Coming Attractions
note: this is the 2nd post of June 18 Expect a change during the next few months. I’m about to hit the road and …
Me, Artist
This is a story about an artist who started a blog and stopped making art. Me. Not making art came as a surprise — …
Art in Sacred Spaces
Dilston Grove by Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey via cubeme Dilston Grove by Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey (2003) via cubeme Think …
When Art Pulls an Artist in Different Directions
All photography in this post by JanLeonardo via his website Here is a …
Graphics in Motion
Imagine the delight around 180 AD when the Chinese inventor Ting Huan showed off his chao hua chich kuan, the first known zoetrope. It was powered …
* Posts Are Missing *
Yesterday several of my most recent blog posts went poof. Hobgoblins in someone’s server, rats in the wires, who knows? I apologize for any inconvenience …
Painted In? or Painted Out?
Note: This is the reworking of a June 21 post that was lost (with some others) in a server glitch. _________________________________________ Cecilia Paredes …
Drawing and Writing with Light
This is the reconstruction of a June 19 blog post that suffered digital destruction. Comments evaporated, updates have been made. __________________________________ Lucid line, a line …
The Art of Painting with Light, Part 2: the Poets
I want to look today at a very different form of light painting than we did in the last post. Here the artists carry their …
The Art of Painting with Light, Part 1: the Gonzo Sector
Light Tartans Fountain Park #4 by Vicki DaSilva via Whitehot Magazine I wasn’t long out of high school when I saw a painting of light — …
The Agony and the Ecstasy and the Wrath and the Sigh
Maybe you heard that Apple was bringing out a new Mac Pro tower? Well it wasn’t strictly true. New wheel covers, new turn signal maybe, …
Maybe the 100 Most Beautiful Words in English
A long time ago a friend opined that the most beautiful word in the English language was syphilis. You could hear in his delivery that …
Allegory
Allegory by Maskull Lasserre (steel, wood, textile, industrial sewing machine) via his website This arresting work by Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre is titled Allegory. …
Spirits Put in Places
They’re poles apart yet somehow kindred. Eyvind Earle and Charles Burchfield both created landscapes that could speak philosophy. Earle’s serigraphs speak of the still-point, the intoned …
Recording What Is, Until There’s More of It
Up until about 150 years ago the only recording devices on earth were humans. We notched bones, painted caves, tracked the planets, told history in …
Catching a Wave — with a Camera
Storm waves. Think of the power — to pulverize, shove, snap to pieces. There are photographers who face these seas. The images they return with …
A Neophyte Blogger in Tight Shoes
an ideal room imagined by Sloan Nota artwork and furniture are actual pieces but their sizes are as unreliable as the perspective Maximo Riera‘s octopus chair …
Wood
Maybe I was unduly influenced by JRR Tolkien’s Ents in childhood. Huge trees seem like powers, nearly personalities. You put your hand on a trunk and …
Meaning and Versions
Man Alone with Someone Else’s Thoughts, video and still (click link to activate in new window) by Sloan Nota 2011 I hit on a new …
Design and Pattern
Riffing off of yesterday’s post about fluidity. Again an image by Shinichi Maruyama, now compared with one by a 19th century Japanese artist, the master Utagawa …