Let’s talk about James Turrell…

Let’s talk about James Turrell.  Yeah, its been a while, hasn’t  it?  He’s still out there, digging away at Roden Crater.  Turrell also has a major retrospective up right now at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), and I recently had the opportunity to...
MAINTENANCE #5

MAINTENANCE #5

The Life Instinct: unification, the eternal return, the perpetuation and MAINTENANCE of the species, survival systems and operations, equilibrium. – Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969! Here are five books I read this month, and pictures of...
Praise the Sun: The Contextual Language of Dark Souls

Praise the Sun: The Contextual Language of Dark Souls

Guest Post by Paul King The most recent time I loaded up the game Dark Souls, my character unsheathed a sword from her back and drew her shield. And then I noticed a message, written maybe two steps away: “Grief.” The world of Dark Souls is, as the title would...