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Mark Making, The Zen of Seeing, the Byzantine Monocondyle and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Warning: really long blog coming up. (I had to do a really long poetic walk this time). The quote opening my blog of 29 August was from The Zen of Seeing: Frederick Franck. Intrigued, I sent for the book. In parallel … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Blogging, Christian writing, Creativity, Drawing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Printmaking, Science, spirituality, Walking, Walking Art, Writing
Tagged Automatic Writing, Bhagavad Gita, Byzance, Calligraphy, Drawing, Frederick Franck, Graph Theory, Krsna, Leonhard Euler, Mark Making, meditation, Mobius Strip, Monocondyle, Paul Klee, Poetic Mapping, Rust Printing, Rust Printing on Silk, Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, Stéphanie Devaux Textus, Tommy Wasserman, Tomography, Topology, Upanishads, Zen
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Working Like Snow
“Like Snow
Suppose we did our work
like the snow, quietly, quietly,
leaving nothing out.”
~Wendell Berry Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creativity, Drawing, Inspiration, Quotes, spirituality
Tagged Wendell Berry
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M(ann) Meets M(ann) in Stamford
I had to be in Lincolnshire a couple of weeks back and dropped in on Lincoln. The first and last time I visited Lincoln’s cathedral was a staggering 46 years ago. All I could recall of that visit was the … Continue reading
Weybourne, Roger Ackling and Transfiguration
I wrote recently about my discovery of the late artist and teacher Roger Ackling. An article about Ackling in Resurgence & Ecology magazine had intrigued me; it was a review of a book – Between the Lines – memorials and … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, book review, Creativity, Drawing, Inspiration, spirituality, Writing
Tagged Brian Keeble, Cecil Collins, Conceptual Art, Dr Judith Collins, Roger Ackling, Tate, Transfiguration of Jesus, Weybourne
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Visual Journal 3: Superhero
Oh, yes, this daily (for daily, read, striving for daily) visual journalling thing is proving to be a good idea. (I can hear a trillion-scrillion-to-the-power-of-infinity-and-more artists around the known and unknown universes, groaning, shaking their heads in disbelief and asking in unison: … Continue reading
Visual Journal
For some time I’ve thought I ought to be making a daily visual journal to replenish my well of images (image wells drain away very quickly, need constant refilling) and decided yesterday to begin. I’ll post a day behind, to … Continue reading
Inch of the Day 9 September 2015: Horizontals and Verticals: Walkers and Watchers
An enigmatic title. Words – they come into your head … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Journal, Artist Sketchbooks, Drawing
Tagged Jotting, Rough Sketching
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