The Texture & Specificity of Life

So, I've been spending a lot of time on the internet lately, being laid up and all, and today's project is backing up my hard drives, thus, while in this archivistic frame of mind, I decided to clean out my web browser's bookmarks cache. Turns out there have been a lot of very interesting (to me) things that have popped up in my facebook feed or been linked to things that friends have emailed me and whatnot, so before I go through and made notes an purged, I thought I might create a post here, a compendium of sorts, of internet content that has caught my attention in the last year or so. So here are, in no particular order, a bunch of interesting articles, reviews, and even some music that are slated to be deleted, right after I spend the rest of the day reading through them and taking notes. I hope you might find something interesting, enlightening or beautiful on this list, and maybe even gain a deeper understanding and/or appreciation of my work by seeing the things ...

  Artwork + info can be found in the Trying to be a Tree portfolio on my website, here .

When I lived in Oakland, I always did the East Bay Open Studios.  People loved that; they were consistently my strongest shows in terms of sales. Then recession broke me, and I had to fold up shop and high-tail back it to the comfortable middle class folds of my mother's people, on the Central California Coast.  Now I live at my grandmother's house.  Then I broke my back.  It's been a rough couple years.   News flash: creating for a living is hard.  At any rate, I have persisted.  I will continue to do so I now realize, regardless of the price – I'm pot committed, as they might say of a poker player who has the majority of his chips in play in a particular hand.  (I am a terrible poker player, but I enjoy the idea of lying as a virtuous activity.) I 'm in the fourth month of my recovery from major back surgery and finally able to (slowly, gently) start doing things that have been strictly prohibited here to fore, such as bending, lifti...