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Scott Eiden showing in Milwaukee....

Scott Eiden showing in MIAD's Perspective Gallery. January 12- January 31, 2009

Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
2nd Floor
273 Erie St.
Milwaukee WI

people touching art...

interacting with lacuna at the Pause to Begin opening...

rochester to new york city...

by way of Amtrak. The train was a pleasant experience with a beautiful vista of the Hudson River for the first 5 hours then news of the delay spread and the energy on the crowded cars grew more anxious.


theanyspacewhatever show at the Guggenheim was a treat as well as seeing the Catherine Opie show before it closed.



Justine and I had a great time catching up during the short weekend visit. See her new G10 - yes I had camera envy. Justine just launched her website - check it out here.

Heather Hambrecht of (h(om)e) was my travel companion last weekend. It was great to have a friend along every step of the way. She too had business in New York - fabric shopping and meetings with boutiques.

My first trip to Mood Fabrics. It was amazing watching heather shop - I had no idea what I was looking at but she was specific, speedy and decisive in her buying.


Home again, Home again. Back to the chilly Wisconsin tundra and the 6 inches of snow...

PtB in Rochester...

the pause to begin opening was a great time on Friday. I was happy to be there and see the show in person. Thanks to Ethan, David, Shannon and Eric it was great to see/meet you! Some fun shots from the night...

Tony Bannon stopped by for a visit...

Erika Larsen

my small photographs were in the minority in the show

Timothy Briner

John Mann

Alejandro Cartagena

First Friday, gallery night in Rochester NY

fun in Rochester!!!

It was a great night in Rochester. The pause to begin opening was a lot of fun. It was great to see Ethan and David again as well as meet Shannon Johnstone. I will try and post images tomorrow, getting up early to take the train into NYC.

in Rochester...

for the low key opening of the pause to begin exhibition at Booksmart Studios. Shannon Johnstone and myself will be giving an informal talk about our work during the opening.

installation of Johnstone and Thomsen's work

welcome 2009...

Burning the Old Year

by Naomi Shihab Nye

Letters swallow themselves in seconds.

Notes friends tied to the doorknob,

transparent scarlet paper,

sizzle like moth wings,

marry the air.

So much of any year is flammable,

lists of vegetables, partial poems.

Orange swirling flame of days,

so little is a stone.

Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,

an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.

I begin again with the smallest numbers.

Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,

only the things I didn’t do

crackle after the blazing dies.

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Burning the Old Year” from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Portland, Oregon: Far Corner Books, 1995). Copyright © 1995 by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Source: Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (1995).