Thank you, Tibor Kalman, for that refreshing thought. Luckily, I detest boredom. Some things come to mind today: a white whale, a guy pushing a big rock up a hill, my puppy chasing her tail only to catch it and find that biting it hurts for some reason. Kalman also said “We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing”. Well, Mayday, people! This project has mountainside in the cross-hairs but I’m trying hard to pull up. No pictures today, for obvious reasons :0

It’s not the whole thing that is in ruins, just this one set of pieces that I’m determined to see happen. I guess it’s back to the GLEANing floor (drawing table) for me.

I guess this is what I really love about this project, and residencies in general. I feel like it’s a time to experiment or work out some problem that has been plaguing me. It is definitely a material problem and I just don’t have it worked out yet.

During the Grand Studio Tour, the artists got involved in the inevitable, ages-old, provocative question What is Art?  At the risk of making them all roll their weary eyes (as well as anyone else who would like to chime in) I posit the following:

What is the difference between this

and this?

Stay tuned for some incredibly insightful, amusing and just outright informative observations from our 5 new GLEAN 2013 artists.  You can learn a bit about the program and each artist by clicking on the tabs in the menu bar.

We’ll be loading some images of their work onto our Flickr site soon.  To see some great pictures from last year’s program, click here.

And while we’re in the mood, check out my favorite image from Miami artist Typoe.