golf course orphans
The Muffin Tray Method
letter one: our view on artspreserve

"The imaginative op ed piece in response to the slade post was mined with mistakes and reveals the writer as another overeducated dink who herds influence and wants to beat you up by the high art jungle gym while taunting you with their latest poppability views and vapid crap about the world of true artistry. Yes, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but it SHOULD say: the squeaky wheel next to the person with the most impact gets the grease of importance, or something like that (thanks, pie said hi). Uh, we not smart-ish. An artist isn't an artist because they use fancy paper. Now in context with artspreserve we have to look at what the response piece failed to acknowledge, saying slade is an idiot is one thing, poaching 'no preserves' is cute, but not looking at how details are making up a larger piece, reacting so fast to one moment without looking at other parts, is what prompted this writing. Let's do a W.S. Merwin and unchop this tree:

Scan this short list we put together:
corn, salt, soil (the master horizons), cultivation, seeds/kernels and the selections of seeds by women, Nebraska, planting, growing, ancient codex, entropy or time, people, stories, history, satire and play, hybrids, cell towers, worship, faith, signals, antenna, bugs, building, art, blood, sex, culture,nature and seasons and geography. This is just what we have been jotting down recently. Frankly, a lot of the work and the stories behind them are creepy. What the hell does it all mean? Who knows, but it is carrying us along and baits a bit of interest for our days.

Golf course orphans doesn't care if this means anything to you. We're just responding to what we see in this project; the views and what everyone of us is bringing to it. We're not shooting adverbs, we're stacking metaphors one puzzle piece at a time. Nobody is trying to insert false meanings, but what we know is artspreserve is crammed with a bunch of crisscrossing ideas, themes and inside jokes. Some posts are beautiful and telling, some ideas are a bore, some cool and weird but many are wicked and unsettling. It was the one shot pic link that started making sense as a concept to us. Where will this go? How much can we contribute to this aggregate? Leave this alone if you want, be defiant, no problem. Overbuilt and underused. But with some time, begin to excavate on your own and find some of the elaborate constructions and see some of the artistic exercises...go deeper...like you would with a music cd (enough of the skits...oh, put in your ear pieces and listen to your music as you look around the preserve...) or interactive game (chickasha envelope is capital F for HUH?) or just wait for the canterbury formula to paint you brown and make you behave."