When I got to art as an undergraduate student, I felt like, oh, this is amazing. I want to be able to learn all of these things. But my program, like most art schools, was basically entirely conceptual. So I didn’t have any practical classes in terms of like how do you learn how to paint better?

You just have studio time where you sort of figure it out by yourself, and then you have crit classes where you gather with artists or other students who are all doing totally different things, and then you just talk about your project for an hour.

• Atalanta Arden-Miller

Full moonrise

After decades of being buried beneath a shitty parking lot, like a lifted curse, the failed racetrack’s demolition has finally allowed the river to rejoin the world.

It would’ve been a hugely valuable lesson years ago, to realize that it’s not simply that my journals and sketchpads don’t need to be perfect. It’s best when they’re not!

• Chuck Jordan, Semi-Precious Paper

I love Chuck’s attitude towards keeping unfocused and messy journals. Much like the photos I share on this blog, the process is the whole point.

These cooling winds are quite welcome in July.