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Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I have a little bag of postcards I’ve collected from museums and galleries that I like to use as bookmarks. usually I’ll choose them according to how well they match with the cover or even the mood of the book – I used (one of) Rothko’s Red on Maroon (1959) for Bluets by Maggie Nelson because the colours looked so good on each other and because of the :)/:( feeling I got from both the artwork and the book. this is Richter, Rosen (1994) and I thought about running when I first saw it.

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“My sister Luisa shortly before her suicide“ – In the months before her death Luisa became withdrawn, dyed her hair a desperately hopeful orangish-blonde shade, and lost a ton of weight. You can see the wear in her face. Another casualty of clinical depression. 

The picture of the flowers came in a photo frame I bought at Rite Aid. The picture of the flowers and the picture of Luisa wound up side by side on my scanner bed.

Keith Edmier
Fireweed
2002–2003
Vinyl over steel armature with attached vacuum-formed plastic leaves, cast urethane buds, cast dental acrylic petals, vinyl monofilament stamens and pistils; painted with lacquer and acrylic paint; dusted with volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helens, Washington, 1980.
Two sculpture parts: each 72 x 15 inches

FIREWEED

To create Fireweed, the artist dissected, cast, painted and reassembled plants he collected in the High Sierras. The flower petals are cast in dental acrylic. The sculpture was dusted with volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helens in Washington. Fireweed is an exceptionally colorful plant and grows from the sub-Arctic down to the Rocky Mountains and across the upper Midwest and down the Appalachians to Georgia. Each element of the sculpture represents a different stage of the plants reproductive development – one is female and one is male. The fireweed is one of the first plants to emerge after the landscape is incinerated by fire or volcanic eruption. This sculpture represents a body of work that “functions as a phoenix of sorts, a meditation on death and regeneration, sexuality, and the process of casting, itself.” (Edmier, 2003)