the re(a)lative BRIGHTNESS of GREY
Steve Dalachinsky
January 2017
Celebrating Arteidolia’s 3 Year Anniversary
Steve Dalachinsky’s poemessay from April 2014
KARMA: the re(a)lative BRIGHTNESS of GREY
Brice Marden in conversation at Karma bookstore
1. an almost unrelated prelude:
salaries & negotiated arrivals: even some bourgeoise are good /eyeglasses / sunglasses / rowers > today’s the day legends are made / luxury rentals / solid wax-ons / clear skin beautiful horizons / the notion of scale / little has changed / f(i) (n)a(n)cial applications / quality endorsements / HEAR TOO-DAY / GONE Tomorrow >
clear oceans / allied hearts / healthy emergencies / instructional endorsements / where things can take you > logic & brilliant brilliant colors… grabbers elong the cripple’s time longer just as i get bothered by folks who talk to strangers > still cravers the same apples to me > putting the nosteps closer together
the caves are more diplomatic than the tales they tell & the idea of revelation always sounds good / it’s about the equality of shapes / lines / chromosome/atics > seamless hail on a frozen river / rowers / heavy bags ? unlimited privileges / babysitter demands / where the new standard is leaning toward pretty / a new pretty or too pretty > the humble man playing his hunch & betting on the guy in the convertible @ the red light on a warm winter day blasting his radio / & it only took us a few hundred years to get here > THE NEW GREY – a purely unpure hands on relative brightness of what the he who jumped did :
2. unrelated prelude too
as of the perimeter & what the eye…
the impact of my hand on her head
is equal to her hysteria
bergs which are mountains c. hundreds)
covering a later date ,roughly
today’s the day i thought < where africa begins /
clear beautiful food to the rescue
the idea of providing a comfort zone
dissolved in a few brief moments
the way neighborhoods do / the impact would have been financial or
deadly
would it have been any others but us / but i recovered
& her state of health tho questionable
remained somewhat intact.
3. what actually might be the real discourse or disjointed facsimile thereof
with alterations to the canvas
a.
sanded down wax - these are paintings > or are you kidding yourself? / bright red >
2 shapes becoming 3 > symmetry / big accomplishment > 40’s to 50’s this old bunch of paper recordings / all the same shape / but if you saw it now being the first complicated coming faster > my attempts at really bright were not really bright tho graphic like graphite turning white into black > or am i kidding myself? / in love with tedium crosshatching to be in a room 7 hours a day surrounded by your influences > 3 deliberate greys that have to be deliberate ? / a real color filled with light / flea market located in the middle of the city / that’s no longer there/ hot neutral but not bright / reading essays > surprises > to be a guard in a museum & absorb / to absorb these influences / finish drawings / razor blades / spread it on the wall / … > / replaced by a gas station…
some things do not explain themselves / you just have to get it / cezanne does not explain himself / matisse tells you everything / bright is a matter of seeing / the color for that real form/shape > REAL POSSIBILITIES … basic tools
b. the love of razor blades (reprised)
shocked by time & how much of it there was
/ is / different focus / now others not the same thing what one should do > long tedious revisions / i tell myself one thing / i push it but nothing really changes > before plans & apartments we planned histories / that’s no longer there >
(be – in )
the first babies caused us to move light / bird sounds / the light stops & so do i
i am blinded by the greys & nothing changes tho the size has grown
change occurs but not in the work
flow rhythm
a dialogue with myself
4. more discourse with innumerable interjections
a.
no right
no wrong anymore
no dialogue
from this old biddy who used to sell
i don’t know what happened
letting others crop your paintings
a farmer’s market in the middle of the studio
presenting beliefs
viability / vibrance / violence / impossible to deal with
& must move on > vital / that figures > what else is new?
trust a generation to exploit their source material
kuniyoshi for instance
or drinks or reasons
inferior equipment / not reality ? / stuck with one’s own cliché
in one’s own body of work > so one must move on or become impossible to deal with / waiting to be heard / waiting to leave / using them putting them together marrying them with some of ) the…cultural elite… d. though i did get a good price from her one time / i feel responsible to my work tho even this makes little difference / i plan on doing a home movie > at some point i reference art history less > did i get tired of it? cross referencing > revival > real many of which were made … concentrated focus on particular (feel) … take them home (with you)… watch them/ eastern 10-15 years > a long time taking stories / issues / to my mind they are not in the truest strictest sense > there are no more issues > or drunks or reasons made by amateurs / this was the standard > / <
b.
i live in the heart of the city
in the country
virtual vs. real (less relevant in others)
you would buy them watch them
(Hence (why they…
horrible evolution to make the image true
in a nano-second buy my presence / to go somewhere /
make connections / my image but let me keep the real thing /
blue motion forward > perfect feeling >
some ideas more relevant in some things
this was the standard 2
c. home movies (frame)
inventive brilliant frames / i’ve been going there since it closed (down)
BARK - in the end we stick it in a frame – but once the frame is removed
we start to breathe again – however i couldn’t afford it >
i’m still kicking myself (about this one) - he was (asking) for too much money
frame no frame unfortunately these things have a way of) happen(ing) >
the colors change / disappear
BECOME ONE
since. what they call a one of a kind item. i hadn’t seen one before.
source short hand robbed by a screen & so it goes such is life
What can you do? you can’t (do or) have everything.
back home the war physical reality books are not real / are article)
You can’t really fake those kind of things > the flesh is less a movie on tv
i guess anything’s possible. i didn’t (actually) listen to them.
letters & other things. letters in the form of audio recordings
index to something they are not seeing
would use these things to send letters
students offer the most questions > i thought it was too expensive
these questions are valid > philosophy > i haven’t seen any…
internal debate another missed opportunity
information is one thing the actual experience another
RECORDINGS
where is it best that you have the experience
it looked like the real thing (genuine
what service men sent their families overseas
the ultimate chance to be enlightened
i guess anything’s possible
making a real experience as soon as the object leaves
to be fair. But i can imagine. dear…letters in the form of audio recording
people would use these things to send letters … around the same time i found
bought…& that instant he wakes up when life’s philo…. the mind’s stomach
only to get hungry in one’s mouth.
(based on a Brice Marden interview interspersed
with a partial Tom Church interview plus my own fragments)
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