tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65829513496901198972024-03-13T08:00:43.379-04:00Something Between Want and Desirej. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.comBlogger1309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-51906134588550918612019-07-14T20:13:00.001-04:002019-07-14T20:19:55.231-04:00Globes Part 7I posted a still of David Byrne's <i>Tight Spot</i> once <a href="https://jacindarussellart.blogspot.com/2011/09/globes-part-2.html">many years ago</a>. It is an appropriate time to reintroduce it (at the very least check out the part in the video at 1:30 where it is opened up and we get a view inside of it). At least I know that I will have it a lot easier than inflating this gargantuan object (though Byrne didn't have to battle cactus and wind).<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/32936539">Tight Spot</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/todomundo">Todo Mundo</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tejucole.com/photography/">Teju Cole</a>, From <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551542/blind-spot-by-teju-cole/9780399591075/"><i>Blind Spot</i></a> <br />
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<a href="https://www.jonhorvath.net/wide-eyed">Jon Horvath</a>, From the series <i>Wide Eyed</i> <br />
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[I am fairly sure I am a descendant of the owners of this house in Amsterdam, or at least a more organized neat freak version of them.]<br />
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<a href="https://elicraven.com/"> Eli Craven</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.douglasljungkvist.com/ocean-beach">Douglas Ljungkvist,</a> From the series <i>Ocean Beach</i> <br />
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<a href="https://www.paleisamsterdam.nl/en/discover-palace/atlas/">Paleis Amsterdam</a> in 2005<br />
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Many
people have referenced Atlas in relationship to the 7' inflatable
helium globe. I have a sneaking suspicion a photograph emulating my
favorite depiction of that sculpture might occur (though there is a
difference between the earth and the skies and between a country
thinking it is at the center of the universe and a solitary human
knowing that she is not). That comparison reminds me of Erwin Wurm's <i>The Artist Who Swallowed the World</i> as both are rendered helpless (or still due to their actions). <br />
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purchased the inflatable globe before I saw this article featuring Mark
Wallinger's new installation. This coincides with my interest in scale
and the need for the "earth" to be prominent in its environment and
larger than most human beings. <br />
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Mark Wallinger, <i>The World Turned Upside Down</i> [images <a href="https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/mark-wallinger-the-world-turned-upside-down-lse-art-260319">via</a>]<br />
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"Viewed on the surface of a
walkaround globe rather than in the familiar rectangular form of the
flattened, projected Mercator map, the true scale of Africa and South
America becomes immediately apparent. As does the enormity of the
Pacific Ocean. 'It is rather magnificent to see the full size of
Africa,' said Wallinger, adding that he first conceived the piece back
in 2013, 'when we had a coalition government and Donald Trump was just a
reality TV star and a failing property developer.' Of
course this image of what Wallinger describes as 'the world from a
different viewpoint: familiar, strange and subject to change' chimes
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After
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ago, I have thought heavily about how our continental locations
translate to how we view the world, specifically how the perspective of
the Poles is altered when it is centered and not warped into something
that it is is not, as seen on top of a globe. The vastness of water and
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It began last October when I had an idea about inflated globes floating in a pool. I do not ever stop thinking about water as a method of suspension, swimming pools or globes, therefore what would it be like to combine all three? I called my friend Tricia to see if she had access to a swimming pool that had not yet been drained. Turns out she was closing on a house in three days that had one and if I could acquire the props, borrow an air compressor, and photograph it in a small window between 6 hours of sleep and a 10 hour work day, I could do it (and so I did). <br />
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I was never a math major nor did I know the dimensions of the pool
despite staring at the satellite view of it on Google Maps hoping it would come to me. Surely
thirty would be enough, right? Wrong .... <br />
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A month later, another thought occurred to me. What if I brought a 4' inflatable globe balloon to the U.S. Mexican border wall on my trip to Arizona in January and document it there? If I could acquire the prop, borrow an air compressor and convince two incredibly generous friends to help me photograph it, I could do it (and so I did). <br />
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I certainly do not have a degree in meteorology but having lived in the desert during the winter, you would think I would have remembered the wind in January but no, I did not. I took some mediocre photographs and Camden made a slow motion video of it before it popped on a cactus (above are the remains).<br />
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It was a colossal failure but I could not stop visualizing it and felt
it necessary to make art along the Border Wall when it is a daily
occurrence in the news. The concept of bringing "far closer to here" is very much a part of my current series, <i>Metaphorical Antipodes</i>, and I wanted to find a way to make this happen.<br />
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When something is unsuccessful on a smaller scale, one would
logically deduce that resolving it before moving on to far larger would be
a wise idea but no.... I purchased a 7' inflatable helium globe with several
misspellings (yes, I will count them all and no, I will never be able to fold it in such a small square again). <br />
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On a rainy day in April, I inflated it after borrowing a compressor once again. I applied for a couple grants and (insert great amazement) received <a href="https://indyarts.org/grants/grants-for-individuals/dehaan-artist-of-distinction-award">one of them</a>. <br />
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The first thing I purchased with the award money was an air compressor (surprise) and after several trials and errors, a leaf blower with a funnel attachment proved to be the best way to inflate this beast without access to electricity.<br />
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So what are the odds of failure once again? Is the third time really the charm? Am I truly driving 5000 miles in the heat of the summer and monsoon season to try? If I could acquire all the equipment, reserve the rental car and accommodations, and concoct an itinerary in a manner of three weeks, I could do it (and so I will). j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-58373863154690912742019-07-02T20:32:00.000-04:002019-07-02T20:32:15.558-04:00Balloons Part 3A balloon is hope and celebration yet also loneliness and deflation. It contains the air we breathe, pump or inflate and because of that, it is an extension of our body (once activated - a performance). They are a symbol of the highs and the lows of our lives - temporal and ephemeral. I have collected images of balloons (<a href="http://jacindarussellart.blogspot.com/2011/04/balloons.html">here</a> and <a href="http://jacindarussellart.blogspot.com/2011/10/balloons-part-2.html">here</a>) for years. I made art about them<a href="http://earthworksnearyou.blogspot.com/2009/06/performance-at-roden-crater.html"> once</a> and very soon I will again. Meanwhile here are more from the folder on the desktop, ones that I have thought about posting for quite some time.<br />
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<a href="https://www.aaronwax.com/little-stories-about-him">Aaron Wax</a> from <i>Little Stories About Him</i> <br />
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Anna Orlowska from <i>The Day Before</i><br />
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<span id="goog_605306056"></span><a href="http://www.christineshank.com/Portfolio/OurFirstYear/OurFirstYear-thumbs.html">Christine Shank</a>,<i> </i>from <i>Our First Year Together</i> <br />
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<a href="https://elizabethmoran.com/the-armory">Elizabeth Moran</a>, from <i>The Armory</i> <br />
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<a href="http://www.evgeniaarbugaeva.com/">Evgenia Arbugaeva</a>, from <i>Tiksi</i> <br />
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Lacey Terrell<i>, Hollywood</i>, 2011<br />
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<a href="http://www.rafaelsoldi.com/sentiment-1">Rafael Soldi</a>, from <i>Sentiment</i>j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-28352203002039964982019-06-29T22:18:00.001-04:002019-07-11T16:57:00.799-04:00Billboards Part 2I had expectations that these billboards would move around more frequently than they did and although there is still another month left, something tells me they will stay where they have been since November. Here are some photographs of the second and probably last locations for both the large one and the "neighborhood size."<br />
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Unlit at night since I first saw it in December 2018 (a two minute exposure from the driveway of the car sales lot). <br />
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Overall, I am very happy to have my art displayed on a billboard - it has always been a dream of mind and it remarkably came true. I had big plans on photographing the original framed photograph in front of it but this and the first location were not suitable for that purpose. Next large scale project here we come (because there always is one)....j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-38101651719951214142018-12-22T15:22:00.001-05:002018-12-22T15:22:35.821-05:00My New Favorite Exhibition Announcement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Joseph Grigely, <i>Figures of Speech, </i>Ac Project Room<i>, </i>1995 from <a href="https://www.we-heart.com/2014/06/27/please-come-to-the-show-by-david-senior/"><i>Please Come to the Show</i></a> j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-89559192737588688502018-09-19T23:57:00.001-04:002018-09-19T23:57:53.850-04:00Night and Day: High Art Billboard Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Currently on display in Indianapolis at the following locations:<br />
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1-465 W., 500 ft. West of 96th Street near the junction of I-865 and 4460 N. Shadeland Avenue, 400 ft. south of 46th Street. j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-3302312581539400862018-07-28T18:40:00.001-04:002018-07-29T16:51:10.775-04:00Coming Soon to a Billboard in Indianapolis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"High Art Billboard Project Artists Revealed" from <a href="https://www.nuvo.net/arts/billboard-arts-council-of-indianapolis-high-art/article_6358a60a-8f79-11e8-aa93-efcef378bdd4.html"><i>Nuvo</i></a><br />
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One of the best parts, aside from seeing one of my photographs larger than life as public art in a space where it would never be shown, is that I get to keep the vinyl billboard at the end of the year. I already envision a few ideas that may or may not be accomplished once that time arrives. The first one is installed on 3 September and documentation is sure to come. j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-20069920347909094782018-07-12T18:04:00.000-04:002018-07-12T18:04:44.699-04:00Oh look...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ed Ruscha's bookshelf features two of my favorite Barry Lopez books. <br />
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Also from Ed Ruscha's studio/library... I have flat file storage and desk envy (the latter even looks like an old book).<br />
[Both images <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300216981/unpacking-my-library">via</a>]<br />
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Speaking of <a href="http://www.phaidon.com/store/art/artists-who-make-books-9780714872643/">books</a>, today I read that one of my favorite artists, <a href="https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/hans-peter-feldmann">Hans Peter Feldmann</a> was rejected from art school and spent two years as a sailor before creating his bound and stapled collections of repeated, ordinary subjects (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/nov/27/photography-hanspeter-feldmann"><i>Bilder</i></a>). j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-65003292910106703282018-07-04T18:49:00.000-04:002018-07-04T18:49:18.899-04:00Sometimes you see your old artwork and it makes you cringe ...<br />
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... but this piece from grad school is holding up alright. I saw it earlier this spring at a friend's house in Los Angeles. Twenty years later and <i>Book as Object: Aunt Eleanor</i> is not falling apart (back before I thought about how to keep art clean after it was made). Let's see what it does after another two decades.j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-7798926606705512122018-07-04T01:08:00.002-04:002018-07-04T01:16:12.413-04:00"Robert Heinecken: Myth and Loss Reimagined" (2017 - 2018)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">In 2017, I was awarded the
<a href="https://ccp.arizona.edu/study-research/fellowships-internships/photographic-arts-council-los-angeles-pac-la-research">Photographic Arts Council / Los Angeles Research Fellowship </a>at the <a href="https://ccp.arizona.edu/">Center for Creative Photography</a> to study <a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1384">Robert Heinecken</a>, a 20<sup>th</sup> century
visionary whose work speaks strongly to 21<sup>st</sup> century practitioners.
My intent was to document objects from his archive that comment on the growing
gap between the analog and digital era and how accumulation is changing at a
time where collecting is less common and experiences dominate. I wanted to
learn more about Heinecken’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanishing
Photographs</i> and his cremated ashes stored in a salt shaker as they are the
most poignant examples that bridge the gap between analog and digital. These ephemeral
items are enshrouded in myth and they contribute to his legacy and I wanted to
hold them in my hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Despite our radical
differences in subject matter, Heinecken is instrumental to my artistic
process. His disregard for what he considered a photograph to be, his use of
appropriation, his employment of guerilla tactics in the distribution of
altered magazines, and his experimentation with three-dimensional presentation first
drew me to him in undergraduate school. While in the archive, I made a
discovery which altered my course and caused me to reconsider everything I
thought I knew about him. While perusing fourteen VHS tapes of a 1995 seminar
and two interviews as far back as 1975, I began to notice his memory loss and
how it would eventually lead to Alzheimer’s. I lost count of how many times he
said “I don’t remember” and watched in shock as he struggled to recall who was
standing before him when the daughter of an old friend surprised him while
being videotaped. </span></div>
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contemporary version of his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanishing
Photographs</i> shifted to objects in his archive that implied or overtly
suggested absence. Evidence of his declining memory would redefine my series
yet still comment on the shrinking role of analog practices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I approached the archive
open to discovery, letting the objects dictate my direction, and the series
grew to include three additional pieces. A diptych of stills from television
screens references his cameraless photographs of <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/robert-heinecken/tv-network-newswomen-corresponding-barbar-aa-a-LvFBAIGuo2KKBXp3L6kEZQ2">newscasters from the 1980s</a>. An image
of his ashes printed as a positive and negative on transparency film sandwiched
in Plexiglas is after <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/robert-heinecken/venus-mirrored-oJAZckNd2gBNxsOmZszsDA2"><i>Venus Mirrored</i> (1968)</a>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Archive Remains</i> is a photogram
of a bottle containing the detritus that fell onto the white paper where I
examined his possessions that the CCP staff allowed me to keep on my final day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">I am captivated by the idea of legacy and mythology defined by the things left behind. This experience was life-changing and will undoubtedly be unveiled in a myriad of ways in the years to come. </span></div>
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One project down, eight more to go...<br />
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All the images are printed, inventoried, stored and are <a href="http://jacindarussell.com/section/468584-Known-and-Unknown-Collaborations-with-Interlibrary-Loan-2017-2018.html">now online!</a> In fact, the <a href="http://jacindarussell.com/home.html">website</a> even has a brand new look. Now to tackle a dozen tasks that have nothing to do with sitting in front of a computer.j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-80805185191106455082018-06-25T23:59:00.002-04:002018-06-26T08:31:17.466-04:00One year ago today, I was in Greenland and ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ilulissat Icefjord, 2017 <br />
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... fourteen months after I started reading it, I finished
Barry Lopez's <i>Arctic Dreams</i> this week. As it was published in 1986, the
prevailing thought was wishing he would return to the far north and
write a new book of what has happened since. So much has changed with
the physical landscape but his meditations on history and our personal
relationship with place have not. Here are four of my favorite passages with three images from the old iPhone.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.barrylopez.com/">Barry Lopez's</a> <i>Arctic Dreams:</i><br />
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"... we bring our own worlds to bear in foreign landscapes in order to clarify them for ourselves. It is hard to imagine that we could do otherwise. The risk we take is of finding our final authority in the metaphors rather than the land. To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then is to provoke thoughts about one's own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves." <br />
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Sermermiut, UNESCO World Heritage Site, 2017<br />
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"No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind; how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself. If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction because if all contradictions were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."<br />
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East Greenland, Flight from Nuuk to Reykjavik, Iceland<br />
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"The edges of any landscape - horizons, the lip of a valley, the bend of a river around a canyon wall - quicken an observer's expectations. That attraction to borders, to the earth's twilit places, is part of the shape of human curiosity."<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In the spring of
2017, I checked out the publication <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heinecken</i>
from the Ball State University library. Horrified by the sheer amount of plates
that were removed, I wondered what equivalent methods of destruction occurred
today. Immediately Judy Dater’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Imogen
and Twinka at Yosemite </i>came to mind as it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i> photograph most flipped over and hidden (therefore riddled with
pushpins) of the hundreds that fill the walls of the photography classroom. I
was compelled to “fix” this so I ordered books to scan and print copies to replace
both the defaced Dater and the missing Heineckens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Ball State University's Copy of </i>Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait<i>, </i>2017 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Two discoveries
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Cunningham: A Portrait</i> featured a high contrast copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Imogen and Twinka</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at Yosemite </i>as the original page had been removed. Also, the cover
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Imogen Cunningham </i>looked
conspicuously censored after it arrived from a neighboring institution. Thus
began two collaborations with the Interlibrary Loan librarian – one of which she
knew and the other she did not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I culled all the
new arrivals of contemporary art online bookstores and I took note of missing titles
from the history of photography that the university did not own. I searched for
books that the librarian might deliberately arrange the sticker or white band with
my check-out information over “offending” parts of the human body, and
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The books were
scanned upon arrival, the information was moved to other areas revealing what
was once concealed, and rescanned before their return. There were a few surprises
along the way. As I carefully pulled back the adhesive, I found the loaning
library placed the sticker in another location and Ball State moved it to a
less offending area or they added white paper to the book’s cover.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Helmut Newton’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sumo</i> included a “Booklet” inside with
the same cover image and a label shielding the model’s feet. I was taken aback
that the front was censored but the interior was not. After careful inspection,
it was noticeable that someone altered the label and rearranged it over the
model’s torso prior to it coming into my possession. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">After awhile, the
interactions with nudity became predictable and I began to speculate how the
librarian would encounter violence or whether or not she was a cat or dog
person (clearly preferring canines). </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The known collaboration
consisted of the librarian obtaining permission to request eleven copies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait</i> so I could
take a photograph of twelve versions of page 126 and compare how many were
missing and whether or not the library resolved it. I placed a new print inside
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heinecken</i>,
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I have always been inspired by his screen-printing a Viet Cong soldier over advertisements
in periodicals then returning them to newsstands and doctor’s offices. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Known and Unknown Collaborations with
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<a href="http://lblakeslee.com/home.html">Laurie Blakeslee</a> sent me a link to Spencer Finch's <a href="https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/148274/spencer-finch-great-salt-lake-and-vicinity"><i>Great Salt Lake and Vicinity</i></a> on Instagram yesterday. I haven't stopped thinking about it mainly because it is an ingenious example of site specific artwork featuring a collaboration with the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Secondly, I quickly fall for re-purposing Pantone colors and making them into a vessel to describe personal experience. It involves studious observation, a journey, and a collection ending with 1,132 chips traversing the landscape from Robert Smithson's <i>Spiral Jetty</i> to the UMFA.<br />
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Spencer Finch, <i>Great Salt Lake and Vicinity, </i>2017 [Image via <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/398186/a-pastel-portrait-of-spiral-jetty-and-its-environs/">Hyperallergic</a>]<br />
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From <i><a href="https://www.theutahreview.com/umfa-talk-feature-spencer-finch-created-largest-pantone-installation-piece-great-salt-lake-vicinity/">The Utah Review</a>:</i><br />
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"The work constitutes a richly detailed field observational guide,
created as Finch spent several days circumnavigating the Great Salt
Lake. Finch selected Pantone swatches that corresponded precisely to the
meticulous scientific-like observations he made of the colors during
his trip. He also labeled in pencil each swatch with the originating
source of color, which included trees, lake algae blooms, native birds
of prey and other elements he observed as he circled the Great Salt
Lake." j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-60497995144113652762018-05-04T14:44:00.001-04:002018-05-04T14:46:48.929-04:00Antarctica Window ArtWhile perusing the National Science Foundation homepage, I discovered <a href="https://www.usap.gov/aboutUSAPParticipants/index.cfm?m=1">this post</a>
on window art at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The austral
days are changing into nights and window covers are necessary to prevent
the lights inside the station from interfering with the scientific
research taking place outdoors.<br />
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From <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Office-of-Polar-Programs-National-Science-Foundation-1392901317615113/">their website</a>: "To make life a bit more interesting, members of the community spending
the winter at the Pole, monitoring scientific equipment or maintaining
the station itself, decorated some of the window covers and a
window-cover-design-contest was organized by the station manager as a
morale booster."<br />
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Most all the images were labeled anonymous except for Joshua Blatell's <i>Geodesic Figure</i> three images below.<br />
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I am researching the cartography of Antarctica, specifically atypical maps of the Southernmost continent, and am drawn to the one above. However, I love the escapism present in the ones below. <br />
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It's hard not to feel claustrophobic once one realizes they are inserted or duct taped into all the windows. I, too, would be having visions of the Great Barrier Reef if based on the South Pole in the middle of winter. j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-71893515907387331402018-04-16T19:25:00.003-04:002018-04-16T19:26:43.354-04:00Some Vanishing Photographs Here are in progress studio and process photographs from the last three weeks. More on the Robert Heinecken series soon as I am writing the artist statement in the next week or two.<br />
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<a href="https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2018/01/30/cristina-bartley/">Cristina Bartley Dominguez</a>, From the series <i>Stuck in Limbo</i><br />
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Imogen Cunningham, <i>Five Eggs</i>, 1951<br />
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There are two things that I agree to do because they are personal challenges: public speaking and written publications in the form of reviews or essays. Last week I "performed" my second Pecha Kucha in half a decade by speed reading (because there was no other way to get through it) information about twenty slides that were shown for twenty seconds apiece. The theme was "Beginnings" after the Richard Diebenkorn exhibition on display in the museum's galleries.<br />
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I translated "beginning" as an opening, an introduction, an origin, a source. The first time we do something can reverberate into the present. The images above represent an early artist's book and the current one in progress and "The First Series that Changed Everything: Aunt Eleanor." Others included "the first time I suspected something was amiss in the Interlibrary Loan Department," "the first time I broke the law for art and the last," "the first series that has nothing to do with photography," and "the first time obsessive counting became part of my art practice." <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photographs courtesy of Jordan Huffer and the David Owsley Museum of Art</span>j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-28320130184262687272018-03-25T15:13:00.000-04:002018-03-25T15:13:29.142-04:00"Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I press forward with the completion of <i>Camden's Rock: 2012 - 2017</i>, I have become fascinated with the presentation of chronological timelines from the past, whether they are pocket-sized (as in the top image) or scrolls. This chart above from the late 1870s was sold as an accordion book and on rollers for wall mounting. I am curious how such a large amount of information can be stored in a compact manner. <br />
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Conversely, this little red scroll is nearly two inches wide and is one of the smallest that was ever published. <i>The Stream of Time</i> on the bottom is wound on a roller in a box which has great appeal in terms of protection and a method of reading that will not cause stress to the paper. <br />
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Of all the objects presented in <i>Cartographies of Time</i>, Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg's <i>Chronographie universelle</i> was the one that I wanted most to see in person (and hold). The paper is mounted on cranks and enclosed in a little case that reminds me of something one would find in a printmaking studio.<br />
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I am not sure what <i>Camden's Rock</i> will look like when it is done but I can say that it's a 2.2 GB file that is 630" long with 83 images and as of this weekend, it is finally edited and assembled and sent to the designer to fill in the text. Nearly every part of that sentence is huge.j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-26759356125514182262018-03-23T00:22:00.003-04:002018-03-23T10:44:25.364-04:00"Autobiography in Water" is finally complete ...... and it feels so good to only be working on eight series instead of nine. I exhibited the artwork as part of a sabbatical show in November and updated <a href="http://jacindarussell.com/section/414375-Autobiography-in-Water-2013-2017.html">the website </a>last week. Here are some highlights from the Atrium Gallery at Ball State University in November 2017.<br />
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<i>Thunderbird Hotel, Marfa, Texas</i>, 2013 (printed on Photo Tex vinyl at 100" x 150" - such a treat to see this photograph so large though hanging vinyl was stressful) <br />
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Also, I was fortunate to collaborate with <a href="http://www.yoursubjectyourprice.com/">Jacqueline Suskin</a> who contributed three poems to the exhibition (after sending her images, she responded, I printed her poems and mounted them alongside the photographs).<br />
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Rebecca Solnit quote, <i>Redfish Lake, Idaho</i>, 2014 - 2015, <i>Thunderbird Hotel</i>, <i>Marfa, Texas, </i>2013, <i>Cape Disappointment, Washington</i>, 2014 - 2015, and <i>Cape Horn, Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho</i>, 2014 - 2015<br />
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<i>Neptune Pool, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, </i>2014 - 2015, <i>San Solomon Springs, Balmorhea, Texas</i>, 2013, <i>The Springs, Idaho City, Idaho</i>, 2014, <i>Drekkingarhylur, Iceland</i>, 2015 - 2016, and <i>Miracle Hot Springs, Buhl, Idaho</i>, 2014 <br />
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<i>Key West, Florida</i>, 2015 - 2017, <i>Kirkham Hot Springs, Idaho</i>, 2015, <i>Perth, Australia, </i>2017, <i>Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada and Fjallsjökull Glacial Lagoon, Iceland</i>, 2014 - 2016 and the "islands" <br />
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<i>Drekkingarhylur, Iceland</i>, 2015 - 2016 <br />
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The "islands": <i>Rolla Island, Doubtful Sound, New Zealand</i>, 2016, <i>Rooster Rock, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</i>, nd, <i>Fisherman Island, Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho</i>, 2014, and <i>Columbia River Gorge, Oregon</i>, nd <br />
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<i>Key West, Florida</i>, 2015 - 2017 (archival pigment print displayed underneath a plexi-glass box filled with water - every other day it was topped off)<br />
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<i>Arizona Inn, Tucson, Arizona, </i>2016 - 2017 (1:33 video - the biggest technical accomplishment), <i>Lake Tahoe, California</i>, 2016 - 2017, and a slide show of <i>Coronado, Del Mar and La Jolla Coves, San Diego, California</i>, 2015 - 2017<br />
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Detail from the slide show of <i>La Jolla Coves, San Diego, California</i>, 2015 - 2017 <br />
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<i>Lake Tahoe, California</i>, 2016 - 2017<br />
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Gallery talk (photo by Jennifer Halvorson), November 2017 <br />
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The sad process of de-installation, November 2017 <br />
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All the vinyl text from the walls<br />
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Here is hoping I find another location to exhibit it (with a lot of help hanging and weeding vinyl from my friends). <br />
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c. late 1970sj. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-45312119710711316372018-03-16T22:46:00.000-04:002018-03-16T23:10:31.741-04:00Beatrix Reinhardt's "On the Rocks: Landscapes of Greenland" and Other ThoughtsI am slowly gathering information on artists creating work about global warming, specifically in the Arctic Circle. My friend, <a href="http://www.colinedgington.com/">Colin Edgington,</a> suggested I look into Beatrix Reinhardt's photographs of Greenland from 2007, ten years prior to my visit.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beatrix Reinhardt, <i>Untitled</i>, 2007 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From Beatrix's <a href="http://www.beatrixreinhardt.com/index.cfm">website:</a> "<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">This Disorder and order are in constant flux, as the landscape expresses grandeur or devastation, oppression or dyna</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">mism."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beatrix Reinhardt, <i>Untitled</i>, 2007</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beatrix Reinhardt, <i>Untitled</i>, 2007</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I quickly found that it was difficult not to take a photograph of Greenland like everyone else's. Perhaps it is all so foreign that we are attracted to the same subject matter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jacinda Russell, En route to Sermermiut, 2017 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After selecting Reinhardt's photographs for this post, I thumbed through my journal from June 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"First impression: LUNAR."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The last entry:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">"I will never, ever forget the impact of the icebergs, the air quality in the UNESCO World Heritage site, the best water I have EVER tasted (even better than Iceland), BUT there is also the trash, the cigarette butts that have never been disposed of in a place other than the ground, the exhaust from the few cars that are driven [only 90 miles of roads in the whole country, 40 of which are paved], and the poverty."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In my quest for the "metaphorical antipode," this country of extremes offers diametrical opposites within its own borders (as referenced in Reinhardt's quote above). So begins the search for more photographs that indicate that.</span>j. russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10638837148592483355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582951349690119897.post-8318552904730687832018-03-16T00:04:00.001-04:002018-03-16T00:28:42.283-04:00A Book I Must Own<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://bookletlibrary.org/c/crowe-michael/"><i>A List of Art Which Would Be Destroyed If Ed Ruscha's Painting 'Los Angeles County Museum on Fire' Became Reality Today</i></a> by Michael Crowe, 2011<br />
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There are so many things to love about this booklet: yet another artwork
inspired by Ed Ruscha (I am keeping track), a list, definite numbers, a
conceptual project that incorporates both art and writing, email
correspondence with a librarian, ETC. <br />
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Then I <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/mysterious-letters-5/">discovered</a> that he and <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/">Lenka Clayton</a>, my favorite artist who incorporates a <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/work/#/typewriter-drawings-4-1-1/">typewriter</a> (and lists, and found objects and and and), are "art partners" who have been collaborating on <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/mysterious-letters-5/"><i>Mysterious Letters</i> </a>since 2011.<br />
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From Lenka's website: "Michael Crowe
and I are in the middle of writing a unique hand-written (or
hand-typed) letter to every household in the world. So far we have
written over 2,700 different letters to the residents of Cushendall, a
small Northern Irish seaside town, the inhabitants of Polish Hill,
Pittsburgh, everyone on a long street through St. Gallen, Switzerland, a
suburb of Cologne, Germany, two streets in Paris France, and many, many people in Tilburg, Netherlands. Each
letter is different, and where possible personally addressed. We sign
them "love Michael & Lenka", and write in a chatty, friendly tone
about topics of possible mutual interest; the weather, gentleness,
Roseanne, etc."<br />
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Arts Center Lecture Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Boulevard, <a href="http://uwm.edu/arts/event/artists-now-guest-lecture-series-jacinda-russell/">University of Wisconsin Milwaukee</a><br />
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It's been a minute (rather 3,732,276 minutes or 7 years, 1 month and 7 days ago) since I was last in Milwaukee. <a href="http://jacindarussellart.blogspot.com/search?q=milwaukee">Hannah and I were driving through</a> after floating the last of the styrofoam cakes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I am looking forward to returning!<br />
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