Omphaloskepsis Blog
The painting is in Brooklyn and we all got to vacate the cloudy Seattle weather, buuuuuUUUUuuuut.... I just lost all my data on my back up drive, having just recently migrated everything to it in preparation for getting rid of my 11 year old compu…
So much fun to watch everyone’s reaction. Before I tell you, please excuse this video as it includes all of the ambient sounds as well as the installation. However, I’ve included the recordings by themselves below.After the first group compl…
Mother, may I...? is an interactive sound installation by Kate Vrijmoet. It focuses on issues of permission and boundary violation, and requires visitors to provoke, with every footfall, a torrent of harshly whispered questions, merely for entering the …
Carla, David, Thomas. David is going to edit the MP3 files for the installation. Tonight we recorded the whispering voices for the installation that will be up in my studio on First Thursday. We had a blast! I can’t speak for everyone, I did, Bar…
Egyptian Wall Painting 1994-1781 BC - Egypt. The earliest known record of toss juggling, from the 15th Beni Hassan tomb of an unknown prince, depicting female dancers and acrobats throwing balls. It’s a very busy January. Fun Fun Fun! I’m k…
I started this blog as a way of keeping track of my progress in my career, sharing that journey and connecting with others. Because it's nearly the end of 2010, and because its been a year for the books, I thought it might be a good idea to summarize th…
It helps to know another wakes only to want sleep again. A baby fed and changed by robots will die for lack of contact With another warm chest; its heart will forget how to beat. My mother through wires advises seeing the morning avalanche of thoughts A…
Mi madre bordaba lagrimas desiertas en los primeros arcoiris. 9’7” x 6’ 6” approx. (I’m painting it sideways because it doesn’t quite fit in my studio the other way and it’s an easier reach. Every time I pai…
The Seattle Group, November 2010. L-R: Nichole Dement, Johnny Wow, Andrew Drawbaugh, Paul Young, Carl Jackson, James Brwon, William Fahey, Kate Vrijmoet, Shawn Foote, and my personal favorite- Robert Hardgrave. On the way to the meeting Tuesday…
“There is a choice to be disciplined in an area where you can succeed, and if you have a dream that is outside of that area, you should re-address that dream, that’s the beginning of discipline, you can’t enforce discipline any more th…