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Ragdale Book
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  THE RAGDALE BOOK ©2014 Edition of 10.

  Based on The Ragdale Series, 45 works on paper created in 1999 at the Ragdale Foundation and reproduced in a 12" x 12"
  limited edition book of 50 pages. The pages unfold an adventure with art and text set among a design of tinted pages.


  THE RAGDALE SERIES
  I took on the problems of the world
  Five angels came but it felt like a room full
  Wake up, wake up, we have something to tell you
  Light came down like a wave into my stomach. it lit me up and also joel
  I met god
  I was up for five days wondering
  I didn't have eggs for breakfast, but perhaps there was one in the oven
  I thought if I rubbed stella hard enough she wild become young again
  The cat told him everything as he was tying his shoes
  I Iet all the doves out to fly
  After the light darkness can follow
  They told me to unplug things & to draw the shades. others told me not to listen
  Inside the loft was an ark while outside there was paper being cut and a baby cried like a lamb
  The windows started to shake
  Vultures flew northeast in the sky
  There was stomping in the hallway and up the stairs
  There is a wild beast in all of us that doesn’t need to come out
  Wine was tossed but it was not red
  I went deep
  I dropped all of my baggage
  Everything came in twos, everything was opposite
  I climbed right back out
  We rushed to rush in the middle of a storm
  I heard the music of drums down the hallways
  The whales called out. my hands together became their tails
  I swam with the fishes, their noise was like opera
  A strong and beautiful owl flew into my chest
  Some call it luck. I do not
  The world is a beehive. I am sweet, my friends are sweet, people in general are sweet. The world can be a lovely place
  Some thought I was jumping on trampolines
  Others threw their arms up
  Some thought that I came apart at the seams
  A few turned green
  A few were cold
  Some thought I bit off too much
  Some people have silly big mouths
  People offer dishes, some may be poison, some are messages of god
  There are many ways to digest this
  I left a big impression
  I see the world differently
  I see you as an act of kindness
  Different ponds, always a fish
  Could be balance, sacrament or a crown
  Sometimes we break things to let light in
  I am not afraid of dying
  I just leap over hurdles. now I don't even see them
  It is an experience, a swim into the tide
  It is story like a river, long and sometimes silent



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PAINTING
1991-1995
1996-2000
2001-2005
2006-2010
2011-2014

MINI-SERIES
1990 Peppers, Seeds, and Rotting Vegetables
1996 What I painted when I could not paint
2005 For the Birds
2007 Butterflies are free
2011 The Year The Permafrost Softened

WORKS ON PAPER
1988-1989 Chairs
1989-1990 Umbrellas
1991-1998
1997 The Chase
1998 Dismantled Sketchbooks
1999 Ragdale Series
2000-2004 Collage Art
2002 Charcoal
2000-2004 Figure Drawing
2000-2005 Project Art
2000 Spinning Plates
2002 Fan Collages
2001 Screaming In Places Where I Can't Be heard
2004 Wonderscapes
2005-2006 The Story of the Universe
2008 Buddha Was Here
2009 Life On Hold (NFS)
2010-2016 The Demandments (NFS)

MIXED MEDIUM
1995-1998 Sectioned panels
1997-1998 White Paintings and Furry Work
1998 Red Dot Series
2001-2009 Wax, Wire, Gold, Globe, and Glass
2001 How Things Pile Up
2002 Retablos, oil on metal

OBJECT ART
2002-present Project Items
Historic-present Fane Items
1550-1560 Ancestral Figure Drawings

INSTALLATION
2002-2016: Paradise
2006: Negative to Positive
2007-present: Four walls*
2008: Found
2010-present: Teacups for Reading Tea Leaves
2011-present: Waterworks*
2000-present: My Crates

PERFORMATIVE
2004: White Sands
2006: Blue Clouds

LIBRARY OF BOOKS 2000-present
Painting Inventory
Book of Days
Whitewash
The Ragdale Book
Brain Book
Ransom Magazine
Box of Tears
Pocket Full of Cries
Europe
Mongolia
Flower Book
Retablos: How I Got From Here to Here
The Fane Pamphlet
Scroll of Influence
The Story of Red Trees
Red Trees History
Red Trees Chronicle
Red Trees Prayerbook
Red Trees Kakemono
Book of Leaves
Elemental Communion
Found: Journals from the future
Symbol Book
Books of Sense
Organ Origin
The Wedding Program
The Wedding Book
I Must Go
Ladder Book*
Book of Stairs*
The Studio Visit Playbill*
Flower Book 2*
...continued

STUDIO PRACTICE
Studio 1: Dayton and Blackhawk
Studio 2: Hubbard and House
Project scouting and on location
Works in progress
Exhibits, happenings, homes
Studio clippings and announcements
Artist

WORLD RIVERS PROJECT overview
World Rivers: Curtain
World Rivers: Participants
World Rivers: Rivers
World Rivers: Cloth
Visit the River Log

TEXT ARCHIVE
Artwork
Installation
Books

* documentation is forthcoming
This archive is a creative history spanning two decades.
The documentation is comprised of many technological
formats ranging from slides, 4x5s, photographs, and
straddles the introduction of digital formatting of the time.
The goal was to preserve images, whether high or low resolution.






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