FLW's Price Tower, Bartlesville, OK

Gentry, AR

Pettaway Park, Little Rock, AR

Pettaway Park, Little Rock, AR

Bartlesville, OK

GFE Meadow--one year later

Hippocrates knew design

An idea for bridging Architecture for Humanity as a public health service and wild west design.

"Life is short, the art is long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult." Hippocrates

(for D and her Osler's Beast)

Mauve Office: web title blocks

Small Miracles: CCA Alumni Show

California College of the Arts alumni show at San Pablo Art Gallery.
"Small Miracles" Opening Reception: Saturday, May 14th, 1-3 pm.
May 14th - June 19th.

I'll be there.

Utah

Spiral Jetty's salt accretions

Great Salt Lake within Spiral Jetty

"Epicenter" Green River, UT

"The Epicenter is a community-based housing and business resource center, instigating economic progress and creating decent shelter in the town of Green River in the desert of southeast Utah."

Stopping in Green River perchance, on a micro Utah adventure, I followed the monolithic bee box Fibonacci sculpture to a drink at Ray's this last Thursday night. Friday morning I caught first glance of the Epicenter and found it reminiscent of rurally-set downtown Greensboro, AL's HERO (Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization) Center.

(A Tornado touched down in the Sawyerville area of Hale county, 8 miles north of Greensboro. HERO is assessing the emergency needs of numerous families. You can donate to help aid the relief effort.)

Rural and Proud

Watermelon-in-tow, Green River

Delicate Arch

Green River, Utah's PD (Ecto-1)

Persistence of Vision

This is not science fiction; this artistic exchange between Carissa and Luca entails a number of lonely, unrequited inter-space plots, not exclusive to them and as old as the stars. The following collection of thoughts will certainly bias the work of Carissa over Luca’s. In a manner of speaking, Luca points to the sky; Carissa gazes.

From a Berlin-based residency, Luca investigates a repetitive silkscreen process, not based in the craft of pulling a clean black image across a white page, but in laying down the universe like a wrinkled sheet of ink. Everything is inscribed in reverse—nothingness is painted black, the white of the page is light. Upon approaching these 24” x 35” sheets of the compact core of Galaxy M87, the experience is distant and reminiscent of a pixilated snapshot of white noise. This is the origin image for an artistic collaboration, a transmission from Luca’s research days in video. From here, Carissa manipulates the cosmos.

“From here to there” is a collaborative gallery installation that showed at Mauve? during the month of November, 2010. On display were two bodies of work, side-by-side: a series of large format silkscreen prints of a named galaxy and a freestanding colonnade of white-framed letters to one’s self. Sometimes word, sometimes image, these single 8 ½” x 11” sheets share a digitally printed background of Messier 87, like a window in the room to an untouchable beyond. These pages are a private telescope through which passersby can study Carissa’s personal translation of the stars, and perhaps acknowledge their personal distance.

Carissa is a prolific collector of aphorisms, aphorisms swimming in a vast love-sickness. “While you are away” is a hand-written list, annotated, footnoted, asterisked, the order rerouted with arrows of “all the things I plan on doing to keep from thinking of you while you are away,” among them amending plural pronouns to assume singularity. This list grows into a conversation and lies across a window view of M87, with the same fatalistic ink wrinkles that obscure the clarity through Luca’s skyward silkscreen portal.

This particular strain of “away” is terminal. OK Cupid particulars, the erasure of an impossible and universally-faceless intimate rapport, and a stippled time-warp along a hand drawn timeline begins to measure when “I start to feel better.” These are all markers of a lingering, persistent longing that just begins to dissolve into dust. Songs from a satellite, from here to there, we never arrive.

Where does this leave us but in the embrace of two truths: we are not alone in the universe (by the very nature this is being read) and the universe will never reply. There is simply too much light, and we never stop looking.

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Sabina Nieto. "Persistence of Vision." Rev. of From Here to There, artists Luca Antonucci and Carissa Potter. Mauve Journal Spring 2011: 16-17. Print.

Dore Theatre, Bakersfield

PechaKucha - Inspire Japan

(Proceeds from Inspire Japan will go directly to Architecture for Humanity, who PechaKucha supported last year with Global PechaKucha for Haiti. Yoshi's in San Francisco, April 16, 2011. Presentations begin at 20:20.)