In Process

March 4, 2018

Without a doubt, one of the best things about having a studio at the Box is getting to see other artists’ gravity-defying ideas take form. Giant traffic popsicle (certainly, not his description) by Daniel Bertalot.

It’s also always inspiring to see artists bringing big ideas to form, particularly when I’m on a phase of a project that is small and needling. Case in point: I’ll have dipped a few thousand landscape staples in plasti dip before Safety Yellow is ready to install in the Houston Heights.

Rebecca Braziel at work in the studio

February 1, 2018

In December, Rebecca and I moved into a shared studio space at Box 13. She said she knew she wanted to rent that particular space when she saw the green floors. My rationale was more basic: I was going with her! Though this picture doesn’t give proper due to the majesty of the emerald tiles, I feel like it does capture the artist, my friend, in her natural habitat—and that at this point, she has to know when I’m creeping up behind her for a shot…

Midas Touch

January 29, 2018

I relish passing this dingy, unoccupied storefront, finding joy in the adjacent brickwork, the indecipherable font chosen for the sign, and of course, the fact that someone named their business after a mythic curse.

Of course, the sky here isn’t bad, either. I frequently muse that though Houston lacks any kind of topographical excitement, the big sky cloud scene more than makes up for it.

12 >> LAST OF THE YEAR

January 1, 2018

12 >> HIGH DESERT

December 27, 2017

Year end sojourn west. I thought I’d never forget what it all looked like, having lived in Marfa twice (in 2004 and 2009) and there I was, stunned all over again at the wind, silence, and cottonwoods not to mention the Chinati installations, including a new Judd I hadn’t seen before..

Bridget Riley

For a moment I thought I’d enjoy wheatpasting oversized images of meat for creative fulfillment. While this did not end up being the case, I couldn’t have asked for a better canvas.