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SOON TO BE CAMPING AND MAKING AN ARTWORK AT SILENT CITY OF ROCKS (IMAGINE OUR PARKS, IDAHO, JUNE 2016) STILL MOUNTAINS AND ROCKS THAT HAVE BEEN HERE CYCLICALLY OVER AND OVER AGAIN. TIME. IMAGINING THOSE MOUNTAINS ONCE UNDER A SEA OF WATER. NOW BARREN TO THE HOT DESERT SUN AND WINDS, SLOWLY ERODING TO ROCK DUST. I CONSIDER THE PINYON PINE, THE SPARKLING PINYON JAY. SAGE. DRYNESS. WATER. I REMEMBER SEEING PATTI SMITH PLAY AND IT WAS JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE ONE PLACE AND MOVE TO ANOTHER, SHE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT HOW THERE ARE NO ENDINGS, ONLY CONTINUATIONS. HOW THINGS EVOLVE. I THINK ABOUT MORPHING, CHANGING. "From the pyre rises the phoenix, that through a mantle of ash can emerge a shoot of restored life", WROTE SIMON SCHEMA. HERE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND THE TREES BREATH. I BREATHE. I CONSIDER LIFE, DEATH, CONTINUUMS, PEOPLE BEFORE ME, PEOPLE NOW. ABOUT NAVIGATING THROUGH SPACE AND TIME AND ECOLOGY. ART. ENCOUNTERING SURFACES, DRAWING WITH BODY AND EXTENDING HUMANNESS, GETTING ABSORBED, WATCHING WHAT HAPPENS. "Artists are not motivated by a need to communicate; travel over the unfathomable is the only condition" WROTE ROBERT SMITHSON.  Making sketches, thinking about Silent City of Rocks #1, 2016 GILLES DELEUZE WROTE, “THE PROBLEM IS NOT HOW TO FINISH A FOLD, BUT HOW TO CONTINUE IT, MAKE IT GO THROUGH THE ROOF, TAKE IT TO INFINITY. FOR THE FOLD EFFECTS NOT ONLY ALL KINDS OF MATERIALS, WHICH THUS BECOME MATTER OF EXPRESSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH DIFFERENT SCALES AND SPEEDS AND VECTORS (THE MOUNTAINS AND WATERS, PAPERS, FABRICS, LIVING TISSUES, THE BRAIN), BUT IT ALSO DETERMINES AND BRINGS FORM INTO BEING AND INTO APPEARANCE, IT MAKES OF IT A FORM OF EXPRESSION, GESTALTUNG, THE GENETIC ELEMENT OR THE LINE OF INFINITE INFLECTION, THE CURVE OF A SINGLE VARIABLE”.  Making sketches, thinking about Silent City of Rocks #2, 2016
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