Last summer, Dean Peterson (director of What Children Do) was out walking in NYC and “spent minutes working up the nerve” to ask artist June Leaf and photographer Robert Frank if he could take their picture. I’m so glad he did.
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Half mooned
A few days ago at Trader Joe’s my 4-year-old grabbed a box of Half Moon cookies off the shelf. Only later did I realize the moon was in its 1st quarter and we were eating Half Moon cookies on the half moon!
And in another coincidence (?) my friend Jason Polan posted this on his Instagram the next day:
Related: I can’t stop looking at the moon
Back in Texas
“Once you are in Texas it seems to take forever to get out, and some people never make it.”
—John Steinbeck
Our Lake Erie Sabbatical is officially over, and we’re back home in Austin, Texas, living just a few blocks south of where we first landed a dozen years ago.
I find it annoying how the older I get the more the clichés ring true. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. (Luckily, you can always turn around.)
I never gave this place the credit it probably deserved. People would say to me, “Oh, living in Austin, that must be so creatively inspiring!” And I’d say, “Well, I don’t know about that. It’s just a nice place to live.” But all my books and sons were born here, and the minute I got back, I started itching to get started on The Next Thing.
Every morning walk in the past two weeks has made me thankful for our return. We visited the Blanton this weekend, and this Jeffrey Gibson piece said it all for me. (I didn’t even look at the title. Every year has its theme.)
Good to be home.
Unfollow
Here is my beloved Wayne White painting that my wife bought me for my 32nd birthday. I look at it every day and it reminds me, yes, to unfollow: to trim my feeds, to cease hate-following, cut the vampires out of my life. But it also reminds me to unfollow myself. Try to Destroy the ego, abandon my sense of who or what I am, forget the noun and do the verbs.
Here are some process shots of its making, from WW’s Instagram. (If you don’t know his work, watch the documentary Beauty is Embarrassing.)
You are fine without advice and suggestions
I’ve been posting collages with a new technique and Instagram commenters keep asking me how I do them.
A few have been puzzled or even perturbed by my recent “Don’t Ask,” “Don’t Tell,” “No teaching” policy.
“Aren’t you all about sharing?”
Well, yes, I am all about sharing, which is why I posted the work in the first place.
But no, I don’t want to instruct step-by-step how the collages are done, because:
1) I’m still exploring the technique myself and I don’t want to codify it or make any rules or make it boring
2) I am certain that if curious commenters sat down and tried to approximate my technique with their own tools and materials, they would come up with something of their own.
What I really want is to rewrite this wonderful sign in an adventure playground on Governor’s Island called “The Yard.” It reads, “Your children are fine without advice and suggestions.”
I might rewrite it for adults:
YOU ARE FINE WITHOUT ADVICE AND SUGGESTIONS.
START PLAYING.
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