Look, See

At The Docks

At The Docks

Walking The Deck

Walking The Deck

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I'd call this a must read- long but worth it:

Creative Class War

How the GOP's anti-elitism could ruin America's economy.

By Richard Florida

Voters are seeing not just a decline in manufacturing jobs, but also the outsourcing of hundreds of thousands of white-collar brain jobs--everything from software coders to financial analysts for investment banks. These were supposed to be the "safe" jobs, for which high school guidance counselors steered the children of blue-collar workers into college to avoid their parents' fate.

But the loss of some of these jobs is only the most obvious--and not even the most worrying--aspect of a much bigger problem. Other countries are now encroaching more directly and successfully on what has been, for almost two decades, the heartland of our economic success -- the creative economy.

On Board At Sea

On Board At Sea

Navidad en el Pacífico cerca Baja California

Navidad en el Pacífico cerca Baja California

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I like this statement by Margie Livingston about "The Structure Paintings," January 8 - February 29, 2004 at Greg Kucera in Seattle:

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I developed a love of the out-of-doors that has become integral to my work. In graduate school, I came to understand how this affinity could be traced through my German heritage to Romanticism. But as I live in a time when the environment is threatened, my experience of nature includes a sense of loss. This sense of loss compels me to work from the landscape. Five years ago I started studying the structure of trees in my neighborhood. Transforming this experience into an abstract language is the basis of my current paintings.

I?ve brought fragments of the landscape in to my studio ? branches, leaves, twigs. I work from direct observation. I?ve slowed down the process of making ? committing to each mark and its relationship to the whole before moving on to the next. I?m trying to make each daub of paint contain location, drawing, gravity, color, and light. These marks are fragments that reference the greater whole. I?m searching for a way to translate my experience of nature onto the canvas that exists outside of the Abstract Expressionist and Impressionist ways of seeing. To this end, I?m studying how each mark informs the rectangle, investigating perspective and geometry, as well as researching photography as a means to alter how I see.

My work is a search for equivalencies and resonance. It tells the story of intense looking. My hope is to make work that is personal, connected to history, and yet, still relevant.

- Margie Livingston - http://margie.net/

"I?ve slowed down the process of making ? committing to each mark and its relationship to the whole before moving on to the next."

"I?m trying to make each daub of paint contain location, drawing, gravity, color, and light."

"These marks are fragments that reference the greater whole."

"I?m searching for a way to translate my experience of nature onto the canvas..."

"...I?m studying how each mark informs the rectangle, investigating perspective and geometry..."

"My work is a search for equivalencies and resonance. It tells the story of intense looking."

El Pacific cerca Baja California