Currently Reading:

• Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift, Gail Anderson, 2012
• Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition, Josef Albers, 1963-2006
• 100 Cien sonetes de amor, Pablo Neruda, 1986
• Dubliners, James Joyce, 1976
• Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film, Inez Hedges, 1983

List of current resources and references for studio and writing:

• Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, Beacon Press, 1994

• North American Wildlife, Reader’s Digetst, 1982

• The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin, 1857
• Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, 1955
• Relational Aesthetics, Nicholas Bourriaud, 1998
• The Artist’s Handbook: Materials and Techniques, 1982 Edition, Ralph Mayer

“But closer to the problem with which we are concerned just now, one feels in the Abbé de Vallemont’s book the effect of a contamination of the nest images and those of the shell. At one point, this author speaks of the anatifére plant, or the anatifére shell-fish, that grows on the wood of ships. ‘It is an assemblage of eight shells,’ he writes, ‘that looks rather like a bunch of tulips… all of the same substance as mussel shells… The entrance is at the top, and it is closed by means of little doors that are joined together in a most admirable way. All that remains is to found out how this sea-plant, and the little inmates that occupy these artistically created apartments, are formed.’” Bachelard, 119

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

W.B. Yeats