Concerning the eternity that lies within the otherwise invisible instant (eleven blinks) to be continued:
Category: Notes to Self
About the oil
Writing the script for my 2nd symposium caused me to mention the significance that the oil medium has for me. The image above shows a very special oil source obtained about 30 years ago. It is cold pressed linseed oil as supplied by Zecchi of Florence – Zecchi being the artists’ materials shop right […]
Parrhesia
Parrhesia – such a wonderful word/concept to explore on all levels. For example, the tension in “to speak candidly or to ask forgiveness for so speaking” is relevant to the painting’s existence and how it has come about, as I understand it. Header image and below, detail of a recent painting (oil on aluminium approx 125 […]
Thinking of the task
I have drafted the script for my 2nd Symposium. and This is a link is to a very recent paper, which has a lot of resonance with me.
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)
Concerning the evolution of thinking
Concerning the evolution of thinking (being a topic of great interest to me)
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 […]