1. 2. 3. 4. Many thanks to those who sent me their drawings. Above are some digital transmutations from Slow Circle line drawings collected from my onliner peers. I devised Slow Circle as a way of looking at new poetic possibility within the simple element of line. In Slow Circle, line is generated from zero […]
Category: Experimental
Morpheus
A slow watch: Morpheus late 14c., name for the god of dreams in Ovid, son of Sleep, literally “the maker of shapes,” from Greek morphē “form, shape, figure,” especially “a fine figure, a beautiful form; beauty, fashion, outward appearance,” a word of uncertain etymology. Related: Morphean. Morphō was an epithet of Aphrodite at Sparta, literally “shapely.” … Morpheus was one […]
Ideograms
A short series in rough made during residency workshop (scanner as camera) at Camberwell :
Towards a conclusion
For me as a long time practitioner of painting, it has been a point of fascination how much has emerged (and increasingly so) from the work which has application outside and beyond painting. For example, the Slow Circle drawing exercise could be translated into performance in numerous ways. In painting the elements are quite limited but […]
Awaiting its Conclusion
The painting started off with a visual of the six persimmons, round things. I have brought the painting to its current state and been cogitating on it at length and now see how I can bring it to its inevitable conclusion. The painting itself becomes the subject matter such that its conclusion was impossible to […]
Cogitation continuing
As in, how to continue the Six Persimmons painting now at the stage shown below. I am thinking about how the internal dialectic of the painting might be explicated in terms of it being a sublation. What is happening here has correspondence with Hegel’s term, Aufheben. I see numerous correspondences between pictopoiesis and other fields of thought and […]
A Dance and a Song
Bartok violin duos by Florian Rago on a single violin. links for the full streamable album: https://itunes.apple.com/az/album/44-duos-for-violin/1322090327 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B077YKNG9M/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp