READING ART

SKYMOUNTAIN

Italian White Marble, 16 X 24 X 12.5 Inches



“In my room, the world is beyond my understanding.” Wallace Stephens


When I go out of that room, my studio, and onto the land, I see it consists of sky and mountains and I begin to breathe again.


I live between Taos Mountain and Truchas Peak. The sky connects them to each other and to me, and transports the constellations across their peaks at night, and I begin to sleep in peace.   

– TJ Mabrey

SKYMOUNTAIN

Detail

Truchas Peak

SKYMOUNTAIN

Detail

Taos Mountain


"The artist works to make ideas something tangible to hang on the living architecture of the universe as we have come to see it, something that feels what it knows as it learns to know it. This unsure place of inhabitation--where the artist resides--holds the great memory theater that speaks through the unspecialized questioning itself--an art that is both the petitioner and the oracle. Something that reflects the inside and the outside, the general and the particular at the same time."


Excerpt from

An Essay by John Campion: AS ABOVE SO BELOW