tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post6407414393057448325..comments2024-03-18T21:13:12.753-04:00Comments on Jacob Russell's Barking Dog: Me, an "artist?"Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-60405908748142892732008-10-28T13:23:00.000-04:002008-10-28T13:23:00.000-04:00YourFireAntI like the photos on your blog, JustLoo...YourFireAnt<BR/><BR/>I like the photos on your blog, <A HREF="http://yourfireant-justlooking.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">JustLooking</A>Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-90654078384451958442008-10-28T12:25:00.000-04:002008-10-28T12:25:00.000-04:00Wow. Thought provoking. Thanks.I'll come back f...Wow. Thought provoking. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>I'll come back for more of you.<BR/><BR/>FAYourFireAnthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03428838843235292696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-88546817504703340042008-09-30T11:31:00.000-04:002008-09-30T11:31:00.000-04:00i've always been drawn to a sort-of periodic form ...i've always been drawn to a sort-of periodic form of artlotusgreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04393867916489599891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-14372973314884288902008-09-28T23:51:00.000-04:002008-09-28T23:51:00.000-04:00Not the whole point, but certainly a part of it, I...Not the whole point, but certainly a part of it, I owe indirectly to CAConrad of Philly Sound... that those very things that wake me in the middle of the night, horrified by all manner of things I would like to erase from my life... that most... certainly not all... but many, are things I should not seek to erase, but to affirm. Not as endpoints for sure... but as points in the process. And if Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-648073040011814192008-09-28T23:34:00.000-04:002008-09-28T23:34:00.000-04:00BTW... I think the mashed potato scene is maybe th...BTW... I think the mashed potato scene is maybe the best, the most profound visual metaphor for what any artist does ... and how you have to go about it.Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-80562265570674853142008-09-28T23:31:00.000-04:002008-09-28T23:31:00.000-04:00My dear Lotusgreen...everything you leave on your ...My dear Lotusgreen...everything you leave on your blog, everything you write... is an invitation to respond and engage.<BR/><BR/>It's your openness to your subject, and open-ended exploration of what interests you that makes what you do quote-unquote "art"...the real thing.<BR/><BR/>The moment you would have it all solved, all the answers... well, you know... and every endpoint... if it's real...Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-82409300871134190822008-09-28T23:13:00.000-04:002008-09-28T23:13:00.000-04:00We go back and forth, don't we... between commitme...We go back and forth, don't we... between commitment to the end and the process... which, in this \problematic political and economic point in time, throws everything in doubt... even our the our own existence... which is not an abstract idea...but... I mean... what will happen to our children? What will happen to our grandchildren? What do I have to say to them?<BR/><BR/>... throws me back toJacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-27317052151369893292008-09-28T22:41:00.000-04:002008-09-28T22:41:00.000-04:00oh jacob.and re the rest of your post.....i think ...oh jacob.<BR/><BR/>and re the rest of your post.....<BR/><BR/>i think that there are a lot of different "art." and a lot of different artists. sometimes i want to witness a finished product, the piece, whatever medium, the glistens like silver from all the shining.<BR/><BR/>sometimes the process is the thing, it becomes almost more like theater than like the printed word.<BR/><BR/>but i do think lotusgreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04393867916489599891noreply@blogger.com