Walter Logeman Art Project 2006-7
#0841 Black Egg
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I can see why still life painters collect objects to paint. I might even do it! I don’t have many knick-knacks. Should I do more of my mouse? This egg is solid stone & jet black, and reflects the purest white. I have done it before, and will do it again.
#0840 The art of art
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My technical mess-up (the hard disk crash and subsequent temporary loss of pen pallet and canvas) led to asking again why I did not use real media to birth the images in the first place. That is an interesting question. Even if I wanted a website, why this digital constraint? I have answered that in other posts in a sketchy way… exploring the psyche in cyberspace. It is good to state it again as it is central. I have for years past thought about what has happened with the psychology of text as it has become digitalised. See my other blog: Psyberspace But images and art, not text on my mind now. The image is the stuff the psyche is made of.
I like art to exude some sort of consciousness about (a phrase I just picked up here), “the art of making art”. Art, in its important and interesting moments is partly (but not wholly) about art.
The shape of my work is becoming clearer. I am pleased with a bolder line in the concept. It is not a new line, but it is firmer today. Not having the PC helped to see why I missed it. I need to do every sketch digitally. Physical sketching is fine, but it is not in this project. It would be as if Piet Mondrian switched to landscapes.
I am on a narrow path, for all the diversity in the sketches, they have to be digital.
And what is the central line on that path?
To do digital sketches? Surprisingly no.
To make prints from those sketches? No.
I work with the relationship between the virtual & the physical. It is in the RELATIONSHIP – it is all in the relationship!
The whole 1000 are a negative, a template, they have a relationship with their children, their physical children, the prints or other objects still to be born. The children can phone home, each object has a number and name. Google that to return.
Relationship between the virtual world and the physical is the punctum, that is where I will do my obsessive sticking to the point.
#0839 Pattern7
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These last ones were all on a theme. No pen, I finally have it back, and that will show in the images to come. I have the tablet back, but there are still some missing files I am hoping will return. I have been waylaid though with days of work on the PC!
#0838 Pattern5e
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#0837 Pattern5b
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#0836 Pattern3
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I have seen his pots, but seeing his works on paper draws me in closer. I saw one at the Arthouse recently and made a note to look online for more.
John Crawford, Hector Pottery.
I would like to make a trip to the coast just to see these. The motivation is stuff. My interest in the physical. I want to see how people make prints and works on paper to see how I might translate (now there is a word!) my “templates”. There is another word.
(In ship building there is a early version before they make the mold, what do they call that? It might even be a sort of negative… hmmm my digital files are like negatives. )
Anyway I like his work, the content and the form.
An image follows.
Continue reading “Works on paper by West Coast Potter – reflections on stuff”
#0835 Layer Tunnel Pattern
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In a lot of art it is integral that one can see the process, in the strokes, or even in the glimpse of the studio. The tools are showing here!
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Still don’t have my Tablet back. Do have a new disk from the crashed HDD, has a lot of good stuff rescued, but not the missing 10 days sketches. Yet. Back to the HDD Dr. tomorrow.
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Far from feeling curtailed today, I am stimulated by the process of the technological and human failures (failed to backup those missing days – I was moving around too much to reconnect the external drive, so Second Copy would simply say “Drive not found” and go back to sleep.)
One good thing was a synchronicity while surfing. I found some digital art I liked. There is so much, and so much of that leaves me neutral.
Somehow they also got me sketching, thinking.
Here are 2 images I saw & liked.
Continue reading “Layer Tunnel Pattern”
#0834 Avacado
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No more now till M200 returns.
#0833 Egg
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I was screaming for a pen.