Fascinating, Stephen, as you attempt to 'see' all the difficulties,
connections/contradictions, of what even an Obama must go through even
quickly day by day.
Also, those sculptures at SFMOMA are amazing. Must have been quite an
evening.
Doug
On 26-Jan-09, at 11:56 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> "The First 100 Days of President Obama" is a new, current project on
> my blog, including haptics & commentary, etc. The texts vary, but
> here is the start of yesterday's text - from "Obama: Day Five" to
> give a brief clue of some the range of interests:
>
> This afternoon I went to a poets’ panel at the San Francisco Museum
> of Art (Joinery: Poems on the occasion of Martin Puryear)
> . Subject: Martin Puryear, an African-American sculptor who works
> primarily in wood. (Go to the SFMOMA website, among others to see
> photographic samples of the work). The poets included:David
> Levi-Strauss (moderator & poet & critic), and poets, Norma
> Cole, Aaron Shurin, Susan Thackery, and Michael Palmer. All of whom
> spoke well about interpreting the work, some from the point of view
> of the ways in
> Puryear’s practice of ‘joinery’ mirrored various aspects of the ways
> in
> which their own poetry - in terms of collage, and/or the translation
> process of working or joining English to another language. Others
> spoke
> directly to the psychological experience of responding and
> incorporating the work in the process of both looking...
>
> To continue go to: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
> Stephen Vincent
>
> By the way, if you are visiting or living in San Francisco, my show,
> "Haptics" just opened at the Braunstein-Quay Gallery, 430 Clemintina
> Street, SF - 3 blocks South of Market, between 5th and 6th.
> Samples of the work are through out the blog, as well as on the
> Braunstein-Quay webstite.
> http://www.braunsteinquay.com/archive/access_vincent2008.html
>
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