How do I speak in my work? My visual vocabulary didn’t happen all at once. The visual icons happened in spite of me. When they appear for the first time in my work, I recognize them and I nurture them. I allow them to grow and form. They grow, they change, they disappear and they ...
Christine's Journal
Sometimes artists have muses, I am no exception. Muses are often their source of inspiration. Muses give the artist a sense of passion about something. My muses are words – and the concepts they conjure up for me. Words never cease to inspire me which is why I call myself a conceptual artist and why I write a blog and about beautiful moments in the day.
Blog: You Can Sometimes Be An Artist And Sometimes Not
Posted on November 25 2019
Blog: Value of Art
Posted on November 24 2019
Blog: How Do I Come Up With The Title of My Work?
Posted on November 21 2019
Blog: Creating a Work of Art
Posted on November 20 2019
Staring down at a blank canvas, a black white sheet of paper, I notice a familiar tension gathering in my soul and in my body. That first mark, is so important. I relish this beginning tension. It makes my whole body alive, awake and excited for the struggle that is about to begin. The tension between ...
Blog: Art Needs To Fill One With Wonder
Posted on November 19 2019
Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the Leigh Yawkey Woodsen Art Museum in Wausau, WI. Their annual exhibition of Birds In Art was on display. My interest, like all other times when I go to see an exhibition, is to see how other artists create, speak and think. Especially for such a representational subject ...
Blog: My Process
Posted on November 18 2019
Blog: Spectacle
Posted on November 15 2019
Blog: Why?
Posted on November 14 2019
The Wall Street Journal always has some very interesting reading in the arts section. On November 9th, 2019 Ingela Ratledge Asundson wrote an article titled “When It All Starts With Art”. I would like to share it with you all. Generally, for the most part, folks share articles with others because it makes a point ...
Blog: Old Growth V
Posted on November 10 2019
There is something absolutely wonderful when I am walking in the woods and come across really large virgin trees. Yesterday, while we were hiking one of the trails to Rainbow Falls at Black River Harbor, we came across several groves of very large cedar and white pines. Just imagine living that long, getting that tall, ...
Blog: Sound
Posted on November 10 2019
Blog: A Response to Artnet News magazine
Posted on October 01 2019
The most recent Artnet News magazine has a cover story headline titled “Art As Industry.” I ask, “Is art an industry? Should art be considered an industry?” In the past, there are those who believed that art would be compromised/ controlled if it was: created for money, controlled by what others liked, what was popular, a ...
Blog: The Seduction of Art
Posted on September 30 2019
Blog: Selfishness Part 2
Posted on September 28 2019
I was out to dinner with friends the other night when my girlfriend made a statement about something that we were talking about. Although I don’t remember what we were discussing, I do remember her statement. She said, “But you have to share to give to others. Everything can’t be just about money and what ...
Blog: Selfishness Part I
Posted on September 27 2019
Selfishness Part I Should we be selfless as artists? Should our work be selfless, non referential to who we are? There are so many values and collectives who believe that selflessness is a virtue. A virtue that a member of the group must strive for in order to get into heaven, reach utopia, and peace. Or, as ...
Aesthetic Moment: The Wind Is Moving
Posted on September 07 2019
The wind is moving through the woods. The trees are singing a wing song. Some of the notes are deep. They sound like rushing water across rocks and pebbles in a mountain creek. These deep notes are mingled with a rustling sound. It reminds me of the sound of sandpaper across a beautiful piece of ...
Blog: The Soul of Art
Posted on September 06 2019
Blog: What a Shame
Posted on September 05 2019
Copy – Sameness – Universal There are places within art theory and discourse form where the words “copy” and “sameness” appear. I have been reading a book called “Pattern and Decoration” that outlines that perhaps these ideas could fit into art theory and discourse. The idea is that many crafts persons created works that were considered, ...