Anodyne
Monday, April 30, 2018
 

Thursday, April 26, 2018
 
Dirty John

"From her iPhone, Jacquelyn began studying the strange routes he took around Southern California, looking for patterns and clues. He went to doctors’ offices in Irvine and Mission Viejo and San Diego, a warehouse, a post office, fast-food joints, Tesla charging portals."
Saturday, April 21, 2018
 

Ice, 2018

"Method of this project: literary montage. I needn't say anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse - these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them."  (Benjamin)

"Is justice just ice?
Governed by greed and lust?
Just the strong doing what they can
And the weak suffering what they must?"  (Mitchell)
Sunday, April 15, 2018
 
Arroyo Seco north of Colorado, Pasadena CA, 2018
Thursday, April 12, 2018
 

San Marino citizens
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
 
"I'm giving you money, I want you to look at me."

"Here was Seattle playing itself marvelously, and I had to see the conclusion. Would the miserable woman tilt her head back and recognize the youngish and dashing man offering her money? Would the beggar pay his Hegelian price? In Hegel's conception of the master and slave dialectic (or struggle), the master demands recognition from the slave, but he does not reciprocate this recognition; the slave goes unseen or is seen only by those who are unseen by their masters. For Hegel, this conception is nothing less than the motor of history, the engine of revolutions that will realize the total mind of history.

If the beggar on the sidewalk did not give the man her eyes, would he still give her the bill? Or would he put it back in his wallet and leave? The players of this sad drama had no idea that only one person was in the audience.

The woman's face rose from beneath her head of hair and gave him open eyes. But they came with no expression, no emotion—nothing on her cracked lips, nothing in the eyebrows, and even nothing in the eyes. She only saw him. Once satisfied with the fullness and length of the recognition (the payment), he put the bill in the cup, rose, and went on his way.

I went on my way as well. But the incident did not leave me. It got me thinking about money, about how it is impersonal, or has the appearance of an indifferent medium of exchange. As critical theorists like Werner Bonefeld insist, money is a cultural thing (meaning, it's socially constituted) that dissolves into the natural world: water, air, vegetables, and all other things we need for our survival. We can call this the abstract necessity—money is at once an objective abstraction, but has the power to prevent people from eating. But we still want the thing that money hides, that is also its actual basis—social relations—to appear in our everyday doings."
Sunday, April 08, 2018
 

SPRING 2018 AMERICAN WEST TOUR SET LIST

EL PINO FAMOSO (BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT)

LA LA LAND TREE

PICO WINDOW

JOLIBEE

RODIA

FORTIFIED DOOR (PICTURE FOR DAN)

CACTUS RANCH

COOP 3.0 (ARM IN ODESSA)

430 (RICHARD & LINDA)

ALABAMA

NARROWS

AFTER DARK (PICTURE FOR ANDY GIBB)

ARMAGOSA 

[ENCORE]

NEWMAN'S BATHTUB - ???

RR - ???
Saturday, April 07, 2018
 
A tree's cinematic fame continues to grow in East L.A.

"'I'm eating a tamale and I look up there and there's this very interesting tree. A really big tree, up on a hill,' Hackford recalled. 'It was a perfect place for these guys to get together. I started asking around and people didn't really have a sense of it. I'm not saying people in the community didn't know about the tree. But there didn't seem to be a story about the tree, or a legend about it.'

So he created one."

Friday, April 06, 2018
 

Tuesday, April 03, 2018
 

Monday, April 02, 2018
 
cjbrayshaw.com

Multiple revisions & updates to my little shingle in cyberspace, with more on the way, in preparation for two exhibitions of new work in 2018-9. Text-heavy at the moment, images to come.  Pictures after Chizelle, Bejar/Newman, the Gibbs, Mitchell, and Lynch, plus abstractions made in California, New York, Nevada, and on Saysutshun.

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