Beautiful books made entirely out of copper.

http://www.zyarts.com/zybooks/yana.html

I love teaching

Because I get to write e-mails like this one...

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In general, while doing the readings or reviewing the lectures, consider the following in the final weeks of the class:

-Now that we have learned about postmodernism, and more significantly, its disbelief in the ability of signifiers (words, images, representation) to accurately or sufficiently live up to their signified?s, how do visual artists address that?How does postmodern visual art (which is, arguably a fundamentally representative medium-that is, it relies on signifiers to function) deal with that disbelief? How, from a postmodern viewpoint, does it address the representation of the self, the body, of memory, of history, of emotion when it doesn't believe in the ability to do so adequately? There is no single answer to the question. There is no end.

Whoa.

So anyway, put that in your pipe and smoke it. Smoke it for the next two weeks, or maybe even for the rest of your life. Definitely smoke it while doing the readings.

-Fondly yours, Bertrand.

Some new work, M.F.A. show coming up.

Here's some new work. I'm not sure the colors are displaying correctly online. Let's give it a try.

A treatise on how to spell "repetitive".

I almost sent this to my students until I realized how horribly dorky it is.

Dear Students,
It's spelled repEtition, not repItition.
You'll thank me for it someday, perhaps even tomorrow.

So just repeat in your pretty little heads,

repetition
repetition
repetition
has repetitive I's and repetitive E's.

Affectionately yours, Kyla.

The following is a brief poem that I wroteto help you remember. I wish I could say it was the dorkiest thing I've ever done, that it's the only thing that I've distracted myself with today, and that it only took me 5 minutes, but that would all be a lie. I guess I got distracted in coming up with it in the way one is disracted by solving a crossword, only this is much sillier and much dorkier. Now I'm just kind of embarrased by how elaborate it is, but I wouldn't want my efforts to go to waste. Anyway, here it goes:

Repetition Is A Repetitive Word*

-by Kyla Zoe Luedtke.

Repetition is a repetitive word,
the repetitive "I" is never forgot, and neither is the "T",
but for every "I" there is an "E" and without it is absurd.

So remember now, right here on the spot,
repeat the I's and T's, and E's,
without them there's no word.

Just one vowel repeats to three
it's in the word "repetitive"
and with the triple E!

So once and for all, repeat after me,
Repeat the E repetitively.

*I may change the title to: Two E's, Two and I's makes you rEpEtItION wise!, but I haven't made up my mind yet. Ok. No more distracting myself.

Halloween 2008

Here are some photos of me and Jessica Frelinghuysen preparing for our Halloween celebrations. Jessica was whipped cream and I was a mini-fridge. I think we got on the news last night, but we're not sure.

Jessica was keen to point out my likeness to a mime in some of these photographs, especially the one above left. Below we appear to be in a modern dance performance...

Read this carefully. Classic, truly classic.

I was fortunate enough to encounter this eloquent invitation to a soiree while walking through campus recently. I only wonder what they were thinking, and if they will ever realize how hilarious their message was.

More recent art

Here's some more recent art. Still more coming down the line. I just need to photograph it.