The beauty of the fog this morning. Took these out the window of a vehicle going 70 mph.

Listened to Omara Portuondo’s 2000 album tonight. Very interesting; more of a modern and jazzy sound than I was expecting.

That thing that Instagram does of telling you what people you’re following like that is so gross and creepy — it makes me not want to hit “like” on anything. I hope that goes away soon.

Image of instant film that was pulled apart and damaged and painted over with acrylic paint.

It’s been difficult to keep these secrets. We can’t wait to tell you.

If you would like to see more of my work (organized by medium), visit my website. I am available for commissions and design work. iafreeman.com

Collecting and storing marks.

My @thequietus.com interview with German multimedia artist Mario Klingemann from 2018, when "AI" still felt exciting to experiment with and provided the potential of interesting subversions (as Herndon advocates), seems relevant again.

Rinko Kawauchi.

Rihanna's ANTI turns 10 this week. When I met Cecil Taylor at the Whitney Museum for a conversation that became a Wire cover story (and, later, my book IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR), I gave him a copy as a gift on our last day together.

Pages from a mini sketchbook.

Lake ice.

Yasushi Yamashita & Asuna - Before Sunset, Street Corner, Cafe Fabre incredible collaboration between Inoyama Land's Yasushi Yamashita and Asuna Ambient and intimate electronics 🏡

I just found out this afternoon who iLe is. Of course I am now obsessed.

When the sun hits.

Tokihiro Sato.

Cecil Taylor's final live performance, at the Whitney Museum on April 23, 2016, is being released on CD by Fundacja Sluchaj. I was there, and wrote one of the two liner-note essays. sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/words-...

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” — Carl Jung

I finished scanning the next twenty CDs for Leo Records. They’ll be up on Bandcamp in February. Sakis Papadimitriou & Lefteris Agouridakis’ PLUS AND MINUS was my favorite cover.

Watched the two-episode series Art’s Wildest Movement: Mannerism starting art historian Waldemar Januszczak. It was quite interesting but failed to make a connection to contemporary art. When I first saw this video a few years ago I thought of Mannerism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJaF...

Vellum paper (a few sheets layered), acrylic ink, markers and pencils.

Oldest cave painting of red claw hand from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi could rewrite human creativity timeline www.bbc.com/news/article...?

Elements showing the fabric of time.

Why You Should Subscribe To Burning Ambulance Instead Of Pitchfork: 1. No numerical scores, so no need for labored explanations of same 2. Total independence (no corporate ownership; no ads, either) 3. Free downloads of releases from our label! burningambulance.substack.com

First book purchase of the year: Carolyn F. Strauss’s Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures.

Digital sketchbook.

Really nice review of Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley's POLARITY 4 on AllAboutJazz: "The music of Perelman and Wooley is wide awake and ever evolving." Get it on our Bandcamp page! www.allaboutjazz.com/polarity-4-i...

Some absolutely stunning moments of beauty in this recording, Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher and 'Inner Symphonies' (2021, Tidal). I was all over this when it first arrived, so feels like a re-visit now due

Frozen lake. Check out the tracks and rocks to see how solid it was.

Among the trees…

Light sculpture by nature.

Really nice French-language review of Diego Caicedo's EIDOS DAEMONIUM on STNT! "This album surprised me, and I like to be surprised." stnt.org/content/dieg...

Works on paper: gel printing.

The landscape had no choice but to let me capture this moment.

Two more pages.

Couple of artifact shots I was working on this back in 2020, plus an example of basic view camera theory, and a location shot for reference. studio snaps below. these used more placed reflections, and use of tilt-shift lenses to control perspective and focus.

WOW! The Portuguese website jazz.pt has named Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley's Flashing Spirits and Anthony Braxton's Quartet (England) 1985 their #1 and #2 archival jazz releases of 2025! jazz.pt/artigos/10-m...

Blasting down a two-lane highway at night with a river on one side and 60-70 foot trees on the other and no streetlights at all, anywhere, is quite an experience. And if you ask @iza3800.bsky.social, doing it while listening to Black Sabbath does not improve that experience.

The mountains and trees at night.

Current pages.

Saw the glory of nature out my studio window yesterday: six full-grown deer being chased down the street by a small, fluffy dog.

An interesting take on a woman with a Colombian accent: “Spoke Spanish like she was cutting tall grass with her tongue.” From Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors.

Finally getting around to scanning some half-frame negatives — I was having technical issues.

If you don't know Joy's work, now's the time. Joy Guidry AMEN (2004)

Mixed media.

While on my continued quest to learn more about memory I found this essay. For anyone who may be interested: www.laphamsquarterly.org/memory/all

The new studio is working out.

Filling another page.

Afternoon reading — The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark.