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Living and Dyeing
“Walking was an essential component of our work. There was music. There were rich silences. Times of deep listening, experiential drawing and the gathering of “gorgeous nothings”…spontaneous poetry noted while wandering as well as performances of aleatory poetry created by reading together.”
Is this Heaven? This is Australian artist India Flint talking about the first of some masterclasses she held this year in Newburgh, a village on the banks of the River Tay (Scotland). It was a site-specific four-day intensive focussing on “… the deep experience of place through immersion in this very particular tidal riparian landscape.” She explains, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Digital Printmaking, digital printmaking, dyeing, encaustic art, fine art printmaking, Gelli Printing, India Flint, Knitting, Monoprint, Monoprints, print making, printing, textile art, Walking as Metaphor, Walking on Purpose
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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 →
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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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