A painting in progress involves a continuous cycle of conscious removal and return, as I work on it and then step back to reflect on it. This dynamic, a bodily experience in which I am both creator and viewer, is significant in pictopoiesis. The painting evolves like a living organism, a growing and developing body […]
Tag: poetry
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 […]
Poem:
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
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 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!)
Herbarium – companionship between botany and poetry
Prompted by this link I see that it is time I laid out the herbarium I made many years ago for my botany degree
Graduate Art Prize – voting by 31st October
Delighted to be shortlisted for The #GraduateArtPrize 2019! Two of my recent paintings will be featured amongst the 26 works chosen by @ARTIQgram and Herbert Smith Freehills from BA and MA graduates across the UK. Would love your votes! Vote here for Janet Waring Rago paintings >>> https://www.graduateartprize.com/vote and please share!