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Tiny Sketchbook Project: A Two-Page Spread
Almost finished. A two-page spread from my Tiny Sketchbook for the Tiny Sketchbook Project touring exhibition. I’m sending this from The Forest of Souls, where I’m holed-up writing my next very long blog.
The Tiny Sketchbook Project – Some of the Eco Prints
A couple of shots of the tiny eco prints I’ve been making for The Tiny Sketchbook Project that’s touring Brooklyn/London/Paris later in the year. These are botanical prints from leaves gathered in my garden last autumn. The group picture is … Continue reading
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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Black Bean Dye and Black Bean Soup
“Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city” ― Janet Frame, Scented Gardens for the Blind My love affair with Titanium oxalate continues … In my search for blue, I’ve wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Vegetarianism
Tagged Alum Mordant, Black Bean Dye, Black Bean Soup, Black Bean Soup Recipe, Black Bean Sweet Potato and Quince Soup, Botanical Dyeing, Natural Dyeing, Natural Dyeing with Cottons, Natural Dyeing with Silk, Titanium oxalate Mordant
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A Titanic Love Affair, Horse Chestnut Husk Dye and Mordanting with Moses the Chemist
My titanic love affair has little to do with those 12 sprogs/pre-Olympian gods of Uranus, less still the ill-fated ship of that name. I’m in love with the oxalate of a mineral element, Titanium Oxalate (C4O8Ti) which is a new … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Christian writing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Opera, Science, Singing, spirituality
Tagged Birgit Nillson, Creed Cornwall, Eco Dyeing, Eco Dyeing with Horse Chestnut Husks, Eco Dyeing with Horse Chestnut Husks and Titanium oxalate as a Mordant, King Mark, Klaproth, Liebestod, Phenolphthalein, Rod of Aaron, Saxon Invasion, St Crida, Staff of Moses, Titanium oxalate, Titanium oxalate as a mordant, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner, William Gregor
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Homage to Nature
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” ~ Aristotle
Posted in Aesthetics, Inspiration, Photography, spirituality
Tagged Aristotle, Cranesbill Geranium
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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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Look What Turned Up in the Garden – Common Stinkhorn
In fact two of these little fellers turned up in the garden. And that’s not sexist writing. Its Latin name is Phallus Impudicus and according to Wikipedia: “Botanist John Gerard called it the “pricke mushroom” or “fungus virilis penis effigie” … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Research, Science
Tagged Botanist John Gerard, Botanist John Parkinson, Common Stinkhorn, Deadman's Cock, Fungus virilis penis effigie, General Historie of Plants 1597, Hetty Darwin, Hollanders Working Toole, Linnaeus, Phallus hollandicus, Phallus Impudicus, Pricke Mushroom, Species Plantarum 1753, Theatrum botanicum 1640
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The Season of Bowls
Posted in Art, Photography
Tagged Avocado Bowl, Avocado Skin, Avocado Stone, Bowl, Horse Chestnut, Horse Chestnut Husk, Wisteria Bowl
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