The Metamer Quarterly
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Sunday, May 9, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021
lost friends found
I found caribou32 on Instagram and now jj hamon and I are back in touch! What a delight. He's a musician, instrument maker, artist, dad, teacher, etc., who lives in St Louis, MO. Google jj hamon, Demon Lover, Jonas Lyn, Magic City, Theodore, etc. (And while you are at it, drift over to https://www.bethbombara.com/ )
jj and I used to collaborate. We did this video together, over 14 years ago. I still like it. https://vimeo.com/1482557
And speaking of videos, the catalogue for Seeds Fine Art's exhibition "Epitaphs" which includes a video I made about and including my mom.
https://www.facebook.com/SeedsFineArtExhibits
Wanna see art and goats? Instagram - lara.scott.art
Wanna buy cards with art? Zazzle https://www.zazzle.com/store/slipperyslide
or Evergreen Gallery and Gifts in Hamilton, NY.
Wanna tell me something? please contact me!
happy valentine's day - wishing you joy every day.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The Metamer Quarterly still hates marketing
The domino box. It is now a minimally successful camera obscura. It has gold leaf on the sides, old dominos on the top, denim-like book cloth inside, and four holes. One hole on each of three sides, and one in the top. It is about 4 x 4 by 5" - slightly smaller than that. If you hold it right, and carefully, and peer inside carefully also, an image from the outside will appear faintly on the bottom.
My boyfriend asked me what the goal of the box was. (He is very good at finishing -- asking me questions that help me give a final push through the art birth canal, out of the bardo.) The box is supposed to be odd and curious. And just barely functional.
This exciting box is also for sale. Please do use the contact form or comment if you are interested.
- Lara Scott, october 2020
Saturday, September 5, 2020
Instagram experiments, fail better, press on
You can now find me on Instagram. My handle is "Lara.Scott.Art"
Youcan also find more cards on Zazzle,
https://www.zazzle.com/store/slipperyslide?rf=238368872408099055
And I find me at my press, setting type, and figuring out the process.
Sunday, August 9, 2020
The Metamer Quarterly Can Count
I've begun a new collaboration, with a friend from long ago. It involves numbers, the Basque language, and collage. Our first project is a children's book we began in the last century, in fact. It will be available for purchase in the next few weeks, at Barbot Etchepare Basque Imports. https://basqueimports.com/shop/ols/categories/books
The author, Begoña Echeverria, is a writer, singer, educator, and all around energetically lovely person who teaches at UC Riverside. This is a fine summary of her activities: https://profiles.ucr.edu/b.echeverria
And, you may want to check out her singing group here: https://www.ilovenoka.com/
She has come up with a name for our collaboration, and I have typeset it. We are *BegoLara*
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
We are old, Father William...
Hannah Arendt, quoted by Lyndsey Stonebridge
“Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.”
James Baldwin, from The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction,
1948-1985
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!
from “Sympathy”, a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
So, I say to you, as others have told to me, hold fast to what is good, and
seek to return no one evil for evil.
Strengthen the faint-hearted, support the weak, help the suffering.
Let each of us not be proud, but instead welcome help when
we are in need.
Let us always honor all people, tempering justice with mercy, as we
indeed desire for ourselves. Find something sacred in
the abstract nakedness of being human.
Lara Scott metamer@protonmail.com
The Metamer Quarterly, Issue #13 “No One Tells You When To Shout”
https://themetamerquarterly.blogspot.com/