Doodeling… this one emerged playing with the tools & colours and then gave me the sense that it could be a much larger work, but I left it as a sketch.
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Dead Flax 3
Detail:
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Later: Monday, 7 July, 2008
This one is now featured in the Walter Logeman: Gallery
In the Garrery I squared the image above, better IMO.
What do you think?
Leaves
Larger Image.
Dead Flax
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Dead Flax 4
Three versions of the same sketch, each too diferent from the others to let me know which to post up, so here they are all three.
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All art is conceptual art
Another idea that clarified in the podcast. The concept may not be conscious or articulated, but retrospectively it can be seen as something wanting to be born. Just as I can ask “what does this project want?” what is in it’s conception, we could ask that of anyone’s work. I am not thinking of each painting, but of the project… all those paintings of van Gogh spread around the world, and with a museum of their own… it is a sort of installation, institution.
I liked listening to Edward as this question led him from the lemon through the Zen brush strokes back to the lemon. It is all about a vitality in the stroke… it has either got it or it hasn’t.
The concept here in Thousand Sketches? Exploring the psyche in cyberspace – I found it very liberating to realise that a month or two back. What does it mean more specifically?
Some pointers in these words:
Variety – philogeny – evolution – recapitulation
Autobiography – unconscious
Conversation
Global – local – national
Technology – medium – nature
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
This is really more show notes for the podcast we did yesterday.
Ontogeny is the growth (size change) and development (shape change) of an individual organism; phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a species. Haeckel’s recapitulation theory claims that the development of the individual of every species fully repeats the evolutionary development of that species. Otherwise put, each successive stage in the development of an individual represents one of the adult forms that appeared in its evolutionary history. Haeckel formulated his theory as such: “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”. This notion later became simply known as recapitulation.
It applies in some cases in biology but I love how it makes sense of something in art. And I feel a licence to recapitulate, which without legitimacy or consciousness I have found a bit depressing.
Hockney’s Mulholland Drive
Image by David Hockney follows, Mulholland Drive – The Road to the Studio – 1980
Got inspired by this in the video, where Melvyn Bragg interviews “Hockney at the Tate” Directed by Alan Benson
Old Flax Leaf
The half dead ones have a lot of life!
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Just as you are – Really – Just as you are.
This is a translation from a line by Zuiken.
Edward had the idea of making some cards. His lino cut print follows.
Continue reading “Just as you are – Really – Just as you are.”
Conversations with Edward
I spent a pleasant day with Edward Coughlan and we did some art, walked, drank coffee & talked a lot.
Art: “Just as You are” – the words of Zuiken my digital version is in the next post, Edward’s lino cut print is also in the next post.
Here is the Podcast: The topics covered include ideas about art, and how thinking about it impacts on our work.
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What follows is a mindmap of the podcast & some of Edward’s pictures we talked about.