Building a Mystery
[“Untitled,” Catherine Rutgers, 1976, page 27] It is possible that the ideas of Dada were primarily received by Rauschenberg through personal interaction. Marcel Duchamp was closely associated with...
View ArticleSerious Playground: A Time-Release Capsule of Art in the Studio
Actually, this is a capsule released from time, a chronicle of my own invention, tapping into the ridiculously potent tools of digital media. The photographs span roughly five years, showing artwork...
View ArticleSlow Hand
Time spirals. It doesn’t fly like an arrow or a bird or a jet plane. It loops and leaps. It strolls and skips. It falls asleep. It is relentlessly patient. And stealthy. After months of dormancy, I’m...
View ArticleExtravagant Possibilities
Sometimes I like to check out the archives, digging deep into the image-making remnants. There’s a lot of cool stuff in there, and a lot I’ve lost track of. Even when I find intriguing possibilities,...
View ArticleCatalog This (Starting Year 10 of CatRutgers4Art)
2010 Bit by Bit Urban Sky [Digitize This]* Blessed Be the Glue When You Subscribe [Method and Purpose] 2011 Hue-Happy Forever [Girls!] Party Over Here [Dominated by the Visual Sense] Handwritten,...
View ArticleAnticipation
Photos taken on July 1, 2008, between 7:18 and 7:22 p.m. Somewhat in the original sequence, sometimes adjusted to tell a story. The first image was software-filtered (Gaussian blur). The motion in all...
View ArticleCalendar Girl 2020 (art for every month)
The sayings it came with were bland, at best, and they appeared at the bottom of every page. But the pictures were OK and the days came with interesting holidays and the new-to-full moon phases. So my...
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