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- Walking the Paradox – Found Unbound with the Corinthians September 16, 2016
- A Walk through my Blog – Treasure and Trash September 8, 2016
- Adventuring September 1, 2016
- A Thought on Bundling July 31, 2016
- The Artist who Drew with the Sun; the Meissner Effect and the Apostle Paul July 27, 2016
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Walking the Paradox – Found Unbound with the Corinthians
I’m following-up on my blog of 1st September – Adventuring – with an artistic adventure I’ve been having. I’m calling it Found Unbound. Found Unbound is about an artist’s book. Found halted in the process of being unbound, or found … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artist Books, Christian writing, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Encaustic Art, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Printmaking, spirituality, Writing
Tagged Aristotle, Artist's Book, Blank Slate, Butterfly Book, Corinthians 4:16, John Locke, palimpsest, Paradox, Plaster of Paris, Silk Habotai, Silk Pongee, Tabula rasa
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Adventuring
Yes, I think you can call it that – adventuring – what I’ve been doing since my last blog of … 31 July. Really? I’ve been gone that long? Oh, well, when the road calls … Here’s a handful of photos to illustrate some of what I’ve been up to, each of which I will expand upon in due course. Continue reading
A Thought on Bundling
“Bundling, wrapping items (from nature or wherever) turns emotion, memory, time and space (past and present) into objects which personify and make visible, these invisible forces.” Ann Isik
Posted in Art, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Printmaking, spirituality
Tagged bundling, Eco Print, personification
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The Artist who Drew with the Sun; the Meissner Effect and the Apostle Paul
The Artist who Drew with the Sun is the heading over an article in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. The artist is Roger Ackling, who died in 2014. Excerpted: “One does not have to know how to bring meaning to one’s life: searching is to bring … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Christian writing, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Ecology, Inspiration, Reviews, Science, Sculpture, Walking, Walking Art
Tagged Colossians, Land Art, Maglev trains, magnetic levitation, Meissner Effect, Occasional Papers, Resurgence Trust, Roger Ackling, Superconductivity, sustainable energy, Tate, the Apostle Paul, Walking Art
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Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith and King Hezekiah
I’ve written in recent blogs about the metaphors relating to the square – that have impinged on me while I’ve been tending to the blocks of squares in which I’m growing veggies at my allotment. Following on from my previous post, … Continue reading
Squares Activated and the Importance of Boundaries
I took the photo on the left a few days ago. Had I taken it the day before, you’d not have been able to see the squares of veggies (the wooden frames) for the height of the grass surrounding them. We … Continue reading
Art Quotes I Like and Why
“A painting [work of art] is a layering of thoughts and visual impressions piling up history and sensations. An open ended experience where the viewer adds his or her own notions to those of the artist.” Richard Diebenkorn I particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Inspiration
Tagged Aesthetics, Art Quote, Communication Cycle, Richard Diebenkorn, Stained Glass
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One Square at a Time
There is a lot of weather going round at the moment, physically and metaphysically. Since I’m talking about squares, forgive the play on words, though the round in my first sentence ought really to be around. Poetic licence. There is a deal of … Continue reading
Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Creativity, Ecology, Photography, Quilting, Research, Science, Vegetarianism
Tagged Agricultural companies, Allotment, Allotmenteering, creativity, Deformed Wing Virus, European Honeybee Decline, Genetically Modified Food, Growing Food, Jude Hill, Library of Halexandria, Nine, Nine-square, Numerology, Organic Food, Oxygen, quilting, Raised Beds, Sacred Numbers, Science Magazine, Spirit Cloth, Tree felling
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Nature Journal 6: Buttercups and Herb Robert
Buttercup “The common Buttercup (Ranunculus acris) bears among rustics in the midland counties the vulgar name of “Crazy,” for which, until lately, I could never account; but it would appear that this meadow plant is considered an “insane herb” by … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ecology, Inspiration, Nature Journal, Photography
Tagged Buttercup, Flower Lore, Herb Robert, Superstitions about Flowers
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