http://www.sikwenshel.net shrine Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:38:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en tapestry Originally uploaded by printtroll. In the absence of the past we are left with a blank slate? But when left in a void we must start from the beginning like a child first holding a drawing utensil. The past gives us ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=12 sdrawing4 Originally uploaded by printtroll. This drawing is 8 by 10 inches. For years I have made work on a grand scale. I believe I felt it gave the work more stature to be huge but I am not sure that I ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=11 painting Originally uploaded by printtroll. I haven't made a painting in almost ten years. I thought I was done with painting, it is so decorative, but no here it is back in my world. Of course it is a sporozoan the beast that will consume me and it is pink. Pink is ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=10 I made a batch of cement this past week; it was thick and heavy. I could feel the moisture leaving my hands just from being near to the cement. As I shoveled it from the mixing bucket to the floor, I was soon to tile, I thought about my ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=9 i drown in petroleum distillates. hands cracked to the point of blood. the room with the low ceilings and concrete floors leaves me empty. yet every day every hour i am there. i feel, i think, i hear sounds i know inside and out they ring over and over again. the oil and dust cloud my ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=8 1991 - Gunk stuck under my finger nails. - Copper dredged by steel. - Color forced into incised lines and pits. - An image is formed that grows and flirts with me for years. - It presents me with a new way to look at how and why I make. - I glare at people, ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=7 The man asked me. The symbol on your shirt what does it mean? It was the first time the troll had been asked the question. The owner of a deli on Cropsy Ave in Brooklyn. A 50 year old Indian man. After some discussion he finally said "I guess that ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=6 It seems like a life time ago when sporozoan existed in the dreep of the pacific northwest. It is a place of origin for the object the distillates and achrmatone projects with byron were its seed. A low ceiling basement, dirty and dank with fluids and dust were its home ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=5 What is it that makes us want to make things? Want to create? We make things because we want to make an impression on others. But what is it that we are trying to accomplish with the things we create? Sporozoan is meant to be viewed in places that art ... http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=4 What makes you want more from yourself? What makes your ache to do something with meaning? What is your most pure thought? What do you wish you were that you would never dare tell. http://www.sikwenshel.net/?p=3