Interview with Traction MagazineI grew up with a plum tree in my front yard.
It is only with distance, many years later, that I was able to recall the plum tree at all and take note of its specialness. I think about that a lot in relation to this work, about the plum tree, and about the subtle yet enormous shift from ordinary to extraordinary that objects can take on. | Artstream Nomadic GalleryThe Artstream Nomadic Gallery has been putting contemporary ceramic art on the street since 2002. It is a traveling exhibition space housed in a restored 1967 Airstream trailer. Based in Carbondale, CO, over the past 15 years it has exhibited in more than 150 locations, from Los Angeles to New York, Houston to Minneapolis. | MOMA acquires @ symbol"Some linguists believe that @ dates back to the sixth or seventh century, a ligature meant to fuse the Latin preposition ad—meaning “at”, “to,” or “toward”—into a unique pen stroke. The symbol persisted in sixteenth-century Venetian trade, where it was used to mean amphora, a standard-size terracotta vessel employed by merchants, which had become a unit of measure. Interestingly, the current Spanish word for @, arroba, also indicates a unit of measure." |
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