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10 July, 2009

oasis within oasis

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Directions to Blam! Studios (by invitation or appointment)

BLAM! is a private group studio in Raleigh, NC. Please call (919) 664-6820 to schedule a visit!

Directions: From S. Boylan Ave, turn left onto DuPont Circle (at the bridge, by the Historic Boylan Heights sign). Take the first LEFT onto Kinsey St. (unmarked) which takes you to our parking area, and the north end of Kinsey St. Our door is the fancy one on the left.

The single-minded way

"So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time; you should work on it with nothing in your mind, and without expecting anything. You should just cook! That is also an expression of our sincerity.... We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else." –Shunryu Suzuki

Finger Lakes

Bain Brains Receive Indie NC Award!!

Photo by Jeremy M. Lange

Bain Receptionist

Stacey L Kirby at work documenting over 2,000 visitors in one weekend.

and it still is news...

Journalist sees "Most Initiative" in The Bain Project: http://www.ncartsee.com/

Happy Spring!

"Give me the splendid, silent sun..." (Whitman) woodcut, nfs

Thanks for your support! Anything you buy here is original and hand-made.

ink swatches from Focus (self portrait)

my process... in large part!

NC State Fair

photo by Sophie

What's Wrong with This Picture? Sophie's expired Visa (Nov 2010)

"Well I looked at the Statue of Liberty, and she didn't wave after me" (lyrics by Sweet Honey and the Rock). As we celebrate our 17th anniversary this year, my (French) partner and I are separated indefinitely (already 18 months) by an ocean and Homeland Security, which refuses me the right to sponsor her for citizenship in the way that any American man could.

The latest on immigration equality...

http://immigrationequalityactionfund.org/blog/in_the_courts_a_historic_announcement/

"What does a poet need to know?"

"That the poetries of men and women unlike you are a great polyglot city of resources, in whose streets you need to wander, whose sounds you need to listen to, without feeling you must live there."

-from What is Found There, Adrienne Rich (1993)

"Focusing" at Horse and Buggy Press, February 2011

...by the hand of Nature, flourishes by Tim Kiernan

As we seek to judge (or better accept) the efforts of public art, we should all stay open to that piece of us that is ready for awe. You never know when surprising beauty will set up camp right in your backyard.

-John Dancy Jones http://raleighrambles.wordpress.com/jdj-writings/

Bain Project links

The Independent
...Raleigh Rambles
...NC Museum of Art
...Indie NC
...flikr

Bargain Furniture Store window installation, Durham

The Bargain Furniture project has been postponed, but my investigation of furniture continues (see below)!

Table top relief print

proof, 10-2

relief print of a weathered tabletop

printing woodblock, Japanese technique

Find us at Blam!

Jester

Kudzu Goddess

むすぶてに

かげみだれゆく

やまのいの

あけどもつきの

かたぶきにける

With my cupped hands

I disturbed its reflection

in a mountain spring

and then found the moon had set --

leaving me still wanting more....

–Jien, 12th Century

Bainers describe Bain:

artifact temporary/temporary dweller excessive detail archi-texture resonance natural/introduced dichotomy transformation time machine evidence growth redevelopment stories struggle community
live entity blend

...

And the water warbles over into, filleted with glassy grassy quicksilvery shives and shoots

And with heavenfallen freshness down from moorland still brims,

Dark or daylight on and on. Here he will then, here he will the fleet

Flinty kindcold element let break across his limbs Long.

Where we leave him, froliclavish, while he looks about him, laughs, swims.

–fragment, Gerard Manley Hopkins, 19th Century English poet

***

The water of the valley stream

Never shouts at the tainted world:

"Purify yourself!" But naturally, as it is,

Shows how it is done.

Like the little stream

Making its way

Through the mossy crevices I, too, quietly

Turn clear and transparent.

–Ryokan, 18th Century Zen Monk

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10 July, 2009

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