Baren Digest Friday, 8 June 2001 Volume 15 : Number 1449 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cucamongie@aol.com Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:15:27 EDT Subject: [Baren 14776] Chicago Hi folks, I'd be happy to meet any of you Chicago (or thereabouts) Bareners on the 22nd of June, I will be at the opening of my solo show at Woman Made Gallery which is from 6pm to 9pm on June 22 at 1900 South Prairie Avenue, Chicago. I can send you cards to the show if you like if you email me off list with your snail mail addresses. Also, for those of you Chicago folks with well-behaved dogs or other domestic pets who don't mind going out of the house, you can bring them with you to see the show on July 14 (unfortunately I won't be there at that time, hopefully the gallery folks will take some photos!). My show is called "Listening to the Animals" and there is a group show running simultaneously called "Cats and Dogs." best regards, Sarah Cucamongie@aol.com www.sarahhauser.womanmade.net ------------------------------ From: "Bea Gold" Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:08:23 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14777] Help needed charset="iso-8859-1" Anyone know Zachary Wentz? I have material that belongs to him that I need to mail. My message to his e-mail address was returned and I do not have a snail mail address for him. Please send it off list to bnj50@earthlink.net Thanks, Bea Gold ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:23:57 EDT Subject: [Baren 14778] Re: exchange theme haikus With so many fine ideas it seems some can be tabled for use in the future. I do floar pieces all the time that was why I voted for mysteries of the sea, for the challenge of something different for me. But, if I can do this next exchange i would gladly switch over to the floral theme. But moving may have my time. Marilynn ------------------------------ From: GWohlken Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:38:26 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14779] Re: Baren Digest V15 #1448 > When sitting with someone, looking at all the beautiful prints on display in > the Exchange Gallery, it's irritating to have them ask me "what's this one > mean?", then I scroll down to the artist comments, and IT'S BLANK! > So, I get to sit there and say, Dan, I think people, when signing up to enter the title of their piece for an exchange, don't always know what they want to say about it until it's completely finished. Mine was one of those. The image came from a poem that had nothing to do with endangered species. It was a poem I wrote about a vision Sister Aurora (my alter ego) has of a wolf who comes to show her something when she is dying. The inspiration for the poem was triggered by the shuddering sounds of ice falling off our house during a warm spell at the end of a winter. Since Sister Aurora became a part of my poetic life during a walk in bitter cold and snow, I always think of her when there is ice and wind. So the poem itself had a kind of spiritual tone and I had been wanting to illustrate it for a long time. When Endangered Species came up, I decided to use the wolf idea but had to change the wolf from "sitting at the edge of this brilliant night...( because he too was looking out at the newer world) " to "standing...." (looking down at her) and now instead of making her look at the brilliant night itself, he is wounded and making her look at what has happened to him. By the way, if any of you haven't gone back to look at it, that image now has the blood drops showing, which didn't get scanned in color the first time around. Even though it's a black and white image, I did cut another board with the blood drops, and they are important to the message of the print. Gayle Burton, Ohio USA ------------------------------ From: "Gregory Robison" Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:53:44 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14780] Gospels show venue & update While Maria is outside flagellating herself, I will update you on a few details of the Gospel prints show: 1. I confirm that all future substantive discussion on this exhibition will take place on the list that Maria has very kindly set up and is hosting on her site. I would urge anyone who has expressed an interest in working on this project to become part of this other list. To subscribe, go to: gospelprints-subscribe@topica.com. The curious are welcome on this list, too, as well as those who may be considering participation but haven't yet made up their minds. "Subscription does not constitute approval or acceptance of..." anything. 2. I would also like to confirm that I consider this little endeavor a child of Baren -- a weird cousin, perhaps, a wayward daughter, a "prodigal son" maybe. But a relative, nonetheless. I will therefore keep the larger group informed from time to time on how things are progressing. 3. Especially, though, I would like to announce that I have secured a superb location for this exhibition. (It's so good, in fact, that I've booked it for a date in 2003, too, for an as-yet-to-be-determined show...perhaps one that Bea and I can be in together! But Bea, that's years away...and we're not getting any younger!) It's called the David Young Gallery, located on Albany Street in the New Town of Edinburgh ('New Town' here means 18th and early 19th century), right in the center of the city. It's a new gallery, with natural sky-light illumination, a high ceiling, and a spacious main room. It's an excellent space, both by size and layout, for prints. Although it is operated as a professional gallery -- advertising (at no expense to us) in the Edinburgh Gallery Guide along with the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, etc. -- it is in fact owned by Marie Curie Cancer Care, a registered UK charity. 4. Our show will be in June 2002. Exacting opening date is yet to be determined. All Baren members would be most welcome at the opening...it's not too early to contact your travel agent! Much more later...but elsewhere...and thanks for everyone's interest and serious consideration of this idea! Yours, Gregory Robison Edinburgh, Scotland ------------------------------ From: Daniel Dew Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 15:06:58 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14781] Re: Gospels show venue & update Awesome Greg, a hearty thank you. dan dew ------------------------------ From: Printmaker Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 11:37:57 +1000 Subject: [Baren 14782] Disclaimer First. Thankyou to those people who have mailed me offlist giving their support. My apologies in advance folks. It was my intention to let this matter drop as it most rightfully should be but it is also appropriate that I respond to certain direct comments made to me. Jack said "it might be a good idea to remember that you are addressing an audience composed of people from all around the world, on every continent, and from widely varying backgrounds" Jack, everytime you make a post, do you follow your own advice and wonder if your american modes of expression are appropriate? Or the continuing project of right wing forces to impose american modes of censorship - most of which derive from religious thinking - on to an international community. (such as you are doing now) I guess not. There is a subtle difference between prose that is literal and prose that is meant to taken metaphorically. Many people do not have the literary skills to distinquish between them. I feel sorry for their shortfallings but see no need to modify my modes of expression to suit. The biggest problem I have encountered with e-mails is the continuing failure of many to read what has been stated with comprehension, or as in the case below to attribute the correct author. Quite frequently the meaning that is taken by the reader is not what was clearly stated and intended by the writer. Such issues with reader reception are quite adequately covered in most of the current literary theory and I invite you to read up on it. He also asked By invoking the statement: "Let us all remember, that every one has a basic right and freedom to express their opinions and even act upon their belief system ", are you saying that you have not only the right to express your opinion in any fashion, but also the right to act upon your desire to burn people who hold philosophies with whom you disagree? Actually that was a quote from Princess in Digest #1446. At the time, I refrained from adding that usually people who make such comments end their statement with some qualifier that says effectively 'as long as their beliefs are congruent with mine'. In this case I was being ironic, but again the subtleties of my expression were lost on you. You might like to consider the hypocracy here that I am contantly being exposed to religious opinions from the various Churches who seek to impose their rules on secular society - but I'm harrangued for making one comment to the contrary. Another area of postmodern thought is in the re-examination of colonisation and with it comes an addressing and recognition of the detrimental effects contact with the so call white 'civilisation' had on many cultures - usually completely destroying them and decimating the populations in the process. It was not my intention to act as teacher here but those of you who do not understand my statements might like to take a few minutes to contemplate exactly which attrocities I was referring to. While you are at it, you might also like to think about the millions, yes millions, of persons burned at the stake or tortured in the inquisitions or murdered through war by your religious leaders. A brief examination of world history might be apt here. Why should I feel it is an application of double standards that the persons who, in their belief in and support of Christianity, condene such actions should be the first to take offence at my non-literal statement that missionaries should be subjected to an historical Christian process? Finally, the discussion arising from my comments should be sufficient to serve as adequate example to support my opinion that any religious text is inappropriate for the basis of an art project. My last word. Subject closed. Josephine PS. I'm the sort of person who would carry a spider outside rather than kill it ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:40:20 +0900 Subject: [Baren 14783] Exchange #9 feedback forms ... Just a 'heads-up' that the feedback forms on the Exchange #9 print pages have now been corrected. There was a small error in the coding (my incorrect instructions to Fumi-chan) and they weren't activated properly. People who tried to use them got an error message, and their comments were not forwarded. Sorry for the frustration this may have caused some of you, and thanks to Gayle for the quick alert ... Dave ------------------------------ From: Salsbury Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:32:06 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14784] Theme suggestio Hi all, I have had some pretty funny images floating around my head as I read the Haiku that are coming through on the list. Seems to me a good theme would be one based on original Haiku made up from the suggested themes, ie flora, cemeteries, sea creatures etc. I also would be interestead in a gathering in Ill to meet and see Sarah's show. Let me know if you get something going. Sue Salsbury Waterloo, Iowa ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V15 #1449 *****************************