artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

mumbling to myself aloud with English butcheries, in public, at times it is embarrassing.

APPLES + ORANGES and my own green GRASS.

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i think vs i am, are not similar at all.

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“i think i should…” do something is significantly different than saying, “i am…” doing something. these are extremely different. night and day. open and closed. when talking with someone, one is a definitive, the other leaves room for the other. so when the other takes...

set at least 2 of the 3 or 4 balls down for the weekend

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three nights in a row in one bed! amen. haven't done that since thinktank in early June and not for months on end even before that…maybe not since summer 2010 i-park residency. my brain and everything else within me needed to stay in one place...

strolling my hermitage hood

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awe-some!0

I learn a lot from others insight!
well and any art review is ego nice.

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Douglas Britt (Houston Chronicle blog) September 10, 2011 To provide a platform for more experimental work than usually finds eager buyers at a commercial gallery, Darke Gallery recently invited Houston sculptor and writer Kathryn Kelley for a summer artist residency. She had about six weeks...

Lecture #3 handout

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Writing assignment #3 (handout pdf | word doc) KK’s crazy creativity elmo notes Here are some sample WASH studio projects from last semester that emerged directly and indirectly from autobiographical (self reflective) list making. Ryan Sarah Shelby Jeremy’s resume Nic Katy Lauren Lauren Katy...

happy truck at the hermitage embedded

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in the microforest. happy truck.0

one end of my block

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, hermitage

I live at the edge of the paved world, if you bump past my drive you will arrive here. the microforest opens up at the end with a field, home to about five young colts freshly hatched late spring along with their parental units. it...

thank you Douglas Britt and the H-Chronicle

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Galleries debuting dynamic exhibits Art-viewing options, always plentiful in Houston, are about to explode. Soon museums and other nonprofits will roll out their fall exhibits, and two art fairs – one in mid-September, the other in late October – will try their luck in...

last piece
i think i am ready for
the edge of my unreadiness

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Opening reception Friday, Sept 2, 6-9 pm, Darke Gallery 320B Detering, Houston 77007 (valet parking available) (also tonight is last Thursday night as open studio 4-7, meaning it may still be a little messy) smallest piece ever and last one for show opening on Friday....

mw handouts for week 2 available on blog

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the glancing blows that strike deep

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i speak of my hermitage for months on end he speaks of himself as hermit right why would either brave the waters let alone seek any form of tribe right as usual in that stark painful way perhaps to glance across the surface and submerged...

Monsters in the attic

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I noticed this before but especially the last three years as I watch people construct monsters in their mental attics. Why do most of us do this? Actually I haven’t met anyone who does not do this to some degree. We take the non-monsters from...

she promises to cleanup for friday, SEPT 2 (labor day weekend) opening at Darke gallery, 6-9

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but on Thursday you'll see here as is and enjoy some pizza (4-7 pm). she does clean up pretty well but wears her tire skid marks beautifully. but for now, today, she is done and time to review prep again for tomorrow's emerging artist guidance...

The insanity of it
photos by art slave Dean Liscum

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Freshly dragged to Darke Gallery. They look fabulous on Linda’s corner! Exhibition opening Friday, August 2, 6-9 pm Darke Gallery 320 B Detering @ Feagan, Houston, TX 77007 Regular gallery hours: Wed – Fri | noon to 5 PM | Sat | noon to 3...

my insane teaching philosophy that I absolutely believe and that truly represents part of my core.

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

Mania of making, mania of the mind, both are worth harvesting, directing and releasing. As artist and educator it is my goal to facilitate explorations, both in my own work and that of the students as makers, as thinkers—to learn to hear what we do...

This weeks studio handouts.

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Hey WASHer studio crew, your studio handouts are accessible online to read or download from our blog. They will be accessible from sections titled HANDOUTS. First week surface + space studio handouts and such: surface [p1] dot surface [p1] gestalt reading space [1] sphere blitz...

a work in progress:: open studio tonight at Darke Gallery, Jouston, TX

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in preparation for exhibition, the edge of my unreadiness, come and see works in progress as part of artist's residency each Thursday in August from 4-7pm. show opens Friday, Sept 2, 6-9 at Darke Gallery. early phase of current work in process.0

final prep for first day between watching the grass trying to grow

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oh rainmaker, please come my way with a good drench–my microforest and mini-meadow desperately need you. amen. how come I can blog via my smart phone from this seat but can't make an old fashioned, you know, phone call. hope I can text 911 if...

somedays I say to myself

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“why could I just not be a painter?” today I am thinking it as I set up a pseudo easel to work my tubes on and realize that i wont be able to put this on the wall until i get some man muscle (two...

Crazy things my students do!
and do well.

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

Read through your WASH lecture (for Fridays) syllabus +

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WASH lecture syllabus reading calendar* presentation calendar based on names of artists** **presentation calendar lists names of artists. On the first Friday, you will receive one of these names. You will use the presentation calendar to determine the date you are assigned to present. *reminder...

full scale fidgeting trying to find it

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will i continue to prepare my internal ground
for the day I leap, fall or trip over
the edge of my unreadiness.

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where does my work come from; how do these long cumbersome titles surface?0

hmmmmm. think think think

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well or not.0

Read your studio syllabus thoroughly.

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TTH studio syllabus 1 MW studio syllabus 2 There will be opportunities to ask your questions and get clarification about WASH studios the first studio day. The new WASH Building, 2220 Ave. M, across from Holleman Field. We’ll be welcoming our new fall WASH students...

not done, but don’t want to give it away before opening

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so I'll have to leave it like this for open studio tonight. things that it draws to my mind are umbilical like relational connections, long but truncated experiences/relationships, bill cosby and sesame street's which one doesn't go with the other one, remnants of family portraits...

3 of

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just getting them up; resolution immanent

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thinking; but good use of bike garage hanging hooks

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I wasn't quit sure how to mount these, but the bike hanging hardware is working. though spacing is dictated by stud location (. eight pilot holes to find first stud; then measuring in 16" increments. and thank you mr. builder for your precision–once I found...

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