Category: Pictopoiesis

Song (Breathe)

Song (Breathe), a small painting (oil on aluminium 25 x 25 cm) is concluded: Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it. The atmosphere is not a perfume, […]

A Painting Completed with Reflection and Research in Parallel

Oil on aluminium, approx 125 x 125 cm Gallery of some detail;   On reflection, a line of thought arising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek Further refs: https://www.google.com/search?q=absurdity&rlz=1CCTTSD_enGB720GB720&oq=absurdity&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/episteme-techne/ https://www.google.com/search?q=emporium+def&rlz=1CCTTSD_enGB720GB720&oq=emporium+def&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges    

A Sequence of Seeking Out

Of circadian rhythm: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gogh-a-wheatfield-with-cypresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_Field_with_Cypresses https://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/en/writings/song-of-myself/section-21 https://whitmanarchive.org/archive1/classroom/student_projects/brian/pagetwo.html https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1871/poems/15 https://www.vincentvangogh.org/starry-night.jsp (the above reference contains no mention of the poetic Whitman connection!)

I have been working on …

I have been working on some new smaller paintings 25 x 25 cm, in oil on aluminium and the sequences for each painting are building up. The animation below shows a rebeginning; the painting was dormant, like a spore, and it all began with the first letter of the alphabet. Returning to such a work […]