specific space. of course i amneither

my attachments have always run extremely deep

concur

tired.

sure, i know. i know. i'll work on my bootstraps, there is no other way.

recent posts

For Kathy