by rjacksonpaton | Jul 11, 2017 | connections, creativity, eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, work of body
when people ask me what my artistic medium is, i frequently describe my primary one as collage and assemblages. it’s interesting in this moment to be attempting to put together a series of articles and ideas, and realizing that it’s an assemblage, too. a...
by rjacksonpaton | Apr 6, 2017 | connections, creativity, eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, work of body, writing
after an absence, i return gathering a variety of materials physical and more nuanced attempting to offer them to the world ~ inspired by a talk by gabor maté on the “myth of normal” i am creating an (ab)normality cycle to illustrate the non-linear...
by rjacksonpaton | Nov 2, 2016 | connections, creativity, ethnoautobiography, lost and found, lost homes, marked by place, photos, uncoveredwagon, work of body
next week a special exhibition opens at the Amon Carter museum in Fort Worth, Border Cantos, with work by Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo. this exhibit brings together numerous strands that i gather together in my work. i first heard about Misrach’s...
by rjacksonpaton | Jun 23, 2016 | connections, creativity, en/gendering embodiment, readings, uncoveredwagon, vulnerable ecology
i saw this quote from artist Frank Stella at the Fort Worth Modern the other day… then i was read this passage from Helen Macdonald’s extraordinary H is for hawk… “Chalk landscapes do this to me; bring an exhilarating, on-tiptoe sense that some...
by rjacksonpaton | Jun 5, 2016 | connections, creativity, eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings, writing
understanding confusion for Pan, Fenua, Jenny, Lisa & Amy, Shawn, Meredith, Sunanda, and probably others… with gratitude this story begins a few months back with brené brown (actually it begins much further back as the illustration shows!). she asked a question in...
by rjacksonpaton | Mar 31, 2016 | creativity, eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, lost and found, lost homes, marked by place, photos, reverences, uncoveredwagon, work of body
the other day i posted a picture of an installation in process, composed of various salvaged items from neighborhood homes that have been demolished, making way for something new-and-improved (i.e.. progress!). i have begun a mutli-media project called ‘neighborhood...
