{"id":902,"date":"2008-08-31T23:55:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T03:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2008\/08\/31\/831\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:36:43","slug":"831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/902","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 8\/31"},"content":{"rendered":"

First task:<\/em> Joan, I am so sorry that Greg Brown is gone from your life. He was a good one, and always will be remembered in the lore of unique canine personalities we have known.<\/p>\n

Wow. Thirty days since my last entry. It’s been one of the more intense months of my life, with all matters giving way to concentrated artistic effort. The result\u2014two creative milestones disguised as brand promotions for Maker\u2019s Mark\u2014is perhaps the most mature expression of the mixed-media style that I\u2019ve had under gradient development for more than a decade. Beginning with my first \u201ccosmosaics\u201d of the late 90s, I sought a personal approach to collage<\/a> that would fuse the characteristics of my greeting-card miniatures with fine-art aesthetics at a new level of archival craftsmanship. A stronger forward momentum took place when I studied the work of Kurt Schwitters, in preparation for the 2006 CONNECTIONS exhibition, and to produce my KOSMOS show the following year<\/a>. Concurrently, I\u2019ve given greater attention to the durability of my pieces as \u201cartifacts,\u201d and, beginning with Pearallel Universe,<\/em> to the introduction of more hand-rendered elements into my compositions. More details to follow as we get closer to the opening reception<\/a> at the historic distillery.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, after Dana and I delivered my new collage artworks to Loretto, we headed north to submit four of my wood engraving prints to the gallery at Elk Creek Vineyards as part of an exhibition that will feature Wesley Bates<\/a>. We also stopped at Larkspur Press to meet with Gray and get an update on the project for Maurice’s poetry. As usual, the master printer is composing this publication with a stunning regard for letterpress quality. What started out as a broadside sheet has expanded to a limited edition of bound collector booklets. He showed us the latest proofs, and I borrowed back my maple block<\/a> to do some additional clean-up in the white areas. Although I doubt if I comprehend how important an event this will be considered in the world of fine book arts, I do appreciate that my creative work never before has been presented in a context of such literary distinction. <\/p>\n

After the marathon push to fulfill these August obligations, I figured I would spend today catching up on rest and doing a bit of reading and writing. We ended up taking Bruce to UK\u2019s ER with another worrisome episode of GI bleeding. He\u2019ll stay there indefinitely for more diagnostics and possibly some transfusions, too. Unlike earlier this summer, I hope that this time around they can identify the root cause and deal with it properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First task: Joan, I am so sorry that Greg Brown is gone from your life. He was a good one, and always will be remembered in the lore of unique canine personalities we have known. Wow. Thirty days since my last entry. It’s been one of the more intense months of my life, with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,66,53,26,12,8,36,24,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}