Category: Pictopoiesis

Six Persimmons (ongoing)

This painting began with a figurative point of reference but follows the same pictopoietic pathway of previous paintings. Pictopiesis is not only applicable to non-objective painting. The first passage of paint is always a defining moment, it is the point of origin of the work, and always has its echo in the eventual outcome. This is the […]

Yellow Leporello 9×9

  I began with a playful title for the above, Yellow Leporello. I wanted to see where it would lead me because I know that it always leads somewhere new and surprising. Leporello, the word itself is reputedly taken from Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni which contains the so-called Catalogue Aria in which DG’s manservant, called Leporello, unfolds […]

Fabric of Common Descent

Polyphonocryptochromocytopoiesis (oil on aluminium 125 x 127 cm JWR) notes to self: retracing the history of pictopoiesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_descent

Founding, Refinding and Unfolding

Precedents:   I did not imagine it I made it to disclose the instant through the instance of its making … Painting series above by JWR: each oil on aluminium, different scales (largest approx 125 x 125cm) Notes to self: founding and unfolding pictopiesis//qualities: corporeality, thingliness, dinglichung//https://phenomenology//architectural – line, point, weave, fabric, loom, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology         […]

Planting Trees

Some works take many years to come into their own materially. Painting is like planting trees. Below, painting by JWR: A short sequence, oil on a wooden bowl (its original title being Towards a Theory of Everything)  

Dualities.

  On (potentially) overcoming the dualities Notes to self: Research Paper and feedback//dualities incl: spatial/temporal/organo/organic/artificial/natural/living/non-living//continuing critique of the digital (philosophy section of research paper// refs: music, line, visual, rhythm, algorithm, Bach music for solo violin, personal context, Florian, poietic act – poiesis as performance, Andante (walking/wandering/Tao), Adagio, chaconne, etc//polyphony above images of series of works […]

Threads 2

        Notes to self: Connecting threads, lines, weave, tantra, as in treatise, weave, loom//online digital wall, fabric, membrane// elements of pictopoiesis//leporello, tangible, original, source//sculptural, book, map, navigation (making sense of the world), painting//8×8