About a month ago we got an email from John Tallman, a wonderful artist and former Philadelphian now living and working in Chatanooga, TN. (Here’s a post of a studio visit I did with John in 2006.)
John runs a great picture blog Color Chunks and he is starting a new project, Artists on Words, a series of blog posts from artists who pick a word that fits them (from a list of words John came up with) and write about their relationship to the word. Libby and I of course wrote up a little ditty which will be appearing some day. Right now you can read posts by Kevin Finklea, Joanne Mattera and Adam Trowbridge.
Here’s what John says about the response he’s getting from artists he invited to participate:
What’s been interesting so far is the way different people have responded to the project, perhaps in some sense, reflecting an individual’s relationship with written language and how they communicate. Some people are intuitive and spontaneous and others are more contemplative and deliberate. Some have responded quickly and others have taken more time. Over the next few weeks I will post the responses in no particular order.
Here’s the list of words:
Selection
Actual
Arrangement
Repetition
Mess
Reproduction
Root
Isolation
Temporary
Correlation
Influence
Conflict
Strategy
Saturation
Temperature
Care
Want
Layering
Sponges
Utopia
View
Conduct
Participant
Calculation
Category
Series
Practice
Chance
The End
Practicality
Plan
Forces
Syntax
Candy
Revealing
Inertia
Editing
Negation
Addition
Frame
Format
Organization
Effect
Transition
Length
Correction
Transfer
Spice
Weight
Posture
Position
And if you want to participate, send your words and and a jpeg of your work (and a link to any website/blog you’re at) to John at moahksan@yahoo.com
