December

I've begun compiling fascinating links, resources and points of interest pertaining to our upcoming "month of awareness." Excited. Get ready.

Our first baby...

Kris did the installation and I contributed the sound:



Songs of Our Daughter
Kris Cowen & J.R. Uretsky
Mixed media sound installation

The concept of cross-pollination makes us think of sharing, exchanging, borrowing, or appropriating an element from one thing and then applying it to something else. The idea of cross-pollination is inherently collaborative, and speaks to the type of art we are both interested in making; for us, sculpture is communal.

We wanted to create a personal art experience for a viewer in a public space. By combining private narratives (in relation to another sort of cross-pollinating) with an abstract environment, we provide the viewer with a space equipped for listening and contemplation. Songs of Our Daughter is a voyeuristic installation, a sort of eavesdropping experience, where the viewer is let in to the artist's personal lives the same way a friend would be- by listening. This project is a multi-sensory art experience that invites the viewer to "be in the know" in regards to the personal life of the artist; in doing so, we have creating an authentic feeling of acceptance in an artificial, constructed environment.

future Mr. Jamie Uretsky.

Fernando Zòbel, Diario 8

"Constant travel to see friends, it can kill you. The distances are too great, no wonder Americans complain of loneliness. The pleasures of friendship have to be planned weeks in advance and involve endless hours at ticket windows, packing and unpacking, train schedules, etc. ..Almost makes me feel like going home. Except that it´s so good to see one´s friends again."

Nobody

I'm always interested in films that portray the woes of Art School, and this one could be something:

Nobody

What do you think?

Jon and Kurt

I got to hang out with Kurt and Jon today at their show opening at George Fox and then afterward for dinner. I'm reminded just how great it is that we have each other, that we are here, that we are friends, and that we are artists.

Jon and Kurt are just as they have always been: sweet, smiling, gracious, engaging, adorable. Also, Kurt is still wearing that same hat, huzzah!

balls