artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

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

I love my hands and want to keep functional every freaking finger and my opposables for these are my assets that render me recognizably human, well at least semi-hairless primate.

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mundane ramblings

I love my hands and want to keep functional every freaking finger and my opposables for these are my assets that render me recognizably human, well at least semi-hairless primate. And, though I also love the scholarly thing, I miss using my hands gnarly and...

Judith Butler and transGENRE (ha)

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

Just playing with labels and trying to understand the fluidity of the less than fixed disciplines within the academy, within the arts. I don’t care for the term interdisciplinary. It is too loose, too overused and misused. It also infers a dividedness. An interdisciplinary artist...

There is a forgetfulness between self and context…The foot twitches; the mind thinks. The mind thinks; the foot twitches. The mind twitches; the foot thinks. The foot thinks; the mind twitches. Perhaps.

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kathy wash 2012

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research, response to texts

An unfootnoted musing for a toe dipping short term project Option A—the easy way: Analysis of interdisciplinary product (outcome)—Robert Morris and Carolee Schneeman Option B—the less easy*: Analysis of Intermodal process (income)—Contemporary intermodal artistic practice of writing and ___ The unnoticed role of writing as...

abstraction and ambiguity — two magnets, one mom and a refrigeratordoor — take three

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

If you follow me much, than you know I hide behind ambiguity and abstraction. This is true for my work that inhabits both real (art) and cyber space (blogged writings)–by god I stitch with tie wire self referential forms from dilapidated combine tubes. I hide...

Two magnets, one mom, and a refrigerator door

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

Your eyes shift down from their low casting across the long table’s surface to the one with blush burned cheeks. With eyes averting, you wait for something small, something smart, worth the wasted while. Waiting. Waiting. My cheeks burn all the more in the stalled...

forced first draft…damn. possibly titled I need my mom

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kathy wash 2012

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I need my mom. Your eyes shift down from their low casting across the long table’s surface to the one with blush burned cheeks. With eyes averting, you wait for something small, something smart, worth the wasted while. Waiting. Waiting. My cheeks burn all the...

holiday break has lead to decisions, decisions

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kathy wash 2012

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This summer I replaced the hermitage, micro-forest and my mini-meadow that sat at the edge of the Sam Houston National Forest for PhD studies, a 1929 cottage and lots of renovations. I am trying to take it back to at least feel retro. I am...

stitching remnant tubes; stitching data

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kathy wash 2012

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mundane ramblings, process

Will I be able to maintain a dual practice, art and scholarship, or is scholarship simply an evolution in my medium? Art practice: stitching together consumer refuse into a coherent aesthetic experiential phenomena. Interdisciplinary PhD studies: collating and commingling scholarly research residue from discrepant disciplinary...

weaving the unraveled as I ravel the strands’
textual influences ofthe term

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kathy wash 2012

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response to texts

Carnal Knowledge: Towards a ‘new Materialism’ through the Arts (2013), “Introduction” by Barbara Bolt The idea of the performative power of materiality that Bolt introduces has raised one possible strand of research relative to the function of visual and performative artists’ writings. Still just raw...

Silence or nothing more than a vibrating string robbed of self

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kathy wash 2012

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mundane ramblings

Ha. I normally work in silence. In rare moments I will turn on a tune and let it run through me. In these irregular passages, if it strikes my system just so, either brushing away, smoothing over, mental clutter so that my thoughts flow more...

storyline interdisciplinary project student samples

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teaching portfolio

StoryLINE is an interdisciplinary foundations project I developed for the Wash (Workshop in Art Studio + History) program at Sam Houston State University. It incorporates creative writing and metaphor. Art-i-facts portfolio of student work Markmaking portfolio of student work Below links are broken. Occurred...

subjugate that!
first scholarly neophyte research question to pursue relative to my dissertation interests

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

RESEARCH QUESTION: Are contemporary female visual artists using self subjugating language? —-end of requested—- Language sampling source and narrowing the playing field: Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz’s text, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings, 2nd Ed, published in 2012, in...

Responsive Textabation #6 – female hysteria and theatrical realism

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

Realism’s putative (commonly regarded) object, the truthful representation of social experience within a recognizable, usually contemporary, moment, remains a problematic issue for feminism, not least because theatrical realism, rooted in domestic melodrama, retains the oedipal family focus even as …. —Elin Diamond, “Realism and Hysteria:...

Responsive Textabation #5 — Metaphor and the binary as structures understanding the abstract (so freaking true)

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

Because I cannot leave well enough alone, I will discuss two quotes. The first quote is included because it is the essential framework for the essay to be communally comprehendible and fulfills the assignment. The second quote is chosen because it can be easily mapped...

Bonaventure :: In Light of the Sixth Sense

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

What if the addition of balance into Bonaventure’s schemes collapses the active field or substrate of the material world, knowledge and reason — landscape, bodyscape, mindscape — into a single material based substrate and this is the intellect? The intellect as reflected light (of the creator...

Responsive Textabation #4 — The Material World…
OMG YES! Plato, Plato, Plato! Why, oh why, did you not read Bolt and Bennett on the Material Turn?
Oh, yeah you’re dead!

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

Thus, through the colonization of the arts by cultural theory, arts very materiality has disappeared into the textual, the linguistic and the discursive. According to this conception, art is constructed in and through language. There is noting outside of discourse and language is its vehicle. ...

I need the excess and defect of my body. I need my body, mind, and soul to function as one.

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kathy wash 2012

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mundane ramblings, original blog, process

I am missing my unreasonably irrational self. I am missing the making. Sure I like the reading Judith Butler, Plotinus, Benjamin and Barthes, even Bonaventure (just because he is so clear), and I may be ready to dip my feet into some of Merleua-Ponty’s Phenomenology...

I see dead people: Bonaventure in the light of the sixth sense

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kathy wash 2012

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No silly, not ghosts or therapists. My next history of aesthetics will be trying to work the sense of balance, the sixth sense, into Bonaventure’s system which is categorically and metaphorically based on the five senses. In his system the overarching structure is divided into...

Plato was worried about fair and foul: My mind fixates on fear and fitting

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kathy wash 2012

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I recognize my own fear thoughts; I know that thoughts are not reality; fear speaks nonetheless to me like this: What if the authority of one’s interpreted spectation can only be legitimized if it claim’s another’s interpreted spectation as supportive if that interpretive spectation has...

Responsive Textabation #3
OBJECT [gender specificity] is to BECOME as SUBJECT [the biological] is to BORN.

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

“…there is also a more radical use of the doctrine of constitution that takes the social agent as object rather than the subject of constitutive act…When Simone de Beauvoir claims, ‘one is not born, but, rather becomes woman.’” – Judith Butler. “Performative Acts and Gender...

agent as object. yes, I can only think and act under the influence

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

Judith Butler when discussing the doctrine of constitution, makes a distillation from phenomenological (“more radical”) viewpoint that “takes the social agent as an object rather than the subject of constitutive acts.” The notion of me as an object vs the subject screams Roland Barthes’ “Death...

that simply cannot be right! there is no match made in heaven that would every place me with PLATO. Dang it all.

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

OMG. I ran a language style matching comparison between my blog post titled without unruly regret and chapter 10 of PLATO’s Republic. I intended to use the results as a silly set up for a philosophy paper I am preparing to write in which my...

blah blah blah….thoughts while reading between centuries, between classes

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

I may in fact be learning more within the temporal and disciplinary tweenness rather than in any one course. The course content dances together oddly and reasonably creating something more fair than foul. Griselda Pollock in Agency and the Avant Garde derives from Roland Barthe: Writing...

Responsive textabation #2
Theory to practice; practice to theory; it’s messy

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

2.1 She, Griselda Pollock, lost me at… …I have to work out to WHAT I shall be referring if I use the word Van Gogh. Griselda Pollock, “Avant-Gardes and Parisians Reviewed” (pg 319) How she intends for this statement to function vs how it functions...

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.

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

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 lame imitation of Walter Benjamin....

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

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kathy wash 2012

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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 to give a tad of...

Sold. On to the next adventure!

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kathy wash 2012

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Soulful puppy making the transition from dog heaven freely chasing rabbits, deer, cows and horses to the life of leashed leisure out in Lubbock. She will adjust (I hope). Goodbye my sweet, sweet hermitage, microforest and minimeadow!0

Up, down, sold (ok, well, under serious contract)

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kathy wash 2012

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I I suppose it is just bragging, butttt my realtor first showed the hermitage at 11 am, by one I had a viable offer, by three a contract was being drafted up. Bam! I feel fabulously giddy (til I think about missing her, the hermitage...

The hermitage, officially listed for sale

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kathy wash 2012

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Contact Markham Realtors to see the hermitage and microforest. The listing0

Last add to the hermitage

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kathy wash 2012

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Originally there was a view blocking picket rail between the two levels. I ripped the eye sore out within the first five days of owning. When I bought it I always had this idea in mind, shelving in the dead space, extending up to second...

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