[-empyre-] Thank you Regina

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

Thanks, Regina, for your generous participation in -empyre- and commenting
on both your own work and others current and in Neoconcrete, for instance. A
picture of you in Rio and its history has, I feel, emerged from the
correspondence and dialog that I have learned a great deal from. Also, I
think that seeing your own art in the Library of Marvels, individually and
as an intriguingly related group of pieces, and talking about them has
'shown' the work in a relatively unusual way, ie, there has been discussion
both of the works themselves and issues that relate directly or indirectly
to both the work and the cultural architecture, current moment, and partial
art history of Brazil and Rio not only within net.art but language,
publishing, the artists' book, and the Rio of 2+2=freedom. The Rios both of
bold imagination, beauty, and social problems has been evident as well. As
has been your aspiration to show and use and participate in the Green House
(of the net and other spaces of artistic freedom) not only internationally
but within Rio and Brazil, to bring that home, as they say in a band. I
don't know if that is said in Portuguese: 'bring it home' when musicians
play together? Of course usually it does not need to be said, it just
happens as the music cycles through strong tonic and departure, once again.

Many on the list operate artistically in a kind of internationality yet also
of course a locality. And that involves bringing the art home in ways that
contribute locally and internationally. They are in fascinating
relationship, aren't they, the international and the local or national, in
art. It isn't often we get to explore or express that relationship, yet it
is something that is more or less ongoing in the work of an artist both in
their own work and also in, literally, bringing home work from around the
world to show one's country (and the rest of the world, when we are lucky).
You work both as an artist and a curator of the local and international,
attempt to bring it home in various ways, thereby. I appreciate you showing
some of these ways in your own art and in your work to further poetics in
other ways.

Also, thanks to Lucio, Isabel, Cristina, Jaka, Timothy, Henry, Jorge, aLe,
and others who have participated over the last nine days in this look at the
work of Regina Célia Pinto.

The month is not over, and there is something that we need to do before the
month concludes on -empyre-. And this is something that we do for  Ana Maria
Uribe from Argentina whom, you may know, had been invited to feature with
Regina, aLe, and Jorge this month. It is necessary to continue the
discussion without her, but I do want to finish up the month with a look at
the work of Ana Maria Uribe from Buenos Aires Argentina.

ja