Hillary Metz, founder and director of Blythe Projects, describes her decision to break away from the traditional brick and mortar and adopt a nomadic approach.  She hit the road and has never looked back. Under torrential El Niño rains in November 2009, I opened Blythe Projects in a 3200 square foot gallery space in Culver […]

From School   Images are transparent, (nuff said) so that in reading or mediation nothing can be heard With grass and fog and the musical event – “where are you, dad? Daddy, what are you doing?” Ticktack, tick tack, talk? what matters now is host, lumpy bread whose arms dangle and whose voice is fiber. […]

The idea of paradise as a pretty place has never really sat well with me.  Perhaps because I don’t embrace its biblical connotations.  Paradise is simply the best we can conjure for ourselves. My paradise is broken, melancholic maybe, but beautiful nevertheless.  It’s a place that makes me feel comfortable. Though the landscape at once […]

“When I talk about color I try to make it clear that it doesn’t need to be perceived through something exclusively visual but with other senses.  If you can hear colors you can amplify the perceptions of the color and you can hear infrared and ultraviolet, so you can perceive more colors than through the […]

We are strangers from ourselves, in particular the anatomical construction that literally holds the fibers of our being in place.  The space within the body is as infinite and unknowable to the untrained eye as the celestial bodies that dwell above.  An understanding of the viruses that thrive within the human body are known to […]

In 2005 Dan Tague watched his life wash away before his eyes.  A native of New Orleans, Tague was living in Mid City, which received about 7.5 feet of water, mud, filth, gas, sludge, waste and death when Hurricane Katrina hit.  He witnessed firsthand the deterioration of local and federal government, the breakdown of human kind […]