woman and skeleton

one of my favorite paintings...

Albert York, Woman and Skeleton, 1968


Oil on canvas mounted on masonite


12 x 11 inches

darling dust

DUST

by C. K. Williams

Face powder, gunpowder, talcum of anthrax,

shavings of steel, crematoria ash, chips

of crumbling poetry paper—all these in my lockbox,

and dust, tanks, tempests, temples of dust.

Saw-, silk-, chalk-dust and chaff,

the dust the drool of a bull swinging its head

as it dreams its death

slobs out on; dust even from the scoured,

scraped littoral of the Aegean,

troops streaming screaming across it

at those who that day, that age or forever

would be foe, worthy of being dust for.

Last, hovering dust of the harvest, brief

as the half-instant hitch in the flight

of the hawk, as the poplets of light

through the leaves of the bronzing maples.

Animal dust, mineral, mental, all hoarded

not in the jar of sexy Pandora, not

in the ark where the dust of the holy aspiring

to congeal as glorious mud-thing still writhes—

just this leathery, crackled, obsolete box,

heart-sized or brain, rusted lock shattered,

hinge howling with glee to be lifted again . . .

Face powder, gunpowder, dust, darling dust.

sepia

photos taken with the sepia camera app on my phone

ever after install

my sculpture installed at the chapel of the chimes in oakland as part of the ever after show.

photos copyright 2011, scott mayoral

glass cactus

hello!

(here)

building small things

(image sources here)

alexandra bircken

alexandra bircken: think of me at kimmerich

so excited to come across new work by this artist- i've been a fan for a long time!

rug sculpture

rug drawing

new sculpture...

leah wolff

another amazingly talented friend from vermont studio center

http://leahwolff.com

~~~

(stopping off place)

handmade houses

i'm dreaming of someday leaving the city and building something new...

here

untitled

ever after

OFF Space is pleased to announce the opening of its new exhibit:

Ever After

Sunday September 18 at the Chapel of The Chimes in Oakland.

Please join us to experience the first exhibition of visual art in the Julia Morgan designed chapel and columbarium, Voted Best of the Bay’s, "Best Place to Spend Eternity".

Most stories end with happily ever after --but the stories being told by artists in this show are using Ever After as a starting point.
 Poignancy, playfulness, and sharp insights into the nature of the eternal are the common threads used to weave a series of site specific mini-installations through chapel niches. From the minimal to the Baroque, artists use these unique spaces to reflect upon notions of ritual, remembrance, loss and celebration with critical alacrity and humor.


Ever After features 15 installations by artists:

Glenna Cole Allee, Rachel Dawson, Victoria Heilweil, Elyse Hochstadt, Karrie Hovey, Phil King, Marya Krogstad, Yuki Maruyama, Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov, Jessica Pezalla, Maggie Simpson Adams, Luther Thie, Linda Trunzo, Andrew Witrak, Kathrine Worel.

Ever After

Exhibition Dates: September 18 - November 13, 2011


Reception for the artists: Sunday September 18 from 5-8pm

Location: Chapel Of the Chimes
, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611

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