blue interrupted
new works in mixed up media by Christopher Scott Brumfield.


In this new body of work I have been thinking about the nature of a profound interruption and it's effect on our(individual and collective) psyche. When everything about your relationship to a person or thing changes. When People die or when your home gets destroyed or a relationship ends for whatever reason. I have lived a lot of that in the last few years. Witnessing a murder, losing grandparents and cats, almost losing my city, and years of thinking I had lost my grip on my relationship with my country. I began to feel very off and out of the center of things that I have spent most of my adulthood trying to perfect.
I made this work from that place, for better or worse. I think that I am being truer now, in my way. Maybe it is just therapy, but I like to think I am pushing the light of culture against the darkness. I think that is what we are all doing. or I hope.
I sat down and wrote this poem after the show was hung and it reminded me of one of my favorite Wallace Stevens poem.

poem interrupted
Christopher Scott Brumfield

rockets and runners
race against time after all

guns and gardens
generate terror and tomatoes

houses and helicopters
hibernate dark and dissent

marys and moons
marinate beauty and breath

plates and pandemoniums
perpetrate omelets and orchids

cats and co-ops
caterwaul litter and lists

socialists and sea monkeys
smother even the effervescent

boxes and blues
believe more than most

THE BLUE GUITAR
Wallace Stevens

The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.

They said, ‘You have a blue guitar,
You cannot play things as they are.’

The man replied, ‘Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.’

And they said then, ‘But play, you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,
A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are.’

I am grateful for all of the amazing people who helped me with this show and surround me in my life. Thank you. I feel like one of the luckiest people alive.
Thanks for looking.
Christopher Scott Brumfield
June 13, 2009

blue interrupted
new works in mixed up media by Christopher Scott Brumfield.
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all images and sculpture copyright 2009 Christopher Scott Brumfield

blue interrupted
Christopher Scott Brumfield


Please join us for the opening reception of blue interrupted new works in mixed up media by Christopher Scott Brumfield.
Saturday, June 13, 2009 from 6 to 9 pm
At Barrister’s Gallery
http://www.barristersgallery.com/
2331 St. Claude Ave and Spain,
New Orleans, LA 70117
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Tues-Sat 11am-5pm