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Typed bibliography for each source
http://cargocollective.com/
Paragraph explanation of your reasoning for identifying this book as important. Why this book/artist/writer? What ideas are of interest? How does this work relate to your studio practice?
Post 2 quotes from each book you find particularly interesting in regards to your studio practice and/or interests
Gene Davis - painter
"Gene Davis - a Memorial Exhibition", Serwer, Smithsonian Institution, 1987
I stumbled across an image of Gene Davis working on one of his street stripe paintings. It looked fun, vibrant, colorful. Completely transforming the street into ribbons of color. It was what I wished my work could be. It is said that he worked obsessively, and his worked is talked about in comparison to music was an unexpected treat. I definitely desire that my work would fall into that somehow.
"One characteristic of my work has been a tendency to raid my past without guilt. I tend to do that unselfconiously, going back and picing up on some idea that I flirted with briefly, say 15 or 20 years ago. I will then thake this idea and explore it more in depth, almost as if no time had elasped between the present and the time of its original conception." - Gene Davis, pg 13
"Through music, a psychological situation is created in which the individual is confronted with a complex, nonverbal influx of auditory stimuli which, essentially, cannot be understood in other terms. [...] cannot be mastered with the main instrument of logical thinking..." - Heinx Kohut and Siegmund Levarie, pg 44-45
Chino Otsuka - photographer
"Imagine Finding Me", Chino Otsuka, Trace editions, 2006
This body of work is so simple, so straightforward; I feel like it's every young digital photographer's first instinct- oh, i'll photoshop myself back into photos of my childhood. But the execution and the sensitivity are so on-point, so subtle. I feel as if this book is an illustration of the potential of all my unfinished or unresolved ideas. As if it's saying, "See? Look! You had a great idea, it could have turned out as great as this."
"The earliest memory
I remember it claerly.
A phtographic memory,
I didn't want to let it go
so at that moment,
in my mind,
I released the shutter." - Chino Otsuka, pg 25
"What was I doing this time last week?
This time last month?
This time last year?
What will I be doing this time next year?" - Chino Otsuka, pg 29
Shigeko Kubota-sculpture
"Shigeko Kubota, Video Sculpture", JoAnn Hanley, American Museum/University of Washington Press, 1991
Paragraph explanation of your reasoning for identifying this book as important. Why this book/artist/writer? What ideas are of interest? How does this work relate to your studio practice?
"Video is window of yesterday.
Video is the window of tomorrow.
It snows in my video windowas it snows in my mind." - Shigeko Kubota, pg 33
"Just after I made Niagara Falls,
my studio became Niagara Falls,
because of roofer's mistake.
‘Art imitates Nature,
Nature imitates Art.’" - Shigeko Kubota, pg 53
Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art - non-art related book (non fiction)
***oops, I didn't see this was supposed to be non ART related, I thought it was supposed to be non-PHOTO-related. I'll get a different book in here quickly.***
"Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art", Baas & Jacob, University of California Press, 2004
Paragraph explanation of your reasoning for identifying this book as important. Why this book/artist/writer? What ideas are of interest? How does this work relate to your studio practice?
"Our business in living is to become fluent with he life we are living, and art can help this." - John Cage, pg 33
Ambidextrous-collection 1 - non-art related book (fiction)
"Ambidextrous, Collection I", Kevin Cornell, BearSkinRug, 2005
Paragraph explanation of your reasoning for identifying this book as important. Why this book/artist/writer? What ideas are of interest? How does this work relate to your studio practice?
"We can have a reading duel!
How does that work?
Simple - YOU read a sentence from your book... then ME from mine.
The most interesting sentence wins! ... You Start!
‘The science of astrophysics is broad and many-faceted.’
Wow... you pretty much just shot yourself." - pg 4
"I wish I was a more interesting person.
I... wish you were too." - pg 13
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