Well I finally got a chance to ask the creator of this sculpture if he liked my photos. He was so enthusiastic about pics, it was great. I couldn't resist taking these shots the light was so great. It wasn't hard to get him to agree to let me post them. Thanks Matt, post a link here so people can contact you about the work.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Dancing with light, sculpture in wood
Well I finally got a chance to ask the creator of this sculpture if he liked my photos. He was so enthusiastic about pics, it was great. I couldn't resist taking these shots the light was so great. It wasn't hard to get him to agree to let me post them. Thanks Matt, post a link here so people can contact you about the work.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
yet another helpful resource
It is absolutely amazing how many resources are out there in cyberspace. I don't think that young people who have grown up with this technology can appreciate the almost mystical properties of virtually universal communication and information and the impact of this availability. Undoubtedly, the upheavals in the Middle East are related to this dispersal and distribution of knowledge.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Resource
One of the things that I wanted to do is included links I thought were useful. I am not sure how many art makers are looking at this but this is one I thought would be relevant to a lot of people I know, even though it seems to be UK based. http://www.printmaker.co.uk/links.html There are a great number of links to good print artists and various resources. This site also looks good but I am not sure how good the links are as I don't want to get caught upon surfing tonight.http://artdeadlineslist.com/
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
re ETSY
So here is the address to my little ETSY shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/Simnora . I am quite frankly amazed by the shear volume of work available and I am appreciative of scope of both subject and execution. There are some really impressive artists on there. So use my link to get there and please have fun shopping when you land. Buy some original art made by a real person, maybe from your home town.
On that note, I would like to leave you with a link to a blog I have recently discovered regarding funding for the arts and the quality of art in general.
http://chavisory.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/not-enough-excellent-art-o-rly/
On that note, I would like to leave you with a link to a blog I have recently discovered regarding funding for the arts and the quality of art in general.
http://chavisory.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/not-enough-excellent-art-o-rly/
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
life after Bachelard
I had intended to post yesterday but intention and reality rarely converge and to a chronic procrastinator that is as good an excuse as any. But excuses aside, yesterday was a little busy. There was a lot of errand running and laundry folding going on and despite my best intentions I only got to the print studio at 9pm. Luckily today is family day in Edmonton and my kids were good sports about waiting for me to aquatint my massive copper etching plate. It's 26" x 40" which barely makes a 2" border on a sheet of Somerset. I guess this one will take Hanaemuhle copper etching instead. Remind me in future not to make enormous prints which require 20$ per sheet paper.
But I digress. Or not. I don't want to rehash Bachelard or write some heady academic treatise. I'll leave that for "official" writing like articles or papers. This is more of an observation. The Poetics of Space is required reading for a number of U Alberta senior studios with good reason. It is thought provoking and evocative and for a contemporary art-maker this is a good thing. Right now my work has a lot of "space" and a great deal of "poetry" in it. I'll get that up in good time, I promise. I do have a senior portfolio to prepare for our jury and not a lot of time to accomplish that.
So where does Bachelard tie into my studio escapades last night? Simply put, while I was skulking about the paint studio looking for interesting paint splotches on the floor to add to my photo reference materials I noticed a really interesting phenomenon. While many of the painters take print studios, I rarely venture down to senior painting except to use the spray booth. I am a little on the OCD side and painting is, well, a bit messy. I think that characteristic is common to many University painting studios but our seems especially overcrowded with so many of the senior students involved in painting right now. I took advantage of the abandoned studio by snooping around, looking at work in progress.
I soon discovered that not unlike both printmaking and drawing, a great deal of work in painting also involves both space and poetry. Some of it seems to involves metaphorical use of various building interiors and exteriors; hence a dialectic of inside and outside. Some work appears to involve a more phenomenological relationship to space. Suffice it to say I was moved by much of the work of my fellow students and have resolved to venture downstairs more often, especially when the studio is not abandoned.
I see the dialectic of inside and outside as representative of so many things , not the least of which are concepts like conscious and unconscious, not necessarily as polarities like one or the other but as entities superimposed with areas which over lap to differing degrees. The boundaries blur and that which is in, is out and that which is out intrudes on the in. No matter wether one is in a so called tangible real space or a metaphorical one, there is always a blurred line that we can not fully distinguish.
But I digress. Or not. I don't want to rehash Bachelard or write some heady academic treatise. I'll leave that for "official" writing like articles or papers. This is more of an observation. The Poetics of Space is required reading for a number of U Alberta senior studios with good reason. It is thought provoking and evocative and for a contemporary art-maker this is a good thing. Right now my work has a lot of "space" and a great deal of "poetry" in it. I'll get that up in good time, I promise. I do have a senior portfolio to prepare for our jury and not a lot of time to accomplish that.
So where does Bachelard tie into my studio escapades last night? Simply put, while I was skulking about the paint studio looking for interesting paint splotches on the floor to add to my photo reference materials I noticed a really interesting phenomenon. While many of the painters take print studios, I rarely venture down to senior painting except to use the spray booth. I am a little on the OCD side and painting is, well, a bit messy. I think that characteristic is common to many University painting studios but our seems especially overcrowded with so many of the senior students involved in painting right now. I took advantage of the abandoned studio by snooping around, looking at work in progress.
I soon discovered that not unlike both printmaking and drawing, a great deal of work in painting also involves both space and poetry. Some of it seems to involves metaphorical use of various building interiors and exteriors; hence a dialectic of inside and outside. Some work appears to involve a more phenomenological relationship to space. Suffice it to say I was moved by much of the work of my fellow students and have resolved to venture downstairs more often, especially when the studio is not abandoned.
I see the dialectic of inside and outside as representative of so many things , not the least of which are concepts like conscious and unconscious, not necessarily as polarities like one or the other but as entities superimposed with areas which over lap to differing degrees. The boundaries blur and that which is in, is out and that which is out intrudes on the in. No matter wether one is in a so called tangible real space or a metaphorical one, there is always a blurred line that we can not fully distinguish.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
First Post, some thoughts on "The Poetics of Space"
This is why I went back to University, I never would have thought to give this work a second glance had it not been assigned as a reading for a studio class; a senior drawing course to be precise. To be fair, my instructor did not assign the book, by Gaston Bachelard to be read in its entirety over a one week period. She only assigned one chapter, the Dialectic of Inside and Outside. It is by no stretch an easy read and as an adult diagnosed with ADHD I have to admit that the battle required more than a single attack. But hot damn! it was so worth it. Because although I was under no obligation to read the rest of the book, it drew me in by shear virtue of its magnetic suction. I guess this is a love it or hate it sort of book. Ambivalence is the purview of those unhappy souls who can't or do not wish to get through the first few pages. Anyway, I have left this too late and I'll have to continue in the am or thereto about as I am falling asleep typing. Man it sucks getting old sometimes; at least the physical deterioration part does. I am not too worried. I don't expect too many readers right now. Besides writing more on Bachelard, I'll also throw in some images that I am referring to for printmaking and drawing that are related to Bachelarian ideas. TTFN ..."Head hitting keyboard, thud".
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