That kind of makes me feel a little sick (uneasy? guilty?), but I pulled the trigger multiple times anyway (it's just paint, thinks I). But his larger point is taken.
This is some powerful work.

Domestic Tension

Newsweek story (filed under "entertainment"? Must be part of the art..)

Washington Post story

I've been working on the mask man project for a while, and am just getting around to writing a statement about it. Since many artist statements seem so lame, I figured I'd just do it my way, much like the man in the mask does. So here it is...

1

There once was a man
Whose face was a mask
For whom fitting in
Was no easy task

So he went to the bunny
Who knew good and evil
And asked how to get along
In the world of human people

The bunny smirked
A lascivious grin
And said if I tell you
You'll never win

That's fine said the man
Because life is too tragic
Ah but said the bunny
That's part of its magic

So the man carried on
Completing his chores
Looking for love
While ignoring the wars

2

How can I be
So callous and cruel
So selfish and ugly?
I feel like a fool

Not so said the bunny
Who by this time had joined him
When everything's sad
It ends up being funny

There's no way to win
Not even through fame
But first I do think
That you'll need a name

What good's a name
When I don't have Me
More important than glory
Is an identity

Ha ha said the bunny
Whatever suits you
The object
The subject
It's all what you Do

In time you'll learn
That there is no Word
The answer's "do good"
The rest, just absurd.


Yeah. So. Your thoughts are appreciated. We need more fables.

Go to breeze.scad.edu/p20982449/ to view the recording of Jim Langford's Beltline presentation at Solomon Projects. This was a very successful online event, and a very interesting talk about greenspace in Atlanta. The talk begins about 5:30 into the archive. You can scrub through by dragging the pointer at bottom left.

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I'll be hosting a webcast today from Solomon Projects, a gallery in Atlanta. James Langford, state director of the Trust for Public Land in Georgia. These are the people putting together the Beltline, among many other important conservation projects.
Sign on to breeze.scad.edu/langford/ at noon today to watch the webcast. I'll be recording the lecture and will make it available afterward.

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"But the narrator is inclined to think that by attributing overimportance to praiseworthy actions one may, by implication, be paying indirect but potent homage to the worse side of human nature. For this attitude implies that such actions shine out as rare exceptions, while callousness and apathy are the general rule. The narrator does not share that view. The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clearsightedness. "
- the Plague

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At the APG Emerging Visions show opening.

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Go to the Emerging Visions show at the Atlanta Photography Group gallery. The opening is Friday, May 4 starting at 7:30 p.m. If you can't make the opening (why not? free food and booze, pictures, people...), the show will be up until June 8.
Elizabeth Turk, the juror, will be giving a talk on May 5 at 10 a.m. with bagels and coffee before.
You should come.

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