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Monthly Archive for December, 2008
the studio set up for a new photograph. this finishes the roll of film, so there are now three new photographs to print during the days off.
Drawings made while waiting, commuting, laundering… some for the project, some for practice.
the body of work in progress, ‘storm story,’ will include my drawings of dark masses obscuring and clouding peripheral vision. they relate to the Viktor Pelevin quote posted earlier and to these lines from Henri Michaux in L’espace aux ombres:
“Shade Haunted Space
Space, but you cannot even conceive the horrible inside-outside that real space is.
Certain (shades) especially, girding their loins one last time, make a desperate effort to ‘exist as a single entity.’ But they rue the day. I met one of them.
Destroyed by punishment, it was reduced to a noise, a thunderous noise.
An immense world still heard it, but it no longer existed, having become simply and solely a noise, which was to rumble on for centuries longer, but was fated to die out completely, as though it never existed.”
studio setup for new photograph titled “gathering” from new body of work ‘storm story.’
and this one the setup for ‘weight of these pieces.’ the actual photograph is here.
the drawings are in the background.
a. “I only ever see the best things in life out of the corner of my eye.”
-Viktor Pelevin, Omon Ra
b. “I heard myself close my eyes, then open them.”
-Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space, from Loys Masson, Icare ou le voyageur.
c. in second grade i was stung by a bee, or yellowjacket or wasp, i wouldn’t have known which. but it hurt. so instead of crying in front of my classmates i ran into the bathroom. i only remember this because in that small space i recall pressing my closed eyelids, taking notice of the colors and lines that resulted and forgetting the pain from the sting.
I was interviewed by A.M. Richard May 15 2008 on Neighborhood Public Radio during their final month of broadcasting at the 2008 Whitney Biennial. My interview begins 15 minutes into the ‘Conversation with A.M. Richard’ at the link above.
Minstallation Gallery at the Creative Alliance was named “Best Little Show” in City Paper’s Best of Baltimore 2008.
“Way back in 1993 the Baltimore Museum of Art brought the Théâtre de la Mode–miniature dolls made during war-torn, occupied France to showcase its haute couture, down to shoes and jewelry, installed in sets designed by the likes of Jean Cocteau–to town. In January, local artist R.L. Tillman made this idea–grand, imaginative art on a small scale–a rotating installation, showcasing intimate ideas from Eric Dyer, Post-Typography, James Reeder, and Lauren Amussen, who have each taken over the 225 square inches–with 14-inch ceilings–of the Minstalltion gallery housed under the stairs on the Creative Alliance’s first floor. If you’ve never paused to take a peek, you’re missing one of the true joys of the art year.”
Pictures from my May 2008 exhibition at Minstallation Gallery are here.
