know your limits

be ready to unlearn some of what you know

what’s on my mind: restraint, pushing oneself, letting go, realignment, digging in, not accepting the terms presented, starting over, revisiting something that does work, not moving fast and breaking things, pleasure.

i left the studio for a few days and it was fun. here’s what caught my eye:

“Palm” by Sheila Hicks 1985 at Minneapolis Institute of Art

Julie Mehretu “Transcending: The New International” at Walker Art Center

a reminder list from the archive that felt relevant this week.

STUDIO REMINDERS:

• know your limits

• be ready to unlearn some of what you know

• spend time outside

• use a new tool

Minneapolis, also known as “Bdeóta Othúŋwe,” (Dakota) “Mill City,” (flour milling industry) the home city of Prince, “Gakaabikaang” (Objibwe)

Loved this corner of an in-progress exhibition installation at the Walker Art Center; it felt like art to me!

“Partridge (Holding 16) from “Sun Gardens Victorian Photograms” by Anna Atkins

Jenny Holzer piece in Minneapolis Sculpture Garden / Walker Art Center 1989

Looking at a book about Josef Albers photocollages in the Minneapolis Public Library Untitled (​​Bullfight​,​ San Sebastian)1929/1932

Jennifer Packer “Holding Pattern” 2021 at Walker Art Center

Lorraine O’Grady “Art Is…” 1983/2009 at Walker Art Center

from the book “Bernd & Hilla Becher Basic Forms”

architecture details that stopped me on my walk

collage eyes: watching closely, taking notes, refusing to forget

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