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?
Category: Notes to Self
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 […]
Concerning the Elemental
Recombining the pictorial elements in animated form to make pictopoietic poems/poems of pictopoiesis 1.The Origin of Blue 33 sec. video: notes to self: point, line, circular pathway that returns to source/origin, time, colour have several earlier works (painted) on this same theme
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: poems on poetry-making and paintings
(header image of one of the paintings currently in progress) Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15) BY LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making and balancing on eyebeams above a sea […]
Why is Simpler Better?
The elusive nature of philosophical justification link
Signature
The matter of signing the paintings has always been problematic to me. I do not like to disturb the surface without careful consideration first and at best find the act of signing something uncomfortably self-conscious. Sometimes this is not the case. My latest idea is to make a handprint on the back of the work […]
The future as a matter of the continuously evolving past
The painting above (125 x 127 cm) is one I have been working on today as I would like to complete it for the Summer show. It has been suspended for a year having been started early on in the MA. Here is a reminder of how it began and its story so far:
More than English
Midst this Brexit crisis an article seeing Chaucer as more than English – he was a great European poet.