Archive for the ‘Earth’ Category
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
#1000 Departing Force
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For the vertical to descend it departs as it returns.
So this is 1000. Thanks for your appreciation, encouragement involvement. So many people have cheered me on. Thank you!
Later
I will continue to post here about the Thousand Sketches as the project continues to transform itself though I will not be adding sketches. You can stay in touch by subscribing to the feed for Thousand Sketches.
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This image is now featured in the Walter Logeman: Gallery
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
#0995 Archon Arachnid
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Archons are the baddies, viruses, mind parasites, beasts, devils. They are the ancient enemy of the earth. I am not sure what it all means really, but it made me think of the wonderful metal spider in the DIA N.Y. Beacon. Not sure of the artist or name of this sculpture but will add later.
Later: Wednesday, 2 January, 2008
Louise Bourgeois
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
#0981 Contemplating One
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One thing leads to another. One of the hopes I have as the project comes to a close is that I will have a sense of unity. Yet I shun that too, I want to honour all the inner pulls and to go in all directions. But that war is tiring and brutal at times. One strong direction for me that has emerged and that is promising as a unifier is earth. I do hills and plants and crosses that symbolise the sacred of the here-and-now of earth. That focus has emerged, and I am pleased to notice it, make a new category. During the life of the project I have applied a maxim: Enhance what emerges. So to build on the earth theme I looked at blogs and articles on sacred earth and sketched moments that appealed and found titles inspired by the musings.
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
#0923 Light
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I have been reading a Henri Geldzahler interview with Ellsworth Kelly (he does the the advanced simplicity!). he said of his work:
I think the paintings are easy to like, but you have to want to like them.
Today I like his, and today I like mine.
More about Ellsworth follows.
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
0875 Earth Cross
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While it is satisfying to pursue this theme, I am conflicted. It is hard to be simple, its so minimalist.
There is a relationship in crosses. A cross is nothing if not a relationship. Relationships are not that simple.
There is the battle.
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
0873 Break Cross
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I find it satisfying to add the vertical to these earlier horizontals.
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
#0867 Earth Cross
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I am in this phase of the 800s where crosses will dominate for a while. Here in this post are three more exploring this base.
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
#0862 Earth Cross
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Today when I returned to the previous one, it was nothing like I recalled it. So I had to do it again.
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Tech note. What happened is that since the crash my picture reduction system is not quite right. I will need to go back and re-do quite a few. They looked a lot better on my screen – and not till studying the blog have I noticed the problem!
I have now redone them all. Whew. Even that earlier cross looks better.
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
#0860 Black Cross
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Simplifying. Could not bare to go to sleep last night till I had something simpler, I thought this was it.
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The real dissatisfaction cam with the post I did with the poorly resolved file. Copy below. That was the one that prompted #0863. Looking at the very large file, 2000 by 2000 pixels the tones are actually quite nice.
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#0860 Earth Cross
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
#0856 All Earth
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Down to earth.
Post on my visit to Wellington, process and insights and some links to artists follow:
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Tags: art dealer, Peter McLeavey, war, wellington
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
#0826 Earth Cross IV
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This was a hasty retreat from the last one into something more natural, earthy.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
#0825 Earth Cross, War
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In these abstracts I go into a meditation. This one I had to exit in a hurry. Why came up in later reflection and it is war. It is painful to look at this image. I moved onto the next, quickly.
Later:
Monday, 16 June, 2008
This image is now featured in the Gallery
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