compilation by bob arnold
january 2015
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
THOMAS A. CLARK ~
Tom and Laurie Clark at Woodwick House
photo : © Alistair Peebles
you will have to go
all around it
to see it
have to stay
with it
to know it
a breeze
of small birds
moving through
birch leaves
a stone from shade
carried for a mile
cool in the hand
a breath is enough
to fan the ripples
of water that run
deliciously in
around dwarf juniper
slopes of sunlight
slopes of snow
sit together
above the scree
innocent
of incident
what you feel
you can contain
what you see
you will become
one song of water
picking up
from another
the slopes
constantly
spilling water
as you climb
it pours
around you
rushing, dashing
leaping to find
its level
whatever is lifted
by the wind is dropped
again into a calm
slightly ahead of itself
if you stretch out
in the long grasses
your weight is distributed
over the headland
to rest as lightly
on the crushed grasses
as sky on sea
once again
for the first time
morning
T H O M A S A. C L A R K
__________________________
selected from
The Hundred Thousand Places
Carcanet 2009
Thomas A. Clark lives in the small fishing village of Pittenweem
on the east coast of Scotland.
http://northings.com/2009/09/29/yellow-and-blue-thomas-a-clark-laurie-clark-porteous-brae-gallery-stromness-orkney/
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Saturday, January 10, 2015
START WITH THE TREE ~
Building a marriage, building a family,
building a small barn out in the woodlands together
as a family, as a marriage,
and seeing the roof go on.
Bob Arnold
Start With The Tree
photographs by Susan Arnold
with an introduction by Gerald Hausman
photographs by Susan Arnold
with an introduction by Gerald Hausman
Longhouse 2015
160 pages, perfect bound, 5.5 x 6.25 inches
Over 150 photographs
Over 150 photographs
$20
order here through Paypal, plus $3.95 (US shipping only)
Friday, January 9, 2015
TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION ~
Tomorrow is the Question
New Directions in Experimental Music Studies
Benjamin Piekut
2014
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
THE UNFOLDING CENTER ~
"Painting has lost symbolic force and function
in a culture of promiscuous knowledge and glutting information"
Peter Schjeldahl
from The New Yorker
last week of 2014
The Unfolding Center
Arthur Sze
Susan York
Radius Books / Santa Fe, 2013
Arthur Sze
Susan York
Radius Books / Santa Fe, 2013
Monday, January 5, 2015
El CAP REPORT (YOSEMITE) ~
El Capitan
Yosemite National Park
The Dawn Wall Climb
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson
January 2015
“What makes the Dawn Wall so special is that it’s almost not possible,”
the renowned climber Alex Honnold said. “The hardest pitches on the Dawn
Wall are harder than I’ve ever climbed.”
blog report:
Yosemite Valley
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
LETTERS FROM IAN HAMILTON FINLAY ~
"Oh I am so tired of mean ness of spirit. I am a low, tired, weary, twisted person, but I long, long for some GOODNESS and CLARITY. If we cannot put First Things First, could we not Put Them Third, at least, for a wee while . . . All those people of Breadth: they are people without centres . . . and without shame."
Ian Hamilton Finlay in correspondence with Stephen Bann
13 October 1969
Wilmington Square Books
London
2014
426 pages
w/ photographs
a wonder
Thursday, January 1, 2015
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