It took a long time, but I finally was able to update this website and migrate posts from blogspot. After a year of slowly revising the design, I am pleased to start blogging at kipdeeds.com. Beyond changes to the website, 2018 provided many new events. I got married, inherited a dog, and have been living […] A Trip to Bydgoszcz, Poland
It took a long time, but I finally was able to update this website and migrate posts from blogspot. After a year of slowly revising the design, I am pleased to start blogging at kipdeeds.com. Beyond changes to the website, 2018 provided many new events. I got married, inherited a dog, and have been living […] 
I recently wrote notes regarding what I thought qualified as meaningful art. I quickly became lost in contradictions. Craft and construction are unavoidable with regard to making art. However, quality craftsmanship does not necessarily guarantee successful art. For example, fastidiousness can bring attention and value but it can also obscure a message or expressive exploration. […] 
I have a particular memory from childhood of being on a tree farm at night. Because the trees were small (pine trees for Christmas I assume) the sky seemed big. I remember my father being there. We were separated from cars, houses, and other people. Most of my life I wanted to recapture this sublime […] 
Before my trip to Poland I was preparing to make a print. Merriam Webster states, Romanticism is ” a style of art, literature, etc., during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that emphasized the imagination and emotions”. At the beginning of the year I posed three questions for myself. Two questions were answered previously. […] 
At the beginning of the year I asked three questions. This post attempts to address two of these questions (see below). 1. The absence of an explicitly planned outcome means that an unconscious element is at play. Yet, how deep is this connection to the unknown and what is its relation to a wider collective […]