I much appreciated Danko Nikolic’s comment on the latest pictopoiesis video and have selected for this post a short animation which I found in my library – it comes across to me as being how the invisible activity of a (living) thought might look like, reminding me again of practopoiesis, and Danko Nikolic’s paper, How […]
Category: Lines
Six Persimmons
I am always interested in the divergences and convergences of different traditions of thought and philosophy, for example the Western and Eastern. My actual practice arises out of the Western tradition but my philosophical approach seems to also correspond with the notion of Tao – an Eastern concept. There is so much more to find […]
Pictopoiesis – Your Own Meaning (Mind Mirror)
I particularly like making these short pictopoiesis videos because the Spark video format is simple and limited in contrast with the complexity of the painting. The below video, which has a written narrative and a minimal sound track is my submission for the upcoming interim show. Throughout the painting I had practopoiesis in mind, hence its […]
Why it Exists at All
Painting (oil on aluminium 125 x 127 cm) followed by free writing, WHY IT EXISTS AT ALL. WHY IT EXISTS AT ALL Suspended between infinity and nothingness An appearance not by degrees A large body of matter with no definite shape Developing in compactness Located out of the normal […]
More Pictopoiesis (oil on aluminium, 125 x 127cm)
The image is of the next painting in oil on aluminium 125 x 127 cm, which I have been painting alongside Mind Mirror. I shall show the stages of this painting in the next blog, it has all been photo-documented throughout. I have been getting to grips with the research statement that is our next […]
Painting into words
Above, the painting as it is now. I have to take a step back to decide whether it is completed or not. The following free verse, arises out of re-reading the painting, working through the layers of thought that are embodied in its poiesis: YOUR OWN MEANING (annotated for my own reference with spoken narration […]
This latest shape comes into being
I have just created a new level of the painting. It has taken 3 days to create and I would like to review it with practopoiesis in mind. All based on lines*, the refinement of this new passage of paint ended only when after three days the paint had stiffened (through its oxidation) to make further […]
Reviewing yesterday’s painting progress
Some notes: Latest stage first. Establishing more connections. Complexity increases with fineness. Intensification through a simplification. A theatre of thought. A field of cultivation of the idea. Idea and technique inseparable. Permeability throughout. Sensing a way forward in the awareness of that which has gone before – memory is interwoven with that which is happening around […]
Correlations
With practopoiesis in mind and the notion of the painting as a mind mirror… I took some stills of the studio – the painting in progress on my working table.* Normally in photographing a work, it is desirable to eliminate any reflections but here the reflection presented a mirror-like surface, which seemed to suggest a new extension […]
Practopoiesis, Pictopoiesis, Ideasthesia
At the end of last year I wrote a post stating my interest in Professor Danko Nikolic’s practopoiesis theory, as I had begun to think about the possibility of correspondences with pictopoiesis*. I was delighted to see that my post was noticed by Danko Nikolic himself, so I connected by email and he has just […]