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

discovered it when i decided this morning i just had to go walk even if it was urban walking and not drive to a park! michael showed me something like this but required a short drive to get to it....

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I am the old woman

03 Apr 2011

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

kathy wash 2012

original blog

I find I am the old woman with a loosening of my hands I sense and recognize the rocks there in each I’ve been slowly plucking my collection free from my swollen knobby rock worn pockets I intimately attend to...

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bonnets and what is under the hood.

01 Apr 2011

mundane ramblings, road trip

kathy wash 2012

original blog

ones/fives it is dang pretty outside and green and sunny and my arugula and tomatoes are doing their thing! pretty pretty focus. tomorrow i am off to finish installing a piece for the texas biennial…maybe that is why i keep...

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i can see how this is true

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”—Nisargadatta Maharaj0

this girl is an omnivore.

yum0

of course not!
(the inner dialog of a goober talking
to herself while working)

16 Mar 2011

mundane ramblings, process

kathy wash 2012

original blog

i simply wouldn’t do that–make picture frames! that is like functional. OK maybe not, frames are designed to hold art. art is not functional except maybe as eye candy or an occasional brain candy, some kind of palette pleasure or...

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bluebonnets

13 Mar 2011

mundane ramblings, road trip

kathy wash 2012

original blog

i didn’t expect that today (but it is march). though the trees are leafless they are about to bust open; they get this look even recognizable at 75 mph. Location:Navasota,United States0

ticky tacky

so many boxes, so many boxes. i’ve always loved this song, probably as most do, and like most, i some how assume that i have bypassed the sameness, in a kind of arrogance assume i am not in a little...

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fear

“…it is only when we are afraid that courage comes into question. courage is amazing because it can tap in to the heart of fear, taking that frightening energy and turning it toward initiative, creativity, action and hope. when courage...

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fresh BOX crop coming up

11 Mar 2011

garden, mundane ramblings

kathy wash 2012

original blog

arugula, purple onions, poblano peppers and cherry tomatoes0

the line and shape of evening

a small two cents

25 Feb 2011

mundane ramblings, poetry, process

kathy wash 2012

original blog

“advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” –erica jong “sometimes when we get angry enough at being treated as if we are small (very often when we feel small and unheard,...

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freezer burn; flourishing sans freezer burn

23 Feb 2011

garden, mundane ramblings

kathy wash 2012

original blog

arugula vs cherry tomatoes PLUS hard freeze = arugula kicks butt and flourishes! well and my sugar snap peas froze. dang right when they were totally cranking out on quantity.0

19 Feb 2011

mundane ramblings, road trip

kathy wash 2012

original blog

the jaunt between college station and huntsville. pretty jaunt. Location:S 66th St,Houston,United States0

the remnant techno nerd darkside of me kicks in…

as i sit here typing on my wireless keyboard with my wireless track-pad and my laptop a good distance away hooked to my tv as i sit all comfy on my futon, click clicking away! this is residual techno nerd...

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i would have been ok with that i think. she wooed me immediately and i was smitten. but she meandered home (think she lives across the street). dogs in this neighborhood are unnerving compared to the burbs. they roam free...

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