Blogs about: Artist Practice
Performance Art vs. Performance Craft
ballpeen wrote 3 months ago: An unsolved conditional statement in the form of a question. IF hypothesis, THEN conclusion. IF Craf … more →
When a Partnership turns Sour...
ballpeen wrote 9 months ago: What happens? Whether or not the partnership limps along on its dysfunctional path, barely making a … more →
Teaching Art [has what effect on] Making Art?
— 1 comment
ballpeen wrote 9 months ago: What effect do you feel work as a teaching artist has had on your art making? I don’t know the … more →
On the banks of the river.
ballpeen wrote 10 months ago: Today, I began a project on creating audio-based oral histories with a group of lively seniors at a … more →
Adventure No.1: Frozen Waterfalls
ballpeen wrote 11 months ago: Yes! Only 3 days into the new year and already I have accomplished one adventure! Very important f … more →
Je ne sais quoi, but I like it.
— 2 comments
ballpeen wrote 11 months ago: As I stand where I am this brisk and monochrome morning, grinding my coffee as I always do in my gra … more →
Burnination.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: Wow. I never thought I’d be at the point in my practice when I could say that I am very tired … more →
Inside Texas.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: Soon I will be driving 1200 miles to the middle of nowhere Texas to dig a hole as deep as I am tall. … more →
The Gravity of Loss and What to Do with It.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: After mourning the loss of a truly inspired, visually beautiful and, by my own hand, fatally doomed … more →
Death of a Project.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: I am mourning the loss of a great project today. My apologies to the seeds and their people. … more →
More, Bigger and Outside.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: Not that I am trying to non un-write my fellowship application which is naturally due tomorrow, but … more →
Speaking of Metal...
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: My Beloved took me out two nights ago. I saw massive, transitional artwork and fire and a bunch of p … more →
Inviting the impossible.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: You know what I love? I love when people doubt me. This week, I have been doubted twice in as many d … more →
Howdy, Stranger!
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: Meaning myself, of course. Wow. I have been busy with teaching and its subsequent responsibilities … more →
Now is the Winter of My Discontent... again.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: Holy crap. It is snowing again. Winter storm watch. Up to 8″ of wet, heavy snow. Proceed with … more →
We am Somebody!
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: We got the grant! My beloved and I were writing and rewriting daily for a good solid month for this … more →
Birth.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: Cotton. Cats. Ideas. Rejoice! My first green cotton plant has sprouted! I started the seedlings a li … more →
Whose Art is it anyway?
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: On the long drive home from an inexplicably weighty day of teaching, I thought these things: I teach … more →
Loonar eclipse of the heart.
ballpeen wrote 1 year ago: I am losing my fondness for writing today due to this hopeful/insufferable grant proposal. I read an … more →
