It’s not what you think

The First Ten Words by Rich Larson

Chris Cornell, 1964-2017

Chris Cornell died early Thursday morning. His band Soundgarden played a show on Wednesday night at the Fox Theater in Detroit. Two hours after the show ended, he was gone.

For two days, I’ve been working on a piece to pay tribute to him, and it’s been a struggle. Usually when I have a problem like this it’s because I’m staring at a blank screen trying to figure out what I want to say. That’s not the problem this time. The problem is I have way too much to say.

I’m not going to sit here and claim to have been a huge fan of Soundgarden. I didn’t dislike them, I just had to take them in small doses. I was a fan of Cornell. I love “Seasons,” the solo song he had on Cameron Crowe’s movie, Singles. It’s a droning acoustic song about isolation and the…

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Moveable blog

Lisa Sharp can now be found at lisa-sharp.tumblr.com

a little patch of yellow wall … curated by Jane Bustin at Lion and Lamb 25 April

Kindred yellow spirits

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PETER ABRAHAMS | BOYLEANDSHAW | FRAN BURDEN | JOHN CARTER | MARIA CHEVSKA | ROSE DAVEY | TESS JARAY | NATASHA KIDD | EDWINA LEAPMAN | MARY MATHIESON | AVIS NEWMAN | BERNARDO ORTIZ | PAUL ROSENBLOOM | MARTIN RICHMAN | YUKO SHIRAISHI | SUSAN SLUGLETT | JEFFREY STEELE & JANE BUSTIN | JO VOLLEY | WALLACE & SEYMOUR | CATHY WARD | IAN WITTLESEA

a little patch of yellow wall…..like some priceless specimen of Chinese art, of beauty that was sufficient in itself  (MARCEL PROUST)

curated by Jane Bustin

26 April – 17 May 2014

Opening: Friday 25 April 6.30pm

Talk: Saturday 17 May at 5pm Chaired by Peter Ashton Jones and Juan Bolivar

Bergotte stands before Vermeer’s View of Delft: 

At last he came to the Vermeer which he remembered as more striking, more different from anything else that he knew, but in which…

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When I paint fr…

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don’t know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of ‘realism’. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.

Gerhard Richter

Beginnings

It’s a rainy and wild Saturday night in for the birth of this blog; to be my reflective (and visual) journey into the art world.