Skip to main content

New Year’s Intentions

By January 1, 2016Blog

1. Obsess delightfully (after Yayoi Kusama.)

tumblr_mtpiggX9T21rpri2zo1_1280

2. Occupy suggestive spaces
(between accessible and complex, spare and profuse, funny and sad.)

1082091985

3. Balance control with surrender (after Brian Eno.)

tumblr_nzhjdck5yA1qg2n7mo1_500-1

4. Improvise (but sometimes follow recipes.)

MFK_Landscape

5. Make work ‘to order’ (occasionally, if it’s a good way of living.)

str2_ma_1512_p6b_Akari light

6. Tell cool lies (when it is necessary to escape reality
and/or serve your art.)

tumblr_nz4xw1wBoQ1uq45zxo2_1280

7. Find a warm but steady method.

16ChicagoResettlement_PicnicAtLake_RG10Box10Folder29_g_lo

8. Practice punctuality and neatness (as a form of kindness.)

Unknown

9. Be patterned (but unafraid to smudge the pattern.)

tumblr_nvqja4PfQm1qbsfxio1_1280

10. Do write in the world.

tumblr_nzwtva1XC61qbsfxio1_500

Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu!
あけましておめでとうございます!

(Image sources: Yayoi Kusama Horse Play, Woodstock, NY, 1963; “1550 Chairs Stacked Between Two City Buildings” by Doris Salcedo, 2002; “Untitled, (A Gathering of Time)” by Cy Twombly, 2003; “Skater” via a panel of analysts; M.F.K. Fisher; “Isamu Noguchi tweaking a wooden frame for an Akari lamp at manufacturer Ozeki & Co’s workshop”; “jiji-de-jiji” via B-sides Archive; “Japanese American Chicago Resettlement, Picnic at Lake”; “Untitled (Perfect Lovers)” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1991; “Wood Block Printing” and “Black Lives Matter” via La Mignonette)