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Work of art. Hazel Coldiz, self portrait.

ste!!a — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:36:14 +0000

Sharing a few moments with an person of great insight and awesome creativity.

peace.

Meeting Hazel.

ste!!a — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:55:06 +0000

I first met Hazel in 2009. I grew to know more of her in words on twitter, then images on flickr, then her blog The Asian Welder.

We corresponded in e-mail the most during her road trip in 2009 when she and her mate {Hank} set off in their Airstream trailer on a trip across the west.

We had short chats about her travels. I followed her blog. She disappeared from twitter. Later I found it just took too much of her time. She wanted more to be making art and living. I watched for postings about her doings and viewed her art from the beautiful photos she posted.

I viewed life through her lens. I found great beauty and joy.

In June I visited her blog and found that she was on a new journey. She had cancer. Months have passed and the truth of this journey is more clear. Hazel has chosen to live her life without chemo. To find peace and an end on this earth in the same beauty which she has shown all of us that have know her in some way.

I am saddened to lose this kind soul. But I prepare myself to let go and know that her spirit holds a place in my heart always. She walks in beauty on this earth.

Aloha Hazel.

hazel colditz, (aka buddhagirlAZ) sculptor, lover of nature the finest art, passionate photographer, mother, Buddhist w/alchemist tendencies.

What nuclear activity?

ste!!a — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:23:59 +0000

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998.

Cy Twombly always in motion.

ste!!a — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:32:44 +0000

This is how I’ve always thought of Twombly. In motion —himself a scribble and a scratch.

The photo is from Vogue.

Remembering Gil Scott Heron

ste!!a — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:59:24 +0000

Laura Nyro : poverty train, LIVE

ste!!a — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:12:42 +0000

One of my favorite artists. One of the few live videos I’ve been able to find.

Let the unpacking begin!

ste!!a — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:11:07 +0000

This is what it looked like in my new studio last week. New images and progress report coming.

Life metaphor through artifacts. History, memory, family.

ste!!a — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:27:45 +0000

On Sunday March 29th I saw this tweet:

blipped the mail box. » link to Blipfoto

Life metaphor through artifacts.

The memories and voices of more than thirty seven years have arrived, been placed, and temporarily captured in this well shaped box. Words have been spoken by and to the inhabitants after being deposited and then removed from this container. The metaphor of give and take expressed in this artifact — history, memory, family.

I followed the link and found the image and this short story.

This is the mailbox that was on the house when I was two in 1974; the year my family moved in. It has been painted many different colors and later it was replaced with a more efficient model. I moved back into the house six years ago, when my parents moved away. I found the old mail box in the basement and promptly put it back up.

I am now thirty seven and this is my mailbox…

http://www.blipfoto.com/etherghost

The beauty of this object and its stories made their way to me — from the current holder of the vessel who is destined to remember each time a new voice finds itself inside this container.

How sublime. A new drawing comes to mind.

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Tags: photo, mailbox, metaphor, 1974, culture, family

Bottled up trouble maker

ste!!a — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:50:05 +0000

6“X2 14″ diam.
Ink, graphite, white charcoal on handmade paper, glass milk bottle with attached rubber cork, sand.

Miss Ninety was supposed to be one of the 96 American Kids, but she was a troublemaker…so I bottled her.
– Len Cowgill

I’ve always been called a troublemaker so I had to give Miss Ninety a place at my blog. Len’s work is always creates a very emotional experience for me. Each drawing in his series stand alone and add to the whole in an unexpected way. Just imagining if someone had bottled me.

You can see more bottle drawings here.

You can buy his work here : tamarack art gallery

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Tags: lencowgill, drawing, bottle, containment, art

kukuli velarde: the path of a painter

ste!!a — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:16:58 +0000

The artist and one of her paintings.

The artist as one of her pieces

I actually posted this video at our heavybubble blog because it struck me so. Listening to Kukuli Velarde talk about herself and her path as a painter, then ceramic artist, and now painter again was quite a journey. Lots of artists have this kind of journey. Often as artists we experience these things and never talk to anyone about our journey in this way. Being behind the lens of a video camera with an interviewer who makes one comfortable enough to talk about the work in an open way.

Kukuli Velarde makes amazing work and she works through her feelings over time making pieces that express each and every second of internal process. In that process she confronts the issues that energize her work and bring us face to face with her internal questioning.

The work is powerful and frank. It uses many vocabularies to capture our attention. With all the intensity there is still a beauty and joy that allows you to embrace the art and want to keep it near you.

Use the link below to watch the video. I’ve also included her website.

links:
kukuli velarde: the path of a painter [video]

kukuli velarde [web]

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Tags: culture, art, ceramics, colonization, women, painting, philadelphia, David Kessler, Kukuli Velarde