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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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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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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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Walking the Paradox – Found Unbound with the Corinthians
I’m following-up on my blog of 1st September – Adventuring – with an artistic adventure I’ve been having. I’m calling it Found Unbound. Found Unbound is about an artist’s book. Found halted in the process of being unbound, or found … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artist Books, Christian writing, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Encaustic Art, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Printmaking, spirituality, Writing
Tagged Aristotle, Artist's Book, Blank Slate, Butterfly Book, Corinthians 4:16, John Locke, palimpsest, Paradox, Plaster of Paris, Silk Habotai, Silk Pongee, Tabula rasa
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The Artist who Drew with the Sun; the Meissner Effect and the Apostle Paul
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
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Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith and King Hezekiah
I’ve written in recent blogs about the metaphors relating to the square – that have impinged on me while I’ve been tending to the blocks of squares in which I’m growing veggies at my allotment. Following on from my previous post, … Continue reading
Allotment Artefacts
I dug up these four ceramic fragments at the allotment this year, each at different times. They’re bits of a tile. I suspect 1960s – burnt orange was in fashion in the 60s. And psychedelic designs. I wonder what I will do … Continue reading
Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Christian writing, Writing
Tagged 1960s Ceramic Tile, Burnt Orange, Ceramic Tile
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Inch of the Day 2 September 2015: Edit of Tale Two of Trio of Tales ‘Leaves’ : Adam and Evelyn
I switched off the phone to avoid the wife’s, “HowyouhavethenervetoabandonyourfamilyatChristmastimealmostIdon’tknowbutyou’dbetternotcomebackstinkingofwhiskyandwomenasusualandmaybeyoushouldnotbothercomingbackatallthistime,”and my brat-pack teenage duo’s non-stop harping for expensive gadgets or the money to buy them and probably enough spliff to kill a small herd of highland cattle.
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Posted in Christian writing, Short Story Writing, Writing
Tagged Adam and Evelyn, Editing Fiction, Short Fiction, short story, Short Tale
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Inch of the Day 13 September 2015: Every Picture Tells A Story
I found this little picture recently, tucked away in an old portfolio. It’s an unfinished collage I’d begun to make – using magazine clippings. I’d started to add some elements with pencil, too. Took me back. It was Paris, 1988. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Christian writing, Collage & Assemblage, Mixed Media, Writing
Tagged Burning Bush, collage, Ekphrasis, La Defense, Moses, Mount Horeb, spider
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