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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
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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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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Indeterminacy – Picking up A Project Where I Left Off
Posted in Art, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Printmaking
Tagged Art, Eco Printing, Indeterminacy, Iron Mordant, Lining Paper
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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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A First Try at Eco-Dyeing with Staghorn Sumac (Rhus Typhina)
I was delighted, when we first came in May last year to inspect what was to become our new home, to find no less than four mature Staghorn Sumac trees flourishing in the garden, for I knew Sumac to be … Continue reading
I’m Back (with) Tacita Dean, Collectingness, Creativity and Health
The other day I was unpacking a box (yes, almost a year after our house move there are boxes yet to be opened) and came upon a small yet very heavy suitcase and on opening it found it housed my … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Stones
Tagged Cast-making, Collecting, Embalming, encaustic, Fossils, mummification, Papier-mâché, Royal Academy, Tacita Dean
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The Art of Slow Art: Encouraging Failure and Slinging a Pot of Red Paint at Doggy Death Row
Recently I came across the following and thought it worth sharing. It’s targeted at writers, but applies to all the creative disciplines. It’s an extract from American writer Louise Desalvo’s The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and … Continue reading
