Agnes Martin, one of my long-time favorite artists, spoke about inspiration in the following way: “The best things in life happen to you when you are alone. You know, all of the revelations. Every day for twenty years, I’ve been saying ‘What am I going to do next?’ That’s how I ask for an inspiration. I don’tContinue reading “the purity of inspiration, the impurity of self as filter”
Monthly Archives: January 2012
finding your thoughts in the onslaught of information
In the middle of the night, there are thoughts. Thoughts that are completely my own. They wake me up and keep me awake. They circle around and manifest into new thoughts and bigger problems until they make my heart race. Sometimes I lay there listening to my heart and wishing it would just shut upContinue reading “finding your thoughts in the onslaught of information”
sense of humor, sense of balance
The other day I got to thinking about humors. Not haha humor, but the four humors that became the underpinning of Greek and Roman medicine.. and then continued to dominate Western beliefs about the human body and sickness for 2,000 years. In short, the theory was that when a person was healthy, his four humorsContinue reading “sense of humor, sense of balance”
across between and beyond 