study #3
What you see is a mere beginning. This bluefin will become life sized, stretching across my studio wall, three layers deep - maybe more. The 7 ft sprawl of paper will be terrifying, but I want it, and I'm ready.
Artist to Artist
Sacramento artists, rise up! There's a new monkey in town. Can it be tamed?!? Learn more by listening to Jen Picard's interview with Jonathan Glus, the new Creative Economy Manager of Sacramento.
As an attendee at the round table discussions of Monday (kick-off) and Wednesday (visual artists) nights, I can promise it's been invigorating. In summary of Wednesday night's discussion, visual artists want the following - a public educated on the value of art, affordable studio and display space, easier access to grants for work, promotion of Sacramento as a city of the arts, an arts district, and a centralization of arts information. If you are a Sacramento artist, now is the time to get involved. Raise your voice! People are listening.
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a time to weep
for frank loret de mola
Danny has two kidneys. He would have given one to Frank, but Frank didn't need a kidney, Frank needed a brain. Frank's own brain was his second most beautiful feature - mathematic, fluid but damn fast, a writers brain making connections where others saw gaps. The reckless driver who rammed Frank's car didn't know what he was destroying. If he had, this wouldn't be written and Frank wouldn't be dead, because to know Frank is to love him.
The only part of Frank more beautiful than his brain was his goddamn, mother fucking heart. No one will ever have a heart like Frank's. If he could have been saved, that would have done it. Beneath his uncharacteristically still chest, his heart would have risen with fervor, not to help himself, but to help us. To relieve our terror and pain, his heart would have beat without the meds, without the machine's breath, blood, and pulse and, if it had, we'd have been there, so goddamn grateful to hold his living hands. Instead we ask his sweet ghost to haunt us forever.
May your next journey be full of the love and wonder you generously poured on us, dear friend. Descanse en paz - may he rest in peace.