Looking with your whole body

from Richard Whittaker's interview with artist Jane Rosen on Parabola

'RW:  Who sees?'

'JR:  It’s a conference. It’s not a “who.” When I speak of seeing, I feel that the mind is open and in a relationship to the hands working, which opens a feeling of being more fully alive. That is what I call seeing.

More than one part of you needs to see. You can’t see with your head alone. You can’t see with your heart alone, because it’s very partial. You can’t see with your body alone because, basically, I don’t want to put down the cigarette or the cake.'

Put down the cigarette, Bonnie. 

Tony Orrico in action

Susie Bright's twitter feed tipped me off to this inventive and athletic fellow. Click the title of this post for a classic multi-color spirographesque circle.

Human Spirograph in a good groove

Hmm, wonder if I have enough endurance to try a less ambition form of this? Or how would I do something echoing this as a monoprint on plexi? Haven't been this inpsired to play with another artist's method since Andy Goldworthy's melting snowball drawings.

Lapham's Quarterly Summer Issue: Food

Hours of amusement. Click the title of this post to browse & browse. In this photo: the lovely Erika Adams of Eating Dog Press.