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Saturday, February 28, 2004

finally here

So I am finally back in Greenfield for the weekend and it feels good. Party last night with lots of booze, conversation, interesting people, beautiful women and of course a noise violation ticket that even at 200 dollars could not slow the enthusiasm. I have to admit though, this may be the only place on earth where you can go to a party and find a woman who asks you 5-6 times in a given night:

'look would you please flirt with me? I am going to go outside and when I come back I want you to flirt with me'.

Ok, so once, twice.....fine, but at one point I was close to locking myself in the bathroom and feigning sickness just to stay out of the whole thing. And what I really want to know is what the results would be if I used that tactic on a woman? I can see it now.......I'd be lucky just to have her lock herself in the bathroom and nothing else. Drunken women repulse me.

I have new slides with me and I will be seeing John Kranauer for coffee this morning to arrange their scanning and uploading. I also spoke to some of the cassetteradio people last night at the party. I may be developing a line of shirts and promotional stuff for them. They want some exposure in the New England area and are strategizing.


Karl Hagen @ 7:32 AM

Thursday, February 26, 2004

messenger bird

Outside of my kitchen window there is a rooftop that is essentially flat. I have had a bird feeder with black thistle in it sitting out there for over a year and not a single bird has ever come to it. I was making my coffee this morning and looked to see a European Starling standing outside of the window staring in at me. He watched me make my coffee, then went to the feeder and poked away at it.



Someone who used to be very close to me used to speak of the messenger bird. A bird/friend that could be summoned to send a message to somone when you were in need of their company. What fascinates me about the Euro Starling is that when it flies in a cloud of thousands of others like it, they move independently as well as together, like a school of minnows, but in the sky. They are thinking independently of one another, but move in rhythmic patterns that are beautiful. Was that you out there today?


Karl Hagen @ 6:40 AM

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

on temporality

Theodor Adorno says, "Artworks, mortal human objects, pass away all the more rapidly the more doggedly they stave it off. (it refers to ephemerality) Although permanence cannot be excluded from the concept of their form, it is not their essence."

I think that I understand this more in terms of relationships between people than between viewers and objects. While permanence must be considered within a balanced relationship, permanence as essence would breed a certain complacency between two people. Art's ephemerality allows it to live in a single moment, like the spark from a gas grill ignitor. This moment is the realization of beauty. It is likewise with two people in that we realize the beautiful within a fleeting moment moreso than within a long accumulated period.

Speaking of ephemerality, my orchids are about to bloom again.
Karl Hagen @ 5:58 AM

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

A quick note...

I need to go out for my run so I will post a quick quote from our leading village idiot.
"It isn't pollution that is harming our environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

I woke up this morning to his voice on the news and it ruined my whole fucking day.

Karl Hagen @ 5:20 AM

Monday, February 23, 2004

New Blog Venue

I am trying to relocate my blog to blogger so that I can ftp the thing over to cassetteradio. I am hoping that this will work. I am extrordinarily delinquent in my duties to the cuba gallery right now. I need to get them the new works uploaded quickly. Please watch for these.

I am finding that Judy Blue intrigues me. Check out her blog here
Karl Hagen @ 5:04 PM

I am trying to get this new blog up and running with a link to the cassetteradio site. This is a test.
Karl Hagen @ 5:03 PM

Karl Hagen

about

This is the Blog of artist Karl Hagen. Karl lives in the NYC area and is represented by The Cuba Gallery in Greenfield, Rhode Island.

Blog Links

cassetteradio home
cuba gallery
Hamlett Dobbins
Larry Mckim
Melissa Hotchkiss

noteworthiness

Take a look at :
Judy Blue's Blog
Lauren Thiel's Blog
green blue blog
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