if you could only see the sky from where i stand
Meditation on a Grapefruit
To wake when all is possible
before the agitations of the day
have gripped you
To come to the kitchen
and peel a little basketball
for breakfast
To tear the husk
like cotton padding a cloud of oil
misting out of its pinprick pores
clean and sharp as pepper
To ease
each pale pink section out of its case
so carefully without breaking
a single pearly cell
To slide each piece
into a cold blue china bowl
the juice pooling until the whole
fruit is divided from its skin
and only then to eat
so sweet
a discipline
precisely pointless a devout
involvement of the hands and senses
a pause a little emptiness
each year harder to live within
each year harder to live without
-- Craig Arnold
Special thanks to
projectmatt for throwing this piece up on Facebook.
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Oh, Jessica Rankin's work includes everything I love: bright colors, embroidery, exploration of memory, intuition, & the (sub)/(un)conscious, and some sassiness to boot.
Nocturne
"ANENDLESSRELEASEOFLANGUAGE" is one example of the many text segments swirling across Nocturne (2004), one of the works in the exhibition. It is a seven-by-seven feet embroidery decorated with star constellations and swirling non-patterns. The dark-blue, semi-transparent organdy resembles a night sky, floating an inch away from the wall, giving each row of words a doubling shadow."
P.S.1.
"Appropriating methods traditionally identified with feminine pursuits - embroidery and needlework - Jessica Rankin’s work features a series of ‘mental maps’, with codes, signs and symbols that explore ideas of memory, intuition and interpretation.
White Cube
Coda
It's interesting because talk of her work is fascinating. It's problematic because they call her "up and coming" when she's 37-years-old woman who's been creating for quite some time. ArtFagCity says of the W Magazine piece (catch the snarky Damien Hirst diss):
W Magazine identifies six up and coming young artists in their annual arts issue this month, five of whom are 37, the sixth, 38. Can we not use the term “mid-career” or “established” any more? Jessica Rankin and Sterling Ruby aren’t posed to be the art world’s next stars, they are the art world’s stars. Both show at uber-established blue chip galleries, White Cube and Pace Wildenstein respectively. You have to wonder what additional accolades these artists would need to receive to launch their careers out of the up-and-coming category.
Anyway, W Magazine may dupe their readers into thinking they’re going out on a limb by naming a couple up-and-comers, but we’re not buying it. Just because these six aren’t selling diamond encrusted skulls doesn’t mean they’re not already at the top of their game
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“We used to drive all night, all over town We go Waltzing Matilda, when Matilda came around and I always sang them blues to you”
- The Gaslight Anthem
To wake when all is possible
before the agitations of the day
have gripped you
To come to the kitchen
and peel a little basketball
for breakfast
To tear the husk
like cotton padding a cloud of oil
misting out of its pinprick pores
clean and sharp as pepper
To ease
each pale pink section out of its case
so carefully without breaking
a single pearly cell
To slide each piece
into a cold blue china bowl
the juice pooling until the whole
fruit is divided from its skin
and only then to eat
so sweet
a discipline
precisely pointless a devout
involvement of the hands and senses
a pause a little emptiness
each year harder to live within
each year harder to live without
-- Craig Arnold
Special thanks to
projectmatt for throwing this piece up on Facebook.
***
Oh, Jessica Rankin's work includes everything I love: bright colors, embroidery, exploration of memory, intuition, & the (sub)/(un)conscious, and some sassiness to boot.
Nocturne
"ANENDLESSRELEASEOFLANGUAGE" is one example of the many text segments swirling across Nocturne (2004), one of the works in the exhibition. It is a seven-by-seven feet embroidery decorated with star constellations and swirling non-patterns. The dark-blue, semi-transparent organdy resembles a night sky, floating an inch away from the wall, giving each row of words a doubling shadow."
P.S.1.
"Appropriating methods traditionally identified with feminine pursuits - embroidery and needlework - Jessica Rankin’s work features a series of ‘mental maps’, with codes, signs and symbols that explore ideas of memory, intuition and interpretation.
White Cube
Coda
It's interesting because talk of her work is fascinating. It's problematic because they call her "up and coming" when she's 37-years-old woman who's been creating for quite some time. ArtFagCity says of the W Magazine piece (catch the snarky Damien Hirst diss):
W Magazine identifies six up and coming young artists in their annual arts issue this month, five of whom are 37, the sixth, 38. Can we not use the term “mid-career” or “established” any more? Jessica Rankin and Sterling Ruby aren’t posed to be the art world’s next stars, they are the art world’s stars. Both show at uber-established blue chip galleries, White Cube and Pace Wildenstein respectively. You have to wonder what additional accolades these artists would need to receive to launch their careers out of the up-and-coming category.
Anyway, W Magazine may dupe their readers into thinking they’re going out on a limb by naming a couple up-and-comers, but we’re not buying it. Just because these six aren’t selling diamond encrusted skulls doesn’t mean they’re not already at the top of their game
Image Source
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“We used to drive all night, all over town We go Waltzing Matilda, when Matilda came around and I always sang them blues to you”
- The Gaslight Anthem