[ WAR BIRDS + FRIENDS ]

In the First and Second World Wars, armies on all sides used carrier pigeons as a means of communications, reconnaissance, and intelligence. There was also a booming business in gas masks for children and animals. This series plays with archival images of children and animals within various apparatus of wartime.

Lying in a Ditch on a Stormy Day: on submission and women and artmaking

March 12, 2011
Lying in a Ditch on a Stormy Day: on submission and women and artmaking

The studio is the manure pile in the slaughterhouse of art: mostly shit and indignity, but very rich in nutrients. Perhaps that is the most important part – the humility of beginning with scraps and growing shoots from the muck. Of finding promise and perhaps transcendence in ignomy and struggle and mistake: the fecund...
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BumbleMoth

BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)
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