Field Notes | The blurring of art, text + life

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 so. i am try to...

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falling off the curb into the woods

17 Oct 2013

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

why it happens, its frequency, i don’t necessarily get. i don’t get my teetering plunge as an able bodied semi intelligent relatively conscious entity. but it happens. typically i skirt my writing around it. avoid it. shove it away. pretend it isn’t so. snap, clickedy-click...

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very few, except the ones that read me

11 Oct 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

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 beast. it creates unmoared tethers...

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i might be booked for that

11 Oct 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

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 that merges making, writing, process,...

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

11 Oct 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

[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 play anyway. i am that...

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05 Oct 2013

kathy example

Clothing, Fit Row, Life Style, Sunday Morning

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Idque Caesaris facere voluntate liceret: sese habere. Magna pars studiorum, prodita quaerimus. Magna pars studiorum, prodita quaerimus. Fabio vel iudice vincam, sunt in culpa qui officia. Vivamus...

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my attachments have always run extremely deep

01 Oct 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

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 home. well i did drive...

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concur

29 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

“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.

28 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

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.

28 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

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 more distant think i do...

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perhaps what has been good might be honored

28 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

stories twisted and gnarled, exaggerated and not, are told both to ourself and others to hold our own identities and sense of goodness and rightness intact. when the hurt and stress is enough, whatever coping mechanism is already in place will be used in the...

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happy accidents and dirty wombs (now i've got your attention. ha)

26 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

I like happy accidents. I’ve always tended to follow their lead. it is the same way i approach a text or concept in art, in life. i do my homework, a tad of research, but usually i follow the tangent that arrives through accident or...

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she is not easily or immaturely moved by me. some editing is seriously due, but it is not in me

24 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

“…isn’t that to say aren’t each of us alone in our inner worlds…” — Ken Gergen i am never alone in my thoughts. of course in the above quote in full context the author (meaning is really goes on to say the opposite) goes there,...

fully + ready + exact = perhaps

18 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

“Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.” -Francis Bacon 0

I love when my students mock, I mean, express their read of my work

10 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

and affection since they send me responsive pics. I also like that their facial expressions and gestures peg the work dead on. I’ve always been fortunate in getting the best and most interesting students. did mention they are also funny. Kailey Kaitlyn and Aubrey0

too metaphorical for the Sistine chapel

06 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog, process

there is a metaphor somewhere in this. clearly some scatological ones could be bantered about but it doesn’t seem to resonate as even a small truth more just a silly banter. eventual if I put pen to page, it will come to me. ha. though...

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Parturient montes

03 Sep 2013

kathy

Fit Row, My Music, Sunday Morning

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The Artist Way Creative Cluster [time to register]

03 Sep 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

Join me. Register now The Artist Way Creative Cluster Facilitator: Kathryn Kelley Thursdays, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Begins Sept 12 (12 weeks) Houston, TX In this course, we will form a creative cluster in which to begin stepping past the internal and external habits that...

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piebald elephant head

26 Aug 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

The Trojan Box, Box 13 artists at The Art League…a review :) …being egocentrical my excerpt is…. The third piece in the “freaky animal trilogy” is Kathy Kelley’s i am drowning in the silent stillness of unwritten posts, which may remind you of a piebald elephant...

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chainsaw that!!! oops.

24 Aug 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

in a swaggering moment, as I document my you-rock-with-the-chainsaw-kathy for dropping that puppy exactly where foreordained by this she artist, dead centered between the pine posts, I suddenly note that slim shocking horizontal line stretched tight at the trees tip! omg. don’t tell my dad...

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Join me this fall for The Artist Way Creative Cluster

13 Aug 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

The Artist Way Creative Cluster WHO Kathy Kelley; adults all levels WHEN Thursdays, 6-9 pm Beginning Sept 12 (12 weeks) COST $345 plus book WHERE Chapelwood UMC, ...

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pretty sure I am midwife equivalent to an elephant

06 Aug 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

as I attempt to turn combine tractor tubes inside out. and then there was the unexpected yucky slobber reward. omg. yucky!0

an egg is not an egg

06 Aug 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

one made cake like, the other from a large block. one sits upon a shelf, the other is one with the shelf. one revealed what doesn’t need shaped, the other, portions remain unshaped as unnecessary. so different. one doesn’t merge with the wall, one will....

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am wishing for snow; just for a few moments. i would certainly be grateful.

03 Aug 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog

making a new egg, since this one was tossed. well at least heave-hoed grunted into a vermont dumpster. kind of wish i’d found room for it and brought it home and polished it up. instead i am making a new egg. it will be different....

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it just has to be genetic; tha is my story and I am sticking to it!

23 Jul 2013

kathy wash 2012

mundane ramblings, original blog

not sure which way it is passed, mother to daughter, or daughter to mother. I am, however going to claim a genetic disposition toward gooberhood. 0

baring and benning [i prefer baring to bearing in the implications. toobad it isn’t "correct"]

21 Jul 2013

kathy wash 2012

mundane ramblings, original blog

ben franklining it on an eight foot chalkboard…phd tt [melding of making, writing and research] mfa creative nonfiction [essayist] ma art history with emphasis on writing and criticism ma art therapy local position at md anderson pediatric cancer center [?] one, two, and three bare/bear...

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small truths are often hidden in the sideways

20 Jul 2013

kathy wash 2012

mundane ramblings, original blog

nothing of deep interest can be spoken of save by indirection — robert motherwell0

standing here again at a threshold between vitality and danger.teetering as has become habit.

19 Jul 2013

kathy wash 2012

mundane ramblings, original blog

The threshold is a place of transition; as such, it is a place of enormous vitality and activity as well as danger…poets are drawn to and write from their thresholds, either inner or outer. In order to write well, a poet needs to go to...

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casting an untethered line.

19 Jul 2013

kathy wash 2012

mundane ramblings, original blog

the translation of experience into space, experience into story. just snippets not trying to be whole, simply one frame, one moment, most probably even a single view point, how it feels, where it moves me or holds me still, and then on to the next....

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Judy Pfaff

17 Jul 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog, process

I am pretty sure this is why she lives in the woods. work, work, sweat, bask under the trees, lay back and eeek, yuk! blog as the thunder rumbled and the mist begins. probably not what the bandsaw is designed for…based on the heated rubber...

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artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

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

falling off the curb into the woods

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

Standard Post Format Title

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.

perhaps what has been good might be honored

happy accidents and dirty wombs (now i've got your attention. ha)

she is not easily or immaturely moved by me. some editing is seriously due, but it is not in me

fully + ready + exact = perhaps

I love when my students mock, I mean, express their read of my work

too metaphorical for the Sistine chapel

Parturient montes

The Artist Way Creative Cluster [time to register]

piebald elephant head

chainsaw that!!! oops.

Join me this fall for The Artist Way Creative Cluster

pretty sure I am midwife equivalent to an elephant

an egg is not an egg

am wishing for snow; just for a few moments. i would certainly be grateful.

it just has to be genetic; tha is my story and I am sticking to it!

baring and benning [i prefer baring to bearing in the implications. toobad it isn’t "correct"]

small truths are often hidden in the sideways

standing here again at a threshold between vitality and danger.teetering as has become habit.

casting an untethered line.

Judy Pfaff

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