Here is the eBay “Gallery”
Later: Monday 23 October 06 – it is currently empty. But the Trade Me one is not!
Line, autobiography, links to blogs.
Some good posts & discussion on “On Painting” about line. (made a comment there)
And more here on line in Falstaff’s blog.
Discussion here on autobiography & art, and made a post – I’ll paste below.
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Loved your blog, this post & great discussion. I am opting for the value of the whole story, art + artist. Art lives in it’s context. What counts is not just the thing there in front of you but how it connects. It may be that it is a radically new use of a medium. Or that it it breaks conserved custom like the PreRaphaelites did. Maybe that the artist was ridiculed for their work is part of that story. The pain would be inherent in that work.
I am thinking of alchemy. There was a time when scientists related the life force in their flasks to their own life force, after all both came from God. Maybe objectivity was needed in a while in science, but it is a bit sad IMO to transfer that to art.
As a psychotherapist I guess I am used to seeing the personal story in art & art in the personal story.
Make it OK again to be autobiographical, to be personal. These things get frowned out with phrases like “indulgent”.
I think the kitten is more interesting now that we know it was saved, I’ll clap & cheer for the swimmer too!
Isn’t it fun being alive!
Met with George for lunch. He was enthusiastic and we buzzed together.
He and Beryl are painting, taking it up, something new. I’m looking forward to doing some painting together, what a great idea. (Mine will be digital of course – for now anyway.)
One thing George said that is with me: “Simplicity is an advanced course”.
That is my challenge – to keep it only as complex as it needs to be.
This ties in with the idea of distillation, getting to the essence. ( download & listen to hour long Alchemy mp3)
Central to psychotherapy too, seeing the main pattern in the many stories.
Means circling around and repeating, until there is, what Khan would call a “realisation“.
It was a fun lunch!
Get rid of this “thing”
I posted earlier about my relief that I had a new perspective on the website. I am reading Louis Kahn, and was struck by the similarity when he could not wait for the crane to leave hisbuilding site, and how later he came to see if as his friend,because it stimulated him to think of new forms. Interestingly hesees it as an extension of the arm, much like McLuhan. see quote.
Form is on my mind. I think of the blog as a new form… not that new, I think I posted that idea about 10 years ago. A new form like once the sonnet was a new form. it feels like cooking in this incubator is some sort of form emergence.
Duane Keiser on in his blog “On Painting” is conscious of the online world impacting on art – the blog is even has: “about painting and how the Internet is changing the business of art” in its title . There is something of a shift happening as he abandons galleries for eBay, much in the way My Space is impacting on the music industry.
It all adds up to that the medium is the message.
Kowhai
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Roots
It is becoming clear that this Sketching Project and my long standing psychological interests are very related. More so than I anticipated. So I have been writing on my other Blog about Thousand Sketches. That is followed by a post about OnlineGroups.Net which has some of its roots in the same creative flow.
Launch Invite
I have updated the Launch post – it is about to be distributed far & wide.
Have a look: Launch
There is a PDF too – download to print.
Trade Me
I have sketches on Trade Me. Still learning about this too! All part of the “archetecture”. A Web Gallery, a blog and now an auction room. Contrary to my expectations I like the more public viewing! The images have not been up long and there has been more interest as the word goes out.
Manuka 3a
#0083 Manuka
Larger Image.
The print looks nice on A4 paper, with the image 12 cm wide – I think I will frame this one & some like it, in this format for the “launch”.