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One of my favorite landscapes to draw

Drawing midwestern neighborhoods again

This is an expansive way of considering art, encompassing and extending its use as a direct political tool. What can a work allow us to imagine about ourselves?

"A classical Greek sculpture increases our awareness of our own potential physical dignity; a Rembrandt of our potential moral courage; a Matisse of our potential sensual awareness.”

“It increases our awareness of our own potentiality…a way of looking at the world implies a certain relationship with the world, and every relationship implies action. The kind of actions implied vary a great deal."

Berger: “What I do mean is something less direct and more comprehensive. After we have responded to a work of art, we leave it, carrying away in our consciousness something which we didn’t have before.

What we take away with us is the memory of the artist’s way of looking at the world.”

They may even start to ask whether it is themselves, and their fellow art viewers, who really own these works and whether it is they, not the names engraved above doorways, who should determine the course of their history, their art, their lives.

I do believe that a museumgoer primed with the fundamental question Berger asks in the intro of Permanent Red—“does this work help or encourage people to know and claim their social rights?”—becomes a radical viewer, a gamma ray burrowing through the concrete walls of a gallery.

I don’t mean that he deserves to be sold in the gift shop. But his absence, and that of other writers critical of capital’s ownership of our imagination, is evidence of what the vast majority of museums don't want you to do: question their ownership over how art is presented, bought, sold, kept.

But I suspect the reason why is simple. He states it in his first book, Permanent Red:
“I now believe that there is an absolute incompatibility between art and private property, or between art and state property.”

I have never seen a book by John Berger in an art museum gift shop. It’s always surprised me that even his massively popular Ways of Seeing isn’t sitting there by the checkout.

A booklet cover showing a photo of a purple chain hotel in Milwaukee in early evening light. Info on the booklet from the back cover: Since founding this project in 2007, Public Collectors has always focused on what can be done informally, without institutional support or validation. This booklet describes how a self-initiated artist residency in a hotel can be a productive creative retreat that doesn’t require an application or invitation. Artists probably started making art in hotels soon after hotels came into existence. Some hotels today have artist in residence programs where they invite artists to stay in their rooms and use them as studios. This approach depends on the artist receiving an invitation and isn’t open to anyone. Other kinds of artist residencies require applications and can be very expensive if they aren’t funded by the residency program. In 2024 I started exploring the idea of giving myself a short residency whenever I wanted one by looking at off-season hotel prices in the Midwest, where I live. I started thinking about specific approaches to making that would be well-suited for a hotel room, what I should pack, and how I should structure my brief stay. The idea of a self-residency in a hotel is not novel but every time I say to someone that I’ve done this, they tell me what a useful idea it is and how much they want to try it. Hotel residencies may be particularly enticing for artists that work from home and don’t normally spend money on an off-site studio. The self-initiated hotel artist residency is for people who think a simple room in an uninspiring place might be just the ticket to complete a project that doesn’t require much more than a quiet place to be. If you can bring your own supplies and inspiration and prefer solitude, sometimes a room without much of a view and a plate of complimentary breakfast might be all you really need to make your work for two or three days.

New Public Collectors zine!

The Self-Initiated Hotel Artist Residency

When your studio goes wherever you go, why not take it on the road for a couple nights and give yourself a self-initiated residency in a hotel at cheap off-season rates and see what you make? $6.00 www.halfletterpress.com

I am!

was just staying with friends who were reading the series, too. that's enough good reccs for me to go looking for it.

Ooooh these are looking nice

Blind Alley No. 421

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A nice writeup on Fonts In Use by @xyztype.com, about my design work for "If They Build It," a project published last year by Community Justice Exchange. The headings are set in XYZ's great, angular Cedar typeface.
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It’s been true for 5 years and it’ll keep being true

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

I sat in on a friend's class last week on the history of self-publishing in comics and serialization. He brought in an issue of Factsheet Five.

very cool very cool

Oh, could you share the language?

stop motion is always the answer

ok, stop motion i like the sound of!

many many parts that just seem bonkers to put on film

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

"Ppl can learn a lot in 🎥 school. I’m surprised, however, by students’ dominant interest in tech > content. I think the tech should be @ the service of the content... I always talk abt the importance of reading [bc] literature teaches you [abt] human experience [+] forms you can use to convey [it]"

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