I'm excited to be back to work after my second residency at the Art Institute of Boston. Each time I go there I get a little more impressed by the program and the professors there. I'm glad to be working with some top notch people. I was just explaining to someone the other day how glad I am to be going to an East Coast Grad School, rather than West coast or worse yet, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Nothing against the west coast or UAF, but it seems to me that if I am going to spend the time, effort and money to get my MFA, I want to get a taste of the East coast art scene. and to go to Fairbanks, well, I guess I just know Alaska too well. We are a small community of fine artists, and we love to pat each other on the back all the time for how "Alaskan" we all are. It's an geographically isolated, closed community. I will make art in Alaska for a long time to come, and will love it, but I just wanted to be exposed to another world.
More later, maybe some pictures even,
Mike out
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Was just looking at the Washington Post tonight and saw this pic - Go to pic number 6. It made me think of your pictures with the wood build up.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/01/27/GA2009012701648.html?hpid=smartliving
I've tried to contact you a few times, but it appears as though your email is down, filled or something else. It also appears as though your blog is suspended in some form or another. I clicked on "contact you" and it stated "suspended."
Luke
Mike,
Glad you are off and running! I'm painting small, but I'm painting....
anywho, the picture at the top of your blog with the little girl stacking the rocks in a large circle on the ground put me in mind of Andy Goldsworthy. Have you looked at him?
It's funny you should say that, my dad built that rock compass thing in front of his house after seeing "Rivers and Tides" - movie about Goldsworthy. Love his work.
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