tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16196558554553687032024-02-18T18:10:35.655-08:00Beatrice ModisettThe Blog of A Painter Who Does Other Things Too...Bea Modisetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010400578212146399noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619655855455368703.post-31103646726346839982015-05-13T10:38:00.001-07:002016-02-08T07:13:34.275-08:00Website<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Visit my website here: <a href="http://www.beatricemodisett.com/">www.beatricemodisett.com</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have totally stopped posting...Graduate School is taxing and fantastic! I might be back around these parts more during the summer. We'll see. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amidst the long studio hours, the books, the critiques, the studio visits, the movie nights, the desperate attempts at deep sleep, experiencing a new city and making some incredible new friends, I was lucky enough to meet with Julie Sharp of <a href="http://www.freepeople.com/">Free People</a> for an interview. Read it <a href="http://blog.freepeople.com/2014/10/studio-painter-bea-modisett/">here</a> dear friend! A huge thanks to Julie and Free People for the opportunity! </span></div>
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Bea Modisetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010400578212146399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619655855455368703.post-50601577803573249112014-09-04T14:12:00.004-07:002014-09-05T07:08:00.980-07:00On Reading Radicalism<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just read <i><a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/in-the-break">In the Break: The Aesthetics of Black Radical Tradition</a></i> by Fred Moten. It was assigned reading for my Graduate Seminar here at <a href="http://arts.vcu.edu/">VCUarts</a>. It. Is. Dense. There were moments when I actually threw the book down in frustration because I felt like I had no idea what Moten was talking about. I was reading slowly and deliberately with a dictionary by my side and still finding it really hard to understand<i> exactly</i> what he was getting at. This was the first book I had to read for grad school and I wanted to NAIL IT. Then a wise acquaintance suggested that I read the book as if I was searching for the parts I was interested in and understood. When I found those sections that's when I could slow down and absorb. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It worked. I approached this book as if I was excavating for a sentence, paragraph, page, that I could relate to, attach to. I found them. I read most non-fiction through the lens of an artist. I automatically put what I read in relation to what I do. How are Moten's words related to my painting practice? How can I utilize the language I use most to understand the foreign language (of black radicalism) that is before me?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While keeping this in mind, it was helpful to watch <a href="http://www.amiribaraka.com/">Amiri Baraka</a>, who is mentioned in the text frequently, perform <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEu-pG1HWw">Somebody Blew Up America</a> </i>as well as <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg">The Revolution Will Not Be Televised</a></i> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron">Gil Scott-Heron</a>. I started to read the text as if it were a performance in it's own right...I read the words with the cadence and intensity of a spoken word piece.</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The words Marx puts into the commodity's mouth are these: "our use value...does not belong to us as objects. What does belong to us as objects, however, is our value," where value equals exchange value. Marx has the commodity go on to assert that commodities only related to one another as exchange-values, that this is proven by the necessarily social intercourse in which commodities might be said to discover themselves. Therefore, the commodity discovers herself, comes to know herself, only as a function of having been exchanged, having been embedded in a mode of sociality that is shaped by exchange. (Page 9)</span></i><br />
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<i>If something is to happen, you have to come unprepared, unarmed; but you don't come with nothing. You've got to bring something that adorns you even if it doesn't arm you. Just a very small phrase...(Page 75)</i></span><br />
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In a book filled with information that I am just beginning to understand, these are some of the lines that I was able to relate to most. I was able to make a connection to them either in the way I live my life, the questions I ask myself, or the themes I explore in my painting. I felt like I read this book in a vacuum and I am really looking forward to a class discussion about it, to understand it deeper.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am very aware that I am a white person saying I don't understand this book about "blackness." I feel naive and a little exposed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading this book while following <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/justice/ferguson-justice-department-investigation/">the events in Ferguson</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown">shooting of Michael Brown</a> has made my desire to understand that much greater. I can not believe this is still happening. We need radicalism, we need people to rise up and to question what is happening around us. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not radical in my approach to painting. Do I need to be? When there is violence, poverty, racism and war happening all around me, in my world, in what way is my work in the studio significant? How am I contributing to the betterment of the world? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading this...I know it's a bit different from what you're used to. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love as always,</span><br />
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<br />Bea Modisetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010400578212146399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619655855455368703.post-34802550788772806782014-06-14T12:22:00.000-07:002014-09-05T07:08:13.008-07:00New Post, New Painting<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been working towards deadlines for the past year and a half. I had my show at <a href="http://hallspace.org/">HallSpace</a> and then a show at <a href="http://www.montserrat.edu/">Montserrat College of Art</a> to prepare for. I was also feverishly working to apply to graduate school. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm happy to report that the hard work paid off and I will be attending Virginia Commonwealth University (<a href="http://arts.vcu.edu/">VCUarts</a>) this Fall to earn my MFA in Painting.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't have any painting deadlines right now and while it feels strange, I am allowing myself to leave the studio and hang out with friends and experience springtime on the North Shore one last time before heading down south. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below are images for you to look at and hopefully enjoy. I realized I never posted photos of my show in Boston. I'll be back to blogging soon. I've got stuff to say.</span></div>
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Bea Modisetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010400578212146399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619655855455368703.post-2363516467965573242014-01-16T13:22:00.000-08:002014-01-16T13:25:52.190-08:00Upcoming Events<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What dynamic forces insert themselves into the creative process? The artistic impulses of control, surrender, perfection and illusion are explored in conversation by visiting artists <a href="http://www.masakokamiya.com/">Masako Kamiya</a>, <a href="http://www.beamodisettstudio.com/">Bea Modisett</a>, <a href="http://antoniadisandstone.com/">Antoniadis & Stone</a> and curator <a href="http://leoniebradbury.com/">Leonie Bradbury</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Public Artist Talk - </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">March 26th, 11:30am - 12:15pm</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you can make it to the exhibition or one of the talks!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just updated <a href="http://www.beamodisettstudio.com/">my website</a> with images of all my 2013 paintings and a few install shots of my current solo exhibition. These paintings are on view in <i>By Way of Bangkok</i> at <a href="http://hallspace.org/">HallSpace</a> through January 25th.</span></div>
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Bea Modisetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010400578212146399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619655855455368703.post-78719311464757469092013-10-22T13:06:00.004-07:002013-10-22T13:08:01.219-07:00Interview with Temporary Land Bridge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was very happy to collaborate with <a href="http://temporarylandbridge.com/">Temporary Land Bridge</a> over the past few weeks to put together this interview. Head over to <a href="http://temporarylandbridge.com/">the site</a> and check out some new work/words.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry for the crickets as of late. I am working non-stop in preparation for my upcoming solo show <i>By Way of Bangkok</i> at <a href="http://www.hallspace.org/">HallSpace</a> (Boston, MA). I just wanted to drop by and let you know I am alive and kicking! Above is a painting that will be featured in the exhibition. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS - I got the title of the painting above from <a href="http://beamodisett.blogspot.com/2013/04/it-bears-repeating.html">this gemstone.</a> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My paintings have changed a lot over the years. I know, visually, there seems to be a big jump between those two paintings up there (though I know they are surface and that the similarities outweigh the differences). Sometimes I think the paintings I made a few years ago are stronger than the ones I am making now, and that's hard to swallow. Then I remind myself I am making the paintings I need to make right now. This is what's happening. I feel I am moving forward and that is important. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I told my dad the other day that I struggle with how dark my paintings have become, but that using brighter colors (and I have tried) makes me feel like a fraud, and that in using them I would be trying to trick people, or myself. It's just not in me right now, what I am doing feels right. His response, which I am thankful for:</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379211616773_5601"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mother heard an NPR discussion about F. Scott Fitzgerald today. One of the last things he did was list the works of literature everyone should read before they depart this life. One such work was "Sanctuary" by William Faulkner. I read it last year and it was one of the darkest, most depressing works of literature I've ever read. Hemingway's masterpiece, "Farewell to Arms," is of a similar genre. And I'm currently about a third of the way through "Richard the Third" by William Shakespeare, hardly an inspiring bit of upbeat drama, and it isn't even among his tragedies. And speaking of tragedies, there are the Greeks who set the stage for all the literature that follows. <b>So my conclusion is that whether you're a visual artist or a verbal artist, you can't be perceptive and honest and still portray the world in bright colors. On the other hand, Shakespeare, and the Greeks, and William Faulkner, also wrote comedies. So unless we can also see or imagine a bright side, the world would become unbearable.</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mind is clear and somewhat settled. I am lost and searching and happy and confident which is showing in the work. Below is a recent finished painting.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been working towards my solo exhibition at <a href="http://hallspace.org/">HallSpace</a> (December '13) since March. As of two weeks ago I am now also preparing for a March/April '14 solo exhibition at the <a href="http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/schlosberg/">Carol Schlosberg Gallery</a> at <a href="http://montserrat.edu/">Montserrat College of Art</a> in Beverly, MA. Whoop! Turbo mode. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am really happy about what has been going on in (and out of) the studio lately. I had a great studio visit yesterday with the director of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hallspace.org/">HallSpace</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> where my solo exhibition will be this December and have two more visits lined up for next week. I'm not sure I am ready to share photos of finished works yet, so here is a quick shot of the studio to give you SOME visual proof of productivity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a great conversation with a good friend the other day. It wasn't necessarily an easy one, but I left it feeling optimistic and inspired and set on being the best person I can be. I wrote down four pages of notes to remind myself to hold on to those feelings. Below are some excerpts that, days later, resonate the most: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Don't get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired. (The acronym H.A.L.T is used by individuals trying to cope with substance abuse, but I think we all can learn a little something from it.)</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Don't stagnate. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Stop making excuses.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I told myself I'd have a brush in hand by 12:30 today and that hour is fast approaching. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">*I can't believe I actually got to experience this in person. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;">I am lucky to have a lot of friends and
acquaintances who are creative and I have been really appreciating and admiring
that creativity lately. They don't all make things, but they all live and think
and problem solve creatively and come up with projects they want to do in their
spare time. They make me feel like a sham. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I miss throwing piles of wood around and
dragging pieces of garbage to the metal shop to take them apart and put them
back together again in a different way.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I like that building my own stretcher bars and
stretching my own canvas makes my hands and knees hurt for a week. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My fingers used to bleed because I drew so
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Next time I need a bookshelf I am going to
build it. I think I needed one a couple of years ago, but the piles of books
and magazines haven't started falling over yet. That'll be my indication. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I do have plans to strip and refinish a metal
cabinet I found in the trash and I am in the midst of "renovating" a
room in my house.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The things I am most interested in are things I
haven't figured out how to discuss out loud. I'm quiet a lot and stare
out of a lot of windows and up at a lot of ceilings. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I've been writing lyrics that give heavy, heavy
nods to some of my favorite songs.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Birds don't care about my problems...neither do
waves. I look to both when I am feeling discouraged. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I've been recording myself beat-boxing in the
car about my name and where it came from. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A friend asked me to be in his superhero themed
art exhibition and I said "no I don't think my work would fit." He
totally schooled my closed mind and gave me a brilliant idea. I wish I had said
"yes, of course I'll be in your awesome art show" the first time around
instead of the second, I just needed to do a little research. Lesson learned.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I love being devoted to paint, and don't think
I have much of a choice, but when I go home at night I want another creative
endeavor. I do like to write - I need to do more of that (this).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I like watching others
work together to get to a magic spot. I want to start working on projects with
other people. Like a band. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm a ramblin' gal, and you're a patient
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stare, paint, stare, paint, cry, paint, paint, nap, paint, watch sunset. Below are all works in progress.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Handmade signs of encouragement on the wall:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- YOU CONTROL WHETHER OR NOT IT IS EXCITING</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- embrace your tendencies</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- MAKE YOUR BEST WORK TODAY*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- DONT BE A BITCH. JUST DO YOUR SHIT.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a fluctuating way with words.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>*Advice given to Emily by a visiting artist. It stuck with her, and now it's stuck with me. </i></span>Bea Modisetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010400578212146399noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619655855455368703.post-18907079564560323192013-04-29T20:20:00.000-07:002013-04-29T20:22:47.849-07:00It Bears Repeating.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Men Who Don't Fit In</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Robert W. Service</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If they just went straight they might go far;<br />They are strong and brave and true;<br />But they're always tired of the things that are,<br />And they want the strange and new.<br />They say: "Could I find my proper groove,<br />What a deep mark I would make!"<br />So they chop and change, and each fresh move<br />Is only a fresh mistake.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And each forgets, as he strips and runs<br />With a brilliant, fitful pace,<br />It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones<br />Who win in the lifelong race.<br />And each forgets that his youth has fled,<br />Forgets that his prime is past,<br />Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,<br />In the glare of the truth at last.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;<br />He has just done things by half.<br />Life's been a jolly good joke on him,<br />And now is the time to laugh.<br />Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;<br />He was never meant to win;<br />He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;<br />He's a man who won't fit in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I've posted this before but goshdang that's good. </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should say that I am a pretty...particular...painter. I am slow. I take months to finish a painting. I find myself spending lengths of time making the tiniest adjustments to a painting to make it just right. Just so. I love the process and I love searching for that punch in the gut that happens when you nail it (rare, by the way) but it can be frustrating to work day in and day out, for hours, and not have finished pieces to show for it more often. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photos above, though thought about and considered, are snapshots in comparison to how long I labor over a painting. They are awkward. Angles seem off and shapes and colors are disproportionate to what I usually create in my paintings. They are mostly vertical while my paintings are mostly horizontal in reference to the landscape. I'm thinking about this discrepancy, and trying to figure out what these, and other, tendencies mean. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While my paintings don't look anything like the compositions above, they are helping my painting. This attraction to things being "off" is nudging me into some new territory, where I am letting go a bit, allowing things to be as awkward in my paintings as they are in reality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's all really, very exciting. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eventually, you'll get to see the paintings that result from all of this. Just you wait...I'll wait too. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forever yours,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took over 4,000 photographs while away - it would have been more if I hadn't lost my camera. I wasn't drawing or painting but I was constantly taking photographs that I knew I'd use later for painting reference. About half my photos are documentation of things I experienced, the other half are more...compositional studies. Below are some that I took while in Thailand. Eventually I'll post ones from all of the countries. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I go through my photos at least every couple of days and it makes my heart ache a little each time. I miss these places. Going through and posting and writing about them slowly has become another way for me to process the experience. I'll be posting them along with painting developments. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's hard to put photographs of unfinished paintings online, but I wanted to let you all know I am hard at work and painting, painting, painting. It has taken some time to remember how I best function in the studio (two months of no painting is disruptive, who knew?) but I am feeling the rhythm return. This is a good thing...I've got a solo show to prepare for...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been thinking about this bush for over a month now. I saw it at the Royal Palace in Hue, Vietnam. It was just sitting there, a glaring example of so many things I've been thinking about and haven't really figured out yet. It's got something to do with futile efforts and <u>physical</u> <u>evidence</u> of a private moment or action - in this case, abandoned effort and enthusiasm. We are constantly walking away from things thinking we've gotten it under control, when really, we never will. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is Ha Long Bay in Northern Vietnam. It is extremely touristy there and did not have the hit in the face magic I was expecting. As I distance myself from the experience though, I realize that the three days I spent floating, hiking and kayaking through this area has made itself known in my heart and brain and isn't going to leave. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These beautiful forms were stoic, otherworldly, quiet, solid, seemingly ever-present limestone formations that will be gone one day, destroyed by the same processes that created them. How can they feel so powerful and permanent but at the same time so intangible and elusive? The floating village, also fleeting, was colorful, moving, fluctuating, human, and alive. Seeing the two co-exist in such stark contrast made the other that much more magnificent. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why are the most important things in life the hardest to define and understand? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Off to paint with this on my mind.</span></div>
Bea Modisetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010400578212146399noreply@blogger.com0