Comments on: Capturing Shadows

By: dc

dc — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:59:58 +0000

I also like the way the color of the sign in the upper right of the first photo matches the color of the tape in the lower left—it creates nice symmetry.

By: ruth gutmann

ruth gutmann — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:32:37 +0000

3-28-09. I have just looked again at the girl pointing with gentle amusement at the blue shadow of the fire hydrant. Did you notice that the green street sign in front of her says Post-Alley?

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:00:09 +0000

DC, I do appreciate what you wrote about my work. I think you understand it well, which is nice. I agree that it is very different in a gallery setting. I see it as an offshoot of the outside work. Since there is no natural shifting source of light (I use a floodlight at night) the focus is more on turning light (or the absence of it) into a physical object.

Glad you made it out to the show.

By: dc

dc — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:56:07 +0000

Ruth: Penrod indicated by email that he liked what I wrote, which was nice to hear. (I would hate to write about someone's art, then be told that I was missing the point somehow!) I went to see the show, and Penrod's installation had a pretty different effect in the gallery setting. As for the buildings on the base being inhabited, some of them are and some of them aren't. I went into that question a bit in a comment on my other post. There is more vegetation on some other parts of the base, especially in the area where the officers' homes were located (that part of the base is still inhabited and the buildings are less interesting, so I I didn't bother to take any pictures there).

By: ruth gutmann

ruth gutmann — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:57:04 +0000

I’ve just looked at Joe Penrod’s blue tape installations again. Cheerier, though more ephemeral, than that naval base and your newest pictures of it! It is the absence of almost any kind of vegetation and the neglected buildings that make desolation concrete for me. Even the chapel that does not forbid entrance has prison-like windows. Are those places inhabited?

I liked the cranes across the estuary, looking like twenty-first century dinosaurs. They must have evolved from them.

I only found Joe Penrod’s comments on your blog when I googled Fragmentary Evidence today as I turned away in total disgust from today’s various news items, filled with — you may have guessed it — fragmentary evidence.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:53:18 +0000

That’s pretty fantastic. And very cool to see Pablo is an artist, and an interesting one at that. Thanks for hte postin’!

By: dc

dc — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:00:07 +0000

jabel: Now there’s a comment I didn’t expect to get. What can I say? I’m glad I could provide some inspiration, even if it’s not the kind of inspiration I had in mind.

By: jabel

jabel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:14:46 +0000

Cool Pictures but your post sent me up to the liquor store for a bottle of Pernod.I kept looking at his name and thinking I haven’t had a Pernod in a good while so off I went.