Author Archives: AnnIsikArts

About AnnIsikArts

Artist/Writer/Blogger

Tricks of Light I

Posted on January 3, 2020

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 →

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Covehithe Ochres and Gissing Whites: Hand-Made Paints from Foraged Pigment

Posted on November 2, 2019

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

Posted on October 15, 2019

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 →

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More Notes from a Melody Not Yet Written

Posted on October 14, 2019

“Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures.”  (AZ Quotes) – Rabindranath Tagore, from: Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991, by Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). (AZ Quotes)  

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Notes from a Melody Not Yet Written

Posted on October 13, 2019

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Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading

Posted on October 5, 2019

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 →

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Indeterminacy, Some Project Notes

Posted on October 4, 2019

John Cage’s Sonata and Interludes for Prepared Piano Visual Sound (Pink Sedum) for Prepared Pasta Maker

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Cecil Collins: Fools and Angels

Posted on September 26, 2019

“Artists can do something more: they can vanquish the lie.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn Continue reading →

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Indeterminacy – Picking up A Project Where I Left Off

Posted on September 5, 2019

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Eve Fumes at that Snake – and on Paying Attention

Posted on August 29, 2019

I did something very silly. Shocking. Earlier in the year, I decided I was only going to post blogs to which I could attach the completed artworks that arose from the ideas expressed in the blog. And in so doing, … Continue reading →

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