tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44467647506113792192024-03-01T05:39:16.657+00:00i.art.rachelprints, books and thingsRachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.comBlogger2259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-2400980719007603072015-09-16T05:21:00.001+01:002015-09-16T05:21:17.615+01:00i've moved...I am no longer posting on this blog, but if you like what you see then come and join me over at <a href="http://rachel-and-yoga.blogspot.com/">rachel-and-yoga.blogspot.com.</a><br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/107346589">Bird Migration on Toronto Island</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user12696753">Ben Panter</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-41374285656277927372015-07-08T12:13:00.000+01:002015-07-08T12:13:05.304+01:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r8pMjupV4y4" width="400"></iframe>Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-23421710210988869682015-07-07T15:45:00.000+01:002015-07-07T15:45:24.023+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(Found<a href="https://uk.pinterest.com/clairelindsay/"> here</a>)Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-48333579521150814642015-07-07T15:36:00.002+01:002015-07-07T15:36:28.009+01:00Things to be Desired<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span data-reactid=".5.0.0">Go placidly<span class="text_exposed_show"> amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
Even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter,
For always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
It is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
For the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
Many persons strive for high ideals,
And everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
For in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
It is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
Gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
You have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,
No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labours and aspirations,
In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
It is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.</span></span></div>
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-- <span data-reactid=".5.0.0">Max Ehrmann (1926) </span><br />
<i><span data-reactid=".5.0.0"> </span></i><span data-reactid=".5.0.0"><i>Desiderata - Things to be Desired</i> </span>Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-44541163956935887132015-07-05T12:09:00.000+01:002015-07-05T12:09:00.501+01:00Sunday Tune<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1bdbq9m5hKo" width="400"></iframe>Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-17727612373056871092015-07-04T12:03:00.000+01:002015-07-04T12:03:00.463+01:00Saturday Poem<b>What Kind Of Times Are These?</b><br />
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There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill </div>
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and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows </div>
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near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted </div>
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who disappeared into those shadows. </div>
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I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled </div>
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this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, </div>
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our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, </div>
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its own ways of making people disappear. </div>
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I won't tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods </div>
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meeting the unmarked strip of light— </div>
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ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise: </div>
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I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear. </div>
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And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you </div>
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anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these </div>
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to have you listen at all, it's necessary </div>
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to talk about trees.</div>
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Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-10113015541960713122015-07-03T11:58:00.000+01:002015-07-03T11:59:44.803+01:00Happy Weekend!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first time I did <i>Loving Care</i>, it was not a performance; I did it as a relic and I showed it that way. It didn’t work! I realized that it wasn’t like Gnaw where the history was on the surface of the object and a viewer could re-create how it was made by looking at it. While making Loving Care, I realized that the power was in watching me mop the floor. The audience is the wild card. I am collaborating with them and I’m never sure how they will respond.
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All works from <i>Loving Care</i>Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-37413291899251676762015-07-02T18:13:00.003+01:002015-07-02T18:13:54.420+01:00a point of contact<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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I just believe in the
power of art, what it can do for our lives. I think if you stay focused
on what art can do and don’t get distracted, you discover it is
limitless. Somehow it seems like we don’t talk about the power of art in
that way. Sometimes I think about Beuys; he seems so crazy to me, I
miss that idealism. He believed that everyone was an artist. He really
believed that art could solve all the problems . . . somehow we’ve lost
that, or at least nobody is willing to come out and acknowledge it.</div>
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I always think I make art so that I can discuss with strangers things that I would like to discuss but couldn’t otherwise. </div>
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-- Janine Antoni via <a href="http://bombmagazine.org/article/2191/janine-antoni">Bomb Magazine</a></div>
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Found <a href="http://thatkindofwoman.tumblr.com/post/122995868894">here</a>Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-82095127388485803062015-07-01T11:17:00.000+01:002015-07-01T11:17:15.298+01:00Seiko Tachibana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="imgdsc0">locus of water installation |intaglio on japanese paper, 2009</span>Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-21191717375888036752015-06-30T16:57:00.000+01:002015-06-30T16:57:00.923+01:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><q class="medium">I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightening. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.</q> </span></blockquote>
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-- Haruki MurakamiRachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-33620510028243879462015-06-28T10:52:00.000+01:002015-06-28T10:52:00.476+01:00Sunday Tune<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VwcKwGS7OSQ" width="400"></iframe>Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-59437474688516206402015-06-27T10:46:00.000+01:002015-06-27T10:46:00.394+01:00Saturday Poem<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ohPkvW9YC0k" width="400"></iframe>
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Photo of NYC protest, ca. 1920s. Via <a href="http://adski-kafeteri.livejournal.com/2555276.html">all things amazing</a>.Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-53530508088914520752015-06-25T10:16:00.000+01:002015-06-25T10:16:01.990+01:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;">“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
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Howard ZinnRachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-27168739227814840152015-06-23T12:45:00.001+01:002015-06-23T12:45:14.320+01:00Frida<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Frida marching for workers rights, at a rally protesting C.I.A. involvement in Guatemala and on a communist rally.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://collectively.org/en/article/jordan-davis-3-12-minutes-10-bullets-film/">A Much-Needed Film About Life, Death, Guns And Race</a></span></span></h1>
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<i>Once</i><br />
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I got up early in the morning<br />
to take pictures of this huge momolith<br />
in the middle of the australian outbck.<br />
It took me a whole day<br />
to walk around Ayers Rock.<br />
On my trip<br />
I never met anybody,<br />
but ever since I'd left the motel in the morning<br />
I was joined by a dog<br />
running ahead of me.<br />
It was blazingly hot,<br />
and except for a stubborn German like me,<br />
nobody in his right mind would have gone on such a march.<br />
Thanks to my local guide<br />
I found a few amazing hidden places.<br />
Only when, to top it all,<br />
I decided to climb the mountain,<br />
my canine companion backed out.<br />
He waited for me at the foot of the steep climb<br />
and welcomed me when I came back down,<br />
wagging his tail. <br />
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Wim Wenders. from his book "Once" Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-91202967581762753782015-06-18T15:23:00.001+01:002015-06-18T15:23:37.636+01:00Blindly<br />
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Documenting scenes from a painting workshop with visually impaired participants, Żmijewski’s video <i>Blindly</i> asks what it means to imagine and represent without relying on the sense of sight.<br />
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Artur Żmijewski, <i>Blindly</i> 2010</div>
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Video, colour and sound, 18min 41sec</div>
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Image courtesy of the artist and Foksal Gallery Foundation</div>
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Artists are intuitive. They wait for inspiration. That's what art is
about, the intuitive, not the intellectual. Art about ideas stimulates
ideas, but art that comes from inspiration stimulates feelings of
happiness, innocence and beauty.</blockquote>
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--Agnes Martin<br />
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I've just been to see her exhibition at the <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/AgnesMartin">Tate</a>. It's glorious, go!Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446764750611379219.post-41145017825280821522015-06-17T13:45:00.002+01:002015-06-17T13:45:22.199+01:00<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">I don’t think there is much separation in all the things we do. How we do one thing is how we do anything. </span></blockquote>
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-- Lauren Spencer King</blockquote>
From <a href="https://www.apieceapart.com/lauren-spencer-king-0" target="_blank">apieceapart.com</a>Rachel Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03288778103034021091noreply@blogger.com0