Barbara Smith + Blog

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

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Jeff Wall The Flooded Grave

and we’re back.

more pictures from the conference here

On how to take care of your introvert:

“How can I let the introvert in my life know that I support him and respect his choice?

First, recognize that it’s not a choice. It’s not a lifestyle. It’s an orientation.

Second, when you see an introvert lost in thought, don’t say “What’s the matter?” or “Are you all right?”

Third, don’t say anything else, either. ”

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Yang Zhenzhong, “I Will Die,” 2000-05

I’ve been working on my paper to present at the Woolf symposium being held at SUNY-New Paltz on April 22. I’ll post more info as it becomes available…a poster is forthcoming.

My paper title is: Summing Up: Sensibilia in The Waves

It has been nice to revisit this topic after having a bit of a break from that big research paper last semester…as I have been re-researching, I’ve realized just how much this topic relates to my own work, and how, and why. Oh, Virginia.

I revisited my stick pins from last semester, which now have the embossed book for display as I always envisioned.

Here are a few quick shots:

p.s. sorry for the random whites….when I look at white on my monitor it looks like someone peed on it…rings of yellow…that is all i see. :-/