Who speaks to me with my own voice

So I've been conspiring with an old friend of mine, Daniel Coffeen, for the past several months on a little sumthin-sumthin: a companion guide of sorts to my diagrams from The Beginning Was The End, an adjustable lens on and joyful pain reliever from the complexity of its stuff. Daniel's constantly surprising cred includes years of teaching rhetoric at UC Berkeley, and critical theory at San Francisco Art Institute, and he's lent tangible support to the Oowen Adventure for nearly a decade. No matter how near or far, the good doctor always beats me to the bar; we both are the kind of human that can talk others sick sans mind altering substances, but in their company, the ongoing conversation has been a solid match and a pure pleasure. Some of his contributions to blogs like Thought Catalog bear traces, and I recently failed a friend-quiz when he let slip that he'd mused on my own work on his blog, An Emphatic Umph. That'll learn ya...

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Return to The Swing, In Fall

OOOOkay, it's been some time since my last post, as you can see. After my fundraising campaign for The Beginning Was The End closed in March, I immediately turned 40 and dove head first into business: residency at Kala Art Institute, project and website development, a visiting artist gig at UC Santa Barbara, studio visits, non-stop proposal writing for grants, residencies, and fellowships... Fyewf. Any other trust-fund-free artist will do the same thing given the chance, though; I'm just very lucky to have some extraordinary support out there to make mine possible. 

The highlights of what's been on my menu since then are right on the landing page of that new site, of which I'm so proud-- www.oillyoowen.com-- and on my Facebook group for The Beginning Was The End, so I'm going to jump back in here without much ado:

The piping hot news is that I recently returned from a meeting at the Getty Research Institute, and without jinxing anything I will say that it was a wonderful and extremely influential day that I will not forget. Among a few other sizable opportunities, aside from this, I'll be applying for fellowship there for their 2013-14 year. Any and all news will be posted here, to be sure. 

In the meantime, I've just finished a new diagram on Javanese time, Tatal Pawukon that features in Keeping Time, an exhibition on the marking, tracking, measuring and the keeping of time at Kala Art Institute Gallery in Berkeley, California: 

Tatal Pawukon, 2012

More to come, but that's all for now!

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