I spent Wednesday and Thursday perusing the Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C. It was overwhelming and amazing. The first box I opened contained a severed snake head in a glass jar. I also found a little dried fish, approximate dimensions 1" x 2", hanging out in a crumpled ( Read more... )

living + working @ CLUI (05/10-08/10) and CHINATI (08/10-11/10)

these things work ( Read more... )

JG 72/09: i just accidentally dropped a slab of beef on my sister
and she is trying to go vegan
and she screamed and rolled off the couch
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT

I am obsessed with the maine coon.
http://cdn-write.demandstudios.com/upload//6000/800/40/6/16846.jpg

I am not abandoning LJ, but have created a new blog, auroratang.blogspot.com, devoted to my thesis and land art/experimental geography stuff ( Read more... )

Grad school is infinitely better than undergrad ( Read more... )

The long-awaited Spiral Jetty road trip commences tomorrow morning! Also on the itinerary ( Read more... )

So I don't yet know what I will be doing or where I will be come next fall, but I do know that this is what I want to do over the summer. I don't know if it is plausible, since it's nearly spring already, but I'm going to do some investigating starting tomorrow. I think I can come up with a fairly compelling proposal ( Read more... )

"Next afternoon, eating cereal. Staring at the Lucky Charms box. Andrew is eating Lucky Charms because he has given up on life. He should create Anathema Charms. One time Andrew's mom came home with Lucky Charms instead of Cheerios. She was happy and held the Lucky Charms in her right hand, not in a grocery bag. When Andrew saw the Lucky Charms it ( Read more... )