PeterSmutsisNoTanArtist

goterfunken: Hindenburg

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:02:10 -0400

goterfunken:

Hindenburg

Storm King is beautiful.

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:35:32 -0400

Storm King is beautiful.

"You can find out how to do something and do it or you can do something and find out what you did."

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:32:23 -0400

“You can find out how to do something and do it or you can do something and find out what you did.”

- Isamu Noguchi

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face..."

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:32:07 -0400

““All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind,””

- Karl Marx

Prescient in his analysis, incorrect, so far, on the specific form of post capitalist society

Thread Walk

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:10:05 -0400

Thread Walk

"Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and bond with one’s native place; that what is..."

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:10:05 -0400

““Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and bond with one’s native place; that what is true of all exile in not that home and love of home are lost, but that loss is inherent in the existence of both. seeing the entire world as foreign land makes possible originality of vision. .. for an exile, habits of life, express, or activity in the new environment inevitable occur against the memory of the these things in the other environment. Thus both the new and the old environments are vivid, actual, occurring contrapuntally. There is a unique pleasure in this sort of apprehension… Exile is, in the words of Wallace Stevens, a mind of winter in the which the pathos of summer and autumn as much as the potential of spring are nearby but unobtainable.””

- Edward Said

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:05:06 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:10:05 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:05:05 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:10:05 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:05:05 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:10:05 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

"I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It’s a commercial world, and morality is..."

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:45:13 -0400

“I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It’s a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that’s taking place in the art gallery.”

- Jeff Koons

Query Photo: “Yellowstone”

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:05:06 -0400

Query Photo: “Yellowstone”

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:20:06 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Query Photo: “Yellowstone”

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:05:05 -0400

Query Photo: “Yellowstone”

…Today (several years ago now actually) I made something. I think. I gave $1000 to two...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:43:00 -0400

…Today (several years ago now actually) I made something. I think. I gave $1000 to two acquaintances. I want to call them artists but I am not sure they would want to be identified that way, so narrowly that is. They are people though, I know that, and I like them. So I gave them $1000, my gesture beginning at a bank teller’s window and ending with an unceremonious passing of bills from my hand to theirs. I asked for nothing in return knowing it would be a difficult request to honor.

…What they did was inevitably implicated by my gesture and part of me wants to claim their experiences and work as mine; bought and paid for; the part of me that demands what the privilege of money always demands. But I don’t, at least not out loud, because I don’t know how to separate the parts that have to do with money from the parts that don’t. Money does funny things.

…I like that $1000 creates difficulties; between giver and receiver, me and you, art and commodity, and that in those relations there is a structure against which something else can be made. Art? I don’t know.

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:10:05 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Query Photo: “Yellowstone”

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:05:06 -0400

Query Photo: “Yellowstone”

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:15:05 -0400

Westside Los Angeles Thread Walk - Random