Artisan of History

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Notebook Splendor

Posted by Betsy Towns at 5:01 AM

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Spur

Charles Baudelaire wrote that: "Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's (or woman's!) physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed" (from "The Painter of Modern Life," 1863)

Whip

Take risks; follow your own path; think deeply; play with rigor. Use duct tape, jump rope, borrowed poetry, ham radio, quill pen, pixelcam, actors, found video, photoshop. Use words with precision, vigor and energy.

Blacksmith

Bosch Action figure

Lasso

Keep your completed assignments in a coherent and formally interesting place-- on a website, in a homemade book, in a tidy portfolio, in a box...
Attend to: Concept, Content, Quality and Creativity
Inform yourself before, during, and after you start your assignment.

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Bunkhouse

A Little Commonplace Book

You Can Fly
8 years ago
Miss Animator's Commonplace

I am for an Art...
8 years ago
A Place to Keep Stuff

The Final Countdown
8 years ago
Fear of Empty Space ‎(Horror Vacui)‎

About Me

Betsy Towns: Artist and art historian Towns teaches art history and visual culture at the UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. See her work in sculpture at www.betsytowns.com

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