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Drawing-in the Withdrawn – Drawing in Meta-Meaning Mode
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger than reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into … Continue reading →
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Art Journal, Creativity, Drawing, Inspiration
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Tagged Anais Nin, Drawing, Kurt Vonnegut, metaphysics, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sketching
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The Naked Hero and the Red Stones
I’ve been writing about stones in recent blogs. Stones I’ve found on my new allotment plot, that, while uniformly black (more or less) on the outside, those I found split in two, revealed a wonderful interior uniqueness, like these in the picture to the left. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Folklore & Mythology, Short Story Writing, spirituality, Writing
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Tagged metaphysics, Naked Hero, short story, Short Story Writing, Spiritual, Stones, Supernatural Writing
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Below the Line Project: Arrows Fields Grids and Forces
A pattern and texture is the outcome of an encounter between a force and a resistance (Ann Isik (me) 2014)
I’ve been a little quiet on the blog recently. I’ve been preoccupied with dreadful draining domestic drudgery. My creative cauldron has been crooning constantly in the background, however, awaiting my stirring spoon.
Arrows. (I’m struggling to set alliteration aside, as you see) – Arrows became a form in my Below the Line project, representing force. Especially what I’m going to call the ‘forceless force’, meaning the force that is the source of the forces of nature. The idea for the name came when I was looking at an exhibition catalogue authored by Australian art historian Michael Brand. The exhibition was called The Vision of Kings – Art and Experience in India. I wrote in a recent blog about how I came across this catalogue and how by sheer synchronicity I got to see many of the real art works illustrating the catalogue on a trip to Boston and Harvard. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art Journal, Folklore & Mythology, Inspiration, spirituality, Writing
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Tagged Art, Art Project Development, Bebrew, Bhagavata Purana, Brahma, Brigitte Riley, Charles Fillmore, Cosmic Ocean, creativity, Encaustic painting, Forces, grid, Harvard, Helen Parrott, Herod, Hindu creation myth, Indian Art, Indian Painting, Italian Primitives, Joachim Patinir, Joanne Mattera, Krishna, Mark Making, metaphysics, Mixed media, Moses, music notation, Op Art, patterns, pharaoh, Pre-Renaissance painters, quantum field, quantum theory, quilting, Sackler, Siennese painting, textile art, textures, unified field theory, Unity Church, Vishnu
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