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- Still Taking the Anti-Dote (to the Poison of Chaos) And an Art Note February 17, 2020
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Still Taking the Anti-Dote (to the Poison of Chaos) And an Art Note
When all is done and dusted (pardon the pun) I’ll blog about what Jordan Peterson’s Clean up Your Room edict has revealed and changed. (Clean up Your Room comes from Dr Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Anti-Dote to Chaos). … Continue reading
Tricks of Light I
2019 was not a year for blogging. I didn’t plan it that way. But from late spring onwards, what plans I had for the year were snatched away and I was flying by the seat of my pants. 2020 is … Continue reading
Covehithe Ochres and Gissing Whites: Hand-Made Paints from Foraged Pigment
If you think you received this blog yesterday, well, you did. A version of it without many of the images as I was having problems downloading photos from my iPhone onto my computer. I sorted out the problem – with … Continue reading
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Indeterminacy: The Blueberry Interlude: Cold Dyeing with Blueberry Stems
Dyeing needn’t be an elaborate process, experiments have shown me. Or require costly – and sometimes quite hazardous and pongy – ingredients, sophisticated equipment and a PhD in chemistry. I pruned a couple of little blueberry bushes a few weeks … Continue reading
Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading
The subject of this blog was inspired in part by the Liminal States & Thresholds for Change series of artworks by Turtle Moon Impressions blogger Janis Doucette. Liminal space is that threshold space which is between one state of being and … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Liede, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Romanticism, Singing
Tagged Casper David Friedrich, Eichendorffer, German Romanticism, Indeterminacy, John Cage, Jonas Kaufmann, Leiderkreis, Liminal State, Mondnacht, Prepared Piano, Schumann
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Indeterminacy, Some Project Notes
John Cage’s Sonata and Interludes for Prepared Piano Visual Sound (Pink Sedum) for Prepared Pasta Maker
Cecil Collins: Fools and Angels
“Artists can do something more: they can vanquish the lie.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artist Review, Christian writing, Creativity, Inspiration, Romanticism
Tagged Cecil Collins, The Vision of the Fool, Visionary Art
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