Between Silence and Substance: The Generative and Transformative Power of Pictopoiesis A deeply rooted cycle of regeneration and transformation threads through my work, progressing over four decades. Central to this ongoing evolution are pictopoiesis, semiosis, and symbiosis – three guiding forces. Pictopoiesis is the art of painting as if it were the cultivation […]
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Painting as a Form of Cultivation
J. Waring Rago Artist’s Documentation Concerning Painting as a Form of Cultivation about a Particular Set of Original Works on Prepared Paper 21/12/2023 I approach painting as a form of cultivation, and these recent works on paper exemplify this. I prime only a central area (variable in size and shape) of the paper to delineate […]
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my grandfather and home BY MOSAB ABU TOHA https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/155508/my-grandfather-and-home The poem above was sent to me as the Poetry Foundation’s poem-a-day email offering. How beautiful that the grandson reflects so tenderly on what he could not give to his grandfather.
Poem a Day
As a start to the day, I love to receive these poems, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation, and this one, along with so many others I have received, is beautiful: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/157534/christos This led me to prompt the ever-so-popular AI bot (see below dotted line at the end of this post) which always gives me a […]
Pictopoietopia n.1 (latest poster design)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/post#etymonline_v_45740 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poster
A Point of Reference – Emily Dickinson
Also a botanist! – I still have my herbarium and must not forget to show some visuals of it on this blog. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson
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Select Show Camberwell Space UAL London
I am very happy to announce that Mind Mirror (Step Back and Breathe in the Atmosphere of Your Own Meaning) has been chosen by the jury for the Select Show at Camberwell Space. Our MA show runs from 11th – 17th July, however, the Select Show runs through the Summer, from 11th July until 27th […]
Poem of the Day
from the Poetry Foundation, who send me a poem a day: The Sun Rising by John Donne also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne and by contrast but on the theme of English poets, John Clare I Am! by John Clare
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