Category Archives: Science

Mark Making, The Zen of Seeing, the Byzantine Monocondyle and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg

Posted on November 30, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

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 | 26 Comments

A Titanic Love Affair, Horse Chestnut Husk Dye and Mordanting with Moses the Chemist

Posted on October 15, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

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 | 6 Comments

Look What Turned Up in the Garden – Common Stinkhorn

Posted on September 24, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

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 | 2 Comments

Taking a Walk in Negative Space

Posted on November 29, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

I’m attracted to artworks damaged in the making process. When trying to figure out why, I’ve focused on the word damage. In looking at this on the left – a damaged eco collograph of some elm leaves – it came … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Music, Music Theory, Printmaking, Science, spirituality | Tagged Curved Space, Eco Collograph, Expanding Space, Ezekiel, Hesychasm, Negative Space, Noble Silence, Space Ripple, Von Daniken | 12 Comments

First Art from Beyond The Great Transition: Eco Collographs with Healing Sumac and Turmeric, Light and Emily Dickinson

Posted on October 2, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

Picking up from where I left off before The Great Transition – which has taken all of six months and still living in some chaos – I was very happy to find a few hours to make a batch of … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Artist Sketchbooks, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Nature Journal, Printmaking, Science | Tagged Aaron Copland, Barbara Bonney, Diotima of Mantinea, Eco Collograph, Emily Dickinson, Ladder of Love, Monoprint, Polychromatic Light, Staghorn Sumac, Turmeric | 2 Comments

Melvyn Bragg on Richard Dawkins

Posted on March 31, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

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Below the Line and Back of the Cosmos – Some Eco Prints on Watercolour Board

Posted on February 12, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

I have art papers and supports of every kind and in every size, just about. Examined under a microscope, some will be found to be dusted with the sands of Dubai and Grand Cayman, the Isle of Sheppey, the D-Day … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Printmaking, Science | Tagged Agrimony, CERN, Cosmic Microwave Background, Eco Print, Eco Print on Watercolour Board, Halley's Comet | 4 Comments

Taking a Red Cabbage (and an Apple) for a (Low Calorie) Walk

Posted on November 17, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

With apologies to Paul Klee for misquoting his famous definition of drawing (that it is … taking a line for a walk). This is a red line that’s been taken for a walk. Well, … more like a spin. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Allotmenteering, Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Science | Tagged labyrinth, low calorie, low calorie red cabbage recipe, Paul Klee, Red cabbage, spiral, steamed apple, weight management | 14 Comments

The Artist who Drew with the Sun; the Meissner Effect and the Apostle Paul

Posted on July 27, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

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 | 6 Comments

One Square at a Time

Posted on June 30, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

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 →