Introducing Bumblemoth’s ”MAN ON THE STREET” in Paris, who just this afternoon has magically captured the sentiments of the everyday beautiful people of Paris concerning the upcoming artistic collaboration between ancestrally linked German artist Paetrick Schmidt and the gal-about-galaxy Quintan Ana Wikswo. This incipient project involves ghosts of dragons in the Oberkampf Metro Station. I... »
Discovered late on a winter’s afternoon, whilst walking amongst the upheaval of the ancient cemetery of Lamarche. To which box beneath the soil do they belong? Or were they once fur-covered? »
It’s powerfully cold here, with thick opalescent mist that has ceased to lift throughout days that offer only a few hours of light. Depending on my mood, it’s merangue,... »
I’m living in a very old structure atop the Haut de Fee – or Hill of Faeries – it’s possible to learn more by looking into the Celtic fairy... »
I went to sleep last night watching the stars over the North Atlantic, as the jet barreled through the skies towards Paris. Tonight, Paris is a saxophone dampened by... »
I have trouble with Wyoming. Sure, its natural beauty is beyond comprehension. But the incessant gunfire places scenic vistas a little lower down on my list of preoccupying priorities.... »
The first secret I remember keeping was this woman my grandmother telling me she had bought me my grave. A grave of my own, tucked under an English Oak... »
An afternoon spent in the village of Appomattox Courthouse, where a hundred years of household stories were eclipsed by the surrender of General Lee to General Grant. It made... »
Quintan Ana Wikswo is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist. During the autumn of 2009, Quintan is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She will also be artist-in-residence at Ucross (Wyoming), Ragdale (Chicago) and at Haute de Fee Centre at Serecourt (France).
"Art imitates a creation, sometimes to propose an alternative world, sometimes simply to amplify, to confirm, to make social the brief hope offered by nature…the transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer."
- John Berger
www.quintanwikswo.com
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