meeting for anna may wong

ray johnson 

i used to be good friends with one of the people pictured on this sheet of paper by ray johnson

in fact, he was a real big influence on me

he was so shy - he would flatly deny that he had any influence on anyone or anything

it has been decades since i have seen him - and a couple of years since we last exchanged letters

like ray johnson, he is a correspondence artist

i once went over to his new space - he had just recently broken up with his wife and was living in a pretty large store front down on north liberty street in winston-salem 

i was very surprised at how many boxes he had - boxes marked warhol, johnson, duchamp, etc

i think i may have told you this before, but once when we were driving down this beautiful stretch of highway, heading to an art show in salisbury,

he suddenly remarked on how lush and green the landscape was and how the newly black asphalt of the road was just as beautiful as a painting

then he said something that has stayed with me for a long time  -

“everything man-made is art, everything else is nature”

image via

alfredo jaar

it is difficult…

toronto: art metropole, 1997

10-sheet billboard, overall dimensions 10 x 20 feet.

edition of 5 (plus 2 printer’s proofs and 1 artist’s proof)

from william carlos williams’ long poem asphodel, that greeny flower

via

tony smith

yohji clothes for old men

alvy by annie

from every day i show

ce1

screen shot from this 

matchy matchy

(Source: mauricioduartearratia)

delicatematter:

sookoon ang

Your Love is Like a Chunk of Gold - Country (2011)
bread, monoammonium phosphate crystals

i can’t quite say how this image is making me feel - but it is making me feel something - in my teeth, i think - it almost makes me want to scream - a hot mix of pain and pleasure

witch hat

witch hat