Barbara Smith + Blog

I’ve updated my Flickr page with images of new-ish things I’m working on.

Website…working on one…

which I learned takes as long as making one from scratch!

Before:

After:

A conversation about this NYT article

led to this:

“Now that the logic of haste and desire has left me, maybe I will sit on a park bench and feed pigeons at midday. Maybe I will scatter peace like crumbs by the handful and find my significance in small things. That would be nice.”

Full text here.

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart.
I am. I am. I am.
”
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

I AM STILL ALIVE
On Kawara (Japanese, born 1933) via MoMA

“Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.”

“What is meant by “reality”? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable—now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying. It overwhelms one walking home beneath the stars and makes the silent world more real than the world of speech—and then there it is again in an omnibus in the uproar of Piccadilly. Sometimes, too, it seems to dwell in shapes too far away for us to discern what their nature is. But whatever it touches, it fixes and makes permanent. That is what remains over when the skin of the day has been cast into the hedge; that is what is left of past time and of our loves and hates.”

“I am rooted, but I flow.”

V-dub. (Virginia Woolf)

photography is one sexy beast.

“Photography is a means to describe the world that was less invention and more a realization of a set of ideas and ideals about seeing and representation. I am fascinated by the circular causality of this medium in and upon the world, in its affect performed on its subject, and in the way photographic images direct perceptions so that wants, needs, and knowledge remain inextricably intertwined, evident without being exposed.” -laura letinsky

laura letinsky Untitled, #2, The Dog and The Wolf series, 2006

more here

Jeff Wall The Flooded Grave