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PORTRAITS of Gus Blaisdell

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

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Stanford University 1957

Aspen, Colorado

by Arnold Gassan 1962

Editor at University of New Mexico Press 1966

Pomona 1973- Standing: Hap Tivey, James Turrell, Gus Blaisdell, Lewis Baltz

Sitting – Maury Baden, Guy Williams

Gus and Stanley Cavell

Gus and Stanley Cavell

Gus Blaisdell and Ira Jaffe 1985

Gus Blaisdell and Poet Geoffrey Young Portrait by William Stafford 1971

Gus Blaisdell and Ray Waddington 1976

Gus Blaisdell Portrait by Max Kozloff

Gus Blaisdell and Poet Robert Creeley 2000 Portrait by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

Gus Blaisdell and writer Evan S. Connell at Trinity Site-Video Still from His Heaviness by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

Gus Blaisdell at Living Batch Bookstore 1999 Video Still from His Heaviness by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

Gus Blaisdell and Nicholas Brownrigg photos by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

Stanford Friends meet again.40 years later

Gus Blaisdell by Matt Cohen

Gus Blaisdell by Douglas Kent Hall ALBUQUERQUE 2000

Gus Blaisdell and painter Guy Williams 1972

Gus Blaisdell visiting Jack Stauffacher’s Greenwood Press San Francisco

Stanley Cavell and Gus Blaisdell Harvard 1970’s

Gus and Cat Aspen Portrait by Arnold Gassan

Gus Blaisdell Polaroid portrait by Johnathan Williams

Gus Blaisdell and Marc Maron Living Batch Bookstore ABQ, NM 1990’s

Gus Blaisdell Portrait by Adrian Salinger

His Heaviness screening at The Outpost 2005 Photo by Gloria Graham

Allan Graham, Moon 2, 1986

HE WAS A DEEP CAT September 21, 1935 - September 17th 2003

Doors of Memory and Desire

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

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Photographer Arnold Gassan and Gus Blaisdell 1962-63 in Denver, Colorado Stockyard Earth

Photograph by Robert Voy Stark

NOTES ON THE FILM (GASSAN-BLAISDELL)

Tenative title: DOORS OF MEMORY AND DESIRE.

Chippewa Poem:

You are Walking around

Trying to remember

What you promised.

But you can’t remember.

I am walking around, trying to remember what I promised, but I can’t remember.

Can the narration run in a kind of counter-point to the images: first as, say, a description of what will happen next visually; then as a description of what is or has just happened– but always keeping to the tone of a specious present.

Camera catches M putting on cracked and broken shoes,

lacing them slowly, hastily, angrily. The laces break.

The foot kicks the shoes off. A hand reaches into the frame,

picks between the toes, moves out of frame.

“I have been walking, too long, too swiftly, sometimes much too swiftly

and much too slowly.”

Camera catches man as he moves towards table.

I have been walking around, trying to remember what I promised, but I can’t remember…can’t remember what I desired, what I promised…what it was that I desired so much that it made me promise…whatever it was I did promise.

Perhaps this is because I’m not used to promising,

to desiring, to remembering even.