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Shrishti Gupta was a student at Harvard when she c

Shrishti Gupta was a student at Harvard when she came to my studio to pose for this mosaic——she holds fire in a skull cap and makes a mudra with her other hand. The five elements in India,Tibet,and Nepal are earth air fire water and a fifth element—-infinite space. One of 13 mosaics in my 1998 “As Above,So Below”—this one is at 48th and Park —northern end of Grand Central.

No journey through ideas about the heavens would b

No journey through ideas about the heavens would be complete without Albert Einstein.This mosaic of him in my 1998 work “As Above,So Below” is at the 48th Street and Park Ave entrance to Grand Central. The mosaic was based on a studio photograph of Einstein with landscape background. I added the compass because I read that he was fascinated by the movement of the needle in one he received as a gift as a boy.

With Dianne Hebbert at her wonderful solo exhibiti

With Dianne Hebbert at her wonderful solo exhibition “Descendants” at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn opening today!

Detail of a large drawing in an exhibition curated

Detail of a large drawing in an exhibition curated by Michelle Hinebrook at my studio building 232 Third St. Saturday and Sunday 12-6, October 16 and 17
With Michal Lando @Michallando, Kimo Nelson @kimonelson, Lynn Goodman @lynngoodmanporcelain,Emily Berger @eberger90, Sonita Singwi @sonitasingwi, Galina Kurlat @galinakurlat, Eric Hibit @erichibit, @we_are_cup,@hinebrookstudio_art. Hope to see you at this Gowanus Open Studio exhibition!

Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day by making a pl

Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day by making a plan to see Jeffrey Gibson’s beautiful show at Art Omi in Ghent New York. “To Feel Myself Beloved On The Earth”
This is a detail from one of the stunning quilts——there are also drums.garments,paintings,and a mesmerizing video.

Detail of Lisa Sanditz’s beautiful painting at t

Detail of Lisa Sanditz’s beautiful painting at the “Landscape and Memory “ exhibition at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson!

This is a detail of my piece “Family Blanket “

This is a detail of my piece “Family Blanket “ included in “Intersection” at the Hudson D.Walker Gallery at the Fine Arts Work Center through Dec.2 in Provincetown—-with wonderful artists Herman Aguirre, Wilder Alison, Maia Chao, Simonette Quamina, Janice Redman, Duane Slick, and Miyoung Sohn. In my piece,a diagram of the wind currents over the Atlantic Ocean is burned into a blanket passed down through several generations of my family.
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My drawing is part of 100 Works on Paper to benefi

My drawing is part of 100 Works on Paper to benefit Kentler International Drawing Space @kentlerdrawing.
Tickets are on sale now for the online sale the weekend after this one.
Consider supporting this important non profit that has done great work in the Red Hook Brooklyn community for many years!

My beloved Steven and I spent a delightful sojourn

My beloved Steven and I spent a delightful sojourn with Kamala Sankaram’s “The Last Stand”, sponsored by Creative Time in Prospect Park ——-as part of our one year anniversary celebration today. This audio sculpture installation has epic scope and is mesmerizing —-up through next weekend. We loved being in this complex envelope of sound together.

Desert Horse Grant posed for the photo for this mo

Desert Horse Grant posed for the photo for this mosaic of the Lenape creation story. A woman falls into a hole in the Upper World made by an uprooted tree. Birds fly up to break her fall and bring her down on their wings. She lands on the back of a Turtle which becomes the World. The image went through 9 edits with a small group at the National Museum of the American Indian before it was ready. Copyright permission from the Etienne Jules Marey archive allowed me to create an overlay between my photo and his chronophotographs. I pay homage to his work throughout “As Above,So Below”.

Julie Nathanson posed for Persephone, the other Un

Julie Nathanson posed for Persephone, the other Underground figure besides Sisyphus. In the 47th St cross passage of “As Above,So Below” you are under train tracks. In this mosaic, Persephone brings the pomegranate to her mouth while a miniature train runs on a circular track above her head. Julie Nathanson was the lead glass fabricator and Franco Notonica had great responsibility for the mosaics at Mayer of Munich Franco has his own studio in Munich now.

Here I am sitting on the floor at Mayor of Munich

Here I am sitting on the floor at Mayor of Munich with the finished mosaic of Sisyphus pushing Earth centric diagrams of the universe—-before all those ideas changed. These mosaics are in the 47th St.cross passage north of the main concourse at Grand Central terminal. There are 12 mosaics and 6 glass works in the As Above,So Below “ project which opened in 1998.

In this mosaic and glass piece at the 45th St. cro

In this mosaic and glass piece at the 45th St. cross passage, performance artist George Sanchez was photographed with multiple exposures in the Clements and Howcroft studio. In Mayan cosmology the Big Dipper is a giant macaw bird made to disappear from the sky by the Hero Twins , only to reappear. Here George reaches up to the bird’s head pulling it down from the Dipper’s stars. The border is a Mayan diagram of the rays of the moon.

In this mosaic and glass piece from “As Above,So

In this mosaic and glass piece from “As Above,So Below” at 48th St. and Park Ave, the late,wonderful artist Anne Chu came to Boston and posed for this photograph—-holding the two bowls of earth and sky together. In the ancient Chinese cosmological idea,the earth is a bowl of water, the sky is a bowl of water,and an invisible presence keeps them together by spinning them. Surrounding the central mosaic is a centuries old Chinese diagram of the constellations,in sandblasted glass. Julie Nathanson made the glass,Franz Mayer of Munich the mosaic.

Today I visited my mosaic and glass installation “As Above,So Below “ (13mosaics and 6 glass works) in 45th St, 47th St and 48th St passages north of the main Grand Central Terminal concourse,commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit,fabricated by Mayer of Munich,Julie Nathanson,paul King Foundry,among others. In this image,the great dancer Hank Smith holds a West African cosmogram symbolizing the cycles of life including the white circle representing death and afterlife. 23 years after this opened,we saw Hank dance a beautiful solo at Little Island——last night in the “Release.Joy.Love. “ festival!

The eye chart in this portrait reads; looking for

The eye chart in this portrait reads;
looking for balance in seesaw days each step doubled down with the far horizon line in constant oscillation under ever changing skies. Let a Splinter Swerve can be found in the menu of www.ellendriscoll.net in my bio. Audio and portraits of brain tumor recovery since October 2018

This is a recent self portrait. A compendium of po

This is a recent self portrait. A compendium of portraits and audio postcards created during the almost three years since I had surgery for a brain tumor on October 16,2018, can be found at the Let a Splinter Swerve address in my bio. I’m grateful to Ute Zimmermann who put it together and to amazing support from friends and family who pulled me through!

In Hudson yesterday with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

In Hudson yesterday with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo with their public art action “A Broadcast”
This is one of four banners. Among other things this one says Another World Is Possible—-yes!

Exquisite detail from Cinga Samson’s large paint

Exquisite detail from Cinga Samson’s large painting in “Deep Blue” curated by Katherine Bradford at the Hall Foundation in Vermont. In Samson’s tableau a group of Xhosa people gather to “haunt” a memorial to the ruthless imperialist Cecil Rhodes.

From an exhibit at John Brown Farm on mid 19th cen

From an exhibit at John Brown Farm on mid 19th century settlements of free Black citizens in the Adirondacks——-recruited to come farm so that they passed the requirement that they own $250 in land or house——in order to vote. Some farms prospered,others met insurmountable odds. Voter suppression 19 century style—-is afoot across the country today—-and must be countered with resistance and concerted efforts

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