The map of the United States has always looked to me like something I might have drawn when I was nine years old. I would plan in my head an intricate design and give myself a broad canvas on which to realize it. But my imagination would inevitably exceed my patience, and the finished product [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
Realization and perspective
Posted in The Southwest, tagged artist colony, Donald Judd, Marfa, minimalism, perspective, Texas, U.S. map on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Birthdays
Posted in The Southwest, tagged Austin, carnival, Fourth of July, hill country, Independence Day, Schertz, Texas on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rachel and I share a birthday, and we chose Austin as our host. We avoided the interstate as best we could, sticking to state highways that bordered fields of cotton and wheat and the first ranches we had seen. Near a municipal jail we saw a billboard advertising the services of a bail bondsman offering [...]
