Thursday, May 26, 2005

Shepard Faery, Nightrider, colin lancley

These… eschew all the qualities that more conventional artworks embrace. They are not windows onto the world or records of an artist’s tortured subjectivity. They are non-emotional and apolitical, they neither tell stories nor construct theatrical illusions.
One can only marvel at the way a rarefied part of the art world will embrace any banal idea so long as it is repeated often enough. Apparently, to be banal once is merely banal, but to be equally banal on hundreds of occasions is profound.
They enjoy the luxury of being able to exist within the self (indulgent) defined boundaries of art discourse, in which slight or derivative pieces are sustained by an institutional framework that often seems unable to discriminate between an aesthetic decision and alack of imagination.There is a different mentality at work on occasions in which materials have been used with sensitivity to their various properties (that make some ineffable appeal to the senses, not just the eye.) John McDonalds words twisted.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

The Instant Words
First Hundred

Words 1-25
Words 26-50
Words 51-75
Words 76-100

the
or
will
number
of
one
up
no
and
had
other
way
a
by
about
could
to
word
out
people
in
but
many
my
is
not
then
than
you
what
them
first
that
all
these
water
it
were
so
been
he
we
some
call
was
when
her
who
for
your
would
oil
on
can
make
now
are
said
like
find
as
there
him
long
with
use
into
down
his
an
time
day
they
each
has
did
I
which
look
get
at
she
two
come
be
do
more
made
this
how
write
may
have
their
go
part
from
if
see
over

Common suffixes: -s, -ing, -ed

The NEW Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists, @ 1985 Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632.
By E. Fry, D. Fountoukidis, and J. Polk.