mundane ramblings

Twenty year old, male, in jeep wrangler, no shirt on, top down gives me a flirty wave as he turns down the street the four-legged-she beast and i are about to cross. In almost the very last moment of the...

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i register one more indexical marker of the wear of time

15 Sep 2015

aging, ART 5364, engendered watching, gram, hands, mundane ramblings

kathy

mundane ramblings

this morning i pressed my thumb to my phone and for the first time in six weeks it was able to divine my print as it had recorded it a year past. i glanced from my phone to my fingers...

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decided to clean up just before class after setting my table

03 Sep 2015

ART 5364, engendered watching, process, selfie

kathy

mundane ramblings, process

art process selfie #4,825.20

Ok. I will play

04 Jul 2015

kathy

mundane ramblings

X marked the spot. I am sure, based on the artist’s, tony stamolis, digital capturing of my selfie documenting moment, he intended the viewer/selfier to stand on the X. Me, there was just a certain logic to take the selfie ON the X....

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Disciplined Play with Hybrid Monsters, Compression, and Lived Experience.

23 Jun 2015

academic textabation, coding, research, TT course work

kathy

mundane ramblings, response to texts

SUBTITLE Versus Coding :: (1) Rockwell vs Miner = Minimal Conflict in Underlying Philosophical Premises and Pursuit of Derived Meaning; (2) = Definite Personality, Tone and Authorial Voice Difference. [Fancy belabored subtitle I don’t really support argumentatively in the following....

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At 84 priorities are in order — they may involve chocolate shakes and onion rings

Ritual adoration and human worship OR

Same look of adoration, same like bag of peppridge farm goldfish, same mooching ritual. But i prefer to pretend that my dog loves me and provides me with doting attention NOT that i am eating something and she is resting...

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random mulling mental selfie.

02 Jun 2015

iphone pictures, mundane ramblings, selfie

kathy

mundane ramblings

I will go out on a limb here and say, all art is a a form of a selfie all research is a form of a selfie and apparently all home renovations are also a form of a selfie hmmmm...

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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.

08 Mar 2015

kathy

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...

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stitching remnant tubes; stitching data

27 Nov 2014

art, interdisciplinarity, mundane ramblings, process

kathy wash 2012

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...

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Silence or nothing more than a vibrating string robbed of self

16 Nov 2014

mundane ramblings, silence

kathy wash 2012

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...

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

10 Oct 2014

mundane ramblings, process

kathy wash 2012

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...

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

23 Jul 2013

dad, family, mom, tongue waggling

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

mundane ramblings, phx

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 [?]...

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small truths are often hidden in the sideways

20 Jul 2013

mundane ramblings, robert motherwell

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

mundane ramblings, tires, vermont

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...

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casting an untethered line.

19 Jul 2013

mundane ramblings, untethered

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...

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The art object simply as an access point to the splintering path oftomorrow

03 Dec 2012

art, process

kathy wash 2012

mundane ramblings, process

the art object, so what! the artifact itself simply residue of its making like the sound of a word hovering in space as it slowly dissapates after the conversation wans. my walls stand bare of artifacts and trinkification housing only...

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Snap, an original gesture…or not; I see dead people

02 Sep 2012

collaborative, college of the mainland, exhibition, monsters in the attic, process, rubber

kathy wash 2012

art, mundane ramblings, process

I explore, experiment, follow my own process, listen to my inner voice, wrestle in obedience to my materials, install the residue, only to discover I speak the same language as those that came before. BUT, another one of my BIG...

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that’s not a mint on my pillow

09 Aug 2012

Dopt (the dog)

kathy wash 2012

mundane ramblings, original blog

walk in the guest bedroom, hmmm, quilt is turned down, pillows fluffed. odd. my dad doesn’t usually turn the linens down and leave me a mint. that’s more my lubbock friend’s style. oh. oh. apparently the Dopt did this for...

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mundane ramblings

no cougars here. engendered watching.

i register one more indexical marker of the wear of time

decided to clean up just before class after setting my table

Ok. I will play

Disciplined Play with Hybrid Monsters, Compression, and Lived Experience.

At 84 priorities are in order — they may involve chocolate shakes and onion rings

Ritual adoration and human worship OR

random mulling mental selfie.

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.

stitching remnant tubes; stitching data

Silence or nothing more than a vibrating string robbed of self

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

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.

The art object simply as an access point to the splintering path oftomorrow

Snap, an original gesture…or not; I see dead people

that’s not a mint on my pillow

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