by Kevin Blake | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog
By Kevin Blake The front tire wobbles as the weight of the planking jerks the fork of the bicycle from side to side. It will take rhythm to get anywhere. It will require a centering–a perfect distribution of the unbalanced load. The salvaged wood scrap stretches...
by Kevin Blake | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog
By Kevin Blake This is a recurring dream. I am suspended over an in-ground pool of which I can only see a portion. The pool juts out of the bottom left corner of the frame–a rectangular frame. The edge of the pool makes an L shape–horizontally to the middle of the...
by Kevin Blake | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog
By Kevin Blake “Four score and seven years ago,” is how my mind tells me to start every essay I sit down to write. This is my memory at work. I remember the tone of the words that follow in Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address. I remember the cadence. I remember that...
by Kevin Blake | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog
By Kevin Blake I drift. A good drift. A perfect drift. One that will catch a nice trout. I swing my rod overhead and flick the tip upstream. Mend. Mend. Recover and drift….fish. My memory takes me downstream and the water sweeps my feet from underneath me. I allow the...
by Kevin Blake | Jan 20, 2014 | Blog
By Kevin Blake Abstract painting is coming off the walls. It is evolving. Zoe Nelson talks with Bad at Sports about her engagement and participation in the evolution of abstraction, which appears in her work, to be a deconstruction of traditional painting parameters....