art diva studios visuals and verbiage by Rachelle Díaz
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Defining Space, Defining Experience
Lately I’ve been re-thinking my theory that décor/design “art” should not be called art, and that real, proper art is something alchemic. After going to the Denver Art Museum last week (a proper art museum) the shift in perception has been further solidified. The definition of art as visual concept rather than decorative power structure [...]
You’ll ruin your eyes
Since beginning The Outside World links lists on Tu Scene, I’ve peeked into whole new art worlds: the state, national, global art arenas. Frankly, I find it incredibly daunting and rather confusing. One reads so much about so many things, it morphs into a viral canon about what’s hot and what’s not at the moment. [...]
Works in Progress Reading
Works in Progress Readings Friday, October 3 Casa Libre en la Solana 7-9pm 228 N. 4th Avenue Tucson, AZ 85705 Readings from Michael Sheehan, Lisa Cole, and……………César Díaz!!!!! (my husband) Casa Libre, a writing center (not afflilated with academia, but working writers) is really a unique and intimate place to hear readings. In an atmospheric [...]
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I woke up at 3:49 a.m. last night, unable to fall asleep again. So I finished reading Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by 5:30. It’s definitely my favorite novel of his, so far – I’ve also read Identity, Immortality and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I’m 4 generations removed from my Bohemian [...]
The Greater Good and the Lesser Evil
The more art web- and paper-based publications I read, the less I want to read. Such a polarized landscape. The dumbing-down, super-mass audience camp has been reporting on the same type of subjects over and over for years. Then there are the upper-crust writers that because they self-publish their own blog or magazine feel entitled [...]
Numero Uno
2004 Ink on paper Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Print for later
We’ve Got It
I had saved these small magazine clippings for about three years, blew them up on a color copier, and also copied my hand on the glass. This piece shows personal themes of media, gender and food, all tied up with red thread. 2004 Mixed media on canvas, 18″ x 24″ $150 Bookmark on Delicious Recommend [...]
Notes: know yourself, fool
My writer husband and I got into a literary conversation a few weeks ago. His position as an educational program coordinator/editor for a small publisher gives him access to several erudite literary journals. A co-worker of his recommended he take home n+1, a hipster-y semi-annual publication of essays. We both read “The Intellectual Situation Against [...]
The Ripple Effect
Blogging isn’t for everyone. That needs to be said. For every trend that comes along, the opposite must be part of the picture. For without traditional and even retrogressive avenues, trends could not breathe. As an artist, you have to be true to your voice. And not only do you have to know yourself, you [...]
Feudal Gestures
Why did I think of something today I read almost two years ago? There have been a lot of postings recently on Adholes about memory in branding. I think what Cullen Murphy says about oral communication being the main form in the Middle Ages is similar to what we see in the media today, dominated [...]
Go BackWord
The April issue of the BackWord is online! The editors were kind enough to re-publish my entry about Dairy Queen from this selfsame blog. Awwww. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Print for later
Signs of Design Life
As the sole graphic designer for a small corporation, the art department incarnate, I have to put up with a lot: 4000 sheets of 100# Utopia gloss cover too wet to print on, 10 type A marketing reps, 2 underachieving, apathetic bosses, 1 constantly malfunctioning color laser copier-printer, 1 web programmer with no artistic sense [...]