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Painter, percussionist, writer.Exec Director @arteSumapaz; center for culture and art in Colombian Andes. Blatant abuser of exclamation marks and semi colons.

San Bernardo, Colombia
Joined April 2009
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Replying to @RicDragon
Perhaps it isn't so crazy. Followup to My Humongous Audacious Dream! #alternativeArtSchool #IntentionalCommunity #Colombia #artistresidency ricdragon.com/2022/01/07/my-…
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Oh @GarethRubin why on earth would you attack @SalmanRushdie? Works on a shelf shouldn’t be on show, but can act as an extension of the consciousness, bringing us back to when we read them. And if Dan Brown’s your thing, best wishes, but you needn’t denigrate meaningful reads.
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Replying to @jsf
@jsf you need a longer road-trip! The Everson in Syracuse, Munson Williams, Albany plaza, art Oma, storm king, Dia Beacon, neuberger in Purchase, Katonah Art Museum, in short, the loop!
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Playing with Perplexity IA, but it's strange - it's self-certain, it provides you with one answer as opposed to many. A bit fascistic feeling!
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Replying to @JBotanicoBogota
@JBotanicoBogota estamos buscando identificacion por este vaina! puedes ayudarnos @artesumapaz - en un bosque cerca San Bernardo, Cundinamarca
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"Happy life is being an artist So what if you don’t have any money and nobody pays attention and blah blah. It’s a privilege, isn’t it?" Anne Truitt, from film by Jem Cohen
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Reading a couple of books that complement each other beautifully. Kegan is psychologist with great writings about levels of adult development. @ted_rau comes from the world of sociocracy (non-hierarchical governance).
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Replying to @ted_rau
@ted_rau four -step path reminds me of OODA Loops!
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Replying to @tembici
@tembici we had a huge problem last night - couldn’t find any vacant stations to leave bike. Went to several and all filled up. What should we do in that situation. It’s kind of scary out there!!!
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Really enjoying and feeling stimulated by Kegan and Lahey’s “Immunity to change”. Tickled to realize I was unwittingly using my old Covid vaccine card as a bookmark.
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If you are ever kind of guilty for overstating the value of your assets, you’ll want to bring in hedonic regressions. The math still may not add up, but it can get you a lot closer!
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“the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all." - John Updike, in a review of Franny and Zooey
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Replying to @Leahbats
@Leahbats to add to your list of sanitarium reading, I think I’d add the inimitable Annie Dillard with Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - seems it would make a good companion to Madeleine d’Engels
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I've dreamed of having a set of these babies since I was around 16, and I have finally pulled the trigger. I find them to make the mind go into hyperdrive better than anything.
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Time to visit the dentist; thanks for the reminder @Sothebys
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Am so enjoying @mdbell79 book Refuse to be Done. Applicable to painting, too. Dig this idea of work that is “collaborated upon by the many selves who existed over the likely hundreds of days you were writing”
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Brings to mind Philip Guston saying that a work is a first brushstroke, then each succeeding mark a respond to the previous, etc. For thousands of brushstrokes. A kind of cultural ratcheting unto one’s self.
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“I don’t quit until the story stands on its own hooves and turns around to glower- meaning that it’s fully alive and no longer mine.” -Robert Boswell quoted by @mdbell79 (applicable to making paintings)
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Reading Jane Alison’s wonderful book “Meander, Spiral, Explode” and thinking how all the explode examples were trauma narratives.
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