Today someone kindly described my blog postings as "long-winded", and I admit that they are, as I use them to think aloud about all that consumes me about art. But today, I will let a few quotes that are relevant to my art practice speak for themselves (from Susan Stewart in her essay "On the Art of the Future" in The Open Studio (University of Chicago Press, 2005):

"Artworks and persons inhabit a materiality vulnerable to decay and dissolution. They require acts of physical care as well as acts of disinterested engagement in order to continue, and they are finite nonetheless. They literally bear meaning, and once they are materially gone, they exist only if they are carried on in the paralife of reproduction and other forms of description; their uniqueness can no longer be experienced without mediation."

"Every gesture toward articulation is countered by the inevitability of disappearance. Within the realm of visual art, for example, to think only in terms of what has been made visible, or to go even more astray and think of visual representation as only based in what is available to sight, is to miss the long tradition of representing the invisible and the limits of vision by plastic means."

"Whenever art makes visible, it does so by referring to the invisible from which the visible emerges."

"Blockage accompanies vision; deprivation is the partner of sensation..."

I promise to return to my own awkward ramblings next time.