tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post7844701024112370764..comments2023-08-14T04:21:28.224-07:00Comments on Blackland : this is why rants and blogs are good:angela simionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-19109277329903254182010-07-23T07:18:53.199-07:002010-07-23T07:18:53.199-07:00hahahahahahha! elisabeth! you crack me up! i lo...hahahahahahha! elisabeth! you crack me up! i love it! thanks for that!angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-45224471872702584962010-07-23T04:23:11.282-07:002010-07-23T04:23:11.282-07:00See what I mean about nearly dead - a dead hand, n...See what I mean about nearly dead - a dead hand, nailed. Thanks, Angela.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-16790823196393544842010-07-22T15:51:08.341-07:002010-07-22T15:51:08.341-07:00rebecca! hahahahaha! you made me laugh outloud! ...rebecca! hahahahaha! you made me laugh outloud! very loud! thank you, sweet friend! i was thinking about you and your henry project right before i named it. ;)angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-68552592037174826402010-07-22T15:50:00.209-07:002010-07-22T15:50:00.209-07:00roz, i'm happy to have provided some comfort. ...roz, i'm happy to have provided some comfort. and hopefully even a smirk. ;) thank you!<br /><br />i can completely relate to what you descibe here about writing swelling and swelling. most of the time i feel like my writing is really just snippets of the same big, crazy piece. but i like the reminded of word count. there is definitely a norm within the visual arts about how many pieces are needed when building a portfolio. i need to keep that in mind: piece count. <br /><br />and HOORAY for concept! though my work is definitely realist, they're all metaphors dealing with abstract notions: daughterhood, loss, anxiety, fear, etc. very abstract notions that i'm trying to investigate using realism. i need to bear those notions more closely in mind as i shuffle the images all around. <br /><br />thank you!angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-26523427142788036702010-07-22T15:43:37.538-07:002010-07-22T15:43:37.538-07:00marylinn, thank you so much!!! though i must disa...marylinn, thank you so much!!! though i must disagree with you- your comments even showcase your stamina! you have such a deep lyricism and beauty within your word choice. and such a startling intelligence!angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-55931016628196276242010-07-22T12:04:35.897-07:002010-07-22T12:04:35.897-07:00Hell yes.
xoHell yes.<br />xoRadish Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-20824372911966428432010-07-22T11:08:15.197-07:002010-07-22T11:08:15.197-07:00ouch angela! boy do i know that feeling. the thorn...ouch angela! boy do i know that feeling. the thorn in the writing palm, so to speak. thank you for this, i feel a lot less alone now.<br /><br />so thinking about your questions below re: collection, i tend to agree with you about grouping pieces more by concept & time period (process time period) than by look & form. it's interesting what you say about the special pitfalls black & white artists have to look out for re: slickness. as a writer i think i may face the opposite dilemma from you-- rather than having lots of individual poems or pieces that i have to step back and consider grouping together, culling out, etc., i tend to latch onto a concept and get deeper & deeper into it so that any one single piece gets longer & longer until it actually becomes collection-length in itself. so it's rare for me to ever finish a poem or story, rather i have poems/stories that get to be 50 pages long that i've worked on for years and are still in progress, never quite finished. this is digressing a bit from your original question, but i bring it up to talk about length-- at least w/writing there is a sense of how many pages or how long a collection normally should be to be considered a collection. for a book of poems, maybe 70-100 pages; novel or book of stories, 150-250 pages? tied to audience expectations of attention span, it seems, like the 100 minute feature film. not sure what the analogy for visual art would be?<br /><br />good luck with your self-curating! i'm sure your critical/aesthetic narrative will emerge as you spend more time with all your documentation.Roz Itohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636685125028559316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-66303264802026108692010-07-22T10:33:07.981-07:002010-07-22T10:33:07.981-07:00I am not certain that I possess stamina for the c...I am not certain that I possess stamina for the chase; I feel that my vision has yet to widen sufficiently, but I know the sense of being impaled by the desire to produce work of depth, rich language and feelings evoked. Your art achieves that in such emphatic and forceful ways.Marylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-86790935680315046842010-07-22T10:02:48.350-07:002010-07-22T10:02:48.350-07:00thank you, hannah! just a little ode from me to y...thank you, hannah! just a little ode from me to you and all the writers of the world. i admire what you do and your stamina for the chase. :)<br /><br /><3angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-64046417526550647172010-07-22T09:55:42.237-07:002010-07-22T09:55:42.237-07:00WHEW!
gorgeous.WHEW!<br /><br />gorgeous.Hannah Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.com