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black and white works with <drawing> type gesture called ‘infinity’
gestural abstraction combined with geometric precision

quick reverse of a dragonfly — slow flight of a butterfly

grackle
sea gull
crow mauve sky

what can be used to base the nail fetish sculpture and found pieces

started The Book of the Hopi

heat
haze haze heat
breeze sun grass dying swallows

<10/19/16
see notebook page — words should be spread out in a different arrangement>

write some notes on David Salle — criticize the critics
my knowledge through reproduction
why do I like Steinbach - Koons etc
the difference between artists whose works I’d like to own and those I like but wouldn’t really want —

textual works — mixtures of the page

SUZI GABLIK
the idea of painting with objects — not assemblage — (although many of the works in MOMA book are similar — flat) — not collage

terms — collage - colle - glue — to assemble

my idea of these pieces is not to assemble elements — an attempt at verbally coming to grips with what I’m doing — contrary to normal art practice —
certain distastes / prejudices one carries — my dislike for drawing — my dislike of oil — the associations of the medium — comment in A in A on Graves p115 sculpture growing from bottom to top — my ideas to do plywood stacks in this way that has never materialized — “1500 directly cast elements”
should I try to use random plywood scraps or use a set of shaped pieces