Digs, big and small

South Bound. But how could you know.

Seeking Higher Education

Ice Rink Zamboni duties, Snowy drawings. Paths.
To Grad school or not to Grad School. No time like the present except for the cutting of ties, the leaving what has been built up and heading into the uncertain future. Writing Statements of Purpose outlying goals that seem to resemble what is somewhat achieved brings to mind Mark Twain. "Do not let Schooling get in the way of Education." Perhaps this is mere self-protection for when the rejection letters come. I wish I had twice as many years in my thirties. My Gemini spirit fully activated I am cotimplating a future that could begin either in New Orleans at a University that would pay me for my participation in what I envision as aiding a city and our country in recovery from its past. Or the highly sought path of the elite, Yale University and the continuation of that very past that institutionalizes our country's seperate societies. These are the extremes, but i have accepted through hte process that an organized system of learning will expedite my understandings...discipline.

As I worked to clear the backyard ice block, homemade pond hocky rink of my two young nephews I wondered what I believe most. My nephews are beginning a long (but truly short) road of education,of life and their capable parents are trying to "give them every advantage." Their pursuit mirrors mine, private school as I question my own beginnings and how they might be either undone or capatalized on.? Don't want to miss out, it seems that such a path will open doors, but by design must close others, what is truly the right path is that which is for You. The Heisenberg Principle...

In quantum physics, the outcome of even an ideal measurement of a system is not deterministic, but instead is characterized by a probability distribution, and the larger the associated standard deviation is, the more "uncertain" we might say that that characteristic is for the system. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, or HUP, gives a lower bound on the product of the standard deviations of position and momentum for a system, implying that it is impossible to have a particle that has an arbitrarily well-defined position and momentum simultaneously.

It seems very unlikely that with such a great hockeyed beginnings, skating at age 3, with equiptment, instruction and encouragement and study through media that it would make any sort of sense to take up basketball. Pursuit. Nurture ad Nature as one.

Choice, America.

New York

Inspired by the Tibetan Thangka Painter

And Back Again.

east west

review:

L&M Arts
http://www.lmgallery.com/
Willem de Kooning 1981-1986, thru Nov. 17

Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Biography
In the post World War II era.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning... Some have said his very last works, most of which have never been exhibited, present a new direction of compositional complexity and daring color juxtapositions, Some speculate that his mental condition and attempts to recover from a life of alcoholism had rendered him unable to carry out the mastery indicated in his early works, while others see these late works as boldly prophetic of directions that some current painters continue to pursue. Unfortunately, gossip has tainted the scant critical commentary afforded these last works, which have yet to be seriously assessed.

L&M Arts

http://www.lmgallery.com/

Willem de Kooning 1981-1986, thru Nov. 17

a beautifully done book, hardbound, and 2 floor exhibition leaving no doubt that de Kooning pushed his investigations until incapacitated, we can only be so lucky.....from the notebook

...and there intrinsically locked is the woman's deconstructive spirit in de kooning's late work. The sharply stroked searching of the young man is seen only in dearly layed lines, the women of his life, a life of one with his making, returned to surround his final search. DeKooning's wife and Daughter return in these last 5 years of painting time before the Alzheimer's that hasclearly set into the Master's eyes and posture , visible in the studio shots of the hardbound coffeetable book accompanying the show. The beautiful, clear and quiet colors of female prescence manifest in these paintings of a brilliant unconscious. Aided by a lifetime of examined conscious, fighting and grappling and chasing all the way from the way past of the Netherlands and escape from thus in retreat to the ever developing dream mind. These 88"x77" (on average)displays of wisping flying grounding revealing concealing more moment attention paid masterpieces(at least one)-untitled xxvii, are everything in one breath and they feel as free as.

These paintings have all, wisely constructed neg/pos space, desert and ice like at once, and even a head as moountaintop, individualizing DeKoonings Figurative LAndscape Successes. The mind spreds across and among and throughout and within these fine pieces.

Thankyou de kooning, u show me so much. cheryl

NY cont.

The Age of REMBRANDT(and de Hooch i'll say, rendering a rectangle a square, Vermeer the photographer, Kara Walker litho collaging with historical time and more... www.metmuseum.org

Pema Renzin and http://www.rmanyc.org/, please see http://x2plusy2plusz2isr2.blogspot.com/ soon for an account of a transcendent, levitating experience that flipped over into an introduction to MIA east west merge on the path, so intense that it brought us back to the Rubin the next day of Brooklyn, Pratt, Period and that.

Strand and Tam LowerEastSide. www.tamtran.net