I have been focused on concluding paintings and now also a number of works that have been suspended over a period of time. I am now able to approach these works and conclude them, showing the maintenance of connection with origin that is at the heart of pictopoiesis. These, as yet unconcluded paintings, each in […]
Category: Methodology
Thinking around concluding a painting/paintings
The painting and I are bound together by what feels like a kind of covenant bound in with the (picto)poietic act of making, in which we both progress together. For any of it there has to have been an initial impetus which set the work in motion. That was the living me, something which has philosophical significance. […]
Macrocosmic, Microcosmic
Timelapse of the future (video) As if through a window, a single point then line, a universe, and back again – animated sketch of a single line drawing: note to self: The universe inside the black dot/macrocosm, microcosm
Developing and unfolding the elements of pictopoiesis
Source: Line drawing in graphite on paper Part 1: First cycle of return (source, point, line, plane, return to origin)
Point, line, Source, Origin, Development
Black Dot/Point (graphite on paper) by JWR
Random Motion
Following on from the previous post: The drawing in oil on card above was created with the discarded material from a painting: The marks, though randomly made, never-the-less seem to be a self-organising whole. It makes me wonder, is the ultimate state of everything disorder (entropy) or is it actually order arising out of a […]
Order and Disorder
Header and above images: Drawing in Random Mode, oil on card by JWR Aeon online: The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder?
A Significant Difference
There is a significant difference in quality between the digital files I habitually post (as in 2nd image below) and the high res files (immediatley below). The high re files allow for closer scrutiny of fine detail (enlargement in the header image) giving a better idea of the painting (123 x 125 cm) in real life, not possible using the lower […]
Concluding some paintings
When a painting is reaching its conclusion I think very carefully of how to title it. Untitled does not work for me. In making the paintings I have become absorbed into their wordless worlds, making naming not an easy matter but titling is a way to clarify the work further in my […]