tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59097219738374801942024-03-27T16:53:41.580-07:00Drawing Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.comBlogger683125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-38884436157714270702024-03-25T03:58:00.000-07:002024-03-25T03:58:27.094-07:00Loss of innocence and its rediscovery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig1v-bWzt26nZXyOZ3PNDAtOOWFvpsoUgCle5AN0FQsNP-WJ_PDQ1BHqOiG9j0NHPovfB5VdtWOLD0r_fsbqzRjARYcqR_O-LwWN74GKh6LPX1MHw_VcBBy86faMBctu2Se7s_pR-z0hAKbHVoImWvxyKc75CRos0Bf8PP8ScafxIOhJQihv7-QxdUCF8/s4746/landscapebody.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="4746" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig1v-bWzt26nZXyOZ3PNDAtOOWFvpsoUgCle5AN0FQsNP-WJ_PDQ1BHqOiG9j0NHPovfB5VdtWOLD0r_fsbqzRjARYcqR_O-LwWN74GKh6LPX1MHw_VcBBy86faMBctu2Se7s_pR-z0hAKbHVoImWvxyKc75CRos0Bf8PP8ScafxIOhJQihv7-QxdUCF8/w320-h169/landscapebody.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Detail of an imaginary landscape</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div></div><span style="font-family: arial;">On the subject of the loss of innocence and its rediscovery, Picasso is quoted as saying "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up" and he is also quoted as stating, "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child". <br /><br />I was reminded of these quotes when I was listening to Kirsty Young's podcast 'Young Again' that was focused on an interview with the writer Phillip Pullman. He was he said at one time a middle school teacher and during the years 9 to 13 he saw children change their behaviours as they became self aware. He referenced in relation to this, 'On the Marionette Theatre' by Heinrich von Kleist, and this extract below is what I think he was referring to.<br /><br /><i>"About three years ago", I said, "I was at the baths with a young man who was then remarkably graceful. He was about fifteen, and only faintly could one see the first traces of vanity, a product of the favours shown him by women. It happened that we had recently seen in Paris the figure of the boy pulling a thorn out of his foot. The cast of the statue is well known; you see it in most German collections. My friend looked into a tall mirror just as he was lifting his foot to a stool to dry it, and he was reminded of the statue. He smiled and told me of his discovery. As a matter of fact, I'd noticed it too, at the same moment, but... I don't know if it was to test the quality of his apparent grace or to provide a salutary counter to his vanity... I laughed and said he must be imagining things. He blushed. He lifted his foot a second time, to show me, but the effort was a failure, as anybody could have foreseen. He tried it again a third time, a fourth time, he must have lifted his foot ten times, but it was in vain. He was quite unable to reproduce the same movement. What am I saying? The movements he made were so comical that I was hard put to it not to laugh.<br /><br />From that day, from that very moment, an extraordinary change came over this boy. He began to spend whole days before the mirror. His attractions slipped away from him, one after the other. An invisible and incomprehensible power seemed to settle like a steel net over the free play of his gestures. A year later nothing remained of the lovely grace which had given pleasure to all who looked at him. I can tell you of a man, still alive, who was a witness to this strange and unfortunate event. He can confirm it, word for word, just as I've described it."</i><br /><br />A key moment in Jewish and Christian religious terms was of course the fall of mankind. By eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, we were no longer innocent and knowledge brought with it the difficulties and vicissitudes of too much awareness; suddenly we realised we were naked. As knowledge is gained innocence is lost and we become more self-conscious. We have hopefully when children all at some point in our lives inhabited those states of unselfconsciousness; experiences that were often pure and joyful. As adults though we have to attain those types of experiences in other ways. The poet Lorca suggested that we could regain the poetry of unselfconsciousness via what he called 'el duende'; that quality of human 'lost in the moment' action that he found in the best flamenco dancers; who could attain an almost trance like state that made the experience of their dance unforgettable. Lorca believed duende could be found in all the arts, not just in dance, and that it could only come into existence when someone is totally possessed by the experience, one where subject and object are conjoined, where the physical world and the artist merge with the spirit world; and when this happens forms arrive as if “shaped like wind on sand”. (Lorca, in Berger, 2016, p.99) But to achieve that state, we need to practice and practice and practice, until our body/minds meld into one and we know what to do without thinking. As we get older, what we loose in spontaneity we can regain through hard work. Through practice, a new type of grace can be attained that is even better than the one we had as an unselfconscious child. Hard work and long effort can lead eventually to an apparent child like simplicity, which is the state I'm sure Picasso was referring to when he said it takes a lifetime to paint like a child. <br /><br />Philip Pullman then went on to say that you don't make art because you are inspired, inspiration he stated is a reward for hard work. I have spent endless hours drawing, years and years of making artwork, and gradually I think I'm beginning to make some things that look easy, but which on second looking it hopefully becomes apparent that they have a deep complex conviction behind them.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Childhood is though always with us. I remember at the age of 10 looking out of the window of my bedroom in our house in Himley Road, Dudley. We were about to move house and I wanted to remember the landscape that I had spent so many hours playing in. My bedroom was at the back of the house, it looked out over the scarred wasteland that had been the space within which I had grown into my own self awareness. There was the slag heap down whose sides I used to run or ride my battered old scooter, bomb craters that I had in the past lined their edges with hedge clippings in order to make dens and hide away from everyone else. I looked at the walls that formed the backs of yards where the pigs were kept, animals that would inhabit my imagination throughout my life, a slag mound hillock on which I once stood holding a roof slate in my hand for an older boy to shoot at with his air rifle, the pain as the pellet went into my hand still remembered, the rusty remains of old factory equipment still left broken after wartime bombing, but which were now entangled in weeds; all a backdrop for vivid imaginary play. <br /><br />That landscape is still with me now, the cradle of my innocence. I have tried to rediscover it time and time again, each time looking for a way of capturing something of that feeling of total immersion that comes from being lost in play. Part of an artist's role it would seem to me is to try to maintain some sort of naivety and to try and hold off the sophistication of adulthood for as long as you can, or at least to fold into the knowledge that comes with age and memory of the innocence that came first. </span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Fw9Ab30mNX3y-PU9CavK1OLN0CtZxcKFIjXTMmOjVHPhrxZeTH1-THs5VE93x6IINMe7irSHPylohmqPENCkvvuem7Vv2egOo8U03dWptX6g8_zYZ2MwUTqdsmmuOxgRucO1z-P04EpxBOmIhJQqCSTNJL1an3mLH4dyXtyEd3_7AUNn6ihFSuBh3Es/s4320/landscapewithrunner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4320" data-original-width="3180" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Fw9Ab30mNX3y-PU9CavK1OLN0CtZxcKFIjXTMmOjVHPhrxZeTH1-THs5VE93x6IINMe7irSHPylohmqPENCkvvuem7Vv2egOo8U03dWptX6g8_zYZ2MwUTqdsmmuOxgRucO1z-P04EpxBOmIhJQqCSTNJL1an3mLH4dyXtyEd3_7AUNn6ihFSuBh3Es/s320/landscapewithrunner.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Landscape of the past</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The drawing 'Landscape of the Past' is based on my memories of the time when I looked out of that bedroom window. I made the drawing about 5 or 6 years ago, so roughly 60 years after the actual experience. Has enough work been done to regain an innocent eye? I suppose that is up to others to decide, but within my own aesthetic process, the loss of innocence and its rediscovery are key components that need to be added into a mix of animist practices and a need to be entwined into the world and not to stand outside of it. I still struggle to accept the subjective insides that have become enfolded into me from a previous outside, but in that very struggle, perhaps my most interesting work is done. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWis4ncPsLvh6A5maJwm_zpOPpeHjwC4ZPj7PLUdkdX4gsAvxGs0h9vTeAgYUSyGV32AjivV5vx35WAaGHjMMT53CDoGU_FsjrIiCWUgqJZBmKlGdU3v7WFz31SSDogfB43nPiWtL_Q_sfddxsZBC6q1-VgeK90hlPK9psOGaDWeGoew1YMspyIHi_5_c/s2510/runningwithlowclouds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2510" data-original-width="1772" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWis4ncPsLvh6A5maJwm_zpOPpeHjwC4ZPj7PLUdkdX4gsAvxGs0h9vTeAgYUSyGV32AjivV5vx35WAaGHjMMT53CDoGU_FsjrIiCWUgqJZBmKlGdU3v7WFz31SSDogfB43nPiWtL_Q_sfddxsZBC6q1-VgeK90hlPK9psOGaDWeGoew1YMspyIHi_5_c/s320/runningwithlowclouds.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Running with low cloud and pig</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The drawing 'Running with low cloud and pig' melds together several stories. Clouds were wonderful things to watch as a boy, I would lie on my back for what seemed hours just gazing at them and imagining what worlds and creatures they contained. Then one day as a teenager I saw the film based on Michelangelo's life, 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' and saw Charlton Heston doing the same thing, but this time seeing in his clouds the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. This very romantic take on an artist's life effected me deeply and it was one of those 'moments of epiphany', whereby I realised that I wanted to be an artist. The clouds are tadpoles waiting to metamorphose into whatever they needed to. I run down the hill towards home, arms outstretched as I did as a boy, always about to take off, always about to fly. The pig, my nemesis, waits in ambush, all tales from a younger self, but now re-seen with an older eye. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See also: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/04/contemporary-landscape-drawing.html">Contemporary landscape </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/03/contemporary-landscape-part-two.html">Contemporary landscape part two</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/05/drawing-plants.html">Drawing plants</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/06/why-do-i-draw.html">Why do I draw?</a><br /></span><br /></div></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-41220570517713071992024-03-17T03:08:00.000-07:002024-03-17T03:08:20.682-07:00Carlfriedrich Claus and Sprachblatt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEik9HYjS-t1mYdRZZcxAOsU7wKx77j5zc9avwtpmawzu6bpM82dpVYcNrL-kzfx--5dSUzk-BBtftY-9X3b1GS1nU8MUlctMgapVgBFKZLo-6tJXfgDWaG98jwME50Nh1e27ymXj0zBMgk40UyQ0Yv2-vL9q9hjzlVR8iYxlLgosHjL1LEfeFLEIjCk8pU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEik9HYjS-t1mYdRZZcxAOsU7wKx77j5zc9avwtpmawzu6bpM82dpVYcNrL-kzfx--5dSUzk-BBtftY-9X3b1GS1nU8MUlctMgapVgBFKZLo-6tJXfgDWaG98jwME50Nh1e27ymXj0zBMgk40UyQ0Yv2-vL9q9hjzlVR8iYxlLgosHjL1LEfeFLEIjCk8pU=w320-h227" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Carlfriedrich Claus's sprachblatt or speech sheets, are forms of a writing/drawing mix, whereby text is fused with texture, and as you stand away from the image, texture begins to dominate text, but as you focus in, text becomes more important. So for instance at the scale of screen reproduction texture is more immediately apparent and the image can be read as a visual sound.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtrcVk5Qs1Chbmr6_TCMS8Je4D5yK7diHjYyw_AfNWkM-X1xT-nhj9LEVAebGGR7PNw0Kro9TxOhoQXN-9k9963xIbZ0hJ2Rutp8d_AJ5gCBYUQ4kVcPeudUgf_nWH5zRONGU9QlpmgPYjCJd0pYennbO8sQEGjTQ7i111IE8PSMoZWvEON-LhDQjD_RU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="637" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtrcVk5Qs1Chbmr6_TCMS8Je4D5yK7diHjYyw_AfNWkM-X1xT-nhj9LEVAebGGR7PNw0Kro9TxOhoQXN-9k9963xIbZ0hJ2Rutp8d_AJ5gCBYUQ4kVcPeudUgf_nWH5zRONGU9QlpmgPYjCJd0pYennbO8sQEGjTQ7i111IE8PSMoZWvEON-LhDQjD_RU=w400-h195" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiF9vR5NZxzZNjwEhbXEJ5xID5LLuLNu3Q2dW4XIWdHt7Niitdi3ncvBDHiQwObdSItrPseI9duDUuCsnwU_djwTClCqxb4fkiavxOjoydvWcPuWfItvMDbRK-SqKsjIae_mmtAvucNypF2rNxUnyno3nGli5kgX40g4tCofJXRVZ49_v606rxuvkiZnww" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="998" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiF9vR5NZxzZNjwEhbXEJ5xID5LLuLNu3Q2dW4XIWdHt7Niitdi3ncvBDHiQwObdSItrPseI9duDUuCsnwU_djwTClCqxb4fkiavxOjoydvWcPuWfItvMDbRK-SqKsjIae_mmtAvucNypF2rNxUnyno3nGli5kgX40g4tCofJXRVZ49_v606rxuvkiZnww" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-right: 3rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The use of language in visual poetry was a specialty of Carlfriedrich Claus, who developed his work in the early 1960s. He believed that the 'naturalised individual’ ought to live in harmony with a 'humanised natural world’ and his ideas mix European philosophy with Eastern mysticism and the writings of Marx. His text-drawings, often drawn on both sides of transparent sheets, illustrate both the processual and dialectal approaches to his ideas. For instance you might get two pages that set out a thesis and antithesis in order to arrive at some sort of synthesis; however no matter how hard you try to 'read' these images, it is hard to avoid the sense that their meaning will always be hidden. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-right: 3rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: "Clan W04 Narrow Book"; font-size: 0.875rem; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibrDL_KFRByOJPgTLDxOGLjJm8loynyWqzp6NnJ8bmXxXI9ienYsL2AlPD4A1hUGwuxuT2ex1hA_PIfW89y3SL-J9CC5ZDl96Y0noOLizpNy3NpY3ykTffnm2QCasbee9weHzNtL25mBJfJXqlINWGcSpwslF0ofGrQ34XQ1QKgiNYzOma9lIs0RTP08o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="378" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibrDL_KFRByOJPgTLDxOGLjJm8loynyWqzp6NnJ8bmXxXI9ienYsL2AlPD4A1hUGwuxuT2ex1hA_PIfW89y3SL-J9CC5ZDl96Y0noOLizpNy3NpY3ykTffnm2QCasbee9weHzNtL25mBJfJXqlINWGcSpwslF0ofGrQ34XQ1QKgiNYzOma9lIs0RTP08o=w257-h320" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;">'Aurora’ (1977)</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is how Claus wrote about his processes: "The production of speech sheets and of phoneme processes ran parallel. The speech sheets arose through my experimental use of my left hand (I am right-handed), and in doing so I noticed, first, the formation of internal blockages, like a psychological stuttering, and second, a different coloration of the content of my thought. (…) These phoneme processes or speech operations are not speaking in the sense of phonology, in which the specific scaffolding of a natural language must precede each act of speech. Here, the whole point is to break through this scaffolding, to break out of it or out of the prison of natural language, which determines in great part our relationship to the world. (…) Basically, the 'phoneme aggregate' suggests to the listener that he experiment with his own organs of speech and that he explore how various sounds, consciously articulated, affect his psychological state."</span></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-right: 3rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizq4-8PtZZN2BQgHcaVu0gM-RaQONmGFLVmzYX-0rs7OlmO47Xh6zXwW2e94A6ncDKr3FF-fbp3BK2g4HiMA00MF74uqjC-YOXPgyt-GCnXdJ974oaz6Q2QX2ip5NxwmxaJSIbFHWUBY7FN6vLtkJs6y5ZKECfNYl7vFhqSWG9Vjc-_5QXJD6V4L3RP70" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizq4-8PtZZN2BQgHcaVu0gM-RaQONmGFLVmzYX-0rs7OlmO47Xh6zXwW2e94A6ncDKr3FF-fbp3BK2g4HiMA00MF74uqjC-YOXPgyt-GCnXdJ974oaz6Q2QX2ip5NxwmxaJSIbFHWUBY7FN6vLtkJs6y5ZKECfNYl7vFhqSWG9Vjc-_5QXJD6V4L3RP70" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNKl65YDMkaXG66QpwEAcjxDv2BLTqY1qV6YJ4ymadZSi8rtgA3pn5bW_DMOL3bqMpPVXmjsDAXJVEKB9aH2LN6pYab2aVoplZyDQGN6S5MSaoWpbKLv_pSTvVbQJ3OtGR5_25puUocpP-F99ayp29GfemHbAxccQ6GoeZqzmEdU9JGNE-FPpdORDj5zw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNKl65YDMkaXG66QpwEAcjxDv2BLTqY1qV6YJ4ymadZSi8rtgA3pn5bW_DMOL3bqMpPVXmjsDAXJVEKB9aH2LN6pYab2aVoplZyDQGN6S5MSaoWpbKLv_pSTvVbQJ3OtGR5_25puUocpP-F99ayp29GfemHbAxccQ6GoeZqzmEdU9JGNE-FPpdORDj5zw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #333333;">Carlfriedrich Claus: </span><span style="color: #333333; text-align: start;">installation in the former Reichstag Building in Berlin</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWWcTmVGlxoKSzFPG77LSxT8hPqY3L42tr18SWCMV2egDapno6wWqDvsyJj64mP_b5T1RgXB7qgs9TF55Cy610SYaXMKXUzloknp9xyaeWzZGmRf-XLuphtyvAkbs25EhS6D2bXaJReUx3Npq4-ye47cq9q1FcUaOzBxXh6xNVrbC9pGKRJdUKvvUcEPM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWWcTmVGlxoKSzFPG77LSxT8hPqY3L42tr18SWCMV2egDapno6wWqDvsyJj64mP_b5T1RgXB7qgs9TF55Cy610SYaXMKXUzloknp9xyaeWzZGmRf-XLuphtyvAkbs25EhS6D2bXaJReUx3Npq4-ye47cq9q1FcUaOzBxXh6xNVrbC9pGKRJdUKvvUcEPM" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Carlfriedrich Claus at work</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However it is in the work he did with sound that I think has the most potential to be revisited and thought about as a stimulus for students interested in contemporary drawing. Claus had been working on an installation from the 1950s to the 1990s, which addressed language as a written image and sound process. 'Lautaggregat K' used a spatial layer of sound, forming a 'sound aggregate', originally used for a WDR radio play, using a special stereophonic system; this sound material then forming the basis for a 1995 installation, in which several speech processes ran in parallel and were mixed at an editing desk. These layers of sound corresponded with the writing images, that were spatially arranged on transparent surfaces. The subject of the text dealt with philosophical themes, while the sound process itself was intended to be experienced physically. These two normally separate experiences, the intellectual and the physical being brought together.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2-b4AgYUZR87peAvPgfbIxN93nmbXrMYE3gEZf3FsG-QcSIvJFeoAvhYnEFFUEQ9s624B49_hqcBwfDI8qe9sywjMWQEBx1btjDxPk1kVQjP3JtXKMhmOTAGqdH-C4HcsiuDRukwoigmqAEylAdORVTXToGodpcYtavAxdn03x7m52hoGHHAH_VT96yY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2-b4AgYUZR87peAvPgfbIxN93nmbXrMYE3gEZf3FsG-QcSIvJFeoAvhYnEFFUEQ9s624B49_hqcBwfDI8qe9sywjMWQEBx1btjDxPk1kVQjP3JtXKMhmOTAGqdH-C4HcsiuDRukwoigmqAEylAdORVTXToGodpcYtavAxdn03x7m52hoGHHAH_VT96yY" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: start;">Carlfriedrich Claus: sound processing room 1995</span></div><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.27px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In his work there was a constant dialectical flip between reading, hearing and looking and he stated that his works aimed to impregnate ‘ways of seeing with lingual thinking’. Perhaps I have been reminded of his work because Sue has begun working towards a PhD and she was looking at how work she had done in the past when curating sound artists, is now being archived. Sometimes our interests feel very different, but they also touch at sometimes unexpected points and this work of </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Claus's is I think an interesting case. He now has his own <a href="https://www.kunstsammlungen-chemnitz.de/en/carlfriedrich-claus-archiv/">archive</a>, where his</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> acoustic work is available on 15 reel-to-reel tapes and 267 cassette tapes and it would be interesting to see what issues and problems the archive has faced in reconstructing experiences of his work for those who visit. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">The move towards a g</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">esamtkunstwerk, whereby various elements of an artwork come together to create a totality, is something that at one point or another many artists consider, because by the nature of things artists try out various approaches to communicating related ideas. This often leaves you with a diverse body of work that only seems to make sense when the various elements are collected together. For myself the drawings Claus produced make far more sense when coupled with the sound pieces he made. I think in my own case my drawings make more sense when shown alongside my ceramics, prints and written work, but how to organise all the elements is at present something I'm not sure how to do, I need curatorial advice. </span></span></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2014/08/eye-music.html">Eye music</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/12/drawing-sound-spectrograms-vibration.html">Drawing sound</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2015/01/concepts-and-process-mapping-as.html">Mapping as translation</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/05/drawing-on-edge-of-writing.html">Asemic writing</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/03/drawing-as-portable-sculpture.html">Drawing as portable sculpture</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/09/drawing-into-installation.html">Drawing into installation</a></span></div></div></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-90559098927111427652024-03-11T08:42:00.000-07:002024-03-11T08:42:53.789-07:00Old and new traditions<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEyXBF_quITEdOYJUAIYUQMRkKBvLMZ7ZvJaUPVlixxS-qnrk6WUVlOD4ZzFxaiSTnYl8J5OHC3-cErfZo8MoGadsT-EwcA0zZDS32eXZT9oI5F2FGJLFUJDeayPE_IARgMg0HFt5MVlF4plhvZ8IlvgjfjhzrMDspu3HMKy4VYS6pC2o2Q8OELkFr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3186" data-original-width="3200" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEyXBF_quITEdOYJUAIYUQMRkKBvLMZ7ZvJaUPVlixxS-qnrk6WUVlOD4ZzFxaiSTnYl8J5OHC3-cErfZo8MoGadsT-EwcA0zZDS32eXZT9oI5F2FGJLFUJDeayPE_IARgMg0HFt5MVlF4plhvZ8IlvgjfjhzrMDspu3HMKy4VYS6pC2o2Q8OELkFr=w320-h319" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;">Tenmyouya Hisashi: RX-78-2 Kabuki-mono 2005 Version</div><br />I've posted a few times on other cultures and traditions, and the posts have tended to concentrate on the past and the historical legacy that comes with being part of a different culture. However there are other stories and one of the most common is how tradition and contemporaneity coincide. The Japanese artist Tenmyouya Hisashi for instance uses tradition to reflect on contemporary life and at the same time question the notion of tradition itself. His work questions what traditional culture is, not just in relation to Japan but everywhere.<br /><br />When my son was a young boy he was fascinated by Transformer toys. The Transformers toy line was created by the Japanese company Takara and was initially marketed in Japan under the names of '</span><span style="font-family: arial;">Micro Change' and 'Diaclone'</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">. I</span>n 1984, the US company Hasbro bought the distribution rights to these toys and re-branded them as 'The Transformers' for a North American audience. The designs for the original figures, all of which could transform from one thing such as a car, aircraft, gun or even a cassette into robots, were made by Japanese artists such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji_Kawamori">Shōji Kawamori</a>, (who was probably the most well known), but also designers such as Kouzin Ohno, (Ironhide, Jazz, Starscream) and Takayoshi Doi, who designed the Dinobots. I was at the time fascinated by the Insecticons who were designed by Takashi Matsuda. I thought I could see traces of Egyptian scarab beetle sculptures in their design; a design that was constructed so that these toys could transform from insects into robots. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLWHiR0LU0XHvhUTfyxtJMyzrrA2C1Ad6PvON2nYd35caXXt4R7zYT6DMth7vttAvOaNKRkAkF7JFEdgrsZO3yoaQmsrT5QTyLnNoV9_mEchhKw8inWEuI681u6XDC3RLG4Tc8EU6v8hLiL_0Q6j6NqHZicAi9ZieFZHDdHiAeNHRhndcIrwf4U9rt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1440" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLWHiR0LU0XHvhUTfyxtJMyzrrA2C1Ad6PvON2nYd35caXXt4R7zYT6DMth7vttAvOaNKRkAkF7JFEdgrsZO3yoaQmsrT5QTyLnNoV9_mEchhKw8inWEuI681u6XDC3RLG4Tc8EU6v8hLiL_0Q6j6NqHZicAi9ZieFZHDdHiAeNHRhndcIrwf4U9rt" width="216" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Egyptian scarab </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLiiOjSzCdl5iefFZRk0vjdeB8RkVtF2322VLSb_BQZqPgtEgtNruFNtdtzt5EvodDHAqLDs7eJMcc7KSsgVcZO26i-VIlo3Owql0L5m8QP9f15vkaZX2YLz9xNeLBVgIIA4be6GGg6xX6HGJEm5sar_uHPPiO6Pl87hShc_u-VJo2_XNkkqVq43P6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1000" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLiiOjSzCdl5iefFZRk0vjdeB8RkVtF2322VLSb_BQZqPgtEgtNruFNtdtzt5EvodDHAqLDs7eJMcc7KSsgVcZO26i-VIlo3Owql0L5m8QP9f15vkaZX2YLz9xNeLBVgIIA4be6GGg6xX6HGJEm5sar_uHPPiO6Pl87hShc_u-VJo2_XNkkqVq43P6" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bombshell Insecticon </div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Takashi Matsuda also came up with the form of Megatron, a robot that could also transform into a gun. All of these toys had one thing in common, they could take on more than one identity. A tiny insect could morph into a giant robot, size constancy didn't seem to be a problem for a child's imagination. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The cultural tradition young boys were growing up with in the 1980s and 90s was definably Japanese, especially as Nintendo released their Gameboy in 1990 hot on the heels of the Transformers coming to the UK. Culture within the commercial world of capitalism is global. Hasbro needed English names and associated back stories for the characters, so that they could be marketed to English speaking customers with a narrative that was understandable in relation to Western young boys and their interests and so they approached Marvel Comics and Bob Budiansky was given the job. He conceived the names of many of the original Transformers that would be then released onto the American and European markets, such as Megatron, Ratchet, Starscream, Sideswipe and Ravage. He also wrote the vast majority of the descriptive "tech spec" biographies printed on the Transformers' toy packages, giving each figure unique personality traits in the same way that Marvel superheroes such as Spiderman were constructed. In this way two cultures were blended, the world of Japanese toy design and the superhero world of American comics. The fusion would of course result in Marvel releasing another comic title, The Transformers'.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivDDORVJvIFOxMp7tBw1DoHQFjvTsDOe4LmcESDjwnNvdDwmR-Wr7RRCLnGaYJRGvN2TGPLwVEpV8vOCuP_9_n23XDS38zaFcF_e6okAeJn46wQLv1-QRCgwh844xqvz38EORvTNSCNcWuOPaIRLV-_iV-aZozAUgyJdpDZDVbSRFtxD8Vcq8RENQ3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="541" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivDDORVJvIFOxMp7tBw1DoHQFjvTsDOe4LmcESDjwnNvdDwmR-Wr7RRCLnGaYJRGvN2TGPLwVEpV8vOCuP_9_n23XDS38zaFcF_e6okAeJn46wQLv1-QRCgwh844xqvz38EORvTNSCNcWuOPaIRLV-_iV-aZozAUgyJdpDZDVbSRFtxD8Vcq8RENQ3" width="237" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From Transformers the comic</div><br />You can easily spot the historical references in the design of the robot forms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWfnok-KMKX7dm4Y6JOUtz8918LUmF1kk7YrOSvhRNvoTeM4qajRj5eTvRa-sGA5Lrg5UkJPep8ElGMWhHnLhqUuso1bSToHV56Qg8LZo8TK7f1kJ8rnp-qN0FWZ_i2BlGEtU59PYvrIzIj7RudCa82L1bQlCws0QV7nCXC9UMoTfE0qZtwEhjVvpV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="1000" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWfnok-KMKX7dm4Y6JOUtz8918LUmF1kk7YrOSvhRNvoTeM4qajRj5eTvRa-sGA5Lrg5UkJPep8ElGMWhHnLhqUuso1bSToHV56Qg8LZo8TK7f1kJ8rnp-qN0FWZ_i2BlGEtU59PYvrIzIj7RudCa82L1bQlCws0QV7nCXC9UMoTfE0qZtwEhjVvpV" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Traditional samurai armour</div></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpDB5yOBGw90jfGc1s5p7n76rTg6lD97Bzzegb2NZcPftjRdWtPOdn3jjo6Qi6ZhJVZPwDdZqIJALc-NoVeFfRwIoctk0_Y2EIa1WLBDG8whFXABYUb_xC-J2FGFK2DdPrz-ERtKOVBw_wzVxoWusbsO80iMfAb4LkE5_WOLtA3R_fcczVtrv9p7EF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2470" data-original-width="1680" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpDB5yOBGw90jfGc1s5p7n76rTg6lD97Bzzegb2NZcPftjRdWtPOdn3jjo6Qi6ZhJVZPwDdZqIJALc-NoVeFfRwIoctk0_Y2EIa1WLBDG8whFXABYUb_xC-J2FGFK2DdPrz-ERtKOVBw_wzVxoWusbsO80iMfAb4LkE5_WOLtA3R_fcczVtrv9p7EF=w217-h320" width="217" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tenmyouya Hisashi</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Tenmyouya Hisashi's images illustrate the 'mash up' of traditions that occur as hybrid global cultures emerge. In 2006 the Japanese football team had qualified for the football world cup which was held in Germany. A game originally invented in England, now belonging to a world wide culture, a game that now represented serious international money and that also wanted to celebrate the inclusion of specifically recognisable 'other' cultures as proof that the game was now global. Tenmyouya Hisashi's images were perfect illustrations of this and his work was chosen as one of the posters that celebrated the event. The use of traditional gold leaf backgrounds to his images, now also signifying the background of wealth that at the time surrounded world football. His '<span style="text-align: center;">RX-78-2 Kabuki-mono' image of a Transformer toy, constructed again on a gold leaf background and this time with a traditional dragon wrapping itself around the robot, fuses the old and new traditions together in such as way that we are reminded that the robot's design is based on ancient Japanese warrior costumes. </span></div><br />The robot within Japanese culture is particularly fascinating. It is an object that generates meaning for its Japanese observers and participants within a tradition that is specifically Japanese. Shintoism has been followed in Japan for over a thousand years and it is a religious tradition that embraces animism. Spirits or kami, can be seen to inhabit animals, natural features like mountains and many other non-human things. Therefore the idea of a robot being able to be animated by human like attributes was more easily assimilable by Japanese culture. There had also been a long tradition of automata using clockwork mechanisms. The term 'karakuri ningyō' refers to a variety of clockwork automats created in Japan during the 17th century. <br />Karakuri = ‘mechanism’ or ‘trick’ / ningyō = a puppet.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1-yJnbPULWkmUXLgq1V063uPPYjRRaGQA_BDuFec-ackwS1_S8uyZ7qEQB20lFnBXoXkrg81fMrG3x1pEnmDqfkVCCDpc2Y58BuUOs3O5lCtObkivHJHXLqrAThtPxjkA1FVEyI63SXanjtOYwFY6aqyPKvFeVksozMCnOZCAxHjCEPFqiW6rcUEg/s1160/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-12%20at%2012.39.53.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1160" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1-yJnbPULWkmUXLgq1V063uPPYjRRaGQA_BDuFec-ackwS1_S8uyZ7qEQB20lFnBXoXkrg81fMrG3x1pEnmDqfkVCCDpc2Y58BuUOs3O5lCtObkivHJHXLqrAThtPxjkA1FVEyI63SXanjtOYwFY6aqyPKvFeVksozMCnOZCAxHjCEPFqiW6rcUEg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-12%20at%2012.39.53.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Chahakobi ningyō</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />A chahakobi ningyō or miniature tea server, was made in the 19th century by Hisashige Tanaka, founder of the Toshiba Corporation which would eventually become a diversified enterprise involved in electronics, electrical equipment and information technology and which is still based in Minato-ku, Tokyo and they of course now make robots for industrial use. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he Toshiba Corporation website</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> includes video demonstrations as to how its latest robots can do the work that used to be done by humans. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Snf2D1v3y9s" width="320" youtube-src-id="Snf2D1v3y9s"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Current <span style="text-align: left;">Toshiba Corporation</span><span style="text-align: left;"> video of robot use</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The next step up in technology to be used to make automata after clockwork was inflatable rubber tube hydraulics. Gakutensoku, a humanoid robot built in 1928 by Nishimura Makoto, used this technology to tilt its head, move its eyes, smile, and puff up its cheeks and chest. It was also programmed to use calligraphy skills. It has recently been reconstructed and a new computer-controlled pneumatic servo system has been designed to keep it going over 90 years after it was first put into operation. What was fascinating about </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Gakutensoku, was that this was a very early attempt to give human expressions to a robot and cemented the idea into modern culture of robots often being humanoid in form. For myself, I have tended to see this as a continuing form of animism and often think of these forms as being similar to pre-historic shamanistic figures, such as the one illustrated below of </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">a bee faced Algerian shaman figure, that has mushrooms growing all the way around it. This might of course be an indication of early drug use, something that might have helped the shaman get deeper into character. The final form is another hybrid one, an image that suggests that the sharp differences between humans and other creatures is not as sharp as we think it is. </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivxTo8N92RpWRmP7qzdgQmI_8SDketh6l5EJb2pze5Pia8UpInBF5VGEva7yWH8bl1HhsOQefjnAKg-Fb-28b1439j2zfO5deL_kKrnMmAIYX8hxms5vaKuOlhJJypFXjMVjpCPXPNgY1GADop67pLRzpszeyYXDdVgdK4X8uOG_1sSlGciJ8Oqmr3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivxTo8N92RpWRmP7qzdgQmI_8SDketh6l5EJb2pze5Pia8UpInBF5VGEva7yWH8bl1HhsOQefjnAKg-Fb-28b1439j2zfO5deL_kKrnMmAIYX8hxms5vaKuOlhJJypFXjMVjpCPXPNgY1GADop67pLRzpszeyYXDdVgdK4X8uOG_1sSlGciJ8Oqmr3" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;">Gakutensoku’s head could express human affect</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy4GUzslRnvTpJk5HolGm0Zupe8bIfqXWY5c4lQdBi4LS83BXxZjXO9ObJ_RGK1Rt2qK50DQxYABFtloN7AVWrfJ6oQlI9Vf3dPX3MmaJkt7y_77YFEIBycYt1g1gn6lhX-x8ypKp1R350COfkDonOgpC45Wowe1GPB1NkXdJ8g-sU2n89K0pHJ0gJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="198" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy4GUzslRnvTpJk5HolGm0Zupe8bIfqXWY5c4lQdBi4LS83BXxZjXO9ObJ_RGK1Rt2qK50DQxYABFtloN7AVWrfJ6oQlI9Vf3dPX3MmaJkt7y_77YFEIBycYt1g1gn6lhX-x8ypKp1R350COfkDonOgpC45Wowe1GPB1NkXdJ8g-sU2n89K0pHJ0gJ=w249-h320" width="249" /></a></div>An ancient Algerian shaman figure</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Favorit-Mono, sans-serif" style="background-color: #ecece8; color: #262626; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Robots had gradually entered Japanese culture, and there was less of a worry in their society about how their introduction might effect our human lives in the future. Perhaps because they had had to deal with the aftermath of the atomic age of science fiction becoming atomic bomb science fact, the society was much more open to future casting, whatever the reason, the first mass-produced mechanical toy robots were built in Japan following World War II. These wind-up robots, typically made from tin and brightly coloured, captured the world's imagination and were the first step in the development of a new hybrid culture, whereby robots took on humanoid forms. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg27f8frImnmK5HSFRSxuJh0olq7I5JmXfXzFOHNkmgrTfVBhD8FltnW891_m0xeeSclLdATDXf2lDk7pzeT9eARsbp30ETd4r6vKORvMLG-_WzrmPO_pqwUL6PV27I_1jCr_f5bDROKQeMjURi8GYk3FKIU1nUrJ6Gk-ZujxKR6h2zqLZEuJ9oSO0V" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="809" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg27f8frImnmK5HSFRSxuJh0olq7I5JmXfXzFOHNkmgrTfVBhD8FltnW891_m0xeeSclLdATDXf2lDk7pzeT9eARsbp30ETd4r6vKORvMLG-_WzrmPO_pqwUL6PV27I_1jCr_f5bDROKQeMjURi8GYk3FKIU1nUrJ6Gk-ZujxKR6h2zqLZEuJ9oSO0V" width="185" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-BKDu0Qf7LOopEea2LEQ6_L7powxIwLSpuRD4UDSgrnNLo6F_0pOEVj2qxe9CrRu0sU6KpU-FKqxh-KZzZV_Gy1kIum5Yeokgw1REvZTyAPRqJaePL_BCjpmY8phTGqQOcWi73wJGnaBclzQai6S6ceQGE4IshyGbkA4FuBfe4GJvmWECl9zO0gpv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-BKDu0Qf7LOopEea2LEQ6_L7powxIwLSpuRD4UDSgrnNLo6F_0pOEVj2qxe9CrRu0sU6KpU-FKqxh-KZzZV_Gy1kIum5Yeokgw1REvZTyAPRqJaePL_BCjpmY8phTGqQOcWi73wJGnaBclzQai6S6ceQGE4IshyGbkA4FuBfe4GJvmWECl9zO0gpv" width="237" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">Samurai armour the traditional form behind the modern icon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">By the time that films such as Pacific Rim came out in the 21st century, the visual idea of what a robot should be like had been fixed, its Japanese lineage now locked fast into a global idea. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYM2zcqwA6Yxsd4UQ65RkE9q84Dmu-7OLoSIDZjcb7co3-_qqgR6uY5PqqkVy4TZZ_WIULEfH939BBGX5uGofJjRM1effgj4iXAhQVYxQ9r11yApT9Qqb6v4T__buXFooK6OR_XVRVH7vZIC60JSctulOLI6s92wLdLuzMDvFrwiRNyvsW-et6ufN/s5020/Pacific-Rim-Viral-Blueprint.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5020" data-original-width="3568" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYM2zcqwA6Yxsd4UQ65RkE9q84Dmu-7OLoSIDZjcb7co3-_qqgR6uY5PqqkVy4TZZ_WIULEfH939BBGX5uGofJjRM1effgj4iXAhQVYxQ9r11yApT9Qqb6v4T__buXFooK6OR_XVRVH7vZIC60JSctulOLI6s92wLdLuzMDvFrwiRNyvsW-et6ufN/s320/Pacific-Rim-Viral-Blueprint.jpeg" width="227" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: center;">Design for a giant robot for the film Pacific Rim </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: left;">Another culture has been mixed into the hybridity in the image above, that of the engineering 'blueprint'. This is used to give 'scientific veracity' to the design. A design which itself relies heavily on the ideas that came out of Japan in the 1980s, the forms and shapes of which were rooted in traditional samurai armour. The following my nose 'logic' of this post seems to be outlining a post-modernist idea of culture, but I didn't set out to imply that this was what I thought contemporary society was about. I was simply trying to unpack a few thoughts set into motion by looking at some Tenmyouya Hisashi images. As students sometimes it is worthwhile doing the same thing and what it often reveals is the importance of children's culture on what will become an adult world. When I asked the highly regarded contemporary sculptor Thomas Houseago where he thought his main sculptural ideas came out of, he told me that Sesame Street was right up there as one of his main influences. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCNzrlBkoVF5oIg2cbhwBjSGeNlgp23b8QV8XYpy3y8VgULlmFT7rF3-OGM5R7z1xsy576Z-HfTJNX40nOWz4Z46M6Py2GGsh7X2TYRq6_vSDMoXq3alRtpZkuLzmySPrWCmkmEmNQPDiAFL7saoFv0YrQx4KCO-_s5F5ZYoJiKhPXnq2Ss72_uG-l" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="1200" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCNzrlBkoVF5oIg2cbhwBjSGeNlgp23b8QV8XYpy3y8VgULlmFT7rF3-OGM5R7z1xsy576Z-HfTJNX40nOWz4Z46M6Py2GGsh7X2TYRq6_vSDMoXq3alRtpZkuLzmySPrWCmkmEmNQPDiAFL7saoFv0YrQx4KCO-_s5F5ZYoJiKhPXnq2Ss72_uG-l" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Oscar the Grouch in </span><span style="text-align: left;">Sesame Street </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1qHTax2Cd4Z5XMZGZ3Ngo_LnD2qbmFwutGlLjGtMRRufh3kMJI-q1w0NPdCIYtIzerL6XcAqZc0fTeiovMgpBLmU4CiMZIyrdO0a7ziUjUa7iXbNX0XaXE0aXnehfYR6zvDKdyIosKS6azSgCYyeipOgzrAsa3Ljed0NgCWBhrrKKmU64S1uh4yQ5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="291" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1qHTax2Cd4Z5XMZGZ3Ngo_LnD2qbmFwutGlLjGtMRRufh3kMJI-q1w0NPdCIYtIzerL6XcAqZc0fTeiovMgpBLmU4CiMZIyrdO0a7ziUjUa7iXbNX0XaXE0aXnehfYR6zvDKdyIosKS6azSgCYyeipOgzrAsa3Ljed0NgCWBhrrKKmU64S1uh4yQ5" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202124; text-align: left;">Thomas Houseago</span></div></div></div></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">For myself it was perhaps Sooty and The Flowerpot Men that have stayed with me all these years, which were, it could be argued, deeply animist ideas as well. In fact at one point I tried to bring images from the two worlds of puppets and humanoid robots together, fused around a memory of when my mother worked as an usherette in the Gaumont Cinema in Dudley during the late 1950s. I found the film so frightening, I had to get my Sooty puppet to watch it instead. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LPd560Dq6sKZAgzxrPaLSsHFbrWyk6o-Jub8MxRnJG_Ya4b0zKQSxxNCZykfOSmCKQ8g_Ub3zcvIrzz3Rz_39Znwy7ZqhOFMWJsyGNzAutmcB-0iQwH_7GFuusx7LGdCCgG0vhEbgwQCVDypuxTKUVxSOdPjHbvK05EZKViLZwqOfn_-eOVzby0A/s3438/sootyandgort.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3438" data-original-width="2984" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LPd560Dq6sKZAgzxrPaLSsHFbrWyk6o-Jub8MxRnJG_Ya4b0zKQSxxNCZykfOSmCKQ8g_Ub3zcvIrzz3Rz_39Znwy7ZqhOFMWJsyGNzAutmcB-0iQwH_7GFuusx7LGdCCgG0vhEbgwQCVDypuxTKUVxSOdPjHbvK05EZKViLZwqOfn_-eOVzby0A/s320/sootyandgort.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sooty watches 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm now living in an age that recycles the remains of the culture of my youth. Little Weed from the 1950s TV series 'The Flowerpot Men' seemingly a much more threatening thing now than she was at the time; she is no longer the polite weed of yesterday. In a time of global warming and ecological disaster, the taking seriously the life of a weed, seems so much more important and her sagacious advice to the flowerpot men, now seems more like a metaphor and a parable for about how we should have been listening much more closely to nature in the past, and that if we don't in the future, all of us will find ourselves redundant not just 1950s children's puppet shows. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqoI6o5RuSgF8DWTAmeNaFNb8xo8xBLNzP_ThyphenhyphenIAry9tkv9kaEBUxzIEMzsznw_qHR2r1JCd5ClLiuRWv1s0m61vbrMRhkryExOcDNkNDa_tE-w6mapNX5vOOkYCW_56aew8jWoTuJWOK7dC57KUVh5LIM-UVflY1V94Lw6ns5sMecoHBxt_8EkoRHXt0/s730/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-10%20at%2012.51.45.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="684" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqoI6o5RuSgF8DWTAmeNaFNb8xo8xBLNzP_ThyphenhyphenIAry9tkv9kaEBUxzIEMzsznw_qHR2r1JCd5ClLiuRWv1s0m61vbrMRhkryExOcDNkNDa_tE-w6mapNX5vOOkYCW_56aew8jWoTuJWOK7dC57KUVh5LIM-UVflY1V94Lw6ns5sMecoHBxt_8EkoRHXt0/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-10%20at%2012.51.45.png" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Little Weed from the Flowerpot Men</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Capitalism is driven by a constant need for new forms, so what is current for one generation is totally outdated by the time the next generation comes through. This is something most of human society historically would have found very strange. In the distant past change was very slow and your grandparents' culture would have been virtually the same as the one you would experience. However our propensity for an animist relationship with non human things still remains a powerful force, so I am hopeful that we might eventually begin to treat the world as a living, complex entity, rather than a resource to buy and sell. We still have to deal with our existentialist angst and buying new things never did bring happiness, but reflecting on these issues can at least bring us some sort of awareness and in awareness lies knowledge and in knowledge lies wisdom and in wisdom lies the overcoming of the sadness caused by desire.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">See also:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.06px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.06px;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/06/non-western-aesthetics-japan-part-one.html">Japanese aesthetics</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.06px;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/03/drawing-in-japan-part-two.html">Drawing in Japan part two</a></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.06px;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/12/thinking-with-articulated-body-parts.html">Thinking with articulated body parts</a></span></div></div></div></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-73745996962643664642024-03-06T02:10:00.000-08:002024-03-25T04:19:13.928-07:00Johan Creten: Ceramics and drawing<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPERz5NG3FG5gB4P8flWrEe786QnYQk6Py43NGRJh9TS3a1LRXXOh7LtYkP-lPjqcB8H-JVD04P-3-qvTUgUUwFxNujjzuX-J_qVtXinTUcGn3yCiTu2qipq0SAzICPWEdp51loIDnX_eRpPEbjJqgEqjEFZyLOZvetO366kSZwTumkyoUrx4Yu2V28gA/s1556/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.50.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1164" data-original-width="1556" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPERz5NG3FG5gB4P8flWrEe786QnYQk6Py43NGRJh9TS3a1LRXXOh7LtYkP-lPjqcB8H-JVD04P-3-qvTUgUUwFxNujjzuX-J_qVtXinTUcGn3yCiTu2qipq0SAzICPWEdp51loIDnX_eRpPEbjJqgEqjEFZyLOZvetO366kSZwTumkyoUrx4Yu2V28gA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.50.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Johan Creten</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgleQm-xolpO8nMrXfkmnOfrAKeQ9pek6NAWECORmbD0dkjrhXOXTJG38W_TbqLuXrRktWOrRi0Iikw6VuXbZdVPRsAfbsd2g7hEm1H42lrRPztsVLNYjzLyNjUZ-uKe6XJNIch22myhtmlsYxTvE8lsNkvJyWjLKOo2XbDcS9jZKFY7duhN3tq3r8yHUA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgleQm-xolpO8nMrXfkmnOfrAKeQ9pek6NAWECORmbD0dkjrhXOXTJG38W_TbqLuXrRktWOrRi0Iikw6VuXbZdVPRsAfbsd2g7hEm1H42lrRPztsVLNYjzLyNjUZ-uKe6XJNIch22myhtmlsYxTvE8lsNkvJyWjLKOo2XbDcS9jZKFY7duhN3tq3r8yHUA" width="279" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Johan Creten: Exhibition view</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Johan Creten was making ceramics before clay became a fashionable material for fine artists; so he commands a certain respect for working with these materials for so long. However it is his drawings that I want to showcase for this blog, especially as I'm also someone who makes ceramics and draws. However, unlike myself, he treats the drawn element of his work as a discrete area of practice. Each drawing is a stand alone image, one that often occupies the space of drawing in a similar way to how his ceramic objects occupy architectural space. But as soon as I write this, I realise that he can also occupy space in a more painterly way. Whichever way is foregrounded, I think its worth having a look at the relationship between his drawings and his ceramics, even if only to help myself think through how and why I use the same materials. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNohwdL84ycHhOx0k238_0AXhVR_5X4_Cr6siMzxmYOmnsoszGb6X98EzCH4-9spKGOwLeEPWFK5cuulH4iYc7rAPZkZqH1YpQkDQZlWCCcOwqqZ0vYhx84mFu7W16riyq9H-5Y3mudid609xE6hV0FJgDx1HuC65Cmh_tOPCnrDaMjYX6XM-aqa18x70/s1190/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.38.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="874" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNohwdL84ycHhOx0k238_0AXhVR_5X4_Cr6siMzxmYOmnsoszGb6X98EzCH4-9spKGOwLeEPWFK5cuulH4iYc7rAPZkZqH1YpQkDQZlWCCcOwqqZ0vYhx84mFu7W16riyq9H-5Y3mudid609xE6hV0FJgDx1HuC65Cmh_tOPCnrDaMjYX6XM-aqa18x70/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.38.png" width="235" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCguGIX1bdRZEAccIKbnD8UEb-d2CiP1NJl-Mexwa2h8O_84VFnmz7ksJ0yGvpZIYT51Ow68ABd5ztI0PoCPEXJ5tFfrbtCC5HOt_CbBbvP5Oi1w5xqeBg1Xv2e-9IRzKfWf0VcViNveHlo4FL_pjXeU8EM0f0fVMWQWrNOjLlkYz_kY0lhkkS_xz6vak/s1180/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.25.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="870" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCguGIX1bdRZEAccIKbnD8UEb-d2CiP1NJl-Mexwa2h8O_84VFnmz7ksJ0yGvpZIYT51Ow68ABd5ztI0PoCPEXJ5tFfrbtCC5HOt_CbBbvP5Oi1w5xqeBg1Xv2e-9IRzKfWf0VcViNveHlo4FL_pjXeU8EM0f0fVMWQWrNOjLlkYz_kY0lhkkS_xz6vak/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.25.png" width="236" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcC5juFWomlMtfUfniHOis9564MZxP0bwvSbF9hR8J1PDvcdQXdIHk1ULtPdxz0X9Deg_PPE1Mk_aCzVHsNnyJ9pAw9c0OfOI4NIY31DUwg868W3i-_9Xu7zltt7LNif43QHtlmEkyglZBT7jn1tvvW14jyOxd4talgvMERr785-zJ7UqUPJKai8qasZQ/s1182/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.12.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="882" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcC5juFWomlMtfUfniHOis9564MZxP0bwvSbF9hR8J1PDvcdQXdIHk1ULtPdxz0X9Deg_PPE1Mk_aCzVHsNnyJ9pAw9c0OfOI4NIY31DUwg868W3i-_9Xu7zltt7LNif43QHtlmEkyglZBT7jn1tvvW14jyOxd4talgvMERr785-zJ7UqUPJKai8qasZQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.12.png" width="239" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2U4No-NRGeZlkfL_F-G1jrvVQBpbZI6uSOGSGuLSpWLPy0P76qvv166sB-Wp3RwD0a_-gc7l9Zch3qWiNgzYkjwCb-rXZm5z2NgWVqDlh5ocxY3ITqVMBe1h3jH2n-Bdf0y25rBYos6t_EDJbrX1lQKZejdWdEyhyXXKPrtlwr2KBuBKlUe7GUl7R_IU/s1170/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.00.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="882" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2U4No-NRGeZlkfL_F-G1jrvVQBpbZI6uSOGSGuLSpWLPy0P76qvv166sB-Wp3RwD0a_-gc7l9Zch3qWiNgzYkjwCb-rXZm5z2NgWVqDlh5ocxY3ITqVMBe1h3jH2n-Bdf0y25rBYos6t_EDJbrX1lQKZejdWdEyhyXXKPrtlwr2KBuBKlUe7GUl7R_IU/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.45.00.png" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the drawings above it is a sense of insides shaping outsides that most interests me. They feel as if the internal marks compact together to locate the outside. In this way I personally then find these drawings excellent vehicles for carrying human form. Instead of thinking of drawing a body from the outside appearance, it helps me to think that you could draw a body by using internal analogies, some marks being bones, others muscles and others internal organs. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-U0L_zSPBKC-KK-mYOEfyRaLf5o0afvOZro2GiaE6vHpSENrMxyonmtxWfzIwnm2N_QTdTWdw3F0JU4gcXedV6qD-xCtZiMNKgB6boJGSXGLDsVZdjICjSNxD9f2Vpnslw0SAWnLKhSFy2YI35y7nUq4Fo5YnZoeqyHXOBZCAcDLCLDD9jOa0s5oOaI/s1502/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.44.44.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="1502" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-U0L_zSPBKC-KK-mYOEfyRaLf5o0afvOZro2GiaE6vHpSENrMxyonmtxWfzIwnm2N_QTdTWdw3F0JU4gcXedV6qD-xCtZiMNKgB6boJGSXGLDsVZdjICjSNxD9f2Vpnslw0SAWnLKhSFy2YI35y7nUq4Fo5YnZoeqyHXOBZCAcDLCLDD9jOa0s5oOaI/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.44.44.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEpy2PZxXSXtv4VbKTraYHquvgi8ugI5yrQjeDGrw_foFrdb5AnijpPI8uSCBlLdG-aWmTwSK_iecSA6pgt5DTc1WF8OcwAX_XMRW-xre44tjMY9woXhj_wPFVuXFB4P8e25CdhbcLoxI72pBtP_JiOsnnvuOgp_q6J5LXDLOH6EheVq4-_-c4LEp0SX0/s1550/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.44.25.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1550" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEpy2PZxXSXtv4VbKTraYHquvgi8ugI5yrQjeDGrw_foFrdb5AnijpPI8uSCBlLdG-aWmTwSK_iecSA6pgt5DTc1WF8OcwAX_XMRW-xre44tjMY9woXhj_wPFVuXFB4P8e25CdhbcLoxI72pBtP_JiOsnnvuOgp_q6J5LXDLOH6EheVq4-_-c4LEp0SX0/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-05%20at%2018.44.25.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Johan Creten: Drawings</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">There is a blunt directness about his drawing that I find very powerful and he uses the materials of drawing in such a way that they remain what they are, whilst also being able to represent ideas for ceramics. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghpInhA1VGrPrW4VqbappPMGJAQVReGwxGyYCC8aEvSl4dm-ovlPW66w8ZIv_KEJ8rKp62sKcUN3YYF1Obd_CIMPgeZ9GSffI6bSQjHD6WfCwgha5awrwXjxAZiEnp-sjulQuM7LEbLgXS1X37e1TEou5hXx5YTS4LcoxKHaEaJfF7u3zU5rKAGeFbrAw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghpInhA1VGrPrW4VqbappPMGJAQVReGwxGyYCC8aEvSl4dm-ovlPW66w8ZIv_KEJ8rKp62sKcUN3YYF1Obd_CIMPgeZ9GSffI6bSQjHD6WfCwgha5awrwXjxAZiEnp-sjulQuM7LEbLgXS1X37e1TEou5hXx5YTS4LcoxKHaEaJfF7u3zU5rKAGeFbrAw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Johan Creten: Ceramic forms</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Creten works on a scale that is a reflection of his status and now works in bronze as well as clay. I am very aware of the type of technical support and equipment needed to make ceramic and cast metal objects of this size. It is perhaps best if I therefore concentrate on presenting his drawings rather than his sculptures. In fact I find some of his sculptures overly finished and too predictable. He has achieved a high level of control over the years and I'm very aware that in my own ceramic work I don't have that control but its the surprise of not knowing that keeps things fresh for myself and I still see that in his drawings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ceramics Now has an article about his recent work which you can access <a href="https://www.ceramicsnow.org/exhibitions/johan-creten-how-to-explain-the-sculptures-to-an-influencer-at-perrotin-paris/">here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See also:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-drawing-and-ceramics.html">Drawing and ceramics</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/07/drawing-using-clay.html">Drawing using clay</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/07/venice-biennale-2022-part-two.html">Candice Lin</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div><p></p></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-50606230092615358252024-02-27T01:53:00.000-08:002024-02-27T02:16:48.307-08:00R.I.P. Deanna Petherbridge<span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiggHf0ewd9pDaqv7gjglaBgYnJDp_TwXgwl6oNRQVIx3ptmnflFdhlpiVmDZ3UAX-OuemeTvMDO1-tDgacTaVklhhrW8U7Qk-7lxr72Y9Wv5uQMu-i6yn4twscYxWJ4EiAqyaWsv1lMTeIlHnxCCmI5Z9ZmbbEQFghbfWWPdybFKvPCwx2tkZyueCmbVY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1192" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiggHf0ewd9pDaqv7gjglaBgYnJDp_TwXgwl6oNRQVIx3ptmnflFdhlpiVmDZ3UAX-OuemeTvMDO1-tDgacTaVklhhrW8U7Qk-7lxr72Y9Wv5uQMu-i6yn4twscYxWJ4EiAqyaWsv1lMTeIlHnxCCmI5Z9ZmbbEQFghbfWWPdybFKvPCwx2tkZyueCmbVY" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Camp Covid </em><span style="background-color: white;">, 2020 - Deanna Petherbridge</span></div><br />Deanna Petherbridge was one of those people who you could not avoid if you were interested in drawing. I met her several times and she always carried herself with great dignity and she provided a deep pool of intellectual resources from which you could tap into and draw from many different streams of thinking about drawing. I was therefore saddened to hear that she had recently died.<br /><br />I first came across her large pen and ink drawings in the 1980s and was impressed by her conviction that drawing was something that could carry serious ideas. At that time drawing was still seen as an adjunct to painting or sculpture, something you did whilst you were thinking about how to compose an image or how to fit components together and it was in the world of the sketchbook or notebook that drawing belonged. This together with the demise of objective drawing as an essential tool of the artist, meant that if you drew, you were 'just' someone who did 'works on paper'. This of course meant that very few drawings were ever seen as being worth anything; unless of course they were by Leonardo or Michelangelo and oil painting seemed to reign supreme as the only form of art serious collectors wanted to invest in. As someone raised on a diet of conceptual art, I was always attracted to drawing as a form of thinking tool and often felt that too many paintings were empty gestures or examples of poor or impoverished thinking. I would often prefer a 3 by 3 inch drawn note on a scrap of paper to a 6 foot by 8 foot oil painting on linen canvas.<br /><br />Deanna Petherbridge was one of a group of artists who took drawing seriously and she not only took on drawing as a serious activity in its own right, she also began to write about drawing and its effects, eventually producing the classic textbook on drawing, 'The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice' (2010) and several essays and commentaries about drawing for the architecturally focused publication 'Drawing Matter'. Her own drawings use imagined architectural imagery as a metaphorical means to deal with complex subject matter about social and political issues and she strongly believed that drawing could deal with and carry the weight of big issues, just as much as any other art form. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEzBuw2fgE2PtE90nlIRuGTX-F46MpKSS-zdHTq9wRk72amzDLQjepdiOKYCbIDbYq357xaXJKgGEpM_04biQAr7lt59y4yMWosPtwXJ_GGxVMqYW4v9wZwbnXCtp2mcrpiXU0AMMuorkQ8AsZgEEp3NhMqPq54DFn3I2KCwVgBD5Fln1GwHfMM2JNQ-Y" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="1732" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEzBuw2fgE2PtE90nlIRuGTX-F46MpKSS-zdHTq9wRk72amzDLQjepdiOKYCbIDbYq357xaXJKgGEpM_04biQAr7lt59y4yMWosPtwXJ_GGxVMqYW4v9wZwbnXCtp2mcrpiXU0AMMuorkQ8AsZgEEp3NhMqPq54DFn3I2KCwVgBD5Fln1GwHfMM2JNQ-Y" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migration 1 </em><span style="background-color: white;">, 2018 - Deanna Petherbridge</span></div><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Petherbridge used images of architecture and mechanical forms often composed as metaphors for the human condition. Her representations of transparency and of other lighting conditions, were often contrasted with deep shadows; her imagery moving between abstraction and representation, in order to create dream-like worlds and sustained visual narratives.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="adobe-caslon-pro, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi03ZNldWeGb2L2u-bxBLoXd4d_Y7ImIlDfSyf7givJD9TvaIGx6_SK9cmjxoZatJ9SgiZzUkB_B57x1T2v8azYXyyNmB_s9WaRL4yC-wPHbzZJBzJBEXnAj4dG3B_R2IObfl2KaNhtyFpB0dGqw8hU3P5Nttg50OzpTZcmDdB7hvc2R9kipAhCvPEDWoo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi03ZNldWeGb2L2u-bxBLoXd4d_Y7ImIlDfSyf7givJD9TvaIGx6_SK9cmjxoZatJ9SgiZzUkB_B57x1T2v8azYXyyNmB_s9WaRL4yC-wPHbzZJBzJBEXnAj4dG3B_R2IObfl2KaNhtyFpB0dGqw8hU3P5Nttg50OzpTZcmDdB7hvc2R9kipAhCvPEDWoo" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">View from Hotel Pandemia, </em>2020 - Deanna Petherbridge</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Petherbridge</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">said she used a straight edge for moral compass and you can see this in most of her drawings, their architecture being given validity by the use of what look like lines made using ruling pens. She will be sorely missed by all those in the drawing community that valued her intellectual rigour and energetic commitment to an often undervalued practice.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Never afraid of advancing the work of other artists who drew, she helped myself to widen the pool of practitioners that I was aware of, in particular introducing me to the work of the Australian artist Joy Hester. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1kPmQUIn9BwoHmB2fkfxdfS8mvQCM_gd8SCvIglvzs1RPM0qvqQrad-1XbyCOz2Ln_KravZJ2alRP5sTAYR1C4BmroAZfmx5V6xb2szJ36S64PejPDateVIiMk9BWKhL2v5AZFyZDQ67INuVVtvALBURZNaa3IXGUzPmQPk2hXMAuqtgIxc1Jn_YUZYo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="475" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1kPmQUIn9BwoHmB2fkfxdfS8mvQCM_gd8SCvIglvzs1RPM0qvqQrad-1XbyCOz2Ln_KravZJ2alRP5sTAYR1C4BmroAZfmx5V6xb2szJ36S64PejPDateVIiMk9BWKhL2v5AZFyZDQ67INuVVtvALBURZNaa3IXGUzPmQPk2hXMAuqtgIxc1Jn_YUZYo" width="178" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3eQFM3eayFa985UimcMgHuogMRDuatf62-wwBN8GFovC9CFHjLTFLO9PGLf0ZbL1X83ltCdF3xnB1HrLRruH3JTZa2opePgBv_V2s0g-DD-_NXabACHIGy-Q0_E_s8kIwpZi6-DHnJC03PZ8eXzJoySkPM_89ysuuin-eC9PCJTDaOP3sYhixa53F6ko" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="481" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3eQFM3eayFa985UimcMgHuogMRDuatf62-wwBN8GFovC9CFHjLTFLO9PGLf0ZbL1X83ltCdF3xnB1HrLRruH3JTZa2opePgBv_V2s0g-DD-_NXabACHIGy-Q0_E_s8kIwpZi6-DHnJC03PZ8eXzJoySkPM_89ysuuin-eC9PCJTDaOP3sYhixa53F6ko=w249-h320" width="249" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Joy Hester</div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>Hester's work reminded me that economy of means didn't have to also mean shedding the awkward juxtaposition of image and gesture and that sometimes the two could be brought together in ways that were both poetic and emotional. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">So goodby Deanna, another person that I knew, who is now sitting on the other side of that thin membrane that stretches between life and death. I have recently had to seriously rethink what I am doing in both art making and in how I have been living my everyday life. I have decided to unravel how my past life still impacts on my present one and in doing so I have also had to consider in much more depth, the impact of day to day decisions on possible futures. This process has of course had to include a deeper awareness of mortality, not because I have some sort of immediate concerns about my health, but simply because a full awareness of life is impossible without an acceptance of its coming to an end at some point. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcu5CWa0dHQfBeoL2EHom1Db8IRNCS0enj1I3IgVPEOQzjQalRgf3InklIiPxQVJBuomL5zIZ304dNnqVgQGl0agFoQlar4I0VpFaybTgFNGAgsig0Kj77wvvCuLHdLvaQBUWewO-71mn6CAmXpAQpPX88RwfSvyH5B_XUl58Kvdtgnopg6Z-7uoFzfqI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="2560" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcu5CWa0dHQfBeoL2EHom1Db8IRNCS0enj1I3IgVPEOQzjQalRgf3InklIiPxQVJBuomL5zIZ304dNnqVgQGl0agFoQlar4I0VpFaybTgFNGAgsig0Kj77wvvCuLHdLvaQBUWewO-71mn6CAmXpAQpPX88RwfSvyH5B_XUl58Kvdtgnopg6Z-7uoFzfqI" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">Deanna Petherbridge: The Destruction of Palmyra, 2017. Pen and ink on paper, Triptych.</span></div><br />Deanna was slightly older than myself when she drew '</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">The Destruction of Palmyra', an image that is a meditation on the destruction by</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> Islamic fundamentalist groups </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">of ancient artefacts found in archeological sites. Whether these attacks on culture are made by religious fanatics or far right fundamentalists doesn't really matter, what does matter is that Petherbridge's drawings remind us that artistic freedom is a hard won thing and that it is so easily lost. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Petherbridge's life was centred on a belief in the power of images to help us see what we sometimes don't see and in that she leaves a powerful legacy, I hope that in another hundred years what she stood for will still be something that makes sense and is recognisable as being worthwhile. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">John Berger put his take on mortality slightly differently. When remembering the comedian Harry Champion, Berger would quote his catchphrase, "Life is a very hard thing. You never come out of it alive". </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">See also: <br /><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/11/deanna-petherbridge-and-drawing-matter.html"><br /></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/11/deanna-petherbridge-and-drawing-matter.html">Deanna Petherbridge and Drawing Matter</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2016/12/deanna-petherbridge-at-whitworth.html">Deanna Petherbridge at the Whitworth</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/03/deanna-petherbridge-drawing-and-domain.html">Works on paper</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.artspacegallery.co.uk/BOOKS/StepAndStair/index.html">An online catalogue of the Step and Stair Exhibition at the Art Space Gallery:</a> A memory of the only time I exhibited in an exhibition alongside <span style="background-color: white;">Deanna Petherbridge</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/01/john-berger-1926-2017.html">John Berger</a></span></span></div><div><br /></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-60090720349682477662024-02-23T04:08:00.000-08:002024-02-23T04:08:12.960-08:00Stained glass: The leading sessions<p><span style="font-family: arial;">The workshop sessions involving leading were done as a block because I was going to take up quite a lot of room and the sessions needed to be fitted in around other classes. I was meant to do this the first week of January, but I was still in recovery mode after being knocked down by a car. When a time slot was next available I had the beginnings of a chest infection; however because slots are hard to come by, I decided to carry on anyway as the cold out of which the infection grew was hopefully well past its <span style="background-color: white;">contagious phase. This was probably not a good idea, as I found it hard to concentrate and decisions about exactitude were hard to make as my eyesight felt slightly distorted by the infection. I managed three days and learnt a lot about leading, but then had to pack up and take the work away until another free slot could be found. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWxchqTRxES2zAQ3uxAJB51qwQHiyivw5eHtZQVTxcNrYlUGlizPcBzCNL94TF-4LC6gYrLTOUY_unS1RjDo9d4EKOGZnGYw5PAFcU3m_HOxHfGWkklLPn9iEM1J7bRv1xwihLqODDLA39xUgRu4rxKSq7P8FX9xoKN9t2gHMKpvtdmq5Jqfjjc5V69r8/s2016/IMG_7281.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWxchqTRxES2zAQ3uxAJB51qwQHiyivw5eHtZQVTxcNrYlUGlizPcBzCNL94TF-4LC6gYrLTOUY_unS1RjDo9d4EKOGZnGYw5PAFcU3m_HOxHfGWkklLPn9iEM1J7bRv1xwihLqODDLA39xUgRu4rxKSq7P8FX9xoKN9t2gHMKpvtdmq5Jqfjjc5V69r8/s320/IMG_7281.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Base board</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhck9aQnQEd7h0-teKMp8l3JJPZs0jTzNKkMDCV-dXfQymTBip1tg4i36HLBxiL0GcRXm3iiNECLTuF-eH9mTqfGXsRHxUmaLGD4JKI0PzdWTDDPaVfNO-QScKPJBY3zfSkMAB-KUTnPEEXfYXmWBpqWFHvav6CVAZzH8v67xt8DnguyEeTXoKWN2B9NtI/s2016/IMG_7282.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhck9aQnQEd7h0-teKMp8l3JJPZs0jTzNKkMDCV-dXfQymTBip1tg4i36HLBxiL0GcRXm3iiNECLTuF-eH9mTqfGXsRHxUmaLGD4JKI0PzdWTDDPaVfNO-QScKPJBY3zfSkMAB-KUTnPEEXfYXmWBpqWFHvav6CVAZzH8v67xt8DnguyEeTXoKWN2B9NtI/s320/IMG_7282.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Plywood base board: Detail of surrounding edge</div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">I had to prepare for the sessions by making a board on which to work. I used a thick ply and screwed and glued two strips of wood onto two adjoining sides, in order to make a right-angled 'L' shaped corner, against which I would build the window. It is approximately 3 cms wider and longer than the size of the finished window. I also had to cut the zinc edging frame pieces to size with a hacksaw. (Zinc 'u' section came, 12x5mm)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">The first decision is where to start and I had already made my first mistake. Usually the more complex area is where you need to start, but I had fixed the borders of my frame on the opposite side to the one needed if I was to do that. It was a 50/50 decision and at the time of making I wasn't aware it could make a difference but this meant that the complexity surrounding the heel would not be where we could start. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">The next thing was to trim off two edges of my cartoon. Cutting exactly on the line that indicated the zinc came edging, this was going to be my template to work to for the entire window, so needed to be accurate. Once cut it was placed snugly into the right-angled corner of the baseboard. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzzuzpPxreUGlh7FPeeZ8Y6BA3RA5EIGPjwuRwH5O0OdUWt9w0bRxH02sOaF5mjNjjQdCMsiOEEQ7SPIYD7APrTDY7F39Fjp2-KBvVtpFZdH-S0Khg8scYlHW9aXzi_rHQzkbT3HdSfe5ZNe3djilb82nPjtLsdOdVR2ZsUd41i_gN3Jwwlf26UXHApw/s2016/IMG_7283.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzzuzpPxreUGlh7FPeeZ8Y6BA3RA5EIGPjwuRwH5O0OdUWt9w0bRxH02sOaF5mjNjjQdCMsiOEEQ7SPIYD7APrTDY7F39Fjp2-KBvVtpFZdH-S0Khg8scYlHW9aXzi_rHQzkbT3HdSfe5ZNe3djilb82nPjtLsdOdVR2ZsUd41i_gN3Jwwlf26UXHApw/s320/IMG_7283.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDaDP-0HxvZwPTvdIJGproNsB8m2UXIndVLWp8c43dxxqkgZVzqJYNTpILCz1h-T7z986vWtH0j6GWKHiuvGiKzxd-plnW32mjzOOTO3m-MRIqMIrFenLS1KiaHvIquMlcQJYFnv1k4rySabLT_KDGjo1EJ8rpQnzXUEOcxoj3-w8gGUiwrV-DzZgDKA/s2016/IMG_7284.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDaDP-0HxvZwPTvdIJGproNsB8m2UXIndVLWp8c43dxxqkgZVzqJYNTpILCz1h-T7z986vWtH0j6GWKHiuvGiKzxd-plnW32mjzOOTO3m-MRIqMIrFenLS1KiaHvIquMlcQJYFnv1k4rySabLT_KDGjo1EJ8rpQnzXUEOcxoj3-w8gGUiwrV-DzZgDKA/s320/IMG_7284.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Two sides are left uncut, so that they will not be hidden underneath the final construction. This can facilitate the cartoon removal at a later stage.</div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">We needed to start with a border, so we first set out two lengths of the zinc came and then the thicker leading to make the border, as this would strengthen the whole window. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyEob5egFE9RMtLL6nqhbMv1yaFobOFp1kSw8qiqqeMUa0FqfWbw36wfK5iQ4m3soZ6Z0VGJnXjsvEYKH9gT-NykOqOrsfeLapU0mGCZIdEGu078K-w7dVuOu5UMSo-cNrNRvG3pekc7vKXz2xp-4tgqQiX8ZjUuxi_Z8ds5Gf_5swxKUVMGC8Cp1kdJI/s2016/borders%20first.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1494" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyEob5egFE9RMtLL6nqhbMv1yaFobOFp1kSw8qiqqeMUa0FqfWbw36wfK5iQ4m3soZ6Z0VGJnXjsvEYKH9gT-NykOqOrsfeLapU0mGCZIdEGu078K-w7dVuOu5UMSo-cNrNRvG3pekc7vKXz2xp-4tgqQiX8ZjUuxi_Z8ds5Gf_5swxKUVMGC8Cp1kdJI/s320/borders%20first.jpg" width="237" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The previously cut sections of glass that make up the border were checked for accuracy and a couple were rejected, so I had to cut more from existing scrap glass, this was because it's very hard to grind off a thin strip of glass and keep it straight and much easier to recut. Another lesson about accuracy. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The inside border using the thicker leading is to be staggered rather than simply butted together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgccr1GaHYYt9s6oYGKeLPYjMr3zh3EmIcIBPA7gtHj_2ayCH1pLRxxgP-WxA2zblzsPxiBWL2Zvji3r9ehuW9IFeVSAZcyUyKmhBhj1-h2M6sKQv_ByCvWu2Q5DfCdJWCj4oWnVSyRAqSqEVTTyfZa-5GgPVKASrW5i1xVACzTMr5WcBs5jHfS2KQUuCk/s2038/leading.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2038" data-original-width="1900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgccr1GaHYYt9s6oYGKeLPYjMr3zh3EmIcIBPA7gtHj_2ayCH1pLRxxgP-WxA2zblzsPxiBWL2Zvji3r9ehuW9IFeVSAZcyUyKmhBhj1-h2M6sKQv_ByCvWu2Q5DfCdJWCj4oWnVSyRAqSqEVTTyfZa-5GgPVKASrW5i1xVACzTMr5WcBs5jHfS2KQUuCk/s320/leading.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The leading for the inside border is set out as above</span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The lead is cut with a lead knife. Another tool that I had not used before and which takes a bit of getting used to. </span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRTI9ebjeP_XX_TumDNyy58QGZ1RSxnkZKBs5MhzyLVp6a9Wy6kcV8sovghEoIIpbyazFRjQf2Wm9y4stHFVg6xeCYPhm18hxnm8TuSR9NMj-3B4FuCW03SWpAqdRde5-oJpjc1yE6xxYIhGlz9SDspEpKISrmrpxRICKk8JPQhgMFmSy0GF9jqo9CFvo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="894" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRTI9ebjeP_XX_TumDNyy58QGZ1RSxnkZKBs5MhzyLVp6a9Wy6kcV8sovghEoIIpbyazFRjQf2Wm9y4stHFVg6xeCYPhm18hxnm8TuSR9NMj-3B4FuCW03SWpAqdRde5-oJpjc1yE6xxYIhGlz9SDspEpKISrmrpxRICKk8JPQhgMFmSy0GF9jqo9CFvo" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Lead knife</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1VmJ-sNGk1W955E_I_qnFT-_EILuvtZaoqOKvuaOdp_QmFafWT3nBd8IG2oPB-xzT4m9m4j20Sr6ZS8oWH9bRfwv1Q62v-OD4ASPnk9gqvtzqWFMAkyLmGNcNuD03dMaBJLZttBPLpkhDeEcc7cbjNQJfE7f1SFUvfWX70vcIqaaO5ZV-bSrWOfmMm0/s1113/cutting-mitre-right-length02-noted-Copy.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="938" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1VmJ-sNGk1W955E_I_qnFT-_EILuvtZaoqOKvuaOdp_QmFafWT3nBd8IG2oPB-xzT4m9m4j20Sr6ZS8oWH9bRfwv1Q62v-OD4ASPnk9gqvtzqWFMAkyLmGNcNuD03dMaBJLZttBPLpkhDeEcc7cbjNQJfE7f1SFUvfWX70vcIqaaO5ZV-bSrWOfmMm0/s320/cutting-mitre-right-length02-noted-Copy.jpeg" width="270" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Horseshoe nails are used to mark the lead for cutting, and for holding the buffers in place</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8fmQnNecRn8qh6TmiRN-qX5f1yKu85E0fD2g5_gmSxckxDMGwucdGdbSzeqooGG2TfCqcPtkYrVJxLALkSiRA9nIuO3vwWB-6Lla_ft3wSgwZnKi1VSLhNjupFm9KWltE3nu-v_f5XUErrXdg1oSddVU1U2Cv1jmAFl-v3HW3VROMZQXK_gK9an0ZqA/s1286/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-09%20at%2011.38.06.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1286" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8fmQnNecRn8qh6TmiRN-qX5f1yKu85E0fD2g5_gmSxckxDMGwucdGdbSzeqooGG2TfCqcPtkYrVJxLALkSiRA9nIuO3vwWB-6Lla_ft3wSgwZnKi1VSLhNjupFm9KWltE3nu-v_f5XUErrXdg1oSddVU1U2Cv1jmAFl-v3HW3VROMZQXK_gK9an0ZqA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-09%20at%2011.38.06.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A plastic and rubber headed glazing hammer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Used for nailing and tapping in hard to fit pieces of glass</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">The lead knife is rocked through the lead came. It is held vertically, (something I again found hard to get right), you apply downward pressure as you rock, being careful not to distort the shape of the soft lead came. Each section is held in tightly by lead came buffers that are nailed into place each time. The buffers also help you measure the length of the lead strips, as they let you know how far the glass will sit into the 'H' section of any chosen lead came. This becomes very important if you are like myself in this case, using several different thicknesses of leading. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Because of the process of keeping everything nailed tight as you progress, you work out from a corner. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08xQmiFHwrrgW-TVeEEaZNOJ1Vyrj1-Z2GEnk_lgkF5k-CYb0Ln1zllehiZnPWVSxe40-IfbxgGm4x0SHdw1WwUUj_vijusrRNav9Jj5pPkhFZAzwkMpCafRRzVAvTak-_Y4xJa2v78DzYzWXEfcJynhuxYpQygc4Q-oMQKlPQn9kizieUi0WIzqbEQ4/s2016/starthere.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1494" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08xQmiFHwrrgW-TVeEEaZNOJ1Vyrj1-Z2GEnk_lgkF5k-CYb0Ln1zllehiZnPWVSxe40-IfbxgGm4x0SHdw1WwUUj_vijusrRNav9Jj5pPkhFZAzwkMpCafRRzVAvTak-_Y4xJa2v78DzYzWXEfcJynhuxYpQygc4Q-oMQKlPQn9kizieUi0WIzqbEQ4/s320/starthere.jpg" width="237" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPM_47lQ1Zw8exCBciMggMH3tSnV6dYy0Vn_1C41pzRXcpENPJ5pV0ATHFPPsf2RMu-56YMWXS02egfXT3xYAS9giXX88quXyFf4PQVnmUyTjzy2U-kGWObe26NUdAd3eMKBctH1b-oiLZeOnE17BDlKlWG37dMjXvfkVQ-pVykj0SvVu1I0YWiHAz3MU/s2016/IMG_7286.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPM_47lQ1Zw8exCBciMggMH3tSnV6dYy0Vn_1C41pzRXcpENPJ5pV0ATHFPPsf2RMu-56YMWXS02egfXT3xYAS9giXX88quXyFf4PQVnmUyTjzy2U-kGWObe26NUdAd3eMKBctH1b-oiLZeOnE17BDlKlWG37dMjXvfkVQ-pVykj0SvVu1I0YWiHAz3MU/s320/IMG_7286.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lead came cut to size, resting against the zinc came edge</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLN3do72vHjsAMxQRZTiNsQlDpdDqO4YafgxvXhgzitdjDTMVlwFgog7Mhpx5d4Q0tuTglnWbNtB_eW9VBw0wZKpFvFz7a3A3LNwFaZa0QyxSawGCe2b4Y_HChN89zIqbNR8DfuRv5qpn89-eYUTcaW4WbTLWWdiYFSG-o2MDIvaeb2W071A35FgrPm4/s2016/IMG_7285.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLN3do72vHjsAMxQRZTiNsQlDpdDqO4YafgxvXhgzitdjDTMVlwFgog7Mhpx5d4Q0tuTglnWbNtB_eW9VBw0wZKpFvFz7a3A3LNwFaZa0QyxSawGCe2b4Y_HChN89zIqbNR8DfuRv5qpn89-eYUTcaW4WbTLWWdiYFSG-o2MDIvaeb2W071A35FgrPm4/s320/IMG_7285.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Buffer in place</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHDjxJPsvYHZ-MYMatfp-v4uCLvdthOFkaPW_3seCsp2yFD19p5eohpRoWtDw7LaL_hUzaZXVdXlHU7e7ngI5y-tKa7L6t5B9YtofsS01eYSwJWPho6zJr0Ds-6Kw72EdHsyGPnCQYIfvXAWdCNmtYsnPdleICPmS57x10HVRIKV3OzH1um7dBADtJng/s2016/IMG_7288.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHDjxJPsvYHZ-MYMatfp-v4uCLvdthOFkaPW_3seCsp2yFD19p5eohpRoWtDw7LaL_hUzaZXVdXlHU7e7ngI5y-tKa7L6t5B9YtofsS01eYSwJWPho6zJr0Ds-6Kw72EdHsyGPnCQYIfvXAWdCNmtYsnPdleICPmS57x10HVRIKV3OzH1um7dBADtJng/s320/IMG_7288.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The first few pieces in place, working away from the corner.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>You are constantly grinding down to make sure the glass will fit and although I thought I had by now a good grasp of glass cutting, I was quickly made to realise I was not accurate enough. The trick is to mark the glass to show what you cant see. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkbejJiLyTE-AX8TiiQ19Ej8jQNVLjLw2rgUlG4pKA70ZdykPM8aoYvSgz7LKwU4BF5h-CSaSnJulvKhvBJ-ypxRsRjPAVKnTgODaLjtJ4mYO43xXv96JhkruxTudYbU8BjmNcm8d09xALoDpU89D5_7KSCBAGw_PN7hW8crEOoQsmVsBLwxkGI7HgLJQ/s2362/finding%20the%20edge%20to%20grind.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="2362" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkbejJiLyTE-AX8TiiQ19Ej8jQNVLjLw2rgUlG4pKA70ZdykPM8aoYvSgz7LKwU4BF5h-CSaSnJulvKhvBJ-ypxRsRjPAVKnTgODaLjtJ4mYO43xXv96JhkruxTudYbU8BjmNcm8d09xALoDpU89D5_7KSCBAGw_PN7hW8crEOoQsmVsBLwxkGI7HgLJQ/s320/finding%20the%20edge%20to%20grind.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">How to mark the glass before grinding</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Push the glass into the cane 'H' section and make sure it is in as far as it can go along the whole length of the piece. Then using a white or black Sharpie (you need tonal contrast), draw along the line made by the leading. When you take the glass out again, you will see where there are inaccuracies. Look for the thinnest bit and use that as your measure and then mark the glass edge and grind. A small inaccuracy can lead to a large difference later on, so its best to correct each piece as it is put in. This is what was taking the time when I was working on it. It took three days to complete just over half the window. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The lead cane has to be cut accurately and must be butted up exactly to each adjoining piece. If not, when you come to solder it all together the window will have serious structural faults. You must also keep pushing the pieces tightly together and refitting the buffers. A tight fit is going to be essential, so you must keep checking this. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Three different lead came sizes are being used. The thickest for the edges, then a medium thickness for everything else except for the complex shapes that form Sooty's body and ears. The need for tight curves in order to form the body and ears of Sooty, required the use of the thinnest lead cane available. N. b. Each time you use a buffer you must remember which size came to use and it is very easy to just pick up the wrong sized off-cut by mistake. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some sections required a different technique. For instance the frit made heel was circular. (See sessions <a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html">2</a> and <a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html">3</a>) First of all I had to re-grind this section to make it smoother by removing any bumps from around the edge. Then using the middle grade cane leading, a length was cut just a bit longer than needed. This was pushed into the glass all the way round and a plastic fid tool was used to push it in firmly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFEg6T1iP-LqKLRSIx93DHJcxF1XmdrKWPieQ7f_cUOUzaTdeuEPwJ-ZMlb-CUAnfgoCOe9K6naGZ4_8hetGbUNkzODiggkedPmonM8NleTClc8TiJK98_DhjI2M4Ao9TgBY5CTOHEAw5fXpAwHCDBkLR7djU9gDrowE2uJ4NKAcTqpYYhDTXWHTKjRG0/s990/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-13%20at%2011.16.59.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="990" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFEg6T1iP-LqKLRSIx93DHJcxF1XmdrKWPieQ7f_cUOUzaTdeuEPwJ-ZMlb-CUAnfgoCOe9K6naGZ4_8hetGbUNkzODiggkedPmonM8NleTClc8TiJK98_DhjI2M4Ao9TgBY5CTOHEAw5fXpAwHCDBkLR7djU9gDrowE2uJ4NKAcTqpYYhDTXWHTKjRG0/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-13%20at%2011.16.59.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Plastic fid</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The fid tool is extremely useful, as you use it to keep pushing the lead back into the glass, as well as using it to ensure the 'H' section is kept open enough to ensure the glass sits into it correctly. It has a variegated width, so that sometimes you use the thin point to push in hard and at others the thicker waist section in order to gradually open out 'H' sections. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Because I was taking so long and was still suffering from the after effects of a chest infection, it was decided to take my work away from the workshop to allow classes that needed the room to be held. This means that I'm not sure when I shall be able to finish this work. Hopefully in the near future I will be able to find a gap that will allow me to finish the work. In the meantime I will invest <span style="background-color: white; color: #111820;">£75.99 </span>in a w<span style="background-color: white; color: #111820; white-space: nowrap;">ater cooled stained glass </span>grinding machine that I found on E-Bay, so that I can finish the work in my studio. </div></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">The process is of course already costing money for materials. For the leading and soldering the materials ordered before the session are set out in the screenshot below. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTKoqqiRCYhzoMWwq9F4LSsu9wpbLrygPdhWLObufr9S08T_4hw3BaFbMpY8qFdpzyJKEiQbRYd4Zvb4G21qiZS01n_yJkFedQ3fFX4feDx6eACwQSjw6wc9lBbwWwfkeimKbxJcCWacWj2xJDqS3V_DPgz8m4j6bdn64I8kwE9SH83e_Q1ZZvtMvn2k/s1852/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-09%20at%2010.36.19.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1852" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTKoqqiRCYhzoMWwq9F4LSsu9wpbLrygPdhWLObufr9S08T_4hw3BaFbMpY8qFdpzyJKEiQbRYd4Zvb4G21qiZS01n_yJkFedQ3fFX4feDx6eACwQSjw6wc9lBbwWwfkeimKbxJcCWacWj2xJDqS3V_DPgz8m4j6bdn64I8kwE9SH83e_Q1ZZvtMvn2k/w320-h118/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-09%20at%2010.36.19.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">All materials above were sourced from Kansacraft, a Barnsley based company. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;">See also:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2024/01/stained-glass-session-10.html"><br /></a></span></span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session one</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session two</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session three</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-four.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session four</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-five.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session five</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-six.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session six</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-seven.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session seven</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-eight.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session eight</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2024/01/stained-glass-session-nine.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session nine</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2024/01/stained-glass-session-10.html">Stained glass session ten</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/10/drawing-on-transparent-drafting-film.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Drawing on transparent drafting film</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/05/new-wine-in-old-bottles.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">New wine in old bottles</a></div></div><div><p></p></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-15442823365558435282024-02-13T01:17:00.000-08:002024-02-13T01:17:43.072-08:00Measuring emotions and colour<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have for a while now been looking at interoception and the importance of 'feeling' or emotional experiences. However as I look into the Citrasutras, which are important writings on Indian aesthetics, I realise that once again, western aesthetic theory is way behind the times and that emotional value has been central to the way that painting has been thought about for hundreds of years on the Indian sub-continent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIJoQkSeZwIaO9mcQfZtYxRd9HXTVgfcoffFchYXFEwirHtnQFzZ6rquCo6Hiw5_uQEp42R6EDnO-ehW8T-Vge80LIh_51OiyNSEXf440uhF6yJkTJftSiYAD9NiA3C7GWY67HZu1X9zeZC6g55uWLT8YLHTQte6Ml1ww6Uxj8MVoYiNMd76rTNgHTeUk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="290" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIJoQkSeZwIaO9mcQfZtYxRd9HXTVgfcoffFchYXFEwirHtnQFzZ6rquCo6Hiw5_uQEp42R6EDnO-ehW8T-Vge80LIh_51OiyNSEXf440uhF6yJkTJftSiYAD9NiA3C7GWY67HZu1X9zeZC6g55uWLT8YLHTQte6Ml1ww6Uxj8MVoYiNMd76rTNgHTeUk=w223-h320" width="223" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Shri S Rajam</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The six limbs (shad-anga) of traditional Indian painting , as given in the Chitrasütra are the following:<br />Sädrusya (similarity); Pramäna (proportion); Rüpabhedä (differentiations or typologies of form);<br />Vvarnika-bhanga (colour differentiation); Bhäva (emotional disposition) and Lävanya yojanam (gracefulness in composition) .<br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;">In Indian art nothing is unconnected. The laws of painting (Chitra) are not understood without an understanding of the laws of image-making (Shilpa); and these are linked to knowledge of the techniques of dancing (Nrtya); that are difficult to understand without a thorough knowledge of the laws of instrumental music (vadya), and the laws of instrumental music cannot be learnt without a deep knowledge of the art of vocal music (gana). Therefore the position of figures in a painting may derive emotional disposition of their limbs from a dance form, but the emotional colour may come from an understanding of 'Rasa'. </span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In Indian art theory, 'Rasa' is the quality of emotional fulfilment that a work of art produces through the personalities that are depicted in a painting, their expression and their surroundings. Rasa is a Sanskrit word that denotes the quality of emotional fulfilment that a work of art brings about. The nine types of rasa are therefore centred on emotional content, ‘Shringaram’ depicts love, attractiveness and erotic feelings. The colour green being central to this but as the erotic l<span style="background-color: white;">evels rise it becomes blue/black. </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none; padding: 0cm;">‘Hasyam’ relates to l</span><span style="background-color: white;">aughter, mirth and the comic; the c</span><span style="background-color: white;">olour white is key. </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none; padding: 0cm;">‘Raudram’:</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Fury, anger, warlike feelings, expressed using</span><span style="background-color: white;"> red and t</span><span style="background-color: white;">ypical images include skulls and bones, weapons, and wide, circular eyes. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">‘</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none; font-family: arial; padding: 0cm;">Kāruṇyam’</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">: Compassion, tragedy, touching or moving scenes, the colour key being </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">dove-coloured (grey-white). </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none; font-family: arial; padding: 0cm;">‘Bībhatasam’</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">: Disgust, aversion, abhorrent, shocking or odious, using the colour key</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> blue. </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none; font-family: arial; padding: 0cm;">‘Bhayānakam</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">’: Horror, terror, fear, the terrible. Colour: black </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none; font-family: arial; padding: 0cm;">‘Vīram</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">’: Bold, fearless, stout hearted a heroic sensibility. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Colour: wheatish brown (yellow, ochre) </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none; font-family: arial; padding: 0cm;">‘Adbhutam</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">’: Wonder, amazement, wonderful, wondrous. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Colour: yellow </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">‘</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: arial; padding: 0cm;">Śāntam</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">’: Peace, tranquillity or a quiescent mood. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Colour: perpetual white (silvery, the colour of the moon and of jasmine)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCaplJ6nriRA_kwLDQxOlKewg_zbKfAf5Ckjq_MgyCcLJ6qhTmjTxXfGVxFsKbojh4vzZb5i3SFLXnG3kRff-3cnn-dhbf2Mv_e_h3gWBQ3lFUUiSe7b1j4J7sFYehda4sxWlHiadAo-8k-9z9xjJSbnUL2cPOEkR7U1vsP1536lCZf98FZy3VEGcApFg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="260" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCaplJ6nriRA_kwLDQxOlKewg_zbKfAf5Ckjq_MgyCcLJ6qhTmjTxXfGVxFsKbojh4vzZb5i3SFLXnG3kRff-3cnn-dhbf2Mv_e_h3gWBQ3lFUUiSe7b1j4J7sFYehda4sxWlHiadAo-8k-9z9xjJSbnUL2cPOEkR7U1vsP1536lCZf98FZy3VEGcApFg=w223-h320" width="223" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Shri S Rajam</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">These decisions as to colour will have been derived from experience, but experiences rooted in the times and places out of which the theories evolved. Therefore there may well be some strange, (to contemporary western eyes) types of effect. I would presume sometimes visual effects might have to be re-invented for the 21st century. However </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">red </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">images of skulls and bones and weapons, alongside wide, circular eyes still evoke anger and warlike feelings. Quality of colour is also vital, a mid blue is perhaps a soothing colour, or is used to evoke the sky but a very particular blue can mean something specific; therefore when dealing with the depiction of emotions the blue that for instance is meant to carry a feeling of disgust, will have to be a carefully chosen one. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Delineation, shading, ornamentation and colouring are all essential aspects of a painting, however in Indian aesthetics the rekha, which are the lines that articulate the forms, are its real substance. Western aesthetics would also include the texture or feel of application and it is fascinating to think about how for instance the expressive brush marks and colours of a Van Gogh could be embraced within this type of tradition. <br /><br />What were most valued were effects best captured by the least number of lines. Simplicity of expression symbolised the maturity of the artist, who would look to capture an idea using a minimum number of lines when composing the main figures. The Ajanta cave paintings are an early form of painting using free flowing lines to delineate figures. Their proportion and disposition of body parts are used to communicate delicate inner feelings; together with use of the shading of different parts of the body to produce three dimensional effects in order to 'ground' the figures in an imaginary space. Colour is then used both as a contrast and to create magical or other worldly feelings. </span><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-IqV4-aX-3g4ndDJKyGIPW5pjJfi0Co-Njh9spzVGG5BFxVvPiD1Y29dLf7QwfTK9ct2tbz-iU5fqVrKjjkM5yMZhfJPNdD-55NAHrao4a7ppZC7H6RKg8oI1zQ1svGd7mkIAHKcIsZZb6RwzbEPhdrrwKG2SVPKmeAl40TG-0SrjcPBJ8lPyafiMC04" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-IqV4-aX-3g4ndDJKyGIPW5pjJfi0Co-Njh9spzVGG5BFxVvPiD1Y29dLf7QwfTK9ct2tbz-iU5fqVrKjjkM5yMZhfJPNdD-55NAHrao4a7ppZC7H6RKg8oI1zQ1svGd7mkIAHKcIsZZb6RwzbEPhdrrwKG2SVPKmeAl40TG-0SrjcPBJ8lPyafiMC04" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From the Ajanta caves</span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">The emotions that revolve around love and heartache are particularly powerful and most of us will at one time or another have to deal with a situation when feelings totally dominate the embodied mind. Heartache is literally a pain that stretches across the chest. The giddiness of romantic love is a real lightheadedness. But the colours whereby we try to represent these things are often both mixed up and hard to assess. A feeling of euphoria can be quickly followed by one of loss. A sense of the warmth of love, can be butted up closely to one of a fear of loneliness. The erotic feelings that penetrate down into our loins, may in some instances be visualised by a harmonic movement of colour, but whether or not that is from a green to a blue, will again be dependent on quality. What sort of green, what sort of blue and what sort of colour field do these colours move through and in what sorts of shapes and forms? </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">The term 'measuring emotions' is very much a paradox. When in the middle of an emotional storm, the very last thing we are capable of doing is measuring anything. But we can try to recreate the experience in an art object. As a form of externalised mind, an image can be used to play out various ways to represent what was felt, as well as what is still being felt, especially if the situation that is being represented is still ongoing. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Emotions are like the currents that pass through the sea, some flowing strongly and others far less so, but all mixed up beneath the surface and usually invisible; until you actually dive in and are tossed about by the sea's reality. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">The psychologist Robert Plutchik was fascinated by the complexities of emotion. In particular he understood that they often came into our awareness via feelings of difference. He therefore posited 8 primary bipolar emotions: joy versus sadness; anger versus fear; trust versus disgust; and surprise versus anticipation. His model links the idea of an emotional circle and a colour wheel, which allows us to think of emotions being mixed with one another rather like paint colours, to express the complexity of the various ways we experience them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJcaUck9qIMrX1Hexqz09fgxXAfnlpbey61O6tZpGlKt02AUBkslyYHajNjzDOmkeyrym5FvZvViPaS-xKNaaTV4HJkFbHfHC1F5BTCa_te2b8WH25uvCzvcc2cek923thXzgFhszp5D05_edp-fV_jjNAqTMBc32u2xIPlg9KaoSI9Ll_1luu5_WimSk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJcaUck9qIMrX1Hexqz09fgxXAfnlpbey61O6tZpGlKt02AUBkslyYHajNjzDOmkeyrym5FvZvViPaS-xKNaaTV4HJkFbHfHC1F5BTCa_te2b8WH25uvCzvcc2cek923thXzgFhszp5D05_edp-fV_jjNAqTMBc32u2xIPlg9KaoSI9Ll_1luu5_WimSk=w316-h320" width="316" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: left;">Robert Plutchik: Wheel of emotions</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Notice how the colours in the centre have the most saturation. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Plutchik thought of his model as a three dimensional one and because of this, I am tempted to explore the complex grades of colour represented by Munsell's colour sphere and to then impose these subtle saturations on to </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Plutchik's cone. By doing this, much more refined emotional colour mixes ought to be possible. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgikLJhFEs4N6wzUHmfCZPpcFJuDTjMT53HGFhUCswfIzJvh95OWl9IS_biQ7FYH4YWnlrae6flz62J7SF4mhLUc8CW5bUw10eWWfn6dl7K20H0Q471OZDFfAE3fygAZWWKWAADAnG74LB8gbd5d9lnNHQRBP-I25kb6yaTpPhVLH4MxVdxFFr0Ij8ybSI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="290" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgikLJhFEs4N6wzUHmfCZPpcFJuDTjMT53HGFhUCswfIzJvh95OWl9IS_biQ7FYH4YWnlrae6flz62J7SF4mhLUc8CW5bUw10eWWfn6dl7K20H0Q471OZDFfAE3fygAZWWKWAADAnG74LB8gbd5d9lnNHQRBP-I25kb6yaTpPhVLH4MxVdxFFr0Ij8ybSI" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeozj6A6_kTjjmpEbI9gizE1KboVA-Z3buHvvQTotPv89fnrMl7CvqTzTiAT5FbW31RnzKM7wJYaotLUaN6F9NIluCdFLx6UZpwQVziIu1wmv5Gc9KeePVyWNYmFnbXE7Zb6GXV_1N1ZpEHE6GzrAXznSTSazDp7PMdTeQbigBWBzeINtcnrm4SRho8C8/s3240/Plutchikfig6.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="3181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeozj6A6_kTjjmpEbI9gizE1KboVA-Z3buHvvQTotPv89fnrMl7CvqTzTiAT5FbW31RnzKM7wJYaotLUaN6F9NIluCdFLx6UZpwQVziIu1wmv5Gc9KeePVyWNYmFnbXE7Zb6GXV_1N1ZpEHE6GzrAXznSTSazDp7PMdTeQbigBWBzeINtcnrm4SRho8C8/s320/Plutchikfig6.gif" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Plutchik's cone of emotions</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The image above of Plutchik's cone of emotions is in my mind far too dependent on a 'natural' colour wheel, but it can be played with. <br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw2hScRpsnwo4E4KSN5wccNLrSKKX0DFajj15FVwel3B_GJTrYlkoPet7FlgyRnG1M0nO3pdUiTS0qAvw9eaSkxm-aNhTuiy70m0ACU3gtJyto2CMmSEEbDuPtUoSS3K8hkU0WG5SnSnywWygfidEXJ63f3igFOa6DGOblz0wuEgSs7xot5aDuYxBKcyY/s3240/Plutchikfig6.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="3181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw2hScRpsnwo4E4KSN5wccNLrSKKX0DFajj15FVwel3B_GJTrYlkoPet7FlgyRnG1M0nO3pdUiTS0qAvw9eaSkxm-aNhTuiy70m0ACU3gtJyto2CMmSEEbDuPtUoSS3K8hkU0WG5SnSnywWygfidEXJ63f3igFOa6DGOblz0wuEgSs7xot5aDuYxBKcyY/s320/Plutchikfig6.gif" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pensive acceptance?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3z3UHD2HO0rHR3-EhnhcqMPE-xNacPeB3JKuEVGTLxy41gC_1uW3ZD9-vsYQ4YPgIwASdgtwNf8kgqvasz1RrXQA_0V6i0xBP1mZQ51RWt-haBUlQos2nhjFDuXTwEPHwNBnxHmTHcOcuOMsrVlqjRbCTUbRxAInIXn24GhuVhL33YkjUPFstGMPQfn4/s3240/Plutchikfig6.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="3181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3z3UHD2HO0rHR3-EhnhcqMPE-xNacPeB3JKuEVGTLxy41gC_1uW3ZD9-vsYQ4YPgIwASdgtwNf8kgqvasz1RrXQA_0V6i0xBP1mZQ51RWt-haBUlQos2nhjFDuXTwEPHwNBnxHmTHcOcuOMsrVlqjRbCTUbRxAInIXn24GhuVhL33YkjUPFstGMPQfn4/s320/Plutchikfig6.gif" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Love or anger?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">As soon as you give particular colour qualities to Plutchik's cone, questions arise as to what these colour qualities express. However the more particular the colour range becomes, the more they point towards 'real' emotional feelings. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipeSRfa5vhfZAhytuBo75ukwyY5HNUamj-672P3faB4f39QKfjacJuz1A-7sJ0J0qyv6FmbzQtJqZE0w1PWsM8MMX_yo_mHyTpP6OQDc82AGDhjkK9tNnEHkBL6YjJZze4pMVc8ZJk75eZqDqNqUX1s1aFN31oiSffWPyFecgTOUjUoM1UPMZYU177kxw/s3543/sootycomradesinarms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2651" data-original-width="3543" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipeSRfa5vhfZAhytuBo75ukwyY5HNUamj-672P3faB4f39QKfjacJuz1A-7sJ0J0qyv6FmbzQtJqZE0w1PWsM8MMX_yo_mHyTpP6OQDc82AGDhjkK9tNnEHkBL6YjJZze4pMVc8ZJk75eZqDqNqUX1s1aFN31oiSffWPyFecgTOUjUoM1UPMZYU177kxw/s320/sootycomradesinarms.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From a recent series of paintings whereby Sooty undertakes the heavy emotional lifting</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The fact that I'm writing about emotion from a point of emotional distance, and that my images are doing the 'emotional heavy lifting' might be due to a failure to address actual emotional relationships. Henry Moore used to always avoid trying to find underlying meanings in his work, as he was worried that he might shine light on the dark unconscious pools whereby his images arose, and in doing so what was there would dissolve like photographic images do when a light is turned on in the darkroom and he would never be able to find those images again. There is always something to resolve and though it is impossible to unpick the entanglement of everything that causes what to happen, happen; the important thing is to move on and as you do to learn a little more about why you might do the things you do. </span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Reference</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Theory of Indian Painting: the Citrasutras, their Uses and Interpretations by Isabella Nardi</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/12/tone-and-emotional-value.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tone and emotional value</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/02/colour-and-control.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Colour and control</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/06/on-naming-colour.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">On naming colour</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/05/visualising-energy-flow.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Visualising energy flow</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/05/sanskrit-indian-aesthetics.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sanskrit Indian aesthetics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/05/indian-aesthetics-within-western.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Indian aesthetics within a western tradition </span></a></p></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-75496256397404167982024-02-04T02:40:00.000-08:002024-02-10T01:37:48.401-08:00The Lamed Vavniks<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6UaPGZJnXZ1yfKMdAN_b-cze4xbWfwJbDne2GXalGM3-duOwO_urgQQwIK0RB9dBIOdYqg6C937o43xYMnztjcTpMzZotGjEBte3ufehEiC2rs3X4NFODlm3U163ZfdJ0ZHO2S3gvOu8L2rSe1J4_dF5_6nHoBXBJsrnIAYMZkZNTt5F9Atc3Q-PXBU/s320/LuciaVunerable.jpg" /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJ8OCLxN8-mF5mGbjqjOmnN-VW5xvZzDCaKJrUP9CL78lZzljpFyCbsOMuygkInSsgt2Gw4devPk8a_29M81-p_WuTbTgrXl8X5Be7azi7gkCNORRTlaEZSDvCd6HNnIZ-t8b8ASTBsmL2yT3TkXsOFZCqrUS2Xq4fjhXmf1Pk-c6rHODNGUJn2p8Tx8/s3543/portraitwithhands4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2678" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJ8OCLxN8-mF5mGbjqjOmnN-VW5xvZzDCaKJrUP9CL78lZzljpFyCbsOMuygkInSsgt2Gw4devPk8a_29M81-p_WuTbTgrXl8X5Be7azi7gkCNORRTlaEZSDvCd6HNnIZ-t8b8ASTBsmL2yT3TkXsOFZCqrUS2Xq4fjhXmf1Pk-c6rHODNGUJn2p8Tx8/s320/portraitwithhands4.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyx31U8nCbkSGJCYpemi64M2kUvn394Z9MKN4HQN0KAH-31gRbCoI3Cfdyfr5r1sC0I_zU0oUvc0HOAkXYFm1Roznh8PUWfAN50n7yGMVv3dUL08N3GtZFvGh9yKbVR1bOZcU1WH1gclFDzc9MnyLJAhKCT7X9WUitKdPYSFNbGCeZmRFwtwEY-8DWeM0/s3543/LuciaDark.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyx31U8nCbkSGJCYpemi64M2kUvn394Z9MKN4HQN0KAH-31gRbCoI3Cfdyfr5r1sC0I_zU0oUvc0HOAkXYFm1Roznh8PUWfAN50n7yGMVv3dUL08N3GtZFvGh9yKbVR1bOZcU1WH1gclFDzc9MnyLJAhKCT7X9WUitKdPYSFNbGCeZmRFwtwEY-8DWeM0/s320/LuciaDark.jpg" /></a></div></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">T<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c;">he lamed vavniks or lamed vodniks are 36 people, who unknown to each other are saving the world.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmPDvQ-4QizgPzf02TCooC3ISS73o3CTtK1boiJy_uyPUD91feK4Mxv6wdKKDAnwi0j8GTeNLklp1Cb-Velb4jOve7Z0LGe-Xm4-X-mdxd7HsWBbqpxY8HhxqZx6cUMq-GdH3XW4BmahY84D11z7VRwgR2k-LQB2bvrBX0TBuOqcetKHsoSec3YKZL8g/s3543/Carol2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The legend of the lamed-vavniks has Talmudic origins. Lamedvavnik; a Yiddish term, is derived from the Hebrew word for thirty: 'lamed' and the Hebrew word for six: 'vav'. They combine to make thirty-six, the number of righteous individuals without whom the world would not exist. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Plantin MT Pro;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Plantin MT Pro;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo5pKGBrIxvHySJiTz2J5RJWeEYCvVxLg0gluDK8ODgnxkoUUNx9qLtlt6INAJyEJzFQ2bOlnlLm1eFKO3j0-MHSiy3mefjd_sEZHaxuCmKknCIAQ5fkvi0lSnlXpu6g9G9b5g-7QVaVyHQp5yMR-blhJVQyp8gmLtfCStlLLh58C6BgZ7aK7yBu47BvA/s3543/MD3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2684" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo5pKGBrIxvHySJiTz2J5RJWeEYCvVxLg0gluDK8ODgnxkoUUNx9qLtlt6INAJyEJzFQ2bOlnlLm1eFKO3j0-MHSiy3mefjd_sEZHaxuCmKknCIAQ5fkvi0lSnlXpu6g9G9b5g-7QVaVyHQp5yMR-blhJVQyp8gmLtfCStlLLh58C6BgZ7aK7yBu47BvA/s320/MD3.jpg" width="242" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Plantin MT Pro"; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6iMLHXlx-CQ83SgFycbI3CBJ1jFN6fHR279BAsPfhahG5fTOHH5ioXGGH6dT7tg0svJibkyu_Y21aIqeRciWx78jOfhPWLz4rUastamhSaOsspKQCJfpHh072xUQyNhNhJrTSYlmQJ8ykUF537CoO9S-h9NqXauqR44AYiRYWknoZw-mSX267AfxtJk/s3543/Peter2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6iMLHXlx-CQ83SgFycbI3CBJ1jFN6fHR279BAsPfhahG5fTOHH5ioXGGH6dT7tg0svJibkyu_Y21aIqeRciWx78jOfhPWLz4rUastamhSaOsspKQCJfpHh072xUQyNhNhJrTSYlmQJ8ykUF537CoO9S-h9NqXauqR44AYiRYWknoZw-mSX267AfxtJk/s320/Peter2.jpg" width="227" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Plantin MT Pro"; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvxm_Ga1n1l6cS3EH4HlOy2qJCLnHG6OPGruOGMqca5nJVQ7BsecCxSrmBuPDXXfHjM951cgP04ztnFxwi8JM3BOajEZ_oQ315584D3lN3kh3Fdfmi7NvgW0hT7oO7db3l7ztblSFkD473PPUFW7z2Wge_7kcvjGNXsTtkubxxdFIpNaszOMUT_PpEq0/s3543/PortraitofDavid2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2645" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvxm_Ga1n1l6cS3EH4HlOy2qJCLnHG6OPGruOGMqca5nJVQ7BsecCxSrmBuPDXXfHjM951cgP04ztnFxwi8JM3BOajEZ_oQ315584D3lN3kh3Fdfmi7NvgW0hT7oO7db3l7ztblSFkD473PPUFW7z2Wge_7kcvjGNXsTtkubxxdFIpNaszOMUT_PpEq0/s320/PortraitofDavid2.jpg" width="239" /></a></div></span></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In this time of terrible atrocities I decided that we needed to be reminded of the possibility of ordinary people doing good. Therefore I am presenting thirty-six portraits of ordinary people. Ordinary in that they have no honorific status, such as being an aristocrat, media star or sports celebrity, but of course they are also 'special' in being individual human beings, each one having the potential to save the world. Some of these portraits were made of the same person at different times, a fact that at first I wondered about, but then I realised that each time I see them they are different and the potential they have to change the world, itself changes as they do on a daily basis. </span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Plantin MT Pro"; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6-WrBj6STcCAbtJ5WFc1JNHxhHm9Uu5h_OXMBOz3zwUg8oV3q7aUSUbkrUNauc-XhojdFhTcCuv7BF8xBe9dCMW5sQTGxB4mbzyM2ustxj0PkKxDFA8kHlsuAp5OPw8P7wWdnGzKjp6DCy5-JLEkuN9SbDX37UX0jzJtNK-Gc5qeW7FuvHwxngEF3wY/s3543/portraitofyota.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6-WrBj6STcCAbtJ5WFc1JNHxhHm9Uu5h_OXMBOz3zwUg8oV3q7aUSUbkrUNauc-XhojdFhTcCuv7BF8xBe9dCMW5sQTGxB4mbzyM2ustxj0PkKxDFA8kHlsuAp5OPw8P7wWdnGzKjp6DCy5-JLEkuN9SbDX37UX0jzJtNK-Gc5qeW7FuvHwxngEF3wY/s320/portraitofyota.jpg" width="238" /></a></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Plantin MT Pro"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qcQb_SWp43t1i9nKVH3X1ok3N2cpPCEqXunsUDfLZgnv8wa9YSEhy8smQ-NI0yWtydXHByjtim9HEvE8VDHrHr0yzAfQUl1Bz_pSWJXWa-AE6G0_yNgvgCzOK6CJwyj7iXHoWm8HLG7om2ZNJatrgJgNBkk-Wb0TUFWyplkI7ZsQKex90-sEp_9Yo6g/s3543/portraitwithhands5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2637" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qcQb_SWp43t1i9nKVH3X1ok3N2cpPCEqXunsUDfLZgnv8wa9YSEhy8smQ-NI0yWtydXHByjtim9HEvE8VDHrHr0yzAfQUl1Bz_pSWJXWa-AE6G0_yNgvgCzOK6CJwyj7iXHoWm8HLG7om2ZNJatrgJgNBkk-Wb0TUFWyplkI7ZsQKex90-sEp_9Yo6g/s320/portraitwithhands5.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Plantin MT Pro"; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-hP6GAY5bH77pVhW19X96IfQ484EAz4Y4NY7KWoJhjDoyIXS-6Nua1_6PesDCH1el6ZJj7ZwLEzt5FXvaj8QdpRzXArjyhWYybSgcuC6MSr1dme7GxGUN-BtA8l7HDjdwYUZTkeFq5zUXfErIYrl3K2FFkIXgLXMkbSGngr5kqbmLOoXN0ZQUE4qbAgQ/s3543/MD2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2596" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-hP6GAY5bH77pVhW19X96IfQ484EAz4Y4NY7KWoJhjDoyIXS-6Nua1_6PesDCH1el6ZJj7ZwLEzt5FXvaj8QdpRzXArjyhWYybSgcuC6MSr1dme7GxGUN-BtA8l7HDjdwYUZTkeFq5zUXfErIYrl3K2FFkIXgLXMkbSGngr5kqbmLOoXN0ZQUE4qbAgQ/s320/MD2.jpg" width="234" /></a></div></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial;">These people are collected together simply because I have come into contact with them, I am the connection and as a self imposed condition of that connection, I made an image based on how I felt about them at the time, an image also suffused with my feelings about the issues they raised when I was in conversation with them. It is the ordinary people of this world, who keep it sane and who help it to occasionally achieve peace, and without them our world would be a much darker place. The Lamed Vavniks are always 'ordinary'. </span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJcA3rv9J9uJEpEjKOemEfuzqa6GeMOiDm28tJtIkLQYgvUdcIi7CFvZDUAHGz1Jjmp0-a7jfBS3_xyjNb2zVuNYfCVR0UVQ0Oe66qM7NqTZg6MQi4dBzTSf8B6cePl9fk2uJDAzfM_HGEckjQbpaghFIF45t7Gx1onu1LMzYbHt9x9Bv4Qh3I9E-GSk/s3543/DC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2541" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJcA3rv9J9uJEpEjKOemEfuzqa6GeMOiDm28tJtIkLQYgvUdcIi7CFvZDUAHGz1Jjmp0-a7jfBS3_xyjNb2zVuNYfCVR0UVQ0Oe66qM7NqTZg6MQi4dBzTSf8B6cePl9fk2uJDAzfM_HGEckjQbpaghFIF45t7Gx1onu1LMzYbHt9x9Bv4Qh3I9E-GSk/s320/DC.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "Plantin MT Pro"; font-size: 19px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45cYa6isH2c_YTdUUsQ2ToUIuJt0OwhzC7UyupdeOKE-s0vtSHoKviJjvrIpzJOl1izgIji3UDKHXWRzQYIGkhc9b2bqiQ0N_BxW92rdTHr0u1BZhP2wm5rUmAMfu8MiCvh2nHq5QvAdv4LyeZDutrhXjwXJ5EEqM0OikFbOvbZN9TYs8MKF2zrgxbdc/s3543/SB1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2664" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45cYa6isH2c_YTdUUsQ2ToUIuJt0OwhzC7UyupdeOKE-s0vtSHoKviJjvrIpzJOl1izgIji3UDKHXWRzQYIGkhc9b2bqiQ0N_BxW92rdTHr0u1BZhP2wm5rUmAMfu8MiCvh2nHq5QvAdv4LyeZDutrhXjwXJ5EEqM0OikFbOvbZN9TYs8MKF2zrgxbdc/s320/SB1.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKf3vzAVY6HLHluH1xzh1EK_OnmjEwI5DeVIZzlp5VAW_kNXm8jmFiwEiPg_RIulFZmTenjLKyobMsbZf_Esr7FnX3P80sP8zhDJRUPdLlaa86Cb0Pe7ewpem-QcLh6_t5vqrY1giW-W0YjBKvpqybLbcNDtN44XMDD8TyotqAoNe8DV9S8QwYc8REN0g/s3543/head.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2995" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKf3vzAVY6HLHluH1xzh1EK_OnmjEwI5DeVIZzlp5VAW_kNXm8jmFiwEiPg_RIulFZmTenjLKyobMsbZf_Esr7FnX3P80sP8zhDJRUPdLlaa86Cb0Pe7ewpem-QcLh6_t5vqrY1giW-W0YjBKvpqybLbcNDtN44XMDD8TyotqAoNe8DV9S8QwYc8REN0g/w271-h320/head.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The original story of the Lamed Vavniks is a Jewish one and all 36 of them were men. In these days of equality, I have decided to not discriminate and am suggesting that these righteous people are just as likely to be women as men. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHSR0qXwKE9sJ92Gr7w_9nvx03YCMQOEbzd1W7K3Ma6e9kKAS7_cpHxpgrzYhTg-wLzMBdWoK0KX_rYsX_grnWW63BxI3YQ_0uVZK0yRaxKkYzeDbemm-g-UT6R5g8rx0M87LJ2S0Jkilw1N-or84QAoLrOe2Q5D5IR4iU8XA-8KH7Cx9DVzAyGJnZZDQ/s2248/madportrait.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2248" data-original-width="1824" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHSR0qXwKE9sJ92Gr7w_9nvx03YCMQOEbzd1W7K3Ma6e9kKAS7_cpHxpgrzYhTg-wLzMBdWoK0KX_rYsX_grnWW63BxI3YQ_0uVZK0yRaxKkYzeDbemm-g-UT6R5g8rx0M87LJ2S0Jkilw1N-or84QAoLrOe2Q5D5IR4iU8XA-8KH7Cx9DVzAyGJnZZDQ/s320/madportrait.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifnlJZvkKgENBDFKMDTPQvEhTgIYbj9N6fBekuPIdBOAUJbGmSzEJnMrJQxedaiiX4HERohKjv9czGIh8RUIIweCs6AOJY1MEUaof8u8YPtMEcKCAMB7XOaZCCDk0cpl3MBKf1NXzpdvZhxowlzC57ImMjSrIpSyTFL9nUIxRA_aaXOe2hp8xLtpIVnlc/s4113/Tony%20portrait.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4113" data-original-width="2880" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifnlJZvkKgENBDFKMDTPQvEhTgIYbj9N6fBekuPIdBOAUJbGmSzEJnMrJQxedaiiX4HERohKjv9czGIh8RUIIweCs6AOJY1MEUaof8u8YPtMEcKCAMB7XOaZCCDk0cpl3MBKf1NXzpdvZhxowlzC57ImMjSrIpSyTFL9nUIxRA_aaXOe2hp8xLtpIVnlc/s320/Tony%20portrait.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5RNF7lFNKOH3m_F0xH9ddLJi7aLwCMnAu6rzuGLqtshUW6jZoBubKCER3Q_yBxsiSBxW9bYGDVbwjgR6UOhg7iYjFIrZnAOBHQGk9dxu0tMQJkL3v-pC7s1L2t0mbS67UIAcDN3DrKRW0cxh-52gsQidRhf_CymBgW75IjJCpClFCOBSmfm9TlnBOI0/s3543/GB2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5RNF7lFNKOH3m_F0xH9ddLJi7aLwCMnAu6rzuGLqtshUW6jZoBubKCER3Q_yBxsiSBxW9bYGDVbwjgR6UOhg7iYjFIrZnAOBHQGk9dxu0tMQJkL3v-pC7s1L2t0mbS67UIAcDN3DrKRW0cxh-52gsQidRhf_CymBgW75IjJCpClFCOBSmfm9TlnBOI0/s320/GB2.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In portraits the language of painterly and drawn expression can be at odds with the distribution of individual features. These images are fusions of a play with pigmented materials and responses to the flickering moments of awareness we sometimes call perception. I think this is a good thing. It reflects that fact that we are all composites and hybrids, mixes of all the influences we have received over the years, as well as being carriers of the genes of thousands of those who went before us. A decision to stop moving the pigments around is something that comes intuitively and so is a fixing of facial features as they emerge from the morass of paint and ink and other substances. Likeness, in terms of verisimilitude is not important, but accuracy of feeling tone is. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLmGg49K2hWz5bCqgpcQsjlIYjavL7yxij_2BM9FM6fzvazzCkx0nLYGY0wFzoWPXnJ4CNMv_ThvL__6wWVbwe1KJJhIwMywDTCjNwC6Kcaxyvu0Gy89cPCWBLVLtG57Csdwl9lMcF43ljjVHGCK6PyB7nSmFAVe1TQuI8Q3V_6gkVB6eHtqDg9wW2uw/s3543/GB5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2705" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLmGg49K2hWz5bCqgpcQsjlIYjavL7yxij_2BM9FM6fzvazzCkx0nLYGY0wFzoWPXnJ4CNMv_ThvL__6wWVbwe1KJJhIwMywDTCjNwC6Kcaxyvu0Gy89cPCWBLVLtG57Csdwl9lMcF43ljjVHGCK6PyB7nSmFAVe1TQuI8Q3V_6gkVB6eHtqDg9wW2uw/s320/GB5.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WVujeWfIrWKFwB9_K15OaI9LFnndpqjwkrnrEebd8HeJXKOT29lpoxbe48xGfSEzoP-XyMXsRpCPV23PraV1n5Z4R2q5ndPjZrpf52MbRuya_VX303PRt5HtZ8lnvhyphenhyphenOhBP1RidmphZtzCcYKkTTDqyZFMtdW7oJzOz4Tef1hwgi41wt9ycpfgSiCME/s3543/GBDC2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2548" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WVujeWfIrWKFwB9_K15OaI9LFnndpqjwkrnrEebd8HeJXKOT29lpoxbe48xGfSEzoP-XyMXsRpCPV23PraV1n5Z4R2q5ndPjZrpf52MbRuya_VX303PRt5HtZ8lnvhyphenhyphenOhBP1RidmphZtzCcYKkTTDqyZFMtdW7oJzOz4Tef1hwgi41wt9ycpfgSiCME/s320/GBDC2.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiotaW3QxPNngExHBQQBLyspnEg6WMjMTYUYF2aRZm97gVIhaQlrozdZDD6im-W3-f70Q4ruKITUkFZBjMErl4s2W8m8b9XHaJWkd0eapY91UBC3ye9ztk-bEbgxN1hbH9FEcbUEqDF3LVwXgbIVL1KzUhzqQITyj-tILyI_EF3QWdaqUfZWW38GOTy0QQ/s3543/GBDC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiotaW3QxPNngExHBQQBLyspnEg6WMjMTYUYF2aRZm97gVIhaQlrozdZDD6im-W3-f70Q4ruKITUkFZBjMErl4s2W8m8b9XHaJWkd0eapY91UBC3ye9ztk-bEbgxN1hbH9FEcbUEqDF3LVwXgbIVL1KzUhzqQITyj-tILyI_EF3QWdaqUfZWW38GOTy0QQ/s320/GBDC.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As these faces emerge from the possibilities that the materials of their making engender, they merge into and out of a dance of pigment, water, paper, moving brushes and pens. Their story is as much a granular tale of ink and watercolour, as it is of sadness, joy, age, youth, sex or attitude. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUK9JRxiPhTiyJq450xGOGl1B3zVzpPIRhbFfUngpMQzIK3RMu0siuclA2yLC3ugMF0B5HPzebY0k57LpzGaIr27G7UElSeE42Xx_yFwI5xAfkwHXo3x5wIuPDDHDUyvrDcdMejXfT2pinzjcQ3BaGTJy_OZkvO1O5GQ-99SteHtLQmdDtDEM3xESIqK4/s3543/Carolwithpen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2523" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUK9JRxiPhTiyJq450xGOGl1B3zVzpPIRhbFfUngpMQzIK3RMu0siuclA2yLC3ugMF0B5HPzebY0k57LpzGaIr27G7UElSeE42Xx_yFwI5xAfkwHXo3x5wIuPDDHDUyvrDcdMejXfT2pinzjcQ3BaGTJy_OZkvO1O5GQ-99SteHtLQmdDtDEM3xESIqK4/s320/Carolwithpen.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMVSru927VzqQ4ZsoukHNiQTqzWTxJ6dl0onVCNdPuh-z8rFCzJKDLVseEMc2ZO-BPhrEERCLY_KBLl0I-9sAgcy4jTPsk9EBUGYN1fbiAZJvFT7cy-wBwy_Fll_UJ2OMo_PrQotQWzmaVI2fyA7mhAjJSy48PtC4DrLK_TK4Jnf3IiMKKmEZAMU49PA/s3543/Lucia3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2557" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMVSru927VzqQ4ZsoukHNiQTqzWTxJ6dl0onVCNdPuh-z8rFCzJKDLVseEMc2ZO-BPhrEERCLY_KBLl0I-9sAgcy4jTPsk9EBUGYN1fbiAZJvFT7cy-wBwy_Fll_UJ2OMo_PrQotQWzmaVI2fyA7mhAjJSy48PtC4DrLK_TK4Jnf3IiMKKmEZAMU49PA/s320/Lucia3.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These images as they are read through the various lenses and filters through which each of us gaze, are seen by some as candidates for sainthood, and by others as criminal types. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1u9N249kdxEGfENI_z4Ht3mIe3dzcOHuiRQRKdXuapXfNu3JfxRBmSuDloQ45BjDCMJ6pAGSTMYdZBijcmhkUtI0brIeck812cpt1u7GIwNjCg9oSbQc5xclQh4HqGV_9MpgDncn6yfIKYMdcwf2BiX65hpIUq7gqFqlOHNQ8tYWIdnRKczSO1cviHZ8/s4724/mancrying.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4724" data-original-width="3543" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1u9N249kdxEGfENI_z4Ht3mIe3dzcOHuiRQRKdXuapXfNu3JfxRBmSuDloQ45BjDCMJ6pAGSTMYdZBijcmhkUtI0brIeck812cpt1u7GIwNjCg9oSbQc5xclQh4HqGV_9MpgDncn6yfIKYMdcwf2BiX65hpIUq7gqFqlOHNQ8tYWIdnRKczSO1cviHZ8/s320/mancrying.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15a_NOLtV6eEHJ2S2KGOLKT3q7BkjYxgHTDPhYJXFKvS0tWgbE43IL5sZuITQcxqzXrOFcuqBn0fL70-iU2CKeWsvrcoUp_qsir6VvxUvrBy5SPUdeHaFc73w8OCxnkvmLBmw9x9tJ7zbusYk2wT_F-OBxxV29kz2G6sXSeEvjrlCNi_xL4CF0jqKtxs/s3543/lamed5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2554" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15a_NOLtV6eEHJ2S2KGOLKT3q7BkjYxgHTDPhYJXFKvS0tWgbE43IL5sZuITQcxqzXrOFcuqBn0fL70-iU2CKeWsvrcoUp_qsir6VvxUvrBy5SPUdeHaFc73w8OCxnkvmLBmw9x9tJ7zbusYk2wT_F-OBxxV29kz2G6sXSeEvjrlCNi_xL4CF0jqKtxs/s320/lamed5.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">They are all potential Lamed Vavniks, their actions may be what save the world. One small gesture, made by any one of these people, like the butterfly disturbing the air in its flight, may eventually become the thing that makes the difference, the tipping point that prevented disaster.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja2CVYu6kyE5g2Ycu8l5kChhSTQr0VEsy74mjQjz4zQLlk_tqiuz4FBfjPlgkfKrTH9w6XT9Ns8rYUlZqOa9OovZhQZMUi7I7DKV44OB7wsQsJbSRTS-gOn99GWJPYB54ext2na5wnCQZfG32IP_Ew7_jNmERkjIVlVicAnKRX09fYQlAxNil2SzvHhzw/s3543/L2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2947" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja2CVYu6kyE5g2Ycu8l5kChhSTQr0VEsy74mjQjz4zQLlk_tqiuz4FBfjPlgkfKrTH9w6XT9Ns8rYUlZqOa9OovZhQZMUi7I7DKV44OB7wsQsJbSRTS-gOn99GWJPYB54ext2na5wnCQZfG32IP_Ew7_jNmERkjIVlVicAnKRX09fYQlAxNil2SzvHhzw/s320/L2.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUBxcsdBxVRcJuwETHL2amIiD87CsQGlTl2rC1-Q8n8cwtbE7WDjJgRH1JQKzx_Pio4TNQLRe-5hY4ac5Zend_HNQ1k0zxDf78C9evafAjbXHHdYVx4nek6kmL8fNDslN6g-WubLbSXFi7HBqeG940n588KDN-Z-sCcFP41lnBSCUJ5m_2pAaoVW-se8Q/s3132/Lamed1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2988" data-original-width="3132" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUBxcsdBxVRcJuwETHL2amIiD87CsQGlTl2rC1-Q8n8cwtbE7WDjJgRH1JQKzx_Pio4TNQLRe-5hY4ac5Zend_HNQ1k0zxDf78C9evafAjbXHHdYVx4nek6kmL8fNDslN6g-WubLbSXFi7HBqeG940n588KDN-Z-sCcFP41lnBSCUJ5m_2pAaoVW-se8Q/s320/Lamed1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">We should never know these people, they must remain anonymous. This is their power, by being potentially anybody they are everybody and everyone must pull their weight if we are to save this world from the ravages of consumerism and myopic individualism. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55bqnGBUMhv-X5gCjhmC0RbxdVh0aPftF8Zsy3td93y7b7P6OcPMvNTBorE317MkfhyphenhyphenQUs4LhBN0cDE6xUKVBAg71WAl9hW-LtQ1chx2q-UgnM5BpciHfrJlWZ5t_W2ej5zgnZaFSNBeQl84LxtMx8g0TqQf-DvcEfMJmd0dTK6CEm_WwLZH8LY2DASc/s4080/lamed2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2904" data-original-width="4080" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55bqnGBUMhv-X5gCjhmC0RbxdVh0aPftF8Zsy3td93y7b7P6OcPMvNTBorE317MkfhyphenhyphenQUs4LhBN0cDE6xUKVBAg71WAl9hW-LtQ1chx2q-UgnM5BpciHfrJlWZ5t_W2ej5zgnZaFSNBeQl84LxtMx8g0TqQf-DvcEfMJmd0dTK6CEm_WwLZH8LY2DASc/s320/lamed2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4qzIAcwHTLFtzoUOld0q1Rs2DhwsNaKUWmJldinoEzQe-CO5iJZcFfaKIspPQeUUQPMT10kXa1o3289GNbxaWZuKoK8eyDFkwF5RBzrg9siqUduaaAjKowvMGFEbH8mpNrNGgd53Im2sOyEnrw2GE9wRKFNQyOZH8JnfPYbSqu8uJdzp9kyIjwDMImE/s3543/lamed3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2619" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4qzIAcwHTLFtzoUOld0q1Rs2DhwsNaKUWmJldinoEzQe-CO5iJZcFfaKIspPQeUUQPMT10kXa1o3289GNbxaWZuKoK8eyDFkwF5RBzrg9siqUduaaAjKowvMGFEbH8mpNrNGgd53Im2sOyEnrw2GE9wRKFNQyOZH8JnfPYbSqu8uJdzp9kyIjwDMImE/s320/lamed3.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So these people are the possible Lamed Vavniks. Is one you? Is one that woman you saw yesterday waiting for a bus? Is your uncle one? Is it that person being interviewed by the news reporter? Is it the anonymous soldier in the background of an old photograph? We are all guilty, all conflicted and responsible for the damage our kind inflict upon the Earth. Whether it is 36, 36,000 or 36,000,000 people, does not really matter. Just one might be enough, just one act, one thing done that triggers another act, starts another process and in so doing leads towards a brighter future, rather than an ending. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbD_-A_ASjGvxGvdwyrOA4glwHIAmieI4WZNCsFkg3CNxJvrniOS8TvlQknuEQR8HOi5wFYb5VqThQt9x3L3abx8RspU869kIexEeL5LIfPms8MebP3CWxoBWi8tJ3uNfDwKFQ5Qv8wjmqgqbVEAZJ7i9r3UcCQnFXHJm5O56HZOs2Vm2FdnfwIFMGINg/s3543/Helenetalkswithherhands.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2429" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbD_-A_ASjGvxGvdwyrOA4glwHIAmieI4WZNCsFkg3CNxJvrniOS8TvlQknuEQR8HOi5wFYb5VqThQt9x3L3abx8RspU869kIexEeL5LIfPms8MebP3CWxoBWi8tJ3uNfDwKFQ5Qv8wjmqgqbVEAZJ7i9r3UcCQnFXHJm5O56HZOs2Vm2FdnfwIFMGINg/s320/Helenetalkswithherhands.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixIYGKhcnwDMxAjH2ruHLY457Jf5Uw1q1lBVVmb8P061moqVZQ141pWFInfK89lXAMPt0x1Sbyo3vXJSqHDWh2oTX6SCloSHTkVGR8i0JbbTOHvUcTpoyCtTCWISGhwUR5QQAZx-wxAW4ZNUDYaF05rWFPnNM4SIy1sjdluh9K8Y81V4FtgE5_TkQWhc4/s3543/Helenethepugalist.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2530" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixIYGKhcnwDMxAjH2ruHLY457Jf5Uw1q1lBVVmb8P061moqVZQ141pWFInfK89lXAMPt0x1Sbyo3vXJSqHDWh2oTX6SCloSHTkVGR8i0JbbTOHvUcTpoyCtTCWISGhwUR5QQAZx-wxAW4ZNUDYaF05rWFPnNM4SIy1sjdluh9K8Y81V4FtgE5_TkQWhc4/s320/Helenethepugalist.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm sitting in a house in Glasgow, surrounded by the work of a painter who I used to know really well. Her portraits surround me and I wonder if I knew the people she drew. I probably did as we worked in the same city and the art community is not a very big one. Her drawings are very personal and are like many artists more touched with the mannerisms of her hand than the individuality of the sitter. No matter how hard I try, the same happens when I make drawings in response to the presence of other humans. I try to channel something unique about the person I meet, but when looked at later, each time all I see is myself. Perhaps that is the real secret of the Lamed Vavniks. They are all possible versions of ourselves. We may be good, we may be bad, we may be bold, we may be shy, we may be whatever version of ourselves we see in the eyes of others. Sometimes I feel constructed as I speak, my voice an echo of others, my body language changing as I mimic the movements of someone I respect. Sometimes I'm unconsciously mirroring the shape of a friend and at others I'm consciously blocking the movements of a person I distrust. My boundaries keep shifting, I am a permeable membrane, a hybrid form, parts of myself carried by others, just as I carry others within myself. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1vcHoyhaIda2VBJ-fpnVaafriPJudmXf_CQMtta4VYt8mrau9MF-sUKVFkIef9AWBORFSnrThWxh1GWcPzsXevwHpRJhSDaQasqxN8e7X9pSY69vakBSIwHdkz3jKOAHIAT8fPxly8XQ3U3ZxuozwMtDnukqGGg4mKoH0_PRzp5ph13ZzNWtbRDy6yF8/s3543/Helenepuzzeled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2722" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1vcHoyhaIda2VBJ-fpnVaafriPJudmXf_CQMtta4VYt8mrau9MF-sUKVFkIef9AWBORFSnrThWxh1GWcPzsXevwHpRJhSDaQasqxN8e7X9pSY69vakBSIwHdkz3jKOAHIAT8fPxly8XQ3U3ZxuozwMtDnukqGGg4mKoH0_PRzp5ph13ZzNWtbRDy6yF8/s320/Helenepuzzeled.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHjpiC5NklDaviffDSq_eqGJOhHsOQz8nnipJ7N1djQpsWv7DbfvK3bAVf8YVf0x0s6j8q_Y7iz2hcCA05amom5mrvLbbQGR8HC0eZ9jh4gFdkpLR3HSLHEqkzuR_QO0f1Fs9us8ChW-X-e5rY0fu8McKP5d6rwpWMHaVWDQgws7TC5WBcFh1xCnF8HPU/s3543/carolb6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2548" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHjpiC5NklDaviffDSq_eqGJOhHsOQz8nnipJ7N1djQpsWv7DbfvK3bAVf8YVf0x0s6j8q_Y7iz2hcCA05amom5mrvLbbQGR8HC0eZ9jh4gFdkpLR3HSLHEqkzuR_QO0f1Fs9us8ChW-X-e5rY0fu8McKP5d6rwpWMHaVWDQgws7TC5WBcFh1xCnF8HPU/w230-h320/carolb6.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Who are we? If we are Lamed Vavniks we would never know, unknownness is a condition of their existence. It is the actions taken by people who do those actions not for profit or individual gain but for the fact that they are simply 'right' actions; that lead to these people becoming Lamed Vavniks. But they don't even know they are undertaking 'right' actions; their lives unfold as possibilities, their agency in the shaping of their lives being somehow suffused with grace, a grace that emerges from t<span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a;">he habitual character of lives created by the gift of grace</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a;"> from God and there but for the grace of God, go I. I'm now confusing a Christian term with a Jewish myth, perhaps a natural consequence of my upbringing. We are all possible </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Lamed Vavniks, which is why we should never judge the actions of others too harshly, as we may find we at the same time condemn ourselves. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72L0Jke3TpE1xW-MFy2cwMmgBR2ixmY0oGeDZflxiMoL8yaoUUZtLXElb10TdElQop_BwmlOqd4XcVps4xveKaOez61yBue04LQ4FlHiztEZ8wYP8TWIzrMS-MnyFVsD9SorJZJ_ld9NcURO-ZcbNBpRN03BWaEW0xljzPcfVN2IrIq__Ba94Utl63R8/s3543/MD1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72L0Jke3TpE1xW-MFy2cwMmgBR2ixmY0oGeDZflxiMoL8yaoUUZtLXElb10TdElQop_BwmlOqd4XcVps4xveKaOez61yBue04LQ4FlHiztEZ8wYP8TWIzrMS-MnyFVsD9SorJZJ_ld9NcURO-ZcbNBpRN03BWaEW0xljzPcfVN2IrIq__Ba94Utl63R8/s320/MD1.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYM9evLSYhqPaOt54X38UyCFvGBkDVN3Guxv5XOB5eRHKoMBshm1HwOekc5wNDDaoN9D373sA2HrAULLuHqOnNpB56Dp25n8z2DGVRcCOMwpqY4OG-4hAJ9d0341GHZTZlh9egOZ1af2jH0Uekblww0XzNTQbZGTqC7KwZwOhJ3JaCLpkiyDZGBo9vOw/s3543/LuciaReveals.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2579" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYM9evLSYhqPaOt54X38UyCFvGBkDVN3Guxv5XOB5eRHKoMBshm1HwOekc5wNDDaoN9D373sA2HrAULLuHqOnNpB56Dp25n8z2DGVRcCOMwpqY4OG-4hAJ9d0341GHZTZlh9egOZ1af2jH0Uekblww0XzNTQbZGTqC7KwZwOhJ3JaCLpkiyDZGBo9vOw/s320/LuciaReveals.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I contradict myself with these portraits, as I do with each and every portrait I make. On the one hand I try to say that human beings are not special, that they are just a part of the endless complexity we know as what is out there, or nature, or the world. But, no matter how hard I try to be aware of everything else as being just as important, I still find myself making images of the very thing that I try to suggest should not really need any more images being made of. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFQRfhX3_LoX-bwScpAf1WCauZj0BQQKI3dreUuwZwIWnEQDtyNgrM_NiMM4-KAtOISEVcBKlegVcl2thJjjIjvUo-w5u_wY6CtUl3cdLP0JF1-PFMfBRX_OUDWVmrf19HTqsx8W11Zxafc_4B2FQ7pwCBVvV9KoWoeE7nSjbdzojPbCUXbtYFQS7SHIU/s3543/lamed4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2578" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFQRfhX3_LoX-bwScpAf1WCauZj0BQQKI3dreUuwZwIWnEQDtyNgrM_NiMM4-KAtOISEVcBKlegVcl2thJjjIjvUo-w5u_wY6CtUl3cdLP0JF1-PFMfBRX_OUDWVmrf19HTqsx8W11Zxafc_4B2FQ7pwCBVvV9KoWoeE7nSjbdzojPbCUXbtYFQS7SHIU/s320/lamed4.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9lpchqY6FHYX2ERTxkUO_f0YAtddbGYx8dyFVGn67uxrCFJxHoW-5qEvnJZYp84huLIT0lP_KujGujotJwT8NcaLU2RVoxhrLkhbQyM4z5mepcVof0ZNCzoIK2g-KuKsWidLgNQOi8qhey4uc7IuSLCZYJ81xF1ioyBiys3gYRWndlBYt1CDxmvohl3Q/s3543/portrait3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="3038" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9lpchqY6FHYX2ERTxkUO_f0YAtddbGYx8dyFVGn67uxrCFJxHoW-5qEvnJZYp84huLIT0lP_KujGujotJwT8NcaLU2RVoxhrLkhbQyM4z5mepcVof0ZNCzoIK2g-KuKsWidLgNQOi8qhey4uc7IuSLCZYJ81xF1ioyBiys3gYRWndlBYt1CDxmvohl3Q/s320/portrait3.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So name them ink or brush or pigment. Name them sticks and stones and bones and paper, but never John or Mary, Kevin or Jean, or even Sally or Michael or Jim. Avoid Ahmad, Fatima and Amir, never use Ezra, Leah or Aaron, and stay away from Imani, Kwame, or Omari. Fang, Jing and Yan are to be avoided, just as Mehmet, Osman and Emre. The unknown soldier has no name, and in this case no number either. These are the L</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial;">amed Vavniks</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial;"> and in their anonymous actions they save us all. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2014/10/drawing-spirits.html">Drawing and spirituality </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/04/michael-kenny-drawings-for-easter.html">Drawings for Easter</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/02/portraits-and-time.html">Portraits and time</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/07/what-is-portrait-anyway.html">What is a portrait?</a></span></div></div></div></div></div><br />Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-78323504530315481052024-01-29T01:42:00.000-08:002024-01-29T01:42:09.241-08:00What can art do?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm back worrying about what my work is useful for? Is art ever of any use? This is something I have had to wrestle with for well over 50 years now, and I think it's time to set out once again what types of answer have kept me going. I've also just been reemployed by the institution I have worked with for the last 48 years, as a research fellow. This will mean trying to show how my work as an artist is useful and that it has some sort of impact on society. Therefore the clearer I am about what is going on the better. I am very aware that many of the people that look at this blog are fine art students and that the question, "What use is this?" is one that often rears its head, so hopefully my personal thoughts will be useful and that they might help others come up with some sort of answer to the question, 'What can art do?'</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have for many years been an avid reader of the work of the American philosopher John Dewey. His book, 'Art as Experience' is probably the one that has had the most impact on myself as an art practitioner and teacher. The most important lesson I learnt from his writings was that art can be transformative. Not only can it be used to change behaviour at an individual level but that it can be used for social change. This is however a big ask and there are many people out there who would dispute this and argue that art can only reflect what goes on in society or that it is an hermetically closed activity that is always concerned with itself and its own rules; Art being about art, about aesthetics and the art world. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However I believe that art can effect change, both emotional and cognitive and that art can promote first of all an awareness and then a critical evaluation of unfamiliar feelings, or different ways of thinking about the world around us. Altered perceptions can eventually lead to social change.</span></p><div aria-labelledby="firstHeading" class="vector-body ve-init-mw-desktopArticleTarget-targetContainer" data-mw-ve-target-container="" id="bodyContent" style="grid-area: content / content / content / content; line-height: var(--line-height-medium); position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="mw-body-content" id="mw-content-text" style="margin-top: 16px;"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Dewey pointed out that art is not about the objects made but that it is about the experience it offers. Therefore every individual is potentially an artist by way of their capacity to participate in this experience. I.e. it is collaborative. This collaboration involves participation which itself leads to transformative change because participants experience differences in how it is possible to think, feel or behave. Art is therefore both psychological and social, transforming not only individual intra-personal processes, but also interpersonal relationships.<span style="white-space: nowrap;"> (Dewey, 1934)</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This gives what I would call a psychological purpose to the art I make. This in turn I would hope leads to some sort of introspection on the part of people who engage with it and beyond that, that the engagement itself helps them towards new ways of thinking about other people and things. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So how does it work?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>I have recently been using an image of a glove puppet Sooty to carry a variety of ideas about the world and how I / we might think about our engagement with it. The idea was a very personal one, as it was distilled out of my own memories of being a boy and back in the 1950s been given a Sooty puppet to play with. As an adult who has been a professional practicing artist for over 50 years, I now feel capable of being able to return to experiences from the past and reframe them as constructions for thought and the development of feelings, hopefully in a way that facilitates the engagement of others. I also have to believe that in making these images, as others engage with them, the contact can lead to changes in people's cognitive awareness and the way they use feelings to understand the world. The objects I make facilitating what I have called in the past, externalised minds. It being easier to think or feel in response to a something externally perceived, than to have to compose everything, all your understandings of concepts and feelings, inside your own head. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtIKdfAVHL_VDmlMA7Zm8PWoo1G28Z2ysAHxd9yVQ7Gfysy-L3tCE0JJkl8xPIxDpiiVD-LzFjjvnwEMcVzTqpp1BYRlEGZFPajwQ0W22AS3Th5Rm3nalBrWzBGtCAhyphenhyphene5k2GHzDoskMTBe_TQbfcy5H7BpAKuJSJNwajkpNe68QbVPfLwsmnplTZV19s/s3543/Thefall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2644" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtIKdfAVHL_VDmlMA7Zm8PWoo1G28Z2ysAHxd9yVQ7Gfysy-L3tCE0JJkl8xPIxDpiiVD-LzFjjvnwEMcVzTqpp1BYRlEGZFPajwQ0W22AS3Th5Rm3nalBrWzBGtCAhyphenhyphene5k2GHzDoskMTBe_TQbfcy5H7BpAKuJSJNwajkpNe68QbVPfLwsmnplTZV19s/s320/Thefall.jpg" width="239" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmCJOCHyBWgQ1JeQ0S6kr_g5jgLxh6dyYJli98ynJcpMbbNxvEb-CfTQ9VZEg7SeeJJz_S897GoTukCSOqLmXUKl3I9IbHe-v1Cgnr4yE4sUGx6dDxHwi3AARunY5UTgXcJebsbOeLenVMdOVZhSiOtMKJIegbdrJkLazw5761Esfa7eXq6p1gekiALbk/s3543/sootywithlizardtail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmCJOCHyBWgQ1JeQ0S6kr_g5jgLxh6dyYJli98ynJcpMbbNxvEb-CfTQ9VZEg7SeeJJz_S897GoTukCSOqLmXUKl3I9IbHe-v1Cgnr4yE4sUGx6dDxHwi3AARunY5UTgXcJebsbOeLenVMdOVZhSiOtMKJIegbdrJkLazw5761Esfa7eXq6p1gekiALbk/s320/sootywithlizardtail.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4SsipBqMaW6Fo6KaOSlIYDW6bS7OePJ3jonAP51fysqpImBq_ELXcyqDMztrS9oHmLthwNz15Fz7-OQgn_hW862XxYUrCqeHo7md9zke3HDmW7CNzyLrsK2I18Qj03RE1YLC-cylRmv80n8WnoZT57QNOuOumvpEImlpVN0bzv12esyWu8VPKXC68Ves/s3543/sootywithmoon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2376" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4SsipBqMaW6Fo6KaOSlIYDW6bS7OePJ3jonAP51fysqpImBq_ELXcyqDMztrS9oHmLthwNz15Fz7-OQgn_hW862XxYUrCqeHo7md9zke3HDmW7CNzyLrsK2I18Qj03RE1YLC-cylRmv80n8WnoZT57QNOuOumvpEImlpVN0bzv12esyWu8VPKXC68Ves/s320/sootywithmoon.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ARcns8GCqWBdIDOBKXuiiXCRmigYpG82CXHFRSABMhBx-DW8wA1Gmn-AVMJ9JB0cqfOeixzPhx_bQlb0RbJkXMmELdIi-zR-GWiuF_k53IXrAo4s2ZYfji5kGh9UbkLfzF8YljhgzcCWNuoaJlU_TwM63FQFLD1LNtVgKoDBDSajAz2h7EpQjeZmCzY/s3543/sootyiconoclasts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2494" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ARcns8GCqWBdIDOBKXuiiXCRmigYpG82CXHFRSABMhBx-DW8wA1Gmn-AVMJ9JB0cqfOeixzPhx_bQlb0RbJkXMmELdIi-zR-GWiuF_k53IXrAo4s2ZYfji5kGh9UbkLfzF8YljhgzcCWNuoaJlU_TwM63FQFLD1LNtVgKoDBDSajAz2h7EpQjeZmCzY/s320/sootyiconoclasts.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqpw4OCqPmC3NrGdS4aTUrXOf4EN55A4-vSri2SrEWQM-R8PfhKfczMBKXYyygZCyZk0-sJB6PIskTp5pdDF-NJbjtlzf_titYFyHovf12achN9TK4c1alRcHMfgLsy9qnTDdSWrWgMO61RPtcq7EpPUYXxE2VSBw7E0r1inVpfMpVP6t-HWPiyfpgKM/s3543/Knockeddownwithsooty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2910" data-original-width="3543" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqpw4OCqPmC3NrGdS4aTUrXOf4EN55A4-vSri2SrEWQM-R8PfhKfczMBKXYyygZCyZk0-sJB6PIskTp5pdDF-NJbjtlzf_titYFyHovf12achN9TK4c1alRcHMfgLsy9qnTDdSWrWgMO61RPtcq7EpPUYXxE2VSBw7E0r1inVpfMpVP6t-HWPiyfpgKM/s320/Knockeddownwithsooty.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sooty starts various narratives that others can complete in their own minds</div></span><p></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span>At the centre of this approach to art making has been a growing awareness of animism as a way of coming to terms with the world that surrounds me. I want to talk with the rain as it falls on me, to listen to the land as I walk over it, to feel the stories of materials as I work with them, to be a bird or a cloud or a plant, or a stream and as I do/am these things, to let myself dissolve back into the world I emerge from. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess some sort of spiritual essence, therefore everything; animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems as well as objects made by humans, such as knives and forks and spoons, as well as sculptures and drawings, are </span><span style="font-family: arial;">all animated and alive. This belief allows us to make contact with other things in a very different way; we can have conversations, make connections and engage with things in ways that don't have to be about separateness or difference. It sits as an idea alongside a belief in the Gaia hypothesis, that proposes that all the Earth's organic organisms and their inorganic surroundings are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system. As such the maintaining of the conditions for life on the planet, is dependent on an awareness and a set of actions that reflect this interconnectedness. </span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Raising awareness is the first step in transformative art practice, these blog posts are part of that strategy, if only one person goes away after reading these words and decides that they want to make a change, then the work has had some sort of impact. </span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>These are not new ideas and I see myself as part of a global need to redefine what the artist does. For instance the shamanist tradition continues with work such as </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Pitsiulaq Qimirpik's, “Bart & Lisa Flowers”, this sculpture made of soapstone and antler bone, mixes</span><span style="background-color: white;"> a use of traditional mediums with images taken from the Simpson's, an iconic animation that has helped shape contemporary TV culture. He has this to say about his work, “Sculptures are in the shamanistic tradition. A lot of the visuals are about transformation, the body shifting into a different body, and the spectacle of transformation.” </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3fIynJuZ7gNn7noa3FZtCPm7A2PfD6Rp15ufWzJfZtVG8RF8wSMlgVIu9OHukHI_Okjop_ahoOOW4ppvCe7Ds9q5tnwBFfVFV8CYRNyvpffwYKOI7oaMc-s3FF3MeM-I9sBNwRsUT3FadeatP1yEKD0oUMosbJEspEt4xlHm3MMDdUD-KixVditVkyg/s576/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-19%20at%2014.54.39.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="428" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3fIynJuZ7gNn7noa3FZtCPm7A2PfD6Rp15ufWzJfZtVG8RF8wSMlgVIu9OHukHI_Okjop_ahoOOW4ppvCe7Ds9q5tnwBFfVFV8CYRNyvpffwYKOI7oaMc-s3FF3MeM-I9sBNwRsUT3FadeatP1yEKD0oUMosbJEspEt4xlHm3MMDdUD-KixVditVkyg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-19%20at%2014.54.39.png" width="238" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.16px; text-align: left;">Pitsiulaq Qimirpik “Bart & Lisa Flowers” (2023)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Animism presupposes that bodies can shift and morph into different bodies, spiritual essences can be found in everything, this opens out possibilities for wonder, and gives an opportunity for us all to re-engage with the process of loving the world, instead of mining it for its resources. </span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;">References<br /><br />Preminger, S., 2012. Transformative art: art as means for long-term neurocognitive change. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 6, p.96.<br />Vail, J. and Hollands, R., 2013. Creative democracy and the arts: The participatory democracy of the Amber Collective. Cultural Sociology, 7(3), pp.352-367.<br />Goldblatt, P., 2006. How John Dewey's theories underpin art and art education. Education and culture, pp.17-34.<br />Dewey, J. 1934. Art as experience. New York: Minton, Balch, and Company.<br />Brooke, S.L. and Myers, C.E. eds., 2015. Therapists Creating a Cultural Tapestry: Using the Creative Therapies Across Cultures. Charles C Thomas Publisher.<br />LeBaron, M. and Sarra, J. eds., 2018. Changing Our Worlds: Arts as Transformative Practice (Vol. 12). AFRICAN SUN MeDIA.</span></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/03/object-orientated-ontology-and-drawing.html">Object orientated ontology and drawing</a></span></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/02/drawing-as-material-thinking.html">Drawing as material thinking</a></span></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-it-matters.html">Why it matters</a></span></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/08/drawing-it-all-together.html">Drawing it all together</a></span></div></div></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-64087327218146930572024-01-20T05:12:00.000-08:002024-01-20T05:26:56.630-08:00Stained glass: Session 10<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRoOfilqGsme6cVO1h-JRWYIUp19ysoHKPocFHQhL7J_h1RN4SKL8YrJKz7N5VJtBTMKMUBu7MDpGLXH5_MRF4EpwgSnK_oemAVZ5AuYIvsMikgJhsz4ugnc62IJw-nKf2GkZmwpB2zBrTUpYupT6xhf2gKnAumWroMu7A1OyOZ-eYe_7i46uvLNVLG9E/s952/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2008.54.00.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="620" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRoOfilqGsme6cVO1h-JRWYIUp19ysoHKPocFHQhL7J_h1RN4SKL8YrJKz7N5VJtBTMKMUBu7MDpGLXH5_MRF4EpwgSnK_oemAVZ5AuYIvsMikgJhsz4ugnc62IJw-nKf2GkZmwpB2zBrTUpYupT6xhf2gKnAumWroMu7A1OyOZ-eYe_7i46uvLNVLG9E/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%2008.54.00.png" width="208" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Silver stained glass</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />This was a short session held just before the Christmas break, whereby I mixed and laid down a silver stain that I had decided to use to bring two areas of Sooty's body into a yellow harmony with the rest of the figure. I had used the technique before and wanted to include the process in this much larger, complex piece as a reminder of its specific qualities. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Silver stain is a chemical process whereby an oxide of silver is applied to glass, which when kiln fired, its ions migrate into the glass. A process that permanently stains the glass a transparent yellow. This means that you can get two distinct (clear & yellow) areas in a single piece of glass without having cut the areas out of separate pieces and joining them. The technique was so widely used that the whole medium of “stained glass” obtained its name from the use of silver stains.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9mbmg493IRw2V_fNDqJqEGfAcdeYdtBQurKaJbOZg0vZIammZZ-acL__Y_hAdEa-LgmICnKKcRWgHOnxW729oziI2hP3oBfdD4H5249NPwbwbzX1cqyU8tJK_u4RA8st0Cz4p9E_NOuo66Pc5YRrfpXlIay4Kzis0jmIjQPLlLOehNkrX-nZp3yElb2I/s640/IMG_6991.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9mbmg493IRw2V_fNDqJqEGfAcdeYdtBQurKaJbOZg0vZIammZZ-acL__Y_hAdEa-LgmICnKKcRWgHOnxW729oziI2hP3oBfdD4H5249NPwbwbzX1cqyU8tJK_u4RA8st0Cz4p9E_NOuo66Pc5YRrfpXlIay4Kzis0jmIjQPLlLOehNkrX-nZp3yElb2I/s320/IMG_6991.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Sooty element of the work sat on a lightbox, showing the two plain glass sections</span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHcO8i66TX9M9tCS0ZHr8Pm7kckXX1C9CTi20TvuOxvlwDVRDYTUQB2ap1ee0GZFE-CrMIvgWopplZ1iQeJ0jreh4lLU_28CrNEjhY93ujNVEeVZqXJ9WbQX_Xab_QeMF1jKRhD2-4iM5bcvCO5QkDuQ63XwMRwyNFGaEWV9Ix37IS_bAKvG9XSRSnq_g/s1860/stained%20glass%20.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1860" data-original-width="1228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHcO8i66TX9M9tCS0ZHr8Pm7kckXX1C9CTi20TvuOxvlwDVRDYTUQB2ap1ee0GZFE-CrMIvgWopplZ1iQeJ0jreh4lLU_28CrNEjhY93ujNVEeVZqXJ9WbQX_Xab_QeMF1jKRhD2-4iM5bcvCO5QkDuQ63XwMRwyNFGaEWV9Ix37IS_bAKvG9XSRSnq_g/s320/stained%20glass%20.jpeg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Painted glass panel with silver stain</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Silver stain comes in a variety of yellows, the one I used in the image above being a very orange one. It is always applied to the back of the glass.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQFw17yRBdZhDcSfaX9Y2a4dnk8tjOfQ_4ggzVWPu_ia39oCGYtFWKIuuTjVFR_BThD3YF4ksZ7Nt3MxBHX-SWqNoti-o2E5kP_e7yZ-UGJgUkXImVGKDtbue3qE9VhfcvgyJCSCAvbjpbtVrxNdGP16xZr6Y6w2Wasr2qVmAHUu_Bz3hhvmSiaB_NQg/s640/IMG_7051.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQFw17yRBdZhDcSfaX9Y2a4dnk8tjOfQ_4ggzVWPu_ia39oCGYtFWKIuuTjVFR_BThD3YF4ksZ7Nt3MxBHX-SWqNoti-o2E5kP_e7yZ-UGJgUkXImVGKDtbue3qE9VhfcvgyJCSCAvbjpbtVrxNdGP16xZr6Y6w2Wasr2qVmAHUu_Bz3hhvmSiaB_NQg/s320/IMG_7051.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The two pieces of plain glass, now with applied silver stain on the back</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Silver stain is very expensive. For instance Reusche Amber Silver Stain, if purchased from the Creative Glass Guild, is £50 for a 1oz tub and a pale yellow £24 for the same amount. It is therefore to be used very selectively. The two sections above were both made of plain clear glass that I decided needed to be a warm orange yellow, so I have used </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Reusche Orange Silver Stain. </span><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiv2OPuud_sJmlDlsRckHvGidsIi4Sps40_hIOxb-NX7sD-4dFUUBJyrxyUWyyl2oQzm1hMvTWNnn_OUWapKc_PYGrdlSxvtGy77xpHrtOHnOz2xE1abR9b2eC_hDjTiinuJRcRRSWIvOEFARIZZakR_sEjf8JA6zGb9q46P6-USa-N9vZW3BFEaiDL0/s640/IMG_7052.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiv2OPuud_sJmlDlsRckHvGidsIi4Sps40_hIOxb-NX7sD-4dFUUBJyrxyUWyyl2oQzm1hMvTWNnn_OUWapKc_PYGrdlSxvtGy77xpHrtOHnOz2xE1abR9b2eC_hDjTiinuJRcRRSWIvOEFARIZZakR_sEjf8JA6zGb9q46P6-USa-N9vZW3BFEaiDL0/s320/IMG_7052.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A small glass palette used to prepare the stain</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can mix the stain with water or oil. I used lavender oil, using a small flexible palette knife to mix the amount needed until it was brushable. Before applying the stain, the glass was oiled by putting a few drops of lavender oil on the surface and then rubbing it in and wiping it off with a paper towel. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9p1q5TOee4HSASC99g3y_6hUNMCXPORfC5hPuouTZLhnbfLsseGEpoAHJAEijUXwMR6ZP10olgqbaM8_OF6UA8dzbl3FnsMlTGf0dSiMUTEpEUFrfwb9tBQwZmf8-Rszqnwzgjj9CzTZAuUDyY05Btx6M2hF2cPP_L-Favhv2ki3lpOEUuMj6FgtRZY/s640/IMG_7053.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9p1q5TOee4HSASC99g3y_6hUNMCXPORfC5hPuouTZLhnbfLsseGEpoAHJAEijUXwMR6ZP10olgqbaM8_OF6UA8dzbl3FnsMlTGf0dSiMUTEpEUFrfwb9tBQwZmf8-Rszqnwzgjj9CzTZAuUDyY05Btx6M2hF2cPP_L-Favhv2ki3lpOEUuMj6FgtRZY/s320/IMG_7053.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Brushes and applicators kept for silver staining purposes only</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I used the square ended brush to the right of the collection of applicators above and the fan brush to smooth and slightly graduate the stain. Lavender oil on paper towels was used to clean the brushes afterwards, not soapy water. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxdX9kgjiCGAG1Ibdynu6Txjo5F-CqUPKnccNSeX4yyAonV05MIJYKnhzq1iYNWj9zSb4A_ndPHBgioCiGLAOtH3V7tsnxDCtQLB7InspsS_oafWV5hEcNEW5mWNjvIniXsBAvjI1vsC_UOc0SVL0qfsXcWdN8Y3lpkA3e65URNnpdr23XnKLVLjJmiVo/s640/IMG_7055.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxdX9kgjiCGAG1Ibdynu6Txjo5F-CqUPKnccNSeX4yyAonV05MIJYKnhzq1iYNWj9zSb4A_ndPHBgioCiGLAOtH3V7tsnxDCtQLB7InspsS_oafWV5hEcNEW5mWNjvIniXsBAvjI1vsC_UOc0SVL0qfsXcWdN8Y3lpkA3e65URNnpdr23XnKLVLjJmiVo/s320/IMG_7055.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The two sections had to be turned over to have the silver stain applied. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Hopefully once fired the two sections will sit much more closely into the warm yellow/orange colour range I wanted. </span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Session 10 was the last session I attended in 2023. However on the 23rd of December I was knocked over by a car and had to recover my physical fitness before re-starting. I am just about there in terms of regaining the flexibility to work on a heavy large piece such as this, so hopefully will be returning to the stained glass workshop to complete the final stages of leading it all together very soon. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session one</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session two</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session three</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-four.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session four</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-five.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session five</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-six.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Stained glass session six</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-seven.html">Stained glass session seven</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-eight.html">Stained glass session eight</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2024/01/stained-glass-session-nine.html">Stained glass session nine</a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/10/drawing-on-transparent-drafting-film.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Drawing on transparent drafting film</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/05/new-wine-in-old-bottles.html">New wine in old bottles</a></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-64142180425727276052024-01-14T04:14:00.000-08:002024-01-21T02:32:35.751-08:00Hybrid sculptures: The next stage<p><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the second post of the year devoted to future plans, (my new year's resolutions) and it is focused on my thoughts in relation to more sculptural concerns. As well as working small, I make objects that could be considered as 'furniture' for the mind. I think of them as furniture, as these are objects made to have a similar size relationship with people and are designed to play out roles within a space in a similar way to how I remember the furniture in our family house when I was a boy. Like actual household furniture, they can support *'tranculments'; objects put in drawers or niches or placed upon the sculptures as if they were shelving units or tables. This secondary display works to enable second order ideas to interact with the main formal construction. I have continued to collect thrown away items from my local streets, and to build constructions around them that shift between animal, vegetable and mineral realities; often using cardboard as the main building material, (a response to the ubiquitous Amazon deliveries and consequential need to dispose of many cardboard boxes). I have now decided that I need to begin varying the surface qualities of the objects I'm making, whilst at the same time preserving my constructions' abilities to have embedded within them or placed upon them, those odd items I find discarded by others, as well as objects that I make myself. (I think I will buy a robust blender to explore making my own paper, as </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/02/paper-material-conversation.html">Wangechi Mutu</a> suggests.</span>)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6BW4lno2ZyWvThwPqHjFBrc3mj0B9geNg5YDtB9ALkrI6N4pVY4ai7T95b89s-Msoknv_ehFEo4nA46SBaZUHK9z7_iHHgjU10J2TKi5vE7aiPfrp1-hMKJNRCHskb2zPXPKBI8jnZpTyFPW3IzZWFSBBYr2Ff7hKK8RNncpxYISI-KW8QDmL84kRAoE/s4320/2021-08-19%2016.38.39.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6BW4lno2ZyWvThwPqHjFBrc3mj0B9geNg5YDtB9ALkrI6N4pVY4ai7T95b89s-Msoknv_ehFEo4nA46SBaZUHK9z7_iHHgjU10J2TKi5vE7aiPfrp1-hMKJNRCHskb2zPXPKBI8jnZpTyFPW3IzZWFSBBYr2Ff7hKK8RNncpxYISI-KW8QDmL84kRAoE/s320/2021-08-19%2016.38.39.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As I was drawing these forms it occurred to me that I could embed screens into the surfaces and make animations to play on them. I was in particular reminded of a radiogram with TV setup that my father once had. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBXoL0W7PisAjakztfZ-MMEFqb248CYXAlvt-EOkV2dCoWjWH0my0eOZcloi36FguLdWx8shS-Qc-pWch4tLoM9ASM-d0JJVyQ7LsHORapT-UQCvhRIJqhHl6i2rC1w8mYo82Xtzl9a1FbOaCGIoiKgmGo47IbvUpcfoPjQoY93ZAf8kZqgcUhMQK19Xo/s884/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2011.07.53.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="884" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBXoL0W7PisAjakztfZ-MMEFqb248CYXAlvt-EOkV2dCoWjWH0my0eOZcloi36FguLdWx8shS-Qc-pWch4tLoM9ASM-d0JJVyQ7LsHORapT-UQCvhRIJqhHl6i2rC1w8mYo82Xtzl9a1FbOaCGIoiKgmGo47IbvUpcfoPjQoY93ZAf8kZqgcUhMQK19Xo/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2011.07.53.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Radiogram/TV</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T4s1rJyIVt4" width="320" youtube-src-id="T4s1rJyIVt4"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Idea for an animation insert</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />I was drawing the furniture/sculpture ideas on brown paper to echo the cardboard aesthetic that I had been dealing with, so I decided to use the same paper to draw a simple animation on, then I could test out how a moving image might sit within the forms I was thinking about, whilst keeping some sort of material connection. The radiogram wasn't the only item of furniture I was thinking about. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">A table with its crisp folded tablecloth, always sat ready for action in my grandparents' dining room and I wanted to make something that echoed this. The table was also a place where you could play and dream of alternative realities, so I have been making components to set out my own version of my grandparents' table. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJi2XVgqG1yJb8SunrtUkanMdoAqsa9LmZBBk7akVZKo9Z8r92FXxMINH9DfdY2aBV4nCrWkMWxD_PbfwCMwxwxHt1qJEf00pyCoixRLEZZPD6hct2UGlpT5m8S2iAXdXT89R-QYZsn3zI69To8eXm3oU5aweaHpLZotLg0gmcwgPGW6lBSWgwVbnrqMI/s1230/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2011.36.45.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1230" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJi2XVgqG1yJb8SunrtUkanMdoAqsa9LmZBBk7akVZKo9Z8r92FXxMINH9DfdY2aBV4nCrWkMWxD_PbfwCMwxwxHt1qJEf00pyCoixRLEZZPD6hct2UGlpT5m8S2iAXdXT89R-QYZsn3zI69To8eXm3oU5aweaHpLZotLg0gmcwgPGW6lBSWgwVbnrqMI/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2011.36.45.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Table thoughts</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQsHMIWuUznpVLcYJbiJFa3cd1HWwt6I5m-jQi_3ezQl3fWdA9QGdqjTZjEULRBdb3YMGEPbOnP9PtEaFudhBYsKvl8sX7_DOaiAoxeK9dyGlL7Q_RgMOS4RsBnY85_47EgCTV_dkoNYnr9kKsdUi_YE6lWmVqQWASrBeKUmjRZFiiPqcS_OYHj-N7Cg8/s1272/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2011.46.07.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1272" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQsHMIWuUznpVLcYJbiJFa3cd1HWwt6I5m-jQi_3ezQl3fWdA9QGdqjTZjEULRBdb3YMGEPbOnP9PtEaFudhBYsKvl8sX7_DOaiAoxeK9dyGlL7Q_RgMOS4RsBnY85_47EgCTV_dkoNYnr9kKsdUi_YE6lWmVqQWASrBeKUmjRZFiiPqcS_OYHj-N7Cg8/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2011.46.07.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The remembered table objects of my youth animate themselves in drawing</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPShCSwTAVn6jztz2hrYVK6r0Gyn4RosnDYT_wqKPYqvIb2uru13PP0BT4zut2L9e9EzqFiifE7RqGMBTd0qbEkJRbrzrbkKN91zLM85VDBvZrhJuUyQel8asfX8vrwKcKdiSh4DN3E3wlvTKSC2D1AV4EoiFs56f-wF5ELNwd0ZAp3ghi_0CQeEBOpyg/s1138/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2011.39.21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1138" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPShCSwTAVn6jztz2hrYVK6r0Gyn4RosnDYT_wqKPYqvIb2uru13PP0BT4zut2L9e9EzqFiifE7RqGMBTd0qbEkJRbrzrbkKN91zLM85VDBvZrhJuUyQel8asfX8vrwKcKdiSh4DN3E3wlvTKSC2D1AV4EoiFs56f-wF5ELNwd0ZAp3ghi_0CQeEBOpyg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2011.39.21.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are in their own ways all imaginary tables</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some of the objects that have been made have forms sitting nicely between animal/human/inorganic ways of being. This ambiguity feels right and as I move on with this area of work, I would like to add in other ideas such as having some items being electroplated whilst also being component parts of larger forms, an idea I was thinking about a few months ago, but which I had to shelve because I was unable to stand to make sculpture due to suffering a severe case of plantar <span style="background-color: white;">fasciitis.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXh7QFPYqebv0KthnVp1Uc_YirQ__pYPyIu4TzeSkdxc0BWTzOLEpQo2sECC8OBulf1UUrk2xJFO51lVsKz1dwJeiwkG5ROHFavfG_EJ-d5-C4xiZ31L3GcRxD5JmgmfyOhXg63M-tQBcspiAU3LnXFZIsvJUMyRX4QqOcNuELPDynJ-9D1KLwPI7As4/s640/twosculpturehybrids.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXh7QFPYqebv0KthnVp1Uc_YirQ__pYPyIu4TzeSkdxc0BWTzOLEpQo2sECC8OBulf1UUrk2xJFO51lVsKz1dwJeiwkG5ROHFavfG_EJ-d5-C4xiZ31L3GcRxD5JmgmfyOhXg63M-tQBcspiAU3LnXFZIsvJUMyRX4QqOcNuELPDynJ-9D1KLwPI7As4/s320/twosculpturehybrids.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAad0n32poXrIded0giLz08FUSeg5iaOs_kGdFQcajOVIQpTGZlQb_z-fFy1LKguuw1G9JvsX2ut9vpYZZqrj3RwwaRPdlL4BYgjJH54MkQRM9O9Nn-Ih65OuCYeoqTzB8aQU6OMmWxBaWwUAUhZfPiJK91QyobPJUHPBDKeJGZLy89qIrsdu1InfDZG8/s640/thumbnail_IMG_5764.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="481" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAad0n32poXrIded0giLz08FUSeg5iaOs_kGdFQcajOVIQpTGZlQb_z-fFy1LKguuw1G9JvsX2ut9vpYZZqrj3RwwaRPdlL4BYgjJH54MkQRM9O9Nn-Ih65OuCYeoqTzB8aQU6OMmWxBaWwUAUhZfPiJK91QyobPJUHPBDKeJGZLy89qIrsdu1InfDZG8/s320/thumbnail_IMG_5764.jpeg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">An object with inserts</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiazbxRBSSZ-8-IXXBHOI3hU-kSiBGhmyq0tbhYQ7xkzKjoPUGEOgGEOoky5f9rLMDeYGgWlaQwzGCQhjevE7beANtFST2P0bUdkOLfg3hD9ggtNQasWghjBP4o7Tgp5zMogDk4jUMmAH6xBpEI8ZghAGtRh7MLxny91d-1ehoEkbD-O2mu-1DK4I47-oo/s640/thumbnail_IMG_5763.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="481" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiazbxRBSSZ-8-IXXBHOI3hU-kSiBGhmyq0tbhYQ7xkzKjoPUGEOgGEOoky5f9rLMDeYGgWlaQwzGCQhjevE7beANtFST2P0bUdkOLfg3hD9ggtNQasWghjBP4o7Tgp5zMogDk4jUMmAH6xBpEI8ZghAGtRh7MLxny91d-1ehoEkbD-O2mu-1DK4I47-oo/s320/thumbnail_IMG_5763.jpeg" width="241" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Realised objects exhibited</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I've written about the animist world view several times, but it is in the making of objects that perhaps it is at its most succinct. A material can talk to you. As you work with it a common language develops that comes from a symbiosis between your own materiality and the demands of whatever material you are working with. It is this 'voice' that speaks with a tongue beyond myself, and that has a wisdom beyond the mind; a material knowledge. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6w1athbC3NFSwqitsUOyAotqmJ6LDAicmJx2s_QXmnW88MPG008XFvwXtIerL8_e7Cjy114ouqIudNN6xzv4_UGtbGwrU-LWViV3Gx_YSslUguh5iijLfduncpaZA2gwjAHrzWYnueMIHT2E_He5tSFm8Xt0cPoWc1Ijo69uhImaS3__8I2bPZx7ON0/s4320/DSC04134.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4320" data-original-width="3240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6w1athbC3NFSwqitsUOyAotqmJ6LDAicmJx2s_QXmnW88MPG008XFvwXtIerL8_e7Cjy114ouqIudNN6xzv4_UGtbGwrU-LWViV3Gx_YSslUguh5iijLfduncpaZA2gwjAHrzWYnueMIHT2E_He5tSFm8Xt0cPoWc1Ijo69uhImaS3__8I2bPZx7ON0/s320/DSC04134.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cardboard form with chair</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Objects talk to each other and develop narratives as soon as they are conjoined. In the case above the chair and the cardboard form evoke a missing human and yet within their own realities move on beyond the human, intimating a post-human world, where wood and cardboard will find their own way. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyqVIZ2CNJR9X_KkX6BEQFYmZWDV62DWUj9fGixV_JrNgQl4lIGLT88rmeZoVsV7eUQocQfpmAy2eRFVntr3fTgvEvUA9iUUbHZ3LB-jb982355mLpvZM9Wg0PR2l7RfR1-cbHO9WqNxSadfb2vqH89vQmbcJfDnMk34VeXMiQzZhoojgjRN5_nuvmDMc/s3543/DSC04070.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2346" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyqVIZ2CNJR9X_KkX6BEQFYmZWDV62DWUj9fGixV_JrNgQl4lIGLT88rmeZoVsV7eUQocQfpmAy2eRFVntr3fTgvEvUA9iUUbHZ3LB-jb982355mLpvZM9Wg0PR2l7RfR1-cbHO9WqNxSadfb2vqH89vQmbcJfDnMk34VeXMiQzZhoojgjRN5_nuvmDMc/s320/DSC04070.JPG" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Object built in response to a plastic chair</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 'creature' above evolved from a plastic chair, the arms of which became 'insect legs', another type of hybrid, that eventually had a cascade of plastic artificial ivy emerging from a hole in its carapace. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sometimes a surface evolves that requires a different type of approach. The construction below began with a push along toy and parts of a Barbie House, both found in my street. The black and white drawings used to cover the surface and respond formally to the discarded toys, came from Steve Carrick's studio, and he brought them to me to use in any way I wanted. A collaboration with another artist, is not that dissimilar to a collaboration with a new material. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9UT1LP2QwT4pvbqWTemjiHniub3ENsxfJWhlzF62-JfMK_c7yPhMCXGalkem7zQs1PL6hzxYfQYNKj-TtkE_xibr8bt9D8cXqyngkXSjgPOd1Xi8FinD7FMlVShKruRNkihtSQfMKFGdREgcaaz2N1iOJ9xCtXdEG1gtHhSau4DHAm_agD5c3v5kcP2o/s4320/DSC04065.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4320" data-original-width="3240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9UT1LP2QwT4pvbqWTemjiHniub3ENsxfJWhlzF62-JfMK_c7yPhMCXGalkem7zQs1PL6hzxYfQYNKj-TtkE_xibr8bt9D8cXqyngkXSjgPOd1Xi8FinD7FMlVShKruRNkihtSQfMKFGdREgcaaz2N1iOJ9xCtXdEG1gtHhSau4DHAm_agD5c3v5kcP2o/s320/DSC04065.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">An idea begins</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjArHRhs-kF7ukjgz92gvq1AFMe7Agz8ycsXfY7pOZukTzaRuKWnT0ljJKp0g1M-Zjwf8oHvv7YjJNREBLmBdp2ks2x_vLyS0qxM6ExDBVrhYDXChJYqjb8yelzqc0WJg2TY_wJUe_3X7BWk8u78PY2vDqRhaFygYFxjajvxjUTe64Z7QPrK6DEbTBiGAI/s4320/DSC04075.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjArHRhs-kF7ukjgz92gvq1AFMe7Agz8ycsXfY7pOZukTzaRuKWnT0ljJKp0g1M-Zjwf8oHvv7YjJNREBLmBdp2ks2x_vLyS0qxM6ExDBVrhYDXChJYqjb8yelzqc0WJg2TY_wJUe_3X7BWk8u78PY2vDqRhaFygYFxjajvxjUTe64Z7QPrK6DEbTBiGAI/s320/DSC04075.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The idea evolves </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmF873iam2L4fvMoc3A6bcIo9glL3mzh7-1a7IwdnwinSGYrmfPPxcFmdxg4IkYGphINcYA3i8AJmde7Fvf6jeaBBojAqICFXJNjbE0-8DSIpDf1liW1CqToN7f1E17TRXx-wFiFHE5jEvk9N8uwBVLQaxk2L3GkPdYHMYxis0DkLi7Jv1m-IkYTyIRxE/s320/IMG_6575.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Back in Steve Carrick's studio the process continues</span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These objects have their own language, one that evolves as they come into being. In this case I realised that the surface had to have its own 'say' and once I allowed this to happen, a totally new (to myself) aesthetic began to emerge and this is why I have decided to explore surfaces far more during this new year.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I am still using clay, and this allows me to have a conversation with the earth. It in effect grounds me and provides me with casts of my fingers, as well as allows me to make objects that can act as inserts or additional forms, that can be implanted or embedded into the 'furniture' as it comes into being. I also use clay to tap into my unconscious. As I squeeze it and pull it, forms suggest themselves and this is another way to find what you were not looking for. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Because this body of work sits to one side of the research I'm doing in relation to the visualisation of interoceptual experiences, I have also decided to collect some of the documentation together and make a small artist's book. In particular, because I use recycled materials and am keen to promote this, I recycle these sculptures once they have been exhibited. Their shelf life is very short, but the ideas live on in the sculpture's documentation. By in one way signalling to myself that this run of thinking has come to a sort of conclusion, it hopefully allows me to take a slightly different tack. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">As an artist embedded within a local community, I have also been having conversations and making drawn responses to what I believe are animist modes of thinking; types of behaviour that I particularly find in the ways that people engage with the objects and furniture in their homes. I also want to compare my findings with how people think about possessions who have been totally dispossessed of all their worldly goods and who have had to seek new homes in often strange new environments. These conversations are being made alongside the making of ‘objective’ drawings of people's 'significant objects' in order to come to some sort of ‘understanding’ of what is happening, conversations that when returned to inform the direction in which I take the drawings. The resulting images are then used to help formulate what could be described as imagery for secular myths. The second stage of this work is to merge the ideas emerging from this work into the implications that I think are coming out of the existing three dimensional aspects of my practice. In particular I am hoping that this area of research will effect the types of </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">objects that act as inserts or additional forms, that I will use to engage with the furniture size</span><span style="font-family: arial;">d 's<span style="background-color: white;">entinel</span>' constr</span><span style="font-family: arial;">uctions planned. All of which comes under a heading of 'home is a belief', something I'm going to have to write a separate post about. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">*Tranculments: <span style="background-color: white;"> a Black Country word meaning</span><span style="background-color: white;"> '</span><span style="background-color: white;">ornaments and decorative objects typically found on mantlepieces, window ledges and other places around the house where mementoes can be displayed. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2024/01/wearable-objects-and-curative-things.html">Wearable objects</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/07/drawing-using-clay.html">Drawing using clay</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2016/07/collage.html">Collage</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/08/trench-art.html">Trench art</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/09/electroplating-as-drawing.html">Electroplating as drawing</a></span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-53506012482431400052024-01-07T02:29:00.000-08:002024-01-07T02:31:22.543-08:00Stained Glass: Session nine<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFd5cDVZR3tmUbxFrgx8qehMm638q29NWmAnw35G4jBCmpVJBRGNJ2_Zd56_ocd4AFiDAKonPa2T9rcjLhxNsy9v7IjyqmFISXnGptYHjvdxu5UYC03trct8SE0S5xngy20Y_8qi2dxTk_cKIuHV3BE5F7iu_10SHSVNmxd22oSW0kGJqpsBhkuDaFXg/s640/IMG_6990.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFd5cDVZR3tmUbxFrgx8qehMm638q29NWmAnw35G4jBCmpVJBRGNJ2_Zd56_ocd4AFiDAKonPa2T9rcjLhxNsy9v7IjyqmFISXnGptYHjvdxu5UYC03trct8SE0S5xngy20Y_8qi2dxTk_cKIuHV3BE5F7iu_10SHSVNmxd22oSW0kGJqpsBhkuDaFXg/s320/IMG_6990.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fired sections of the leg, edges darkened with oil based paint</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My previous painting session had now been fired and I needed to finish the last bits of Sooty's face; two spots for eyes and a roughly triangular mouth. However before I could do that I needed to check how the parts would fit together, so that I could allow for how the leading would work in relation to the position of eyes and the nose. This took most of the session, because I had to grind down the edges of each piece to ensure that I knew where these final painted elements would be. I have to do this with everything once construction begins in earnest, so it was useful to tackle one area to see how much work it would be. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In order to make sure the grinding was accurate, I went back to the cartoon and placed each piece on top, this time marking in white Sharpie any bits of glass that protruded beyond the black central line that represented the thickness of the centre of the leading's 'H' section.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG9Gnd-WcM3xSyRvfPO3b2O0F0ukDqicsjWn5NsD-LFRLReVvHAJFb3KtEJZSfvW3VCBhd5R0A3uCASNI7zoXvP0ZWIA1XQ_NQVh3YGag4K-apzj__5ELBy4vJ27w79OkxH2vyuJ321INyoSemHRliiFiGsEgpw1E9bu1JfxnOE0DXCbAatGuaxyw9nUA/s640/IMG_6989.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG9Gnd-WcM3xSyRvfPO3b2O0F0ukDqicsjWn5NsD-LFRLReVvHAJFb3KtEJZSfvW3VCBhd5R0A3uCASNI7zoXvP0ZWIA1XQ_NQVh3YGag4K-apzj__5ELBy4vJ27w79OkxH2vyuJ321INyoSemHRliiFiGsEgpw1E9bu1JfxnOE0DXCbAatGuaxyw9nUA/s320/IMG_6989.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Laying the glass back on the cartoon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally after fitting Sooty together again, I was able to simply paint the final areas in, using a lavender oil black paint mix and flooding technique. I had to work fast, because you don’t want the paint to dry on you and if your paint doesn’t flow, it’ll very likely blister when you fire it in the kiln. Each small area was flooded using re-mixed paint. Again this is important, in the time between one flooding and another the paint will dry and change consistency, so you have to mix every time, even though it feels as if you could get away with not doing this. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRX3lEnFFU5tpqi3FH9CnLA6E3ff0rKqMAo0dr84cMclhDNHxFR4-VgegtVhA0UE8BF8dBqLFspN5ipx8lPnPfGTT4PCCdBp_S6qM8rGLvOGDNaRgjJl2SuJB3FQCZfp6sJqvjmax1Ul_MxgtWU-LcYeTJTWlXVWgoXT0ey4SMQIDxPBExcw3qEkbCTFE/s640/IMG_7004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRX3lEnFFU5tpqi3FH9CnLA6E3ff0rKqMAo0dr84cMclhDNHxFR4-VgegtVhA0UE8BF8dBqLFspN5ipx8lPnPfGTT4PCCdBp_S6qM8rGLvOGDNaRgjJl2SuJB3FQCZfp6sJqvjmax1Ul_MxgtWU-LcYeTJTWlXVWgoXT0ey4SMQIDxPBExcw3qEkbCTFE/s320/IMG_7004.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Flooding applied to nose and eyes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once the flooding had been done, I needed to fit everything back together again, (being careful not to disturb the eye and nose paint). I would then be able to assess whether or not the arm sections needed any more work; look at how the drawing of the leg was sitting within the new darker boarder and check whether or not I wanted to rework the area around the fused frit work that now constituted the heel. One possibility was to use silver stain to establish a glow around the frit edges, but I decided against this, hoping that the leading will visually cohere the various elements together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The final part of the session was therefore spent putting the whole window together on the light-box, so that any final decisions could be made before the silver staining session. It was then agreed that I would undertake a short session to get that done before the Xmas break. Hopefully the two sections that make up Sooty's head will be fired by next week. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK07NBLeUGVGo8v5ONIBQgoDd2O_OSbNYa6EqTsEketkoAQllUJIkNTNuzmD_4OXhk-sxIp2FdDf86CU5F6aluyUSHWE-ulmbetJgLu8cShgFUp6UAhc8SdeB9YFe_JfMV9GYoQR6BdfEJqonjkocGjEyO4_ps6Ldh2JAwXnWVlCZ8g3myBFqeMYXotpM/s640/IMG_7003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK07NBLeUGVGo8v5ONIBQgoDd2O_OSbNYa6EqTsEketkoAQllUJIkNTNuzmD_4OXhk-sxIp2FdDf86CU5F6aluyUSHWE-ulmbetJgLu8cShgFUp6UAhc8SdeB9YFe_JfMV9GYoQR6BdfEJqonjkocGjEyO4_ps6Ldh2JAwXnWVlCZ8g3myBFqeMYXotpM/s320/IMG_7003.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The window is put together for on the light-box checking</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7KSIHHPuJaiJ-6OrYWD7tOPtgZSKBKDAW5Qb8kP2uPNiAlDHoK0ObMlzF7ni39hyphenhyphenCYx_KREwu2WH7hu5I0X_6dwjQopJKciXigYMLe6wxSWd_bQCuJmnba2j2NMi-r8tSf0zcHxJ-iJPtM3uy4D3HH_S-QtDgbL1Z4cPNyBsFQo76x4LtRS-HH5DSiII/s640/IMG_6994.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7KSIHHPuJaiJ-6OrYWD7tOPtgZSKBKDAW5Qb8kP2uPNiAlDHoK0ObMlzF7ni39hyphenhyphenCYx_KREwu2WH7hu5I0X_6dwjQopJKciXigYMLe6wxSWd_bQCuJmnba2j2NMi-r8tSf0zcHxJ-iJPtM3uy4D3HH_S-QtDgbL1Z4cPNyBsFQo76x4LtRS-HH5DSiII/s320/IMG_6994.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Frit 'heel pain' section and leg which now has its edge darkened</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Nb: I write these sessions up after reflecting on the event, using written notes and photographs taken on the day. The actual session was attended in mid December. </span></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stained glass session one</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stained glass session two</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stained glass session three</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-four.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stained glass session four</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-five.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stained glass session five</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-six.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stained glass session six</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-seven.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stained glass session seven</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-eight.html">Stained glass session eight</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/10/drawing-on-transparent-drafting-film.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Drawing on transparent drafting film</span></a></div></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-87210726814788473422024-01-01T07:17:00.000-08:002024-01-01T07:17:57.386-08:00Wearable objects and Curative Things<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In my first few posts of the new year I want to reflect on directions I am trying to establish for my forthcoming work. One of several strands I want to look at, is to explore various ways to miniaturise my ideas and I will try to use a variety of manufacturing techniques both commercial and hand made, to bring ideas to fruition. A while ago I looked at developing designs for tattoos, and I will hopefully be revisiting those ideas as well. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgS0MXWeZKTwm3MqMmELLisOO0yM-SVR_RJRMAY4rxcodPlPLxfCSXakugEG9zCJaC4hqM7Wbl0t1SP3MQXGcztfN3dhTPNpeytK6kr-QVBi-_qnXdCe05IKgrEL1rHKIqtuUEA6xZAD18fI1Opuga_HYocik_qXgB_uIq0bhXJs5JEHtMhyphenhyphenWIGJvHOdo/s823/bracelet.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="823" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgS0MXWeZKTwm3MqMmELLisOO0yM-SVR_RJRMAY4rxcodPlPLxfCSXakugEG9zCJaC4hqM7Wbl0t1SP3MQXGcztfN3dhTPNpeytK6kr-QVBi-_qnXdCe05IKgrEL1rHKIqtuUEA6xZAD18fI1Opuga_HYocik_qXgB_uIq0bhXJs5JEHtMhyphenhyphenWIGJvHOdo/s320/bracelet.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Bracelet with votive images</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="font-family: Times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have written a chapter for the Palgrave studies in fashion and the body, for the book, 'Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine'. My chapter, 'Votives and Charm Bracelets: Materialising Health-Related Experiences Through ‘Sacred’ Objects', academically extends my research interest in votives and how objects help us to externalise our thoughts; the opening abstract hopefully explaining what I'm getting at. </span></p><p style="font-family: Times; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">'The concept of a physical artefact acting as an intermediary between the embodied individual and the quasi-divine has historically taken many forms, including charms and tokens worn to ward off evil and ensure good spiritual and physical health. This chapter focuses on the artist Garry Barker’s practice whereby he aims to give material form to people’s psychological relationships with their bodies. Responding to themes that emerge from one-on-one conversations with project participants, Barker has used the making of votives and charms to articulate and materialise people’s health-related narratives. More recently he has been using the charm bracelet as a device for the presentation or exhibition of small sculptures and images that are designed as objects to help mediate between desires to transcend the problems of everyday reality and the need to seek wish fulfilment by channelling more spiritual forces.'</span></i></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Making charms was an extension of my votive work. But the idea had a particular gestation. During the Covid Crisis I had been party to an argument about whether or not we should have the Covid vaccination. My belief, like that of most health professionals, was that if too many people avoided the vaccination, we would not be able to stop the endless rounds of re-infection. I thought at the time, if people could externally show that they had been inoculated, then more people would probably decide to make the same decision. So I made protective shield designs for necklaces and badges, as well as designs for charms and charm bracelets. The idea being that inoculation was a form of protection and that these items would operate as wearable protective charms, as well as a wordless way of communicating the fact that you had been vaccinated. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFI2q4KxkucFkfSJ1hPvsHZvf2stPYtFuN2c9laijL3jb8Xt1GJeb3eZtXmyO0SeqX_2BPhRq1_ZVi3xK4XW8Q-0kKpi7gEwxkCGA2lPjAmKr3Mdksvbh0-DAetC3y0W-18QYX8a0lAqNgUn80eYvxhI89aklaxuTH-D54RuGJ0GECNXkCG6SrlmsxLwM/s3543/necklaceidea.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="3543" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFI2q4KxkucFkfSJ1hPvsHZvf2stPYtFuN2c9laijL3jb8Xt1GJeb3eZtXmyO0SeqX_2BPhRq1_ZVi3xK4XW8Q-0kKpi7gEwxkCGA2lPjAmKr3Mdksvbh0-DAetC3y0W-18QYX8a0lAqNgUn80eYvxhI89aklaxuTH-D54RuGJ0GECNXkCG6SrlmsxLwM/s320/necklaceidea.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Design for an 'I've had my Covid Inoculation' Necklace </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnYsvU2edNSFlg06cA616GPhi9imQdPeaDYMSXMMiCTvsQimfF8QsMC4J_zcWNxWrOiWGeAT7s6HqjRpx7goUliY7uynt9VJvh8sxW4KX1-nMu-epmG-XIwwaD97Cmum0DgBHveU6bQPXJWdxZ3rtZRjmbn3WJ6exozrLpkALN56mrubWvMW5xutLqBM/s1129/Necklacedesign.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1129" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnYsvU2edNSFlg06cA616GPhi9imQdPeaDYMSXMMiCTvsQimfF8QsMC4J_zcWNxWrOiWGeAT7s6HqjRpx7goUliY7uynt9VJvh8sxW4KX1-nMu-epmG-XIwwaD97Cmum0DgBHveU6bQPXJWdxZ3rtZRjmbn3WJ6exozrLpkALN56mrubWvMW5xutLqBM/s320/Necklacedesign.jpg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6F_tT5Y4kYYDTj1XSZNXuBs02LvNAl4JbHHomEAe1b6bIw34YHQw22nJJc71YRwCC34zblxKffEXphNF3eE-wFLaiMwXz4KSCo6Wk3eb29A8T-1BLjpSbilWnzYbmxs6ObuIDtJWjMLr2gSJ75hB5vbH3Om192AvfHfAdRP8pzdeKHW9k2qKbgOdqBc/s2953/Charmbraceletideab.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2953" data-original-width="2903" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6F_tT5Y4kYYDTj1XSZNXuBs02LvNAl4JbHHomEAe1b6bIw34YHQw22nJJc71YRwCC34zblxKffEXphNF3eE-wFLaiMwXz4KSCo6Wk3eb29A8T-1BLjpSbilWnzYbmxs6ObuIDtJWjMLr2gSJ75hB5vbH3Om192AvfHfAdRP8pzdeKHW9k2qKbgOdqBc/s320/Charmbraceletideab.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Charm bracelet idea</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">While I was designing ideas for the bracelet, I realised that my other ideas relating to various ways of visualising interoception could also be made into small charms. Pages of drawings in sketchbooks, soon became devoted to possible charms, and all sorts of forms began to emerge, many of them relating to past ideas that I had worked with. It seemed to me at the time that my entire approach to art making could be revised and instead to dreaming of grand gestures, everything could be miniaturised and people could wear these thoughts as tiny objects.</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLAZ2x8hqouZLhIGuml0TOGvgwCWla_832v4AveOVOnoKjCFUlvDEHzTfYYZslffs5nIyM9vVUfkZ4lFmcl7djhHgXe_GPzFIx2Wb2i_lOK0akBHTRHtuoPhuZQ_TkIWZT2J6_GdeH60gKvS8A28govbopvBJO-Edp7sTggm0XeP54ZKC4-GcTNjRYXA/s3543/sketches4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1462" data-original-width="3543" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLAZ2x8hqouZLhIGuml0TOGvgwCWla_832v4AveOVOnoKjCFUlvDEHzTfYYZslffs5nIyM9vVUfkZ4lFmcl7djhHgXe_GPzFIx2Wb2i_lOK0akBHTRHtuoPhuZQ_TkIWZT2J6_GdeH60gKvS8A28govbopvBJO-Edp7sTggm0XeP54ZKC4-GcTNjRYXA/s320/sketches4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_EUYuRXdtWls3HeM1MpYYPT-V6PSsd_WzEAgycxln8ZEJQWK-YHWtpIZxUR-Tp8mgGWRiM1OkTKGQogVceIlwBqRv1CTLdslMDeW0y_yW86MWITsEbwv5Z8kgrBi_Mjxuz-fnxvQToao4P3_dCl9wTHxw252LTYX9ct50EmdvC6YKuZdFxB_G-Kf_I0/s3543/sketches.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1476" data-original-width="3543" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_EUYuRXdtWls3HeM1MpYYPT-V6PSsd_WzEAgycxln8ZEJQWK-YHWtpIZxUR-Tp8mgGWRiM1OkTKGQogVceIlwBqRv1CTLdslMDeW0y_yW86MWITsEbwv5Z8kgrBi_Mjxuz-fnxvQToao4P3_dCl9wTHxw252LTYX9ct50EmdvC6YKuZdFxB_G-Kf_I0/s320/sketches.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Notebook pages</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had an enamel badge made of the syringe on a blue shield image and it was distributed to various inoculation venues. Recently a local medical professional has donated one of these enamel badges and a collection of associated votive cards, that had used with people at the time of the pandemic, to the Leeds Thackray Medical Museum. The museum has developed a collection of objects that is designed to operate as a reminder of some of the things that were produced and used by the medical profession during the Covid emergency. It was good to hear that the badge had not just been used, but that it was felt it was also worth being archived.</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh98GTNWolutZhs1Rn3ZpYBEZXxM0joO0rMRbVMgCCch_iKtM6F03S8gXSC8iffS0iCEVIGfr-VceEePzybj7ctAdfoYoGDluWql-7Ln3U68gb-RbTTwvHC0a6flG5Zo_vhcNLyQfJ1v9aLcP2-2uTUIgQAtQH59JnMvVFkr1m8-mIjrvfYqCDJoCsRI3k/s1636/badgeblue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1636" data-original-width="1524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh98GTNWolutZhs1Rn3ZpYBEZXxM0joO0rMRbVMgCCch_iKtM6F03S8gXSC8iffS0iCEVIGfr-VceEePzybj7ctAdfoYoGDluWql-7Ln3U68gb-RbTTwvHC0a6flG5Zo_vhcNLyQfJ1v9aLcP2-2uTUIgQAtQH59JnMvVFkr1m8-mIjrvfYqCDJoCsRI3k/s320/badgeblue.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The enamel badge being worn</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">In my various approaches to making things, I'm always fascinated by how a connection is made between what one makes and possible audiences. Interconnectedness it feels to me, will be more and more important to us all, as we struggle to come to terms with ourselves and the world that surrounds us. One of the greatest fears I have is that the vicissitudes of modern life will result in my isolation from both the world itself and other people. If we are not to make the planet totally inhospitable to our kind of life, we need to commune deeply with it. We need to connect with processes such as how its weather systems work, how soils support vegetation, how water flows, how air is formed and how animals survive and if that means that we have to return to older forms of communication and fuse them together with our more scientific understanding of how the world works, well so be it. We also need to develop a deeper understanding or awareness of ourselves. If we are to have empathy towards others, we need to be tolerant and to seek ways of communicating that don't simply echo the tight channel that we use for communicating with those people who are just like us. As we narrow the band width we become cut off from more and more people, as well as from other things, such as an awareness of why certain plants grow well in some places but not others, and of why some things thrive in certain situations but in others they fail. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I had been trying out alternative ways to visualise ideas. The sensation that everything is connected also I thought, spreads out into how we envisage time. Breaking it down into past, present and future felt wrong; for instance South American pre-Columbian cultures, saw time as a spiralling interconnectedness and not a linear progression.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">More abstract ideas such as this also need visual forms, and in response to this one, over pages of a small notebook, I found I was drawing spiral forms, over and over again. Forms that reminded me of ones I had looked at many times in the past. Spirals made by </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">Robert Smithson and </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.05px;">Louise Bourgeois, or by the people who designed the e</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: center;">ntrance to the Newgrange</span> monument in Ireland. I had also been looking at badges made for pilgrims to wear. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSzrP-riOQ82OENhXJHk9w3r3g8VFhZWFyOla_yoS-QSBQlfb6FmvYmj0_qTW84PL_9a_h_1DQe59oV1iftenWZ3V3I-IcvNMLo5py_3val82JPUIqXJO8sbd5hIK9qlF2lR07v7L32jr9JOEaxetgVmj70PzQNbflbXZClMfwlYpMh3-N9-qjItdeIIA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3185" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSzrP-riOQ82OENhXJHk9w3r3g8VFhZWFyOla_yoS-QSBQlfb6FmvYmj0_qTW84PL_9a_h_1DQe59oV1iftenWZ3V3I-IcvNMLo5py_3val82JPUIqXJO8sbd5hIK9qlF2lR07v7L32jr9JOEaxetgVmj70PzQNbflbXZClMfwlYpMh3-N9-qjItdeIIA" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pilgrim's Badge</div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">As a test for how an idea could be visualised and then miniaturised I designed and had made a small enamel spiral badge, using the knowledge developed when designing and getting made the enamel badge for celebrating having being inoculated. These were distributed as gifts to anyone who wanted them. People liked the fact that when wearing one they would be asked, "What is your badge about?" and then they could begin a new conversation about what the idea of spiralling time meant to them. These are still available and I continue to give them out if people want one. The positive reception reinforced the idea that people's bodies could be like small art galleries and the more I looked around, the more I saw people using badge like forms to make statements about who they were and where they had been. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXgIVdTLcalUGAwzN1oUyOi5NI3jwf6oQ9qazYV3SvPXr4zLjjpbQtg7qaWcmPZO4MbhblFrwEzVbOK-sWhHBCeyeGbDgAGf6yCcz0LLUsNqi3W1lEoKHhM5DI1txNUgYOW8WAAk9dzBWYsI0N5fP6CEIaO2M9V2dKbzGQAEuDQj0khnPRbEq4Khglwec" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXgIVdTLcalUGAwzN1oUyOi5NI3jwf6oQ9qazYV3SvPXr4zLjjpbQtg7qaWcmPZO4MbhblFrwEzVbOK-sWhHBCeyeGbDgAGf6yCcz0LLUsNqi3W1lEoKHhM5DI1txNUgYOW8WAAk9dzBWYsI0N5fP6CEIaO2M9V2dKbzGQAEuDQj0khnPRbEq4Khglwec" width="246" /></a></div><br />From membership of a political party, via all sorts of other memberships, to tiny images used to elicit memories of visits to various places, badges are active participants in the communication business. </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhXhgR3IKxjHbRfB6XKEvZERCxASIEZoIBftB9A5YY2b5AHKy_K9EqE10M1D1x9DBerTdnJzy5ixR2CLtUqTzz054xUqn2Hg98mdEUXk-T2xJmW044YPFbWLYVes2CT1sB1ZwGo-r0t7Fgz5XTjw3tnVwl6BLKQ7QfcaboNu7-c5lMW9z0_pDCFGTmr0/s1242/past%20present%20future%20badge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1242" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhXhgR3IKxjHbRfB6XKEvZERCxASIEZoIBftB9A5YY2b5AHKy_K9EqE10M1D1x9DBerTdnJzy5ixR2CLtUqTzz054xUqn2Hg98mdEUXk-T2xJmW044YPFbWLYVes2CT1sB1ZwGo-r0t7Fgz5XTjw3tnVwl6BLKQ7QfcaboNu7-c5lMW9z0_pDCFGTmr0/s320/past%20present%20future%20badge.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Badge symbolising past, present and future, all experienced as one intermingled entity</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our bodies and their coverings can be like materials out of which we construct images of how we wish to be seen by others, We communicate using our eyes and noses just as much as we communicate using sounds. Tattoos, clothes, jewellery, hair, deportment, skin condition, perfumes and the general demeanour or feeling tone of our physical presence, make for direct communication channels with others. The article I wrote is a more 'academic' attempt to try and communicate how these processes might work. It suggests or points towards ways of making artworks that fit into the mainstream of life, rather than them operating outside of our day-to-day activities. It also implies a critique of a 'special' art world, where the value of art is measured in terms of money and status, as well as the prestige of the institution showing the work, rather than in terms of how well artworks can help us to connect with each other. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I would like my work to operate as a doorway into ways of thinking that begin to forge connections between between people and ideas, as well as between ideas and ways of relating with the rest of the world. I have always thought that the more you have empathy for others, the more chance there is of eventually finding those others can become either friends or helpers in the difficult negotiation of life's vicissitudes. But empathy seems in short supply at the moment; if the making of art can do anything, perhaps it might help with the building of empathetic connections. If only the wish of a more altruistic world could come true, simply by wishing it. In the meantime, I will continue to make things that help me to externalise or crystallise my thoughts and hopefully as I do, others might also find these solidified thoughts useful. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA55f8hgAq7B2fr6iumP0XRNcqxhWUZb6e3h0tKU5ZUxWG0fgKUZdrxGt2-UchsrJtfV4bv_BYGhyphenhyphenkRbNaP4stmUGTwIpuILLpO35bOnKbWDs9Iebi7vQG1oJyMyVPpdzB3WjRGRGLxGGH1YN6sCb8JlZ6JUEB9cGyoXNGfLpaP2SJw2TZOSCyZWwfsm4/s761/bracelet2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="713" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA55f8hgAq7B2fr6iumP0XRNcqxhWUZb6e3h0tKU5ZUxWG0fgKUZdrxGt2-UchsrJtfV4bv_BYGhyphenhyphenkRbNaP4stmUGTwIpuILLpO35bOnKbWDs9Iebi7vQG1oJyMyVPpdzB3WjRGRGLxGGH1YN6sCb8JlZ6JUEB9cGyoXNGfLpaP2SJw2TZOSCyZWwfsm4/s320/bracelet2.png" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs8aEiFYnQI7t-TDaG79PwzssGzedzEaKuH0Gok0EUPFRFcIr-Nd5N0Vd1PActWQZRDmR-5rvmJPqEbfp9ef69bIDecfZVLbXmPSjnYp3o1qp53i06Hx5LCy1rFqnWBKAyInUCRVNksaoPc5MIZsY1e_g2aomcoKR3RRPufQvoC2g5PvPjYZrZ_PeLY8s/s3737/whiteglass.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3617" data-original-width="3737" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs8aEiFYnQI7t-TDaG79PwzssGzedzEaKuH0Gok0EUPFRFcIr-Nd5N0Vd1PActWQZRDmR-5rvmJPqEbfp9ef69bIDecfZVLbXmPSjnYp3o1qp53i06Hx5LCy1rFqnWBKAyInUCRVNksaoPc5MIZsY1e_g2aomcoKR3RRPufQvoC2g5PvPjYZrZ_PeLY8s/s320/whiteglass.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Material tests</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzI7xH9r0KX3RU_U2BGQV-nSSIId6jD1Ens2T1zYzDuRRiIukKqYF395DZwrUKSgp-oKIgQg3ChBoJvz3WW8sj3m6bCnDcGrzTZXNR9rVpdIuKhK0_yDP2W1oRJ1WYzJpL0qa15kFxCI7-iwqCwGJpDWT9M8N73DltZ-vwfkiy7Dh-JDpVUg9Fw5v9GA/s1333/braceletcharm2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1258" data-original-width="1333" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzI7xH9r0KX3RU_U2BGQV-nSSIId6jD1Ens2T1zYzDuRRiIukKqYF395DZwrUKSgp-oKIgQg3ChBoJvz3WW8sj3m6bCnDcGrzTZXNR9rVpdIuKhK0_yDP2W1oRJ1WYzJpL0qa15kFxCI7-iwqCwGJpDWT9M8N73DltZ-vwfkiy7Dh-JDpVUg9Fw5v9GA/s320/braceletcharm2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Charm idea developed from the material tests</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2Outtz749IMLB6te1e-2o0lkxYPXtJevTx3TNfgP0H44nTKIIWLAo1IrpjRgjxK5oqzmQ9m9c2C2Ui1iX7U5mBK488Bq5mSh5D9oZkV1AoUbS4Kp99DiP-JwBhvZNFOWDW1puo6u3VurCpZbs9dhp8gfBUBufjhGZTzHRCrU8krhiSLBug8aI5ItOAc/s4093/greyhead1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4093" data-original-width="2657" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2Outtz749IMLB6te1e-2o0lkxYPXtJevTx3TNfgP0H44nTKIIWLAo1IrpjRgjxK5oqzmQ9m9c2C2Ui1iX7U5mBK488Bq5mSh5D9oZkV1AoUbS4Kp99DiP-JwBhvZNFOWDW1puo6u3VurCpZbs9dhp8gfBUBufjhGZTzHRCrU8krhiSLBug8aI5ItOAc/s320/greyhead1.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bracelet charm idea</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">These ideas for bracelet charms were developed using images emerging from an awareness of somatic experiences. I sat with people and developed conversations about their inner feelings. These might be about their psychic state, or their physical condition, but most importantly they were attempts to make visual images of sensations that were normally invisible. Lots of drawings were made as well as small sculptures using clay. Gradually communication developed as images emerged. At the core of each conversation, as a form developed, was the question, "Is it more like this than that?" </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The tiny low relief sculptures that were made as additions to charm bracelets, were meant to operate in the same way as my previous votive images. They were objects that had been made from externalised feelings in this case, rather than representations of things such as arms, legs knees or necks. The bracelet that contains images of votives that sits at the top of this post, was the first version to emerge of this idea; it was a way of furthering my older concept of how to work with votives. The later more subjective interpretations were harder to develop and also much more difficult for other people to interpret, but following the experience of the spiral badge, it is hoped that people will wear them, and take pride in opening out their own interpretation of what these tiny objects could signify. More importantly, could they still operate as charms? Could they field off illness or psychic attack? Belief is a strange thing and it is well known that the placebo effect is real. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Whether or not I manage to further these ideas will depend on how they unfold. Best laid plans etc. I have been sidelined by various things recently and have decided that by having a variety of projects on the go, at least some of them may prove fruitful; hence this new year resolution. </div></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/12/maruyama-okyo.html">Animism</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/02/drawing-and-communication-theory.html">Drawing and communication theory</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/05/mythic-worlds.html">Mythic Worlds</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17a1DiLY-C4L5rKBMBj6HtmyC1gIr4Mzv/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112680188489365573872&rtpof=true&sd=true">'Votives and Charm Bracelets: Materialising Health-Related Experiences Through ‘Sacred’ Objects'</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://thevotivesproject.org/2020/09/15/making-votives/">An article on my votive making</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-spiral.html">The spiral</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-tattoo-drawing-and-body.html">The tattoo</a></span></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-41026910971589665862023-12-29T03:37:00.000-08:002023-12-31T02:41:41.086-08:00Surviving<p><span style="font-family: arial;">On the 23rd of December at approximately 16.15 pm I was knocked down by a car when crossing a road. I, as you must have surmised by now, survived the accident, which left me severely bruised, stiff, aching and sore but with no broken bones or permanent damage to internal organs. A nasty bump on the back of my head, led to the need for a head scan, but again there was no sign of internal bleeding or fracture. I was lucky, wrapped up in layers of clothing to protect me against the weather, (it was dark and raining), I was cushioned as I hit the road, a wooly hat taking the sting out of the ground as it met my head, several layers of clothing protecting me from the force of the car as it hit me from behind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was though sidelined from many of the Christmas festivities, being confined to bed to recover and to give time for my aching muscles and tendons to heal. Reading and making notes, as well as scribbling small drawings kept my mind occupied and lots of visiting by my family reminded me of how important they all are to my vision of who I am and of how much I love them all. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was lucky. I am lucky, in that I am reasonably optimistic and was happy to be alive rather than fed up that this had happened just before Christmas. These events remind me how fragile life is, not just my own but via the wider interconnected net that links me to the rest of nature, I'm aware of how fragile it/we/everything is. But we can think about the thin threads by which life hangs in very different ways. Two of the books I have read during these days of enforced rest are Ali Smith's 'Companion Piece' and 'Strangers' by Rebecca T<span style="background-color: white;">amás.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> The Ali Smith book had been taken out of the library by my wife, she passed it on knowing I would enjoy it. Smith always gives me food for thought and in a way that brings things down to earth. She reminds you that a simple thing like taking a neighbour's dog for a walk, can have consequences and that our everyday exposure to whatever it is we are exposed to, is a doorway through which we can walk into a cosmic infinity. Like her novel's protagonist, I want to throw things at the TV as I'm forced to listen to second rate politicians spouting on about how good they are, whilst the country and the planet slips down into a Hell of their own making. Smith sees that the world is indeed hanging by a thread, but her grasp of life's richness, is the thing that saves the thread from breaking. Rebecca </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">amás is a more serious writer, by this I don't mean that she is considering deeper concerns, but that her writing feels less happy. I had read 'Strangers' before, a book sub-titled, 'Essays on the Human and Nonhuman', and I re-read it because I wanted to see how I could use its focus to help myself move on and not become too dispirited by all the issues I see impacting on the world, especially in these days of what can feel like end times. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">T</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">amás had in her youth suffered from depression but had gradually found a way out of it. Therefore she writes from a very perceptive position. She reminds us that it is too easy to slip into a helpless response to climate change and successive governments inability to do anything about it; it is too easy to slip into despair over the Arab / Israeli conflict, to stick your head in the sand and not look at what is happening in the Ukraine, in Syria, in Yemen and all the other areas of the globe that suffer daily conflict. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">T</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">amás intellectually gives me a life jacket and Smith lowers me a rope knotted with chunks of human feelings to climb. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">As a survivor I have renewed energy, psychic renewal hopefully soon becoming physical, and want to put it to good use. I am an artist and this is where my skills lie. I have no illusions about my abilities as a political orator or community organiser, they are just not good enough, but no matter how small the effect, it is better to try to work towards positive change, than to accept the status quo or to just put your head back under the blanket and close your eyes. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have joined in with a local group of people put together and organised by my wife Sue, who are either artists or who like to hang works of art on their walls. Households agree to put forward an artwork that will be selected by a random process. After selection each artwork will go to another household in the group. We decided contribute a work of mine done a few years ago, '</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Crows with crow cones'. There was you can imagine a debate as to whether it was suitable, but if images are made to trigger reflection, then at some point they need to be out there on a public wall.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfgIu_QrSZlgor0sM-N4NyIyVuH2mmakEXDbcHgy6KA40rjNRS77SeID-XIdj_GWX7t3UcvUk8oG2-DWYXhRLK6KLsOfIfFCctOtuMlhjYEHIwq9hFdyd9kPZJTLeyAHD8dS0Bj1TmqIxAjo9KXmp5Afna6yzrYfPVTSaQaIbSvNZ7VC8Tw4ds3wBYhVQ/s10219/crows.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7131" data-original-width="10219" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfgIu_QrSZlgor0sM-N4NyIyVuH2mmakEXDbcHgy6KA40rjNRS77SeID-XIdj_GWX7t3UcvUk8oG2-DWYXhRLK6KLsOfIfFCctOtuMlhjYEHIwq9hFdyd9kPZJTLeyAHD8dS0Bj1TmqIxAjo9KXmp5Afna6yzrYfPVTSaQaIbSvNZ7VC8Tw4ds3wBYhVQ/s320/crows.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;">Crows with crow cones</div><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">It was made as a reminder of how cruel as a species we can be. Crow cones were made of cones of paper, that were set into the ground. They had a few grains of corn put into them as bait. The inside of the cone was covered in a sticky glue, so that when the bird put its head into the cone, it could not get it back off; thus it was condemned to a slow death, as it was now both blind and unable to eat. We can only undertake to develop this type of cruelty if we can 'other' the crows. They need to be thought of as being not like humans, so that for instance we might lead ourselves to believe that they can feel no pain. We need to be able to ring fence our empathy. The analogy of course is that if we are prepared to do this to another creature, then we may just as easily do this to another human and unfortunately to the wider world itself. When I first read about this practice the most awful aspect for myself, was how it was regarded at the time as a source of amusement to watch the crows stumbling around in their confused panic. A book, meant for boy scouts stated, </span>'this simple device will often mislead the smartest and shrewdest crow, and make a perfect fool of him, for it is hard to imagine a more ridiculous sight than is furnished by the strange antics and evolutions of a crow thus embarrassed.' I wanted to at least give the crows back some dignity in how they were portrayed, but I also wanted to share the image as<span style="background-color: white;"> a reminder of our cruelty and ignorance when it comes to how we treat nature, a Christmas present tinged with the sentiment of Easter. I am also cruel to the viewer, the crow cones being drawn and affixed to the birds as if they are beaks, so at first glance it seems as if nothing is wrong. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">As soon as I could after my accident, I made a few scribbled notebook drawings of my experience of being knocked down. Very fast rough drawings, of the sort I wrote about in an earlier post, '<a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/11/i-swear-i-saw-this.html">I Swear I saw this</a>'. The drawings are not very convincing and in no way communicate the situation, but they do act as reminders and instigators of 'next stage' images. I.e. they are like a sort of grit around which eventually a pearl of an image might grow. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tYWy1Ksrvhs1G9iF-M2wR9jiJsCW5hMtxmBmQCwE6oTuunn9zoCQJbgr0AM0BxwfWRrehLFd8KzBPvIChwKheXE3h225PS5bAAni-FSXG9p8mCHBm1embKzYiHMYqSuB7NCj44t0nI2p8ZzBvSQtT8XDmNrOpb5AEQSNh2YP90cj6k4LGQPKaULQmxE/s3543/KD1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tYWy1Ksrvhs1G9iF-M2wR9jiJsCW5hMtxmBmQCwE6oTuunn9zoCQJbgr0AM0BxwfWRrehLFd8KzBPvIChwKheXE3h225PS5bAAni-FSXG9p8mCHBm1embKzYiHMYqSuB7NCj44t0nI2p8ZzBvSQtT8XDmNrOpb5AEQSNh2YP90cj6k4LGQPKaULQmxE/s320/KD1.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaoFTRb0crdVnR4cawWR0mceQM-iokkL_wlC0PruKGFFzV3dDKpVyXwCBk016praZ8tPQGEgodJS6wrzSwjzw2AW1CF_DJo_i17j3D1WszEdwdkdszWsODHxbpBKbU7fhrFih-6hZEIKlBqvoZvbMG4ufd1l849zrOVDYhflYtP5qoTdUNWOR887BBIao/s3543/KD2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2413" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaoFTRb0crdVnR4cawWR0mceQM-iokkL_wlC0PruKGFFzV3dDKpVyXwCBk016praZ8tPQGEgodJS6wrzSwjzw2AW1CF_DJo_i17j3D1WszEdwdkdszWsODHxbpBKbU7fhrFih-6hZEIKlBqvoZvbMG4ufd1l849zrOVDYhflYtP5qoTdUNWOR887BBIao/s320/KD2.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbfXm-94zZTz74YJEi32yVqPpEXhAGOvwjhrD90LzMRUMhCCVFvDmJyfetWVBgntichmN3A1dm6UNzDQ172h2M7mpynZAm8K8bqvH3TXFQaRUUbkLvYq1qqozRx06faaOem3jo_ytB702GrO3wzACnGzfj5q9XSFVthy7bxjGa3lx4CSOSYl3it-jXYg/s3543/CATscan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbfXm-94zZTz74YJEi32yVqPpEXhAGOvwjhrD90LzMRUMhCCVFvDmJyfetWVBgntichmN3A1dm6UNzDQ172h2M7mpynZAm8K8bqvH3TXFQaRUUbkLvYq1qqozRx06faaOem3jo_ytB702GrO3wzACnGzfj5q9XSFVthy7bxjGa3lx4CSOSYl3it-jXYg/s320/CATscan.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Notebook drawings</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I have tried working from these drawings directly, using photographed pages from my notebook which I have then drawn into and added colour and texture using Photoshop software. Working on a laptop has allowed me to keep working when confined to bed and I tend to use my previous experiences as a printmaker to help me structure the working process, often envisioning the image as something that evolves from a layering technique similar to silkscreen, especially when using inks that have had extender added. The image below being the one that most clearly represents my feelings about the accident. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKiMcdoJYAuon5B49cvp4F6I97AP4ylX1T4LV6r65KopCom-JS2YJlp7jv1M8qv0uL9pvl1EIJrIGhZpvOwq5Ov3V8MU8TKLlsF66-UNdyZ3L1_DbfwaVYR6X56JPiOTjiXEaL9nsuaOHa5xzcHCDiLDC2bnNI855jw_9Ip5V_f3Cn4MKWEtGLwVbfYUk/s3543/KD2c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2413" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKiMcdoJYAuon5B49cvp4F6I97AP4ylX1T4LV6r65KopCom-JS2YJlp7jv1M8qv0uL9pvl1EIJrIGhZpvOwq5Ov3V8MU8TKLlsF66-UNdyZ3L1_DbfwaVYR6X56JPiOTjiXEaL9nsuaOHa5xzcHCDiLDC2bnNI855jw_9Ip5V_f3Cn4MKWEtGLwVbfYUk/s320/KD2c.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The glare of the car lights pass over me</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I also had a classic lumpen bump that emerged from the back of my bald head, caused when my head hit the road. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvzm1C7Ts1zn258OFAylmxTx_cPpB89G1ax8o9c4ahexGwxlWgkH59G3yPCO66Cp8wrvNWwD9hMsI671tOXEI5JWQtUAb5RfLDEEK2DAObFbZ4B7oa8PP2bHA6-dP738YU_rnt0ct1u4II9LDQXM24V4PgLXaLLPOnf-kt1o7Jcpsc5TwJ3g3OiUBBsI/s3690/DSC04437.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3690" data-original-width="2526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvzm1C7Ts1zn258OFAylmxTx_cPpB89G1ax8o9c4ahexGwxlWgkH59G3yPCO66Cp8wrvNWwD9hMsI671tOXEI5JWQtUAb5RfLDEEK2DAObFbZ4B7oa8PP2bHA6-dP738YU_rnt0ct1u4II9LDQXM24V4PgLXaLLPOnf-kt1o7Jcpsc5TwJ3g3OiUBBsI/s320/DSC04437.JPG" width="219" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A reminder</span></div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm very aware that an event like this effects everyone else; people are worried about me and me being the sort of person I am, I tend to turn inwards, and reflect on what happened, make drawings, write about it and generally reflect on its meaning. Communication and non communication, wrapped up together seems to be my way of responding to the confusion of life experience. Being of my temperament can be hard for others, I don't show emotion easily. Finding it easier to make images and write about an experience than speak about it, which suggests that writing isn't just a way of writing down or recording speech but is another distinct technology of reflection. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">So the final post of the year is one whereby I find myself surviving. Anyone who reads this will have also survived another year, so well done. Hopefully we learn from our experiences, both about the strengths and weaknesses of our ability to engage with life and about what helps us to come to terms with that life. I need to make my thoughts external, by making images or writing in order to deal with them. But, I'm still trapped inside my head and so need to continue to sort out how to work more closely with people outside of the technologies of external reflection, (art), which is a continuing conundrum. As Winnicott puts it in 'Playing and Reality', another text read whilst being confined to bed, we are all engaged in "the perpetual human task of keeping inner and outer reality separate yet interrelated." </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8A7HK-Ps2RHR7g9R2e84T_3cR7aD1IvhWiBdNuWM3Yi61LXzHFV0D486iqREWDGqwRIGHykXbIpTqvd3CjzTSZbh1SYiu6mPp0gkNJ6G7rwzjC3qItfmpM9anZo4qIFmunE9elbZXCU5eXVQXcfqfLDGet1ouEnD71DXtkOnj6H69Hw1Ja4DySPR9fk/s3543/scannerd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8A7HK-Ps2RHR7g9R2e84T_3cR7aD1IvhWiBdNuWM3Yi61LXzHFV0D486iqREWDGqwRIGHykXbIpTqvd3CjzTSZbh1SYiu6mPp0gkNJ6G7rwzjC3qItfmpM9anZo4qIFmunE9elbZXCU5eXVQXcfqfLDGet1ouEnD71DXtkOnj6H69Hw1Ja4DySPR9fk/s320/scannerd.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Entering the CT scanner: A gateway</div></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See also</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2015/07/trapping-and-framing.html">Trapping and framing</a></div><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/11/i-swear-i-saw-this.html">I swear I saw this</a></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><a href="chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Winnicott%20Transitional.pdf">Playing and Reality: D W Winnicott</a></span></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-24307945255973823352023-12-24T23:43:00.000-08:002023-12-24T23:43:30.831-08:00Stained glass: Session eight<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVOFq3hGLUfKQtZWbrb0eIMDq5OgHVn_m8PzuyAtXOADToCXTqR-3WEEzF3WQJWbsVnLBjqI2AneHa-JxSoep1ZzWLNVpaQg4kis9adCz6l3Ohi_eokBCbXbevfXqnBJG8OgVDWXM9RxSnOa8vPyX1pbsGTOaV_WOLfzcGo5cXogcM0xwRmUV-g0qpfg/s1661/sootyarmdetail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1661" data-original-width="1077" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVOFq3hGLUfKQtZWbrb0eIMDq5OgHVn_m8PzuyAtXOADToCXTqR-3WEEzF3WQJWbsVnLBjqI2AneHa-JxSoep1ZzWLNVpaQg4kis9adCz6l3Ohi_eokBCbXbevfXqnBJG8OgVDWXM9RxSnOa8vPyX1pbsGTOaV_WOLfzcGo5cXogcM0xwRmUV-g0qpfg/s320/sootyarmdetail.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Study for Sooty as an animist fetish/<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">transitional object</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> </span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Session eight was focused on painting. This time the body of the Sooty puppet and the arm it is attached to were the subjects. This is a particularly important aspect of the idea. I want to suggest that in all animist conversations, (i.e. between humans and non human entities) there is an element of the spiritual. In this case because of the specific history of stained glass I was interested in channelling depictions of the Lamb of God. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ZpXid69GYogithMAkrYuePxvP35BRtNpjnJbZ2rqEzUMscltCLsl7mCz5NsjLRTBGzUvyZ3Viv-Vth6zv3Qs7yOEnGzUxWQyW3zVm41tRIUqRy8rcigd6g2wg8mks4024aqF4a-YmSIIZ111qEhjKeq2jS7z119IIiqcGD4FyL5NJgexEPrRFnZaIl8/s366/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%2017.41.26.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="358" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ZpXid69GYogithMAkrYuePxvP35BRtNpjnJbZ2rqEzUMscltCLsl7mCz5NsjLRTBGzUvyZ3Viv-Vth6zv3Qs7yOEnGzUxWQyW3zVm41tRIUqRy8rcigd6g2wg8mks4024aqF4a-YmSIIZ111qEhjKeq2jS7z119IIiqcGD4FyL5NJgexEPrRFnZaIl8/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%2017.41.26.png" width="313" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG-Svvdq-6YzHFoDMt9o2CoJJzbsC0LeqfLYe0mAXkT6LTdQj2bmJFXGqyoeLOQzqyq9DUqdnizWbHVM2wuU39OJAGDap8vyVFcVM3M0FPwPSAbWbR85bKYGWd9HglM2XUuti8NBKj15_WHXbsH2TDJ3VRHcPinp4kUbKRZuCVP1uWEYCCKFcrwWEkxwY/s778/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%2017.41.43.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG-Svvdq-6YzHFoDMt9o2CoJJzbsC0LeqfLYe0mAXkT6LTdQj2bmJFXGqyoeLOQzqyq9DUqdnizWbHVM2wuU39OJAGDap8vyVFcVM3M0FPwPSAbWbR85bKYGWd9HglM2XUuti8NBKj15_WHXbsH2TDJ3VRHcPinp4kUbKRZuCVP1uWEYCCKFcrwWEkxwY/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%2017.41.43.png" width="160" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLorRnA-ITlwL55QIqFYJRe4Nj54QCMUfdYjSMTUwa06sr0mKiNHotN0654vSlNuuX8hPhwmuZyvKPBoM9BevgFW6MhyNM92Z7033rR-SKhYFQyrfNmmlonLj9Y4r8aHkFjNumWky6CYXg0Ia2CogcDcupzpCEm-dA9nXi0ADDF72L-t7EudwasQFUTpg/s572/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%2017.42.16.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="304" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLorRnA-ITlwL55QIqFYJRe4Nj54QCMUfdYjSMTUwa06sr0mKiNHotN0654vSlNuuX8hPhwmuZyvKPBoM9BevgFW6MhyNM92Z7033rR-SKhYFQyrfNmmlonLj9Y4r8aHkFjNumWky6CYXg0Ia2CogcDcupzpCEm-dA9nXi0ADDF72L-t7EudwasQFUTpg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%2017.42.16.png" width="170" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVk5dSW7OoT9lvvLebWnXm2qLmiPIgrORXTGiSUHvwgU9vsCyAscnbTb7zdqx2YYfeADp5MziqZ6iNwEt_-CT3y_3WD5D1TyxmJYayvqsOlcWfMrPc6W9Is227lco42Dv6IQYxXg5p5ULon1h5d_jkGfRe1ySioVg-ko8AGMFNcIIijnTk3YiQPQaDMI4/s518/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%2017.42.07.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVk5dSW7OoT9lvvLebWnXm2qLmiPIgrORXTGiSUHvwgU9vsCyAscnbTb7zdqx2YYfeADp5MziqZ6iNwEt_-CT3y_3WD5D1TyxmJYayvqsOlcWfMrPc6W9Is227lco42Dv6IQYxXg5p5ULon1h5d_jkGfRe1ySioVg-ko8AGMFNcIIijnTk3YiQPQaDMI4/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%2017.42.07.png" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stained glass depictions of the Lamb of God</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After looking at how the fleece was depicted, I made a new study to replace my original one of a Sooty fetish. (See image at the top of this post)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAwKyYH2lPgBew-WeGM0iOxjiC5cB1kjclTII8G5IRkGQDpj6CwP88YUBxW7rquuqkFJxpcbqj7AF8OqrHlAoYRBXUpbPcEZyuFsiYfEOnOFupPKS5r46X7-TaBJ4LEno7ra3c380pciA-Lm_j-UyNCs0EFPahwAeEonDVDCYg6UvyZVvEBoCyiVb_ow/s3740/sootyinstainedglassstudy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3740" data-original-width="2756" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAwKyYH2lPgBew-WeGM0iOxjiC5cB1kjclTII8G5IRkGQDpj6CwP88YUBxW7rquuqkFJxpcbqj7AF8OqrHlAoYRBXUpbPcEZyuFsiYfEOnOFupPKS5r46X7-TaBJ4LEno7ra3c380pciA-Lm_j-UyNCs0EFPahwAeEonDVDCYg6UvyZVvEBoCyiVb_ow/s320/sootyinstainedglassstudy.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A previous study for a Sooty fetish</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The new study as well as exploring textural differences also changed the relationship between the fetish and the audience, this time the Sooty figure stares straight back at the viewer. The different types of glass used were also thought about and my increasing knowledge of working with water based paints as a first layer, has enabled me to have a much clearer idea of what I'm working towards. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Using water based stained glass paint I laid a graded matte to each section of the bear's body and then worked into these sections with a dry brush technique that was designed to echo how at times hair texture had been rendered historically. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNE0yDfSot04iyk7fF43PYUQArNVmjJGxkizLWL0dhtbc6MNiV2mk7ObhJgk1PcJrmZq-yC1ibfARczpo8fk_kEigVXldGpCxKM2p12kLUqUvEp6Ou7ommA-aTfLLVkRKBmy2XIKVjYPAGgZetgY711LiUoWiADQdJFyzW2zZKklOLPn1QV5WvTVzoi9Q/s640/IMG_6896.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNE0yDfSot04iyk7fF43PYUQArNVmjJGxkizLWL0dhtbc6MNiV2mk7ObhJgk1PcJrmZq-yC1ibfARczpo8fk_kEigVXldGpCxKM2p12kLUqUvEp6Ou7ommA-aTfLLVkRKBmy2XIKVjYPAGgZetgY711LiUoWiADQdJFyzW2zZKklOLPn1QV5WvTVzoi9Q/s320/IMG_6896.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebUb1oMe9_ga3likBMlafyatSwbuIb28RfQjovVLZ6aNBiPFSH7rxtKWy6y_OfES5aLuG_5zE-2Ue0QKhDMJJCOW0oX5nkMT9eDy6e36UA3W4iqJnIfMnecUA2Cyiud3RRrQclRyLfuFlgHhWwxMuNnehGJekN0Gn63RIxNJgyQyOjVNxiitcXfEoifQ/s640/IMG_6897.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebUb1oMe9_ga3likBMlafyatSwbuIb28RfQjovVLZ6aNBiPFSH7rxtKWy6y_OfES5aLuG_5zE-2Ue0QKhDMJJCOW0oX5nkMT9eDy6e36UA3W4iqJnIfMnecUA2Cyiud3RRrQclRyLfuFlgHhWwxMuNnehGJekN0Gn63RIxNJgyQyOjVNxiitcXfEoifQ/s320/IMG_6897.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sections of the Sooty body with graded matte and hair texture applied</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The pads representing the paws of the bear were done slightly differently, using a flooding technique. In order to avoid blistering when fired, when using flooding, you need to <span style="background-color: white; color: #272727; text-align: left;">mix your paint each time you load your brush. The term 'flooding' is a good description for what happens when you touch a loaded wet brush onto the glass, the paint spreads out from the brush tip. However in my case I wasn't looking for a flat black, so varied the mixes and as the glass for one of the arm/paws was a textured one, this allowed the glass texture to come through. One other thing I was having to bear in mind was how much of the glass the leading would cover, which is why the dark pad is the size that it is. </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc23MTSKWft86sGDbsETIbKsRjPFT60oD00SkcsYHBAz1r_jC2ANr-AujGA-EjECxanaYoTukNriDhPphIcMT9H67wh3WFPvWAdymi1x3s9BbGXdqNq_G19GYr749D1P1Odwf7K8w3OJOA4eZvTLCA64kqcAF8sru2Czlfw70392HONCVMw_dVGvl9BY4/s640/IMG_6898.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc23MTSKWft86sGDbsETIbKsRjPFT60oD00SkcsYHBAz1r_jC2ANr-AujGA-EjECxanaYoTukNriDhPphIcMT9H67wh3WFPvWAdymi1x3s9BbGXdqNq_G19GYr749D1P1Odwf7K8w3OJOA4eZvTLCA64kqcAF8sru2Czlfw70392HONCVMw_dVGvl9BY4/s320/IMG_6898.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A paw with a water based matte and dark 'flooded' pad</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZG7BlXGuTtyC9p1lQdJ3Jbvjej93PlIXckf-N_zkX0ISAvdTEM6xyqW8JXwVJK8Fg-mgzOgGxn1uL_IuCA2aIxCasSfxik_T8AOqV_UMoiAkIKdwEhqDN255gtezeBNOlFIOK_PCJzcQMkMRHey8-3aPlV-pWdHQONfbw4BcVJJwMvdmgCvH0ipCnA0A/s640/IMG_6899.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZG7BlXGuTtyC9p1lQdJ3Jbvjej93PlIXckf-N_zkX0ISAvdTEM6xyqW8JXwVJK8Fg-mgzOgGxn1uL_IuCA2aIxCasSfxik_T8AOqV_UMoiAkIKdwEhqDN255gtezeBNOlFIOK_PCJzcQMkMRHey8-3aPlV-pWdHQONfbw4BcVJJwMvdmgCvH0ipCnA0A/s320/IMG_6899.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had used an old piece of glass with lines fired into it for the other paw. When I was looking at old stained glass windows, I realised that there were often re-purposed glass components from earlier times. Glass is very expensive and in future I will try and recycle more, this tiny element was a reminder of this. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally some of these sections will have silver stain added to the back, which should harmonise all the colours and give a yellow intensity to the Sooty image, but that will have to be done on the back, so all these sections will need to be fixed by firing before then. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The next area to look at was the arm and I wanted more texture but of a very different type. Jo-Ann suggested that I explore a particular spray technique and so I did.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFVoCPMDaSDHbO298MxaHf6DQSxuPVILGv-YGGHS9Ob5BAdVvXpw2bqLg6zxEg8EMbX-3pPaJXUIl_DakIoN9sN09e805Su3nB5ER1CcpxCI9Vk_fGL2p2yF45eXpIwQG1Dx6Vu3sZgbN8DxGWD6Q48TKrn5zPJNLD303I1Yvk72dKWxaKU22-JcITLqc/s640/IMG_6895.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFVoCPMDaSDHbO298MxaHf6DQSxuPVILGv-YGGHS9Ob5BAdVvXpw2bqLg6zxEg8EMbX-3pPaJXUIl_DakIoN9sN09e805Su3nB5ER1CcpxCI9Vk_fGL2p2yF45eXpIwQG1Dx6Vu3sZgbN8DxGWD6Q48TKrn5zPJNLD303I1Yvk72dKWxaKU22-JcITLqc/s320/IMG_6895.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A texture test made by spraying water droplets over a matted surface</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Using a spare piece of glass a graded matte was made using water based paint applied with a large hake brush, which was then smoothed and graded using a badger brush, as described in session six. This was dried using a hair drier and after testing that the spray was sufficiently fine, a spray diffuser was used to spray a fine mist of water over the glass. Just one short burst of spray was used, a long one would mean the water would begin to run off the surface. Again the glass was gently dried off using a hair drier. Once dry the badger brush was very lightly fanned over the surface with the faintest of contacts and as this was done gradually the texture of water droplets was revealed. Once I had grasped the technique I applied it to the two sections of pink glass that made up the arm. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The final task of the session was to return to the leg which has now been fully fired and to stop out by flooding the area between the leading and the trace line.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib70jbTcqXLV8ui8N1mmT39s9y7GGXZkNsbbNwI4g8e53fUHpAE7SOh-6EAoDq6Gixeih1ZNDN4a3OjMfzQvs8nmyIkRH4SQjqtvoUEQQxmdm2e51nRd9IZZAXYh80ws5o8dyS32tOFRXrXrXvfmeKqtRNCb9TGFP86ohoYmMcD-3i_gvSyE7YhZc0Bgs/s640/IMG_6900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib70jbTcqXLV8ui8N1mmT39s9y7GGXZkNsbbNwI4g8e53fUHpAE7SOh-6EAoDq6Gixeih1ZNDN4a3OjMfzQvs8nmyIkRH4SQjqtvoUEQQxmdm2e51nRd9IZZAXYh80ws5o8dyS32tOFRXrXrXvfmeKqtRNCb9TGFP86ohoYmMcD-3i_gvSyE7YhZc0Bgs/s320/IMG_6900.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Paint being mixed ready to go over the trace line</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuIcj4fWlzSU4EeFL1Gpq7VbQ-NbXg7T8rfEYtCUN4x8ocDFGIfy2El5oeUn-601EOTyoXZmYk9dxKzL2FbnriyDzqsb8LU1SkH-NCj4QnK6xLIrY7ssjnl9Be0PAnQ6_JH43Ylkozq0kTsp6t7JZIE6QK4vxCO9wNqWnprJEcD7OyU3Q7nBzWsnXXr9Y/s640/IMG_6902.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuIcj4fWlzSU4EeFL1Gpq7VbQ-NbXg7T8rfEYtCUN4x8ocDFGIfy2El5oeUn-601EOTyoXZmYk9dxKzL2FbnriyDzqsb8LU1SkH-NCj4QnK6xLIrY7ssjnl9Be0PAnQ6_JH43Ylkozq0kTsp6t7JZIE6QK4vxCO9wNqWnprJEcD7OyU3Q7nBzWsnXXr9Y/s320/IMG_6902.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A fine line drawn over the existing trace line</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The first thing to do was to draw a fine line over the existing trace line. This forms a barrier to protect the rest of the glass from the flooding.</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrKY78cj43kyzr18CINmBYMgTLi2veAW9VuZmF4GF3SzK8uF1kxUwDbTFwnHdg0s6OFugGqi1ar_ZPygBuqT9OICrpZWoL6H8cHWoQCIljTfM_d8kpgdZenURaPR0Fq5BGh6ATknXAn4zG02bTvbY0e3mByGZVSrjU9_NUkEk_i1FdoRS8S7XNgt2lzdE/s640/IMG_6901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrKY78cj43kyzr18CINmBYMgTLi2veAW9VuZmF4GF3SzK8uF1kxUwDbTFwnHdg0s6OFugGqi1ar_ZPygBuqT9OICrpZWoL6H8cHWoQCIljTfM_d8kpgdZenURaPR0Fq5BGh6ATknXAn4zG02bTvbY0e3mByGZVSrjU9_NUkEk_i1FdoRS8S7XNgt2lzdE/s320/IMG_6901.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Flooding is applied between the trace line and the area that will be bounded by leading.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Then flooding was applied as it was for the pads that sit within the paws. This means that when light illuminates the leg there will be no confusion between the line of the leading and the painted line of the edge of the leg. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></span></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Session one</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Session two</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Session three</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-four.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Session four</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-five.html">Session five</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-six.html">Session six</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-seven.html">Session seven</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/04/bill-viola-video-and-drawings-of.html">Bill Viola and Michelangelo: The technologies of spiritual art</a></span></div></div></div></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-10407571992292998202023-12-18T23:19:00.000-08:002023-12-20T10:44:59.030-08:00Seeing as drawing: Drawing as seeing<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtRNb12RGMi99fnvsF1RfQqLAKDUDDzv0KuN4yK7jFJ9dq0HfzHXkxksqztRN4u7hBrUXx2ZM4GUSoazQGtAbwEziGs4re-lXt3F0-pEKK17vyDuevF6n_ya0FW2a921g8VFi238y3m4241Z8Y1o-p3uTz2znQ5Rm56x5c2LvxXNRKcBGvjK8gR7e_yM8/s3543/sootyedjing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2813" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtRNb12RGMi99fnvsF1RfQqLAKDUDDzv0KuN4yK7jFJ9dq0HfzHXkxksqztRN4u7hBrUXx2ZM4GUSoazQGtAbwEziGs4re-lXt3F0-pEKK17vyDuevF6n_ya0FW2a921g8VFi238y3m4241Z8Y1o-p3uTz2znQ5Rm56x5c2LvxXNRKcBGvjK8gR7e_yM8/s320/sootyedjing.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The fusion of hand, face and puppet: A materialist thought</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The image above is from a sketchbook, one of many I use to record ideas as they emerge from my head as I draw. I am though also aware as an image emerges, that I remember how other things look as I struggle with what I am trying to visually invent. I have 'seen' things in the past, similar to what I think I'm now in effect, drawing out of the paper before me. For instance as I drew the small Sooty figures that move around the hem or base of the human headed puppet above, I was aware of seeing similar shapes in the past; perhaps not an actual border of small Sooty puppets, but things not too dissimilar to the one coming into being. Tapping into visual memories helped my drawing mind make decisions about how these forms could convincingly be arranged. </span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> Seeing, or the act of visual perceiving, can be thought of as the product of "intermediate level representations in the visual system" or what has been called by David Marr, (1982), "the 2 1/2-D sketch" He argued that we cant see the totality of the visual information surrounding us, and that instead we construct an idea of the three dimensionality of our surrounds in our mind. The first stage of this representation is interestingly called by Marr 'the raw primal sketch'. Edges, tonal values etc. i.e. things similar to those a drawer is centred on when making a representation of the world, are orientated upon a visual map that reflects the orientation and disposition of surfaces in the world, in relation to the observer's viewpoint. The 'sketch' is though, a 'neural rendering' rather than a pen and ink drawing of what we see. I.e. the 2 1/2 D mind sketch is a 'representation' of how things look. As Alva No</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ë</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> puts it, (2023, p.35) "It is not a representation of things themselves, or of how things, in any perception-independent way, actually are. It is a mere picture." But when ever has a picture ever been 'mere'? Several writers on vision (Prinz, Riley, <span style="background-color: white;">No</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">ë, </span></span>Jackendorf) have highlighted the fact that when looked at this way, how we see the world is very similar to how we construct a drawing of the world. The main difference being that a drawing is where perceived information is processed, coupled with raw materials and then perceived again and therefore must always be a second order body of information. You could easily argue that how a drawing works as an operational model, is virtually exactly the same as the internal model that we use to 'see' the world. The drawing in our mind, like any observational drawing made from physical drawing materials, is an image that is made of selected elements taken from whatever is out there and will have more or less information within it depending on amount of time available to see what's there; lighting conditions, previous understanding of the type of situation etc. etc. Except of course the mind drawing has no actual existence, it is a cognitive mapping, therefore an active complex of neural networks in flow and never a static object that can be pointed to. However the close similarity between how we read a drawing and how visual thinking itself operates, means that a physical drawing can be regarded as a sort of analogy that stands for what is actually going on in the mind. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The aspect that then becomes even more interesting, (well it does for myself), is then to follow what happens as the activities of drawing and painting expand their use value and move from documentation stemming from observation, on to ideas based on the observations made, and then even further to ideas based on possibilities that stem as much from the material implications of drawing itself, as from the images made possible out of recombinations of memories of previously seen, drawn or painted experiences. I.e. the processes of imagination. If the making of drawings and paintings can be thought of as the materialisation of an extended mind, then each approach to problem solving in image making, could also be regarded as an analogy that could stand for different ways of thinking. In visual languages the move from observation to imagination, is rather akin in verbal languages to a move from a description of events, to the creation of a work of fiction. The recomposing of live experience as imaginative futures, is actually at the core of the way we read every complex of incoming perceptions as a possibility. This means that as we react to experiences, we make images of positive pathways that can be followed for day to day living. Fight or flight being just two very basic directional responses to the possibility any one set of perceptions offers. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">My recent work has been an attempt to represent an older more animist way of thinking, using a avatar based on visual memories of a Sooty puppet that I used to have when I was a child in the 1950s. The drawings, paintings and ceramic sculptures that I have made, respond to the memory of an object and how it operated for myself as a child, as a 'transitional object', or buffer between myself and reality. This idea relates to a materialisation of what I now, looking back through an animist lens, see as a fetish. However it is a concept that has been emerging for a while. I have been trying to visualise a more animist engagement with the world around me for some time. For instance, I have been seeking to make connections with plant life. I spent many hours drawing, trying to form a connection with the vegetation that surrounded me and I still try to do this. My recent training as a permaculture designer being just another attempt to find a way to foster that connection. So let's look at some flower images.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I am trying to build an argument that there is a seamless movement between drawing as perceptual description, to drawing as fictional invention. I believe that it begins as soon as we see something, because we are already inventing as we see. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">If I take some drawings and compare them it is perhaps easier to understand what I'm getting at. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8NaogCIjpaC984_xxphwr8rmOQPvkWV_Je-pEAxUFOcGxTnR80iugZ1Mj9ICD8kqHEEq0KmOgbyIZKeZWFK5n_8MRE_PcaIKQDh2WWqjs7mO_nZVyv5k-Htbhx0Ddp6FIxneu0Tm34hEet7aqKwJaQ-uwSGs3kZSog_61fPRtP9ZWxAArzi8M8qGigaQ/s1772/22sketchbook21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1772" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8NaogCIjpaC984_xxphwr8rmOQPvkWV_Je-pEAxUFOcGxTnR80iugZ1Mj9ICD8kqHEEq0KmOgbyIZKeZWFK5n_8MRE_PcaIKQDh2WWqjs7mO_nZVyv5k-Htbhx0Ddp6FIxneu0Tm34hEet7aqKwJaQ-uwSGs3kZSog_61fPRtP9ZWxAArzi8M8qGigaQ/s320/22sketchbook21.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dandelion studies</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The drawing above is from an old sketchbook and it documents a time when I was interested in what a dandelion looks like. On the left a seed head and next to it two studies of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">dandelion </span><span style="font-family: arial;">flower heads. At first glance they look as if they are accurate records or documentary drawings of things looked at closely, but in fact all three images are fictions based on perceptions. My eyesight isn't as good as it used to be, therefore each image has to be an impression, or a simplification. The drawings are in pen and ink, so they are very much to do with pen and ink possibilities; for instance the line flows as only a line drawn in ink can flow. My focus was on the flower-heads, so nothing else is recorded and therefore the degree of selection and editing is enormous. Above all I was looking at these things with an inner eye, one that was looking for idea potential in the forms of nature. However the drawing is based on experience. I did look at the dandelions in my garden. I picked them and held them up to look at them. There was an exchange of some sort made, between myself and these dandelions and the exchange changed me, by adding to thousands of neural pathway movements, in such a way that the experience was made available for recall.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi479fInvYk3SD5WC_s9Af14De_szlAjqZietAeuK_s_kt_pq5pZrkaaxEaLrw8Tq6BMvMvI7u_nQYuLHxJgsHPzzfSqg8-E1-PaOqUl2q48IfTsW-UVjylfH5R-OYRgWs-mxmesBdANU07krFqp9zm3o8UUtQjLo0nccucrxXCkdpGlUhrlIaONuXb1FY/s3543/Garry%20Barker%20Ceramic%20flower.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2657" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi479fInvYk3SD5WC_s9Af14De_szlAjqZietAeuK_s_kt_pq5pZrkaaxEaLrw8Tq6BMvMvI7u_nQYuLHxJgsHPzzfSqg8-E1-PaOqUl2q48IfTsW-UVjylfH5R-OYRgWs-mxmesBdANU07krFqp9zm3o8UUtQjLo0nccucrxXCkdpGlUhrlIaONuXb1FY/s320/Garry%20Barker%20Ceramic%20flower.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Detail of flower sculpture made for an installation</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I had made a series of sculptures for various exhibitions based on flowers. These sculptures were 'invented' out of clay. However their invention relied a lot on my previous observational drawings of plants. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The three drawings immediately below are from pages in a sketchbook where I'm playing with ideas that relate to flower heads. The one with a rabbit form beginning to emerge from a flower was drawn as an idea, just as much as the ones further below.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnPfRtV0WAdorKxJXN-As_oK6g42iOQTHXTZNrGjRWscptKoq2ArP0d_5EEdOdO2kpsASVPjFAObP8CtqOT5gOEJfndX0ZaPt67M4tbVeh6XPUBrLJXupd_3s1a6Ao2GaEFOaOeIaIRDza2B04eJdnlOUG6UDv8NQOlrtAIxjo7fFnsZqVPspmORVyt-k/s2464/flowerbunny.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2464" data-original-width="1576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnPfRtV0WAdorKxJXN-As_oK6g42iOQTHXTZNrGjRWscptKoq2ArP0d_5EEdOdO2kpsASVPjFAObP8CtqOT5gOEJfndX0ZaPt67M4tbVeh6XPUBrLJXupd_3s1a6Ao2GaEFOaOeIaIRDza2B04eJdnlOUG6UDv8NQOlrtAIxjo7fFnsZqVPspmORVyt-k/s320/flowerbunny.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">The flower hosting an animal</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpqkamHbB_KbedT2PwaRjoBVwJxo-jsv7YUZI40jICSb9Wf9_tZdOT9RIScJEccT91u0zxWIX5FywajyP1KXAMIGF-eFY_5jjdWGSGSnhJOKpzPOFPypNiVN3EHL_GJ4b9PxTKPfy5ss3oEIBHafy4fyc7h8TrDEtG_lL8KUpTJodBt3dVdZg91bm6gE/s640/floweridea.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpqkamHbB_KbedT2PwaRjoBVwJxo-jsv7YUZI40jICSb9Wf9_tZdOT9RIScJEccT91u0zxWIX5FywajyP1KXAMIGF-eFY_5jjdWGSGSnhJOKpzPOFPypNiVN3EHL_GJ4b9PxTKPfy5ss3oEIBHafy4fyc7h8TrDEtG_lL8KUpTJodBt3dVdZg91bm6gE/s320/floweridea.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Thinking of a vessel / closed flower head</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgBBgGVsCQf1OyEMz4GhHSboT72ydorh3fzY27gAqbRO9gZGpVl3qZWOoX8ZCpAclQAB63eufgiqn0kdQHq8Eps36d_lD4FLcC3ciOv0FYRiOdVTmnMN9_dqHB6yKAcDwwJEA4wdSXlSTHfFpT4O7fcZxrIzupwl5aZoibnVD-MPjrxLAJ45NLIce5tE/s2592/sketchbookflower.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgBBgGVsCQf1OyEMz4GhHSboT72ydorh3fzY27gAqbRO9gZGpVl3qZWOoX8ZCpAclQAB63eufgiqn0kdQHq8Eps36d_lD4FLcC3ciOv0FYRiOdVTmnMN9_dqHB6yKAcDwwJEA4wdSXlSTHfFpT4O7fcZxrIzupwl5aZoibnVD-MPjrxLAJ45NLIce5tE/s320/sketchbookflower.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Study for a ceramic flower form</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">The transition from observation to invention is seamless, there being as much invention in an observational drawing of a flower, as there are visual memories of observations made of flowers, and other things, embedded into the invention needed for the making of constructed fictions. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs7s0DklwQl-UpdS9W7DKHybLZXdkm711BvMi_1JRpjxmruUFskETIpgGJpjkVPO5B5NbAJPy4LZ7rXC5i_CI-pa-XQPvPfh8PEa9-ekShB3NE123ti14Q2EQ7wtpZISOKB5nxDn9qssm18v5rGECSSl_Hu0WMJwFG8BHdjyUSttkLDUGkIPET1BnicPI/s3543/flower2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="1373" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs7s0DklwQl-UpdS9W7DKHybLZXdkm711BvMi_1JRpjxmruUFskETIpgGJpjkVPO5B5NbAJPy4LZ7rXC5i_CI-pa-XQPvPfh8PEa9-ekShB3NE123ti14Q2EQ7wtpZISOKB5nxDn9qssm18v5rGECSSl_Hu0WMJwFG8BHdjyUSttkLDUGkIPET1BnicPI/s320/flower2.jpg" width="124" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Drawn from life</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT00-r7vS3MgRKigH4zQ17gbRjo_5T9fgaMmYcLgUqZdf4MEsJwyIGIxQsBqXcmmgbZxSDluUvvEcSHSjMSvY_aa4qmT1DI78wLbdH8kDJ0o1xat_ncJxM4DPgo0YKWBp475ymk6m4cKKSsUDivI5chzBcxzz9l_tjU52l2XRGUQtdlnWfAe47AKmiRgI/s6034/flowerheadsketch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2984" data-original-width="6034" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT00-r7vS3MgRKigH4zQ17gbRjo_5T9fgaMmYcLgUqZdf4MEsJwyIGIxQsBqXcmmgbZxSDluUvvEcSHSjMSvY_aa4qmT1DI78wLbdH8kDJ0o1xat_ncJxM4DPgo0YKWBp475ymk6m4cKKSsUDivI5chzBcxzz9l_tjU52l2XRGUQtdlnWfAe47AKmiRgI/s320/flowerheadsketch.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">An idea emerges of a bird's head from a flower head</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHAfngl8YqF3WXLJccAYZQ2NwuHnjO96JWiUWdJSY10E6gw0L_IOoTq7csyHLzJj3gPD_wdh4AQlDNLAt1JxjlFQ1QbgkU_l0hDmH3-vQfWdVwORkkpLgwaIzQ6GpSERSH4QOS3wVN19ZMjDVzl0rQt_nIwVDHc4i_j4JAj0VSDTqmlW6sZ31MT3xACM/s4092/flowerbirdclay.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4092" data-original-width="2988" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHAfngl8YqF3WXLJccAYZQ2NwuHnjO96JWiUWdJSY10E6gw0L_IOoTq7csyHLzJj3gPD_wdh4AQlDNLAt1JxjlFQ1QbgkU_l0hDmH3-vQfWdVwORkkpLgwaIzQ6GpSERSH4QOS3wVN19ZMjDVzl0rQt_nIwVDHc4i_j4JAj0VSDTqmlW6sZ31MT3xACM/s320/flowerbirdclay.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Flower bird clay study</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzgY2RWPDOlBBEFCzNVQ6bIX5KzoeK99HJcFpCKswBOw7aWBh9qclLfOiNQE2uCd4HJDzMvwLguQTI_r4Hn5I8q4y2FLudOd6KusD7T_L8ezO2LCWNnHVTUvn_QBQNa0DYMGsswemFcWanMwmCHuGbAYIMk3giR9_Gq4xIPJtEf6t7oM9HLzjClAlXRg/s850/harlowcarr16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="616" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzgY2RWPDOlBBEFCzNVQ6bIX5KzoeK99HJcFpCKswBOw7aWBh9qclLfOiNQE2uCd4HJDzMvwLguQTI_r4Hn5I8q4y2FLudOd6KusD7T_L8ezO2LCWNnHVTUvn_QBQNa0DYMGsswemFcWanMwmCHuGbAYIMk3giR9_Gq4xIPJtEf6t7oM9HLzjClAlXRg/s320/harlowcarr16.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;">One of the several flower hybrids that were installed in Harlow Carr Gardens</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Once again I'm reminded of 'disegno', a term involving both the ability to make a drawing and the intellectual capacity to invent a design or visualise an idea. Some of the skills needed in order to draw are developed by constant drawing from observation, and then the skills that have been acquired are used to invent and to visualise possibilities. By practicing these skills, these in turn become more refined and focused on the realisation and visualisation of invented form.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A sharp eyed hunter is 'sharp eyed' because he or she is always looking and noticing things that help in the understanding of possible future scenarios. This is perhaps a form of drawing without needing to draw. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Drawing can be seen as a model for the act of looking itself, therefore it can also be thought of as an analogy for looking. This implies that aesthetics ought to be regarded as being at the forefront of philosophical thinking. How a drawing looks being a model for how a thought is seen. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">References </div></div></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Jackendorf, R. (1987) <i>Consciousness and the Computational Mind</i> Cambridge: MIT Press</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Marr, D. (1982) <i>Vision</i> San Francisco: W. H. Freeman</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No<span style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">ë, A. (2023) </span></span><i style="color: #4d5156; white-space: nowrap;">The Entanglement: How art and philosophy make us what we are</i><span style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> Oxford: Princeton</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br />Prinz, J. (2012) <i>The Conscious Brain: How attention engenders consciousness </i>Oxford: OUP<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Riley, H., (2021). <i>A contemporary pedagogy of drawing.</i> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Journal of Visual Art Practice</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">20</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(4), pp.323-349.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></p><p><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/06/from-perception-to-concept-why-draw.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">From perception to concept: Why draw</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/07/drawings-as-aesthetic-transducers.html">Drawings as aesthetic transducers </a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/05/visualising-energy-flow.html">Visualising energy flow</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/10/drawing-and-philosophy-part-one.html">Drawing and philosophy </a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/11/drawing-at-art-school-symposium-uwe.html">Drawing at art school a symposium </a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/02/marion-milner-art-therapy-and.html">More on perception and research</a></span></p><p><br /></p></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-34752023759939980332023-12-13T03:24:00.000-08:002023-12-31T04:30:51.790-08:00Stained glass session seven<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I needed to catch up on myself a little, so this session was one where I had to re-cut the glass I broke as well as speed through the painting process, so that I did not have one piece left behind. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxIalFS-jkhyphenhyphenO8566dYJGPYhnTKxykGWN3Z5OZtT7jvk1_pj4Smcys66A4it6YXs0QjBwgan4XGAQF4PhHXJD0iXTLQoH3d_PldxRIeKoi-FakWVMP5suY71SqI52TfGEEoqjzSE7NSoud5yTt4V9WqFuVvLhG0Nubr8fz1l39rVLUuifgEqARtlqLjs0/s640/IMG_6828.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxIalFS-jkhyphenhyphenO8566dYJGPYhnTKxykGWN3Z5OZtT7jvk1_pj4Smcys66A4it6YXs0QjBwgan4XGAQF4PhHXJD0iXTLQoH3d_PldxRIeKoi-FakWVMP5suY71SqI52TfGEEoqjzSE7NSoud5yTt4V9WqFuVvLhG0Nubr8fz1l39rVLUuifgEqARtlqLjs0/s320/IMG_6828.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The leg sections after the first firing of the water based paint</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After checking that the painted sections of the leg had fired ok, I found the last piece of pink glass big enough to cut the foot shape from again. I'm now fairly confident about cutting, so managed this without mishap. The issue was could I catch up with the painting? I therefore went back to the water based paints, ground the edges down and washed my newly cut foot shape and laid a matt ground and blended it as I had done before. I then left that to one side and began the process of oil painting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMGQjn8o_7nqO3ph1933l1nBSdZWhaFm47PdrssBvcTC2AuZ0HpXgBqnYbb6B-GjJ_E-Eta2QDH7KRt5gvG0obN0MZ7HUs5J5EhnQIL3lY7gTCZDFImBxpeOoaaOUS-o9AJgZ-jR__fb3EqhGd4vmP4tPfaFG1FI6g3QE75xP1ij2Bam1_kUShpMJ7jhg/s640/IMG_6826.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMGQjn8o_7nqO3ph1933l1nBSdZWhaFm47PdrssBvcTC2AuZ0HpXgBqnYbb6B-GjJ_E-Eta2QDH7KRt5gvG0obN0MZ7HUs5J5EhnQIL3lY7gTCZDFImBxpeOoaaOUS-o9AJgZ-jR__fb3EqhGd4vmP4tPfaFG1FI6g3QE75xP1ij2Bam1_kUShpMJ7jhg/s320/IMG_6826.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mixing lavender oil into the dry paint</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I had bought a small bottle of lavender oil from Boots during the week, (£4.70) as I knew this would be needed and as I had had a cold it had the added bonus of its smell helping to keep open my airways. Again, as with the water based painting it was important to add the oil very carefully, blending and blending with the small palette knife. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once mixed a fine sable brush was used to apply the paint. I had used this technique before and I wanted to use a version of the way I had handled the paint again. I also had a choice as to whether or not to oil the glass surface with the lavender oil before I started, as this can help flow. In this case I decided not to do this. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbEjRYeu0JF4ew8_UqQ1CoCR4E3P5oqnWuALH_FE8L-5jXv-21mMJIwBmBQQ85yq-ryhZ5w9ylyQ33EnxKUGRklfV4UppquihZrv72XxudoYbybGtkW6yKiEsC5DRCBjWA4MYHG5ymIebc0Q9vGtrW4mzW60KX8YVcp8E_HhdxZAquMk24MA3zSZaP2Gg/s1523/Stained%20glass%20veg.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1523" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbEjRYeu0JF4ew8_UqQ1CoCR4E3P5oqnWuALH_FE8L-5jXv-21mMJIwBmBQQ85yq-ryhZ5w9ylyQ33EnxKUGRklfV4UppquihZrv72XxudoYbybGtkW6yKiEsC5DRCBjWA4MYHG5ymIebc0Q9vGtrW4mzW60KX8YVcp8E_HhdxZAquMk24MA3zSZaP2Gg/s320/Stained%20glass%20veg.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Previous example of my stained glass painting, with silver staining for the yellows</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The area of paint that surrounds the central image was done using an oil painting technique, over the top of a previously fired water based layer. I was using an almost 'pointalist' technique and liked the way I could use it to vary tonal values. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsen7o1WE65qnCwlcGN0CQqEb8xI7tCqQj9qdlrzQv5Anud5M8gCsOY6q_Gy9CV8bLmobyLqD15PEZHgAl8-emAt31CDjc1zYNalPB5YyZynl86QwBECs_uoMzkLkqzFM890bqp5BsVMDpWeT6xJmHO8vNz4HVBs7ZjbtABodisWiR0cJCD4J2Baui3no/s640/IMG_6831%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsen7o1WE65qnCwlcGN0CQqEb8xI7tCqQj9qdlrzQv5Anud5M8gCsOY6q_Gy9CV8bLmobyLqD15PEZHgAl8-emAt31CDjc1zYNalPB5YyZynl86QwBECs_uoMzkLkqzFM890bqp5BsVMDpWeT6xJmHO8vNz4HVBs7ZjbtABodisWiR0cJCD4J2Baui3no/s320/IMG_6831%20(1).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Detail showing how the oil paint texture has to be applied to flow across from one piece of glass to the next. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lo6dWLxM51jkoRXGkWjn512nI1Gt4pfWPlQhgAtvGviGlJkFonNSdMVQJNGQTHTnJFtv6EXqtuJwDruGesaqp_pBOX6tYND81VnMnPl-wNRRzyzbzGgeC5LXJB5LbuzlEpX0cNge66bfRXfrPJfKx7PlWiWgXHM5cup0tLHOQ9earB8FnknxuTUE5tk/s640/IMG_6832.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lo6dWLxM51jkoRXGkWjn512nI1Gt4pfWPlQhgAtvGviGlJkFonNSdMVQJNGQTHTnJFtv6EXqtuJwDruGesaqp_pBOX6tYND81VnMnPl-wNRRzyzbzGgeC5LXJB5LbuzlEpX0cNge66bfRXfrPJfKx7PlWiWgXHM5cup0tLHOQ9earB8FnknxuTUE5tk/s320/IMG_6832.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Painted section now with the foot completed on a switched on light-box</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once I was feeling confident that I could get the quality of image I wanted, I added in the water-based section, painting directly on top of the unfired tone and line drawing. I had to be vary careful not to touch the surface, as this would remove bits or leave marks, but by using a bridge I was able to put the two methods of painting together, so that the foot section could be fired at the same time as all the other leg components. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNz8W2QkYDm-lucx1Ih83Gh6N3rRJwb1blEfKMeaOUCnPrwjazqak_aiOXUzyc2UQoAeXd4rUlngymLpbUu7KRybBAndjFw8lryHKEKlhTR74ZLCtifkvj8nVYWKbrWKjhHJpXNp3XUHR9aJQ5RX6w7H4obT6mD57j4DaAK8rrRGr4XRROGnVsRhbkeyE/s640/IMG_6833.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNz8W2QkYDm-lucx1Ih83Gh6N3rRJwb1blEfKMeaOUCnPrwjazqak_aiOXUzyc2UQoAeXd4rUlngymLpbUu7KRybBAndjFw8lryHKEKlhTR74ZLCtifkvj8nVYWKbrWKjhHJpXNp3XUHR9aJQ5RX6w7H4obT6mD57j4DaAK8rrRGr4XRROGnVsRhbkeyE/s320/IMG_6833.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Leg section as it appears when the light-box is switched off</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You need to keep switching the light-box on, so that you can see how the glass will look when light is behind it. However because the leg section is a long one, it is slightly too long to see it lit all at once. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cleaning the brushes was done with neat lavender oil, a paper towel was soaked in it and the brush gently worked into the towel until it was clean and all the time trying to ensure the tip is kept pointed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The next area to work on is the figure of Sooty and this is quite problematic, as I need to find a way of making the image work for stained glass. My idea is that the Sooty figure is a sort of fetish and as such is rather like a religious icon. Therefore the style of rendering must indicate this. However first of all the pieces that make up Sooty have to have their edges ground down to remove all the sharp areas that might cut into the expensive brushes used to lay grounds and finally the surfaces are cleaned by being given a good wash in soapy water. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3G-KQuNcL0yEq_Pqh1_0ZQUj0hQb7n_0HdNfr-8NEE-daX4WSljsE_iGxyOTCsJ2wT6JPwggxPbwkB7tr2HUFOoI4DMj6nclbPp4Ng3ZBp2hgJhRMsd3uxqz_DKWx5HhT1wZhKagZzgwTqNpX8AgDM5yBNkGa2DPseE8KVRzxqNUwH37ggL_EB64eZ3c/s640/IMG_6834.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3G-KQuNcL0yEq_Pqh1_0ZQUj0hQb7n_0HdNfr-8NEE-daX4WSljsE_iGxyOTCsJ2wT6JPwggxPbwkB7tr2HUFOoI4DMj6nclbPp4Ng3ZBp2hgJhRMsd3uxqz_DKWx5HhT1wZhKagZzgwTqNpX8AgDM5yBNkGa2DPseE8KVRzxqNUwH37ggL_EB64eZ3c/s320/IMG_6834.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">White Sharpie numbering used to identify where all the parts go</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMILX-yBN9lw6L7sBGTNE0Ftb2nYZZBtvFFhjdWPH5ktxp-rw-Cn6PTLBj6x9xHu4DGjgYn7tMBwej0UYHNtU7dDwDLt1GiOuryGQRpobiP4AUZvRbLYMHogr4aeDgDzKZEHXsUrgjEL_Guc2IFnEgDW2pglyw_vKJ2bY6t19jfHL9keXKMZsaSalHBU/s2667/IMG_6835.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMILX-yBN9lw6L7sBGTNE0Ftb2nYZZBtvFFhjdWPH5ktxp-rw-Cn6PTLBj6x9xHu4DGjgYn7tMBwej0UYHNtU7dDwDLt1GiOuryGQRpobiP4AUZvRbLYMHogr4aeDgDzKZEHXsUrgjEL_Guc2IFnEgDW2pglyw_vKJ2bY6t19jfHL9keXKMZsaSalHBU/s320/IMG_6835.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All cleaned and edges ground down</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These pieces are now all ready to paint, but I now had to spend time getting my head round how I wanted the final image to work. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had an earlier study made to help me think about how the image of Sooty would fit into the surrounding cut glass fragments but it wasn't right, it did though point the way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsREDQpjkcvR1CD97RA8Y9rR3h8hEQ-4fwYkwURPOEZAVpN1Q6XTOgrmEEh_WjVVdnBaukVn1VN1ZHiIMt7U_m1IxjBGxAAKXfkFvi-T7-2xkkGxaJkqW5u8Cgqs6LJOjbXyOiyM9floXex8fpdo9H13xNtn2InhUyMCu9ytgPhldmHEkjRfwierLx9PI/s3740/sootyinstainedglassstudy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3740" data-original-width="2756" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsREDQpjkcvR1CD97RA8Y9rR3h8hEQ-4fwYkwURPOEZAVpN1Q6XTOgrmEEh_WjVVdnBaukVn1VN1ZHiIMt7U_m1IxjBGxAAKXfkFvi-T7-2xkkGxaJkqW5u8Cgqs6LJOjbXyOiyM9floXex8fpdo9H13xNtn2InhUyMCu9ytgPhldmHEkjRfwierLx9PI/s320/sootyinstainedglassstudy.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Study: Acrylic Paint</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The study did not take into account the various different tonal and colour values of the glass that will actually be used. The eyes are in the wrong place and the ears are wrong, but I liked the idea of making Sooty hirsute, it feels more Medieval. Therefore I returned to the cartoon and developed the image of Sooty, to more accurately reflect the decision making that had occurred during the process of cutting glass from fragments that were available in the studio. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFnaRpZHHEvuGuNGI6RtsjLbsb5eIsz-F3ErC7_yHAUEJ38OHKI04ngXV2QEmsGwKi4aJVgNxArS9fvU5Ee3b01CzJ6rz8SIUzeXFkl78xSZWvu0dMGW16sW5K5rcG2j77Pp26xFDkPBGI9x5UGOYJDrDW8MNcMyIUeq8BjKimLWBjyq5T0nppOhH1YEw/s3543/armcartoon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2495" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFnaRpZHHEvuGuNGI6RtsjLbsb5eIsz-F3ErC7_yHAUEJ38OHKI04ngXV2QEmsGwKi4aJVgNxArS9fvU5Ee3b01CzJ6rz8SIUzeXFkl78xSZWvu0dMGW16sW5K5rcG2j77Pp26xFDkPBGI9x5UGOYJDrDW8MNcMyIUeq8BjKimLWBjyq5T0nppOhH1YEw/s320/armcartoon.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The stained glass Sooty before silver staining on the back: Cartoon study</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPC2fvHWSXX_NwKfb9RfO4tnsUIs-RNevV69SzbixKN876CF3jIErfblz8-YcdMkLYs8SAeu5G2U8kfELB9NvFH-sPyOIQ6Iv8BTO0oUvMKXWUYDZfapCNpcJG_L-N-eR69zfXNOy3uNwrZAinyBxitZaS3VJsczrugwLJQ0pJgtmHUNQbnObg9jDMKh4/s1661/sootyarmdetail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1661" data-original-width="1077" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPC2fvHWSXX_NwKfb9RfO4tnsUIs-RNevV69SzbixKN876CF3jIErfblz8-YcdMkLYs8SAeu5G2U8kfELB9NvFH-sPyOIQ6Iv8BTO0oUvMKXWUYDZfapCNpcJG_L-N-eR69zfXNOy3uNwrZAinyBxitZaS3VJsczrugwLJQ0pJgtmHUNQbnObg9jDMKh4/s320/sootyarmdetail.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thinking about the f<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">etishistic</span> hairyness of Sooty</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To complete Sooty the eight pieces that make up the body will need to be visually cohered and to do this the two clear sections of glass will need to be silver stained on the back, this will even out the colour, making it a varied but intense yellow and hopefully add to the fetish/religious relic effect. But I think it will be the painting of the texture and how it is done that will signify the ritualistic nature of the image as fetish. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho5gUjX1CSiIbFCFJYYui7BrfNFl3s2UGvO2vthsW97ZAonoFak82Ukl6rUxY7bMYFvJExF97AXp_xgn3Kk0SHNK0FAbDSYbzssKQvImDocRwPF-onCwXVKH1yoKkyEBdSSOlF9yLht0uG0XE7FmCeHiX7d7cbgJuiXaykBwtCvbVYsrUuOn5bME_S8eM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="236" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho5gUjX1CSiIbFCFJYYui7BrfNFl3s2UGvO2vthsW97ZAonoFak82Ukl6rUxY7bMYFvJExF97AXp_xgn3Kk0SHNK0FAbDSYbzssKQvImDocRwPF-onCwXVKH1yoKkyEBdSSOlF9yLht0uG0XE7FmCeHiX7d7cbgJuiXaykBwtCvbVYsrUuOn5bME_S8eM" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h4 style="background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: inherit; color: #272727; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit;">From the Vyne Chapel, Sherborne St. John, Hampshire: 1525</span></h4></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>In this beautiful image of a dog from <span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #272727; text-align: center;">Sherborne St. John, you can see overall tonal modelling, as well as texture, and it is something like this that I think I want to achieve. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #272727; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZdJP4pyk8lKvLfvBWPB3epDRpKyaYIW0CjhoCx-osb3KBZhaI_EVNi3STpAooHWv3x_N9Ewwl4KtHgRRL-S6QLvXUuWbC5Qn1jcBX-8P3pA9Qmq1X8RciuQYIa1npG8vTxnhZndE989p_cCNBUjwiumYi7Gi1ffmLLD_wL0mDzPUqK7Rmvmz3xGSdQI/s1201/lambofgod.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1010" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZdJP4pyk8lKvLfvBWPB3epDRpKyaYIW0CjhoCx-osb3KBZhaI_EVNi3STpAooHWv3x_N9Ewwl4KtHgRRL-S6QLvXUuWbC5Qn1jcBX-8P3pA9Qmq1X8RciuQYIa1npG8vTxnhZndE989p_cCNBUjwiumYi7Gi1ffmLLD_wL0mDzPUqK7Rmvmz3xGSdQI/s320/lambofgod.jpeg" width="269" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lamb of God</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The sacrificial Lamb of God is closer to the concept of image as ritual fetish. The texture is modelled to give an idea of weight and volume to the lamb as a 'lamb', but the lamb is also a spiritual thing, a substitute for Christ. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzZ92tLjwgnWJIxgIXWdOhT8MljAFXOk5KtH67M6_MPTXP8O5yn52_sTpd8j-7tHthseC45COvqlgJJh2K8vSqL8bYPzvPBPuqtcSJrEajebc3xQs6OOL45iP9y6AyAhhf6HYX1onZiGf7tEIFn1fyZlg2fEADpfHB5XPkQgIAH48Uk2d_lJGos63GUs/s1716/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-17%20at%2018.14.38.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1716" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzZ92tLjwgnWJIxgIXWdOhT8MljAFXOk5KtH67M6_MPTXP8O5yn52_sTpd8j-7tHthseC45COvqlgJJh2K8vSqL8bYPzvPBPuqtcSJrEajebc3xQs6OOL45iP9y6AyAhhf6HYX1onZiGf7tEIFn1fyZlg2fEADpfHB5XPkQgIAH48Uk2d_lJGos63GUs/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-17%20at%2018.14.38.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A slightly cruder version </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See also:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html">Stained glass session one</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html">Stained glass session two</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html">Stained glass session three</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-four.html">Stained glass session four</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-five.html">Stained glass session five</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-six.html">Stained glass session six</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-eight.html">Stained glass session eight</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/10/drawing-on-transparent-drafting-film.html">Drawing on transparent drafting film</a></div></div></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-91152520990562142492023-12-08T03:44:00.000-08:002023-12-12T00:53:18.539-08:00Bringing the inanimate to life.<span style="font-family: arial;">The Japanese artist Maruyama Okyo was reported to have painted a ghost so "realistically" that it came to life and frightened him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: start;">Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: </span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Maruyama Okyo frightened by his own art</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was fascinated by ghosts and depicted them regularly during his long career. He loved the fact that Maruyama Okyo had been so good at their depiction that he became frightened by his own work. I suspect Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was having a moment of fun at Okyo's expense, but if you do look at some of Okyo's ghosts you can see why he might have frightened himself. he was able to hold that fine line between life and death in an image by using a language that is as much about what is there, as what is not. There is something about making images of ghosts that I think of as being central to the depiction of animism. The ghost is a spirit form, one that usually is some form of representation of the dead. Another way of thinking about this is that these are images that attempt to give life to things that are now inanimate, even if once alive. This opens a door into that territory between the animate and the inanimate. Many cultures think of spirits as being things that animate all life, Central to animism is an understanding that everything has a spirit; humans, plants, animals, landscapes, words and weather systems can all be animated and have some sort of personhood, and so of course can the dead and other things that have past lives. </span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFg--S3UcPzYovPKAo-JvwMkEeqPy5wl5mkI_gX6abI1fH7A1d3FpdSkC5mGLwoN2utigAuxRyvWFdz2-xAA5y_SQpwTdCS_2QeElxTy7VzdnhwhBqPFlhH6OVO0E6bbNG-ItaRO2nTWc2IjN63FVQRw0wFxNYFxr4OzIfghRp05LKo_AQoXyts_PzYc/s1116/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-19%20at%2012.41.35.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFg--S3UcPzYovPKAo-JvwMkEeqPy5wl5mkI_gX6abI1fH7A1d3FpdSkC5mGLwoN2utigAuxRyvWFdz2-xAA5y_SQpwTdCS_2QeElxTy7VzdnhwhBqPFlhH6OVO0E6bbNG-ItaRO2nTWc2IjN63FVQRw0wFxNYFxr4OzIfghRp05LKo_AQoXyts_PzYc/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-19%20at%2012.41.35.png" width="215" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15PXo4murN8xcdoAAtmWJPE_dqEZ6JiugXzW4cQUATgwAut5zGzTkdsK2g-32dHJ7kyr-i91ZiZki3gq1DqwupzYNZOWfSAsNggup2zm4x_Mbf2EMsqATNiK70Uts1zTURj9x3mw92HDxhChKgTutwe1fmGTdA7c5IBHIT1j0N9ZUin-tqVe3k33zOIM/s1116/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-19%20at%2012.40.46.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="766" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15PXo4murN8xcdoAAtmWJPE_dqEZ6JiugXzW4cQUATgwAut5zGzTkdsK2g-32dHJ7kyr-i91ZiZki3gq1DqwupzYNZOWfSAsNggup2zm4x_Mbf2EMsqATNiK70Uts1zTURj9x3mw92HDxhChKgTutwe1fmGTdA7c5IBHIT1j0N9ZUin-tqVe3k33zOIM/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-19%20at%2012.40.46.png" width="220" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5NBkaAPdxqPsV8phXt5sI_zz5HfcvJwJoEz5I3cpzyMwXunQtQ8wxkKuvDHboqxXolq-LfcMJHJUGTKyQtsnwbK1AwVo5SQX9D06Gwr8x_Vbtb58UlvfWHJCZr2uEIiU7ynsALovihlglYyidSQkHggPya9S6r6iU4CrT46OkknOhMmmbO2iNe2irxE/s1110/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-19%20at%2012.39.53.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="730" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5NBkaAPdxqPsV8phXt5sI_zz5HfcvJwJoEz5I3cpzyMwXunQtQ8wxkKuvDHboqxXolq-LfcMJHJUGTKyQtsnwbK1AwVo5SQX9D06Gwr8x_Vbtb58UlvfWHJCZr2uEIiU7ynsALovihlglYyidSQkHggPya9S6r6iU4CrT46OkknOhMmmbO2iNe2irxE/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-19%20at%2012.39.53.png" width="210" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Images of ghosts</span></div><br /></span></span></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Goya: <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">Pygmalion</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu_MefKeE-w_feCevcPyzepQeoK2AU8doxn8PMEs9ZS-8_nNeIhT-ApDMOfUK9rvPJTz7GaARQTd0aY7223Q79IWBNpD6y_XVw0uOiYwyut7J8kBh8V-rx3xLxoESQAM3tkDShZl23oHdCQPBkEmriwxpXgcdAno63BL4RuyllxRyVFI1XFCcmp9hZRgk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="750" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu_MefKeE-w_feCevcPyzepQeoK2AU8doxn8PMEs9ZS-8_nNeIhT-ApDMOfUK9rvPJTz7GaARQTd0aY7223Q79IWBNpD6y_XVw0uOiYwyut7J8kBh8V-rx3xLxoESQAM3tkDShZl23oHdCQPBkEmriwxpXgcdAno63BL4RuyllxRyVFI1XFCcmp9hZRgk" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; text-align: center;">14th Century manuscript </div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; text-align: left;">In this image from a 14th century manuscript, <span style="text-align: center;">Pygmalion looks as if he is raising </span><span style="color: black;">Galatea from the dead. </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0bl8gRK3t5JhoPYs1t_SqWnUJdUKH6j8A5UHUOHxABclOjw4UlPutsvjOxLkChLSjb4XHqJjw6M8qiM-V0rGu3PYIG20zADx-YKKkmUVSWC-0sS7xPhaSmbPWqx7NnvR-C5csF4guKCQ3CCfr0NKvM7gh_50KLfWEN_XMO68hKq8sjC2fivLlBmrPbu8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="750" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0bl8gRK3t5JhoPYs1t_SqWnUJdUKH6j8A5UHUOHxABclOjw4UlPutsvjOxLkChLSjb4XHqJjw6M8qiM-V0rGu3PYIG20zADx-YKKkmUVSWC-0sS7xPhaSmbPWqx7NnvR-C5csF4guKCQ3CCfr0NKvM7gh_50KLfWEN_XMO68hKq8sjC2fivLlBmrPbu8" width="320" /></a></div></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">Detail: Pygmalion and Galatea' by Jean-Léon Gérôme</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">The image we are more familiar with is the one made popular during the Victorian age; Jean-Léon Gérôme's idea of being able to have access to a nude nubile woman in the privacy of the studio, being typical of the way classical art subjects were used as a sort of cover up for the fact that some men just wanted an excuse to be able to put pornography up on their walls. The central issue with the Pygmalion myth being that it suggests that the only relationship humans have with the inanimate is one of desire. We want things to be moulded in our image; we pride ourselves on being superior to everything else. In Genesis, it is stated t</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">hen God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” A statement that has in many ways led to an uncomfortable relationship with the rest of the world. How can you have a proper dialogue with all the other things that you are entangled with, if you believe in your innate superiority to everything else? To rule suggests that you make your subjects give you tribute; you take the things you want. In contrast, animism suggests that you are just one voice amongst many and that in order to make your way in this world you need to find an accommodation or mediated position between the needs you have and the needs that all other things have. Reciprocity is central to the animist world view. </span></span></span></div></div></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">However there is a totally different approach to the idea of bringing the inanimate to life and that is to depict what is inanimate in such a way that it feels like it is alive. Jim Dine's drawings and prints of tools are a good example of how the techniques normally involved in giving expression and atmospheric quality to representations of human beings, can be applied to inanimate objects in order to suggest that they too have a life of their own. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOqlo6HZDs71afNYsVpw9GCsIrwgONMCQIrWjaTVgtkKi1L1Zy3S658wRmvVys5o0a-WrZjwMP0FltlvXPcUfVIzIOuszPlrBsO5X9eKQSStX3wXvm4UI87lYmwP0ZTUgEuVHz8yVOSlCpVRwraMQ2TJDJ2679dUBz8pfFFMrwgD0xQkFdERVIrGjwllU/s692/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-29%20at%2011.01.01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="632" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOqlo6HZDs71afNYsVpw9GCsIrwgONMCQIrWjaTVgtkKi1L1Zy3S658wRmvVys5o0a-WrZjwMP0FltlvXPcUfVIzIOuszPlrBsO5X9eKQSStX3wXvm4UI87lYmwP0ZTUgEuVHz8yVOSlCpVRwraMQ2TJDJ2679dUBz8pfFFMrwgD0xQkFdERVIrGjwllU/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-29%20at%2011.01.01.png" width="292" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim Dine: Etching</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFSSH0v0Ocssvu_tgYJWhyphenhyphenldRb8y8DjztPinBqERAc6WyDWiBHplo2PKFaoCRL67XY-P7EZVpWXZKo50-hZmx8hjuvJdzM3LfFxU8AL946S_b75Y66nSsIR_t03DHMVHMACBKW95kOG-rnPiJNgivID0BWWcScXFicBaS5iHbvDyWSSA-HMlxdQvW2iE/s512/dine.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="410" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFSSH0v0Ocssvu_tgYJWhyphenhyphenldRb8y8DjztPinBqERAc6WyDWiBHplo2PKFaoCRL67XY-P7EZVpWXZKo50-hZmx8hjuvJdzM3LfFxU8AL946S_b75Y66nSsIR_t03DHMVHMACBKW95kOG-rnPiJNgivID0BWWcScXFicBaS5iHbvDyWSSA-HMlxdQvW2iE/s320/dine.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim Dine: Lithograph</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These images of tools could also be seen as 'portraits' of inanimate objects. Their bi-lateral symmetry makes for a very easy human/tool association; after all tools are extensions of ourselves. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQIiEaKvray7ol-mhEUJodowaKftJc9PgKOuPk4Fh74FqQE1IjNNRcDf6MKEHYFEIUcQefM24ko-_0V6_VQp6NHfe0QrnttGCZM00JL3RMO_PWxJYmeYKvyqpvuR86X50L0aK-_IifcX2BuWypqtS3_KZz_1IM8lsocDdZwkzte4-u49seernHtOUeqYo/s700/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-29%20at%2011.11.12.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="688" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQIiEaKvray7ol-mhEUJodowaKftJc9PgKOuPk4Fh74FqQE1IjNNRcDf6MKEHYFEIUcQefM24ko-_0V6_VQp6NHfe0QrnttGCZM00JL3RMO_PWxJYmeYKvyqpvuR86X50L0aK-_IifcX2BuWypqtS3_KZz_1IM8lsocDdZwkzte4-u49seernHtOUeqYo/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-29%20at%2011.11.12.png" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wayne Thiebaud <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The knife stuck into the watermelon is easily seen as a substitute for a possible human tragedy. </div></div></div></span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEuNBmIqwrdcgIAv3lltyPmRchkbNnMTjhxS_rNzQhsvFSJG8WjMIPhlIXt2aWZz0hBNaxyDTSZjVqRSq68h1ukV6dIdXmWAsvDAvKngC8nxOE8VBMBu7QiFJOgyVnkGHig_PRPn4_nLGzOflw47_sRGhSc_n-rgb-IMLo-6-wWy0BaQDgb8HgVkK69pE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEuNBmIqwrdcgIAv3lltyPmRchkbNnMTjhxS_rNzQhsvFSJG8WjMIPhlIXt2aWZz0hBNaxyDTSZjVqRSq68h1ukV6dIdXmWAsvDAvKngC8nxOE8VBMBu7QiFJOgyVnkGHig_PRPn4_nLGzOflw47_sRGhSc_n-rgb-IMLo-6-wWy0BaQDgb8HgVkK69pE" width="288" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Van Gogh: Boots</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These boots have as much life in them as the person that has just taken them off. They can also be thought of as a type of 's<span style="background-color: white;">ynecdoche', whereby a part of something can represent the whole. For instance a boot could represent an army, in this case two old worn shoes, stand in for the person who would normally wear them, a working peasant, and thus all working peasants. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="background-color: white;">But this is just a small step into the world of the animist. These objects are extensions of ourselves but as we become aware that an old boot can have some sort of </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">élan vital, then perhaps anything inanimate or animate can too, not just things that have a close association with ourselves.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">It is the Earth itself that we need to find a proper relationship with. If it has any sort of consciousness I would have thought it would be pretty fed up with humans right now. The Earth's spirit is something we ignore, repress or deny at our peril but we can learn to begin a new relationship with it by turning to other cultures. There is a Japanese term, 'Tsuchi' that as well as being a symbol for the Earth, is also something that can stand for mud, clay or earth. In some animist thought th</span><span style="background-color: white;">e Earth itself can therefore be held in our hands when a form is made in ceramic. A spirit inhabits the clay, which is itself part of the spirit of the world, the Earth itself. A ceramic vessel can therefore, become a holder of a part of the primordial Earth's soul.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Meditation and deep contemplation, may begin a new </span><span style="background-color: white;">dialog between a material and ourselves and once a basic material such as clay and mud is seen as being worthy of our love and care, then hopefully all the other materials and inhabitants of the Earth; animal, vegetable and mineral, become linked to an awareness of a pulse beyond our own, one that gives us a sensual and tactile connection with the charge of life forces that vibrates through everything. An awareness that activates for us what some people used to think of as the non-moving stillness of the inanimate or the dead. In fact the inanimate is never that, all things are in reality animate; the dead are also therefore still alive. Deep within all matter lies energy. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-465UOv9M-pUI3cXJilHpc02Snp16B_LmJjprKMw9m9R4wgJ-vKuXO-cVvr3AVRovaZsfTPAwGVBh7t4raE52tdSS3rp_XhY_UKt17AlXP3sQHgDdjtjzMyFcNZRcDKIe4uvQpnKSoANAlX-BkKgsamOVoEwZUoqmUlpQ5K5wwk6PMlb6vkxan5kOAHU/s750/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-04%20at%2010.05.44.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="750" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-465UOv9M-pUI3cXJilHpc02Snp16B_LmJjprKMw9m9R4wgJ-vKuXO-cVvr3AVRovaZsfTPAwGVBh7t4raE52tdSS3rp_XhY_UKt17AlXP3sQHgDdjtjzMyFcNZRcDKIe4uvQpnKSoANAlX-BkKgsamOVoEwZUoqmUlpQ5K5wwk6PMlb6vkxan5kOAHU/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-04%20at%2010.05.44.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Iranian area: 1,000 BC</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">You can sense that when this vessel was made that the maker saw many things at once. The material possibilities of the making and a love for the clay, an awareness of the spirits of animal forms and a feeling for how this vessel would be integrated into daily life. It pulls together various conversations with the non-human world and makes them also very human. You feel that this object is of the Earth not something ripped out of it to make some form of profit. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">As my own work develops and I have more time for it since retiring, I'm drawn more and more towards animist ways of thinking and the idea of objects being mediators between ourselves and the world. In this case an awareness of how as a boy I used a Sooty puppet as a mediator between myself and the frightening complexities of the adult world; it was in psychiatric terms, a 'transitional object'. I was a young animist, but never realised it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5-01zKGOS2cDJzyVVTUhRm7kN-rS59bAylhtZJVlbegsKoyEOtJ6G590ZIQQI73CsncMb1k61uspNCDW5dyQHC55Cvp_R7ys7lUxXibmSL5KrnCe-RdmovtLKqfae28LS1DKVUkAKijQKttAwk1zSJx8klrDEaPaYeVQJW9WgTZdXuudOCM7RLsHVfQ/s945/9sootywithinsects.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5-01zKGOS2cDJzyVVTUhRm7kN-rS59bAylhtZJVlbegsKoyEOtJ6G590ZIQQI73CsncMb1k61uspNCDW5dyQHC55Cvp_R7ys7lUxXibmSL5KrnCe-RdmovtLKqfae28LS1DKVUkAKijQKttAwk1zSJx8klrDEaPaYeVQJW9WgTZdXuudOCM7RLsHVfQ/s320/9sootywithinsects.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sooty rises above a fear of insects</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/04/animism-and-drawing-lines-reflection-on.html">Animism and drawing lines</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/07/on-not-knowing-and-paying-attention.html">A talk by Tim Ingold</a></span><div><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/08/drawing-together-science-and-myth.html">Drawing together science and myth</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-drawing-and-ceramics.html">Drawing and ceramics</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/03/object-orientated-ontology-and-drawing.html">Object orientated ontology</a></span></div>
</div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-87412561804745954292023-12-03T20:21:00.000-08:002023-12-25T00:06:14.327-08:00Stained glass: Session six<p><span style="font-family: arial;">This was a difficult session, perhaps because I had had my flu jab the day before, I was a bit off colour and not as 'on it' as I ought to have been. Even so we covered a lot of ground and I learnt a bit more about my own capacity for absorbing knowledge. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimj9CcOh6PqGtsD_e-LEHQ5sPKiOb28btG_FvVQIZS6kTvbQHjk_QWxdIEzOgtt7AWWt334XbuwD_20N2faUFQDbrnBmUsGnFuILGaCuJS6yDSt1spsqyFBqrKl0zyJtjWkcoWi0RxePAF289SGk1VISAf9thFJbaBtSk543ENe-3YNrk8ZFGLDVSvddE/s640/IMG_6781.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimj9CcOh6PqGtsD_e-LEHQ5sPKiOb28btG_FvVQIZS6kTvbQHjk_QWxdIEzOgtt7AWWt334XbuwD_20N2faUFQDbrnBmUsGnFuILGaCuJS6yDSt1spsqyFBqrKl0zyJtjWkcoWi0RxePAF289SGk1VISAf9thFJbaBtSk543ENe-3YNrk8ZFGLDVSvddE/s320/IMG_6781.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_NgwcEZHN4vTdNMNS0ah0UaMC6jrDSg3GdWMZ-CnuHEjHB2AhDAzW42qG599NgP87ZlVf9c8M21cbsahhEtEBDLJC8-8J1MuJbKtqMdQblRRNHMft66xPjuV-7oCMONwX2uEkFFkxq4CcBkwLm9LhKgkdD8L19ZOg0UR4rlNlei9fajzZdTINlgGXbgw/s640/IMG_6787.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_NgwcEZHN4vTdNMNS0ah0UaMC6jrDSg3GdWMZ-CnuHEjHB2AhDAzW42qG599NgP87ZlVf9c8M21cbsahhEtEBDLJC8-8J1MuJbKtqMdQblRRNHMft66xPjuV-7oCMONwX2uEkFFkxq4CcBkwLm9LhKgkdD8L19ZOg0UR4rlNlei9fajzZdTINlgGXbgw/s320/IMG_6787.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The various sections have been put together on the light-box</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The first part of the session was placing all the components I had cut so far onto the light-box and ordering them, which was a complex jig-saw that I would not have been able to do without all the attached numbered paper templates. This allowed me to see how things were looking and for the first time, I was able to judge how well the various parts would balance. After some thought, we also looked at some more offcuts of colour that could go into the border, but these were not cut to length, just to width, so that later on when it is put together, any changes in size can be accounted for before marking out and cutting. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH9SiJCBdP1SKE18pppH3alpvA_hgZoP1XEPeE3V3iou4iSuLZltJ0Uv_cQEpjEkvU7Lb_xW2DkIfupMheZEXdA05N3Pfzu5LEVorfTU6YcE3Zq8hVsN5U53HhMTMV-28urisOIl_th2vuJED44N9BaRgISFiJWD6jEzvQ2A5gu09D5qddKaZE4eGw3Qk/s640/IMG_6782.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH9SiJCBdP1SKE18pppH3alpvA_hgZoP1XEPeE3V3iou4iSuLZltJ0Uv_cQEpjEkvU7Lb_xW2DkIfupMheZEXdA05N3Pfzu5LEVorfTU6YcE3Zq8hVsN5U53HhMTMV-28urisOIl_th2vuJED44N9BaRgISFiJWD6jEzvQ2A5gu09D5qddKaZE4eGw3Qk/s320/IMG_6782.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The heel and fused frit glass section made to represent the heel pain</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As I had detached all the numbered paper templates, I decided it was easier to simply number each piece as it was put away, but the templates were saved in case of breakages. </span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Today was the first day of painting and I had prepared for it by printing off various sizes of my preparatory drawings. Because I didn't have a copy of the cartoon at home I had to guess sizes and of course one was slightly too big and the other slightly too small. (Note to future self make 2 copies of the cartoon next time). </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6kOfNTVXknqfh4eXsTqav-iYXJTQSzILHjxAMIcH7gxeAZhvHg-pKEk4CUtu88lFp5vPSBz7Lam7aBvWLXtwZ8y9dz4JBYFE_vgGBZS6x8KBH0yPJOVqNQfgKX8aNNInEiQShXCezpnxJQaUCxIVutkjggwl-c-KKKBNTIMOJJJUpl4F5kMZCAxgJLac/s3543/legwithleading.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2523" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6kOfNTVXknqfh4eXsTqav-iYXJTQSzILHjxAMIcH7gxeAZhvHg-pKEk4CUtu88lFp5vPSBz7Lam7aBvWLXtwZ8y9dz4JBYFE_vgGBZS6x8KBH0yPJOVqNQfgKX8aNNInEiQShXCezpnxJQaUCxIVutkjggwl-c-KKKBNTIMOJJJUpl4F5kMZCAxgJLac/s320/legwithleading.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Preparatory sketch for leg</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The leg is composed of seven pieces and these were what I was focused on for the rest of the session. Before going any further each piece had to have its edges lightly ground, so that the delicate brushes that I will use, don't get cut to bits by sharp glass edges. Once ground, each piece of glass is washed both sides to remove all traces of grease. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfUkrQgB2zl3PFIhF6CKcUCFTUoVXL5RRo0i-tnRO2Hcfo0jYwIK4wNFP_ZjWUgNQpauJkCe2QXFFVCERHJeloXUVWvmd_fUE37vBuJyr8xZn-cJBxW3KITTJk_K8hCsiIrArA8_-oyXd-3-WwNPN_mDjtKL4FKUmFu0iOmnoiECZ9moRQYK4fokXcNlE/s640/IMG_6788.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfUkrQgB2zl3PFIhF6CKcUCFTUoVXL5RRo0i-tnRO2Hcfo0jYwIK4wNFP_ZjWUgNQpauJkCe2QXFFVCERHJeloXUVWvmd_fUE37vBuJyr8xZn-cJBxW3KITTJk_K8hCsiIrArA8_-oyXd-3-WwNPN_mDjtKL4FKUmFu0iOmnoiECZ9moRQYK4fokXcNlE/s320/IMG_6788.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihs2o1iHxhTG476ey-mKTusBE1NrwEtMUe2QxtINRwY-9lsNeAxhhgZGSBleL42o8aq9mGzlJbqI4wsH804BN0-yxONmrfn0iIXmeZVqoyFD6F7R00A-WEeiKO6PaHOrZg7gnAt9SRT53Q2WojfE6eCbJKX5EzRiZH2RpbF1-EhZj0ccU0bCA_J3gOvYQ/s640/IMG_6789.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihs2o1iHxhTG476ey-mKTusBE1NrwEtMUe2QxtINRwY-9lsNeAxhhgZGSBleL42o8aq9mGzlJbqI4wsH804BN0-yxONmrfn0iIXmeZVqoyFD6F7R00A-WEeiKO6PaHOrZg7gnAt9SRT53Q2WojfE6eCbJKX5EzRiZH2RpbF1-EhZj0ccU0bCA_J3gOvYQ/s320/IMG_6789.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Preparing the palette</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The first painting task is to lay a tonal matt over the sections, so that a feeling of light coming in from the right is maintained through all the sections. Using an already set out dry glass palette, my first job was to gradually add tiny amounts of water and to mix and mix with palette knives. This was done on a turned off light-box as it would be hard to assess the mix if the light was on. You are trying to achieve a mound that is stiff and not too runny, and it is so easy to add too much water. Nb when adding water the amount added each time was what adhered to a palette knife blade when dipped into a glass of water; a brush full was too much. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Once ready a large hake brush is used to spread the paint out thinly over the rest of the palette. To do this in single strokes, not by swirling the paint around, which was how I began. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS2BZr8fMV6ElWllx7bDLsru0voj3OH90bVdUR1PR-fBFDs75RhC5ztBAM0eGTqnjd6u8rM9X2UJlJkyqOyQBX40giKkYPuEdqOitBxrCFJFlSB0OWuXSSxOnfaHtlFnktrTC1PjbMej1L1wDkophoS7xNekgJ-HGxPERNTb8AXNMqczhquBWEvTRlHA8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="913" data-original-width="150" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS2BZr8fMV6ElWllx7bDLsru0voj3OH90bVdUR1PR-fBFDs75RhC5ztBAM0eGTqnjd6u8rM9X2UJlJkyqOyQBX40giKkYPuEdqOitBxrCFJFlSB0OWuXSSxOnfaHtlFnktrTC1PjbMej1L1wDkophoS7xNekgJ-HGxPERNTb8AXNMqczhquBWEvTRlHA8" width="39" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A large hake</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Doing it one at a time, to now re-clean the pieces of glass by putting on a very thin coat of watery paint and then wiping it off with a paper towel. You can see immediately if there is any grease left on the glass as the thin paint will be rejected. This is done on a turned on light-box. Once all are clean and the light-box cleaned of any spillage, its time to actually begin painting. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Using the same techniques as before, taking the large hake brush I was able to build up a surface of paint, this time slightly thicker, so I was adding to the mix from my pigment pile. I began on a left hand glass piece as this was meant to be darker and laid the matte ground using long continuous strokes. I then blended these strokes in with a badger brush. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgORF1HNxvQllFKxN9FzuPZHbx9KmtjK1OGxwz7sse_lJLVSHajAdMFgsG_yAmBrna8WN7zDeAkd1P8eboYIr9XnxeCzA_Qc21FhjqU2D9Rqo-titPVDjeJnbFBRn8oDY9g5XZDV7Zo1TPQ3mn95TTfMkCBZEJun913PxhaAsztR6mYLSm3gt2G2CBtDc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="150" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgORF1HNxvQllFKxN9FzuPZHbx9KmtjK1OGxwz7sse_lJLVSHajAdMFgsG_yAmBrna8WN7zDeAkd1P8eboYIr9XnxeCzA_Qc21FhjqU2D9Rqo-titPVDjeJnbFBRn8oDY9g5XZDV7Zo1TPQ3mn95TTfMkCBZEJun913PxhaAsztR6mYLSm3gt2G2CBtDc" width="171" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Badger brush</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieTg4072HTOO2TiaGrs4O6sLVp1IAGEl_BXPFwZ6gD1ZUewxF76yNkAfp13QMZaDmAWRFn5oO3UsWHejzmKH7v3PDREZHfH6M0vVYdjGj8OtNY093LLGoH-gmUUPb-6HSXcI2RHjaIuiixk1tTfI8MBvuKOxQnUX8hL3V-gxOSbI9acUftIVvhbs8QPbA/s640/IMG_6793.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieTg4072HTOO2TiaGrs4O6sLVp1IAGEl_BXPFwZ6gD1ZUewxF76yNkAfp13QMZaDmAWRFn5oO3UsWHejzmKH7v3PDREZHfH6M0vVYdjGj8OtNY093LLGoH-gmUUPb-6HSXcI2RHjaIuiixk1tTfI8MBvuKOxQnUX8hL3V-gxOSbI9acUftIVvhbs8QPbA/s320/IMG_6793.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Paper towels are an essential tool, as they are used to keep everything clean</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can do quite a lot with the badger brush, but I found it hard to eliminate streaks. However I persevered and managed a certain amount of gradated shading. I then took a large hogs hair stipple brush, holding it vertically and making light up and down movements, used it to make a lighter stippled tonal value as I shaded the leg from left to right. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_AF7-SDQPVSD5hO85IHhpWVbPem2po_a4qE05XuQis25OtV_AOTl-66ZSIbD_u8luib1qtbQuveRDaozoqcViu5y7rBZXOgPQ752yGj7CRMEevmtUNFnsplaJrT0wLKZXlnycISHG1ypunPEYWj_SWHPaziqBjwWJSw60CoEMRcIeTDqmFHHf_5coEU/s640/IMG_6792.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_AF7-SDQPVSD5hO85IHhpWVbPem2po_a4qE05XuQis25OtV_AOTl-66ZSIbD_u8luib1qtbQuveRDaozoqcViu5y7rBZXOgPQ752yGj7CRMEevmtUNFnsplaJrT0wLKZXlnycISHG1ypunPEYWj_SWHPaziqBjwWJSw60CoEMRcIeTDqmFHHf_5coEU/s320/IMG_6792.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Large hogs hair brush</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Peli glass are the suppliers of the tools needed. They are all expensive and I will buy some, but not all of the equipment needed, as I'm having to work out what could be a minimal toolkit if I had to work from my own studio.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhedn_yM6tNfRZ7c5iXa8RzUmCxMVvB245d6M6pMwhEporilb-vWekxue1o1TwuIwYpgepn4-Ej4nhzQTE8zM7-JS1NLQdo1Aqm2dc5mKhAnoSpXujLb7Tod07iuuudSU19-1YNak5kyASZX8HvsOimo9bRGxv_9Ooomc2ZMFB7xso7d7_ySRbn9yqbnT8/s640/IMG_6791.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhedn_yM6tNfRZ7c5iXa8RzUmCxMVvB245d6M6pMwhEporilb-vWekxue1o1TwuIwYpgepn4-Ej4nhzQTE8zM7-JS1NLQdo1Aqm2dc5mKhAnoSpXujLb7Tod07iuuudSU19-1YNak5kyASZX8HvsOimo9bRGxv_9Ooomc2ZMFB7xso7d7_ySRbn9yqbnT8/s320/IMG_6791.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cleaning off the right hand side of the paired parts of the leg. </span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once the blending was done, I put each pair of glass pieces together on the light-box and adjusted the blend so that it worked across the two pieces and then did the same down the leg as well. I eventually began using a small stencil brush to soften the transition between a wiped off edge and the rest of the matte. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was now ready to paint the line of the leg. This I found very hard, as it was about getting the consistency of the paint just right and then even when using a rest, I found my line control suspect and eventually decided a little wobble was fine and that I would embed the feeling into the painting as I added the oil based paint later. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Things to remember: Using the tip of the brush only, make a figure of 8 to pick up the paint mix. Test out lines on the palette first and practice doing them in one go. A good line maintains a solid black throughout its length. Nb again I failed several times at this. Sometimes achieving the required blackness for the test line, but not for the actual one. I need far more experience here and you need to re-mix the paint and test it for every stroke, which I found very hard as it went against my normal working methods of responding to things as they happen, as opposed to planning every move. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had nearly finished these seven sections when I managed to brush one of my finished pieces off the light-box, and onto the floor; it of course shattered. Luckily I still have a piece of pink left, that is big enough to re-cut the foot and I didn't throw away the paper template, but it has put me back somewhat, because all the other pieces are being fired during the week. I shall have to re-cut it next week and lay a graduated tonal matt as well as re-do the line drawing. I should have carefully put each piece away as I did it, but as you also have to keep lining them up next to each other to make sure your line flows smoothly from piece to piece, this is a hard thing to remember to do. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Items ordered in relation to glass painting: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hake brush, large € 15,50</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Matting brush, soft flat hair, 3" € 25,71</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tracing brush, Ox hair, size 5 € 7,27</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Matting brush, soft flat hair, 1" € 10,09</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On top of this as Peli Glass is based in the Netherlands there was handling and shipment to UK, which was € 26,50</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Nb. I decided on ordering a matting brush rather than a badger hair brush as these were over £80 each. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html">Session one</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html">Session two</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html">Session three</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-four.html">Session four</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-five.html">Session five</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-seven.html">Session seven</a></span></div></div><p></p>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-75508824739192701192023-11-28T01:32:00.000-08:002023-12-31T00:27:45.814-08:00Paper: A material conversation<span style="font-family: arial;">I have been going through some old folders of work and came across some images I made when I used to work with Foundation students paper making. The images were from 40 years ago, but I decided that paper making could still offer interesting possibilities and that it might be something to return to once I have completed the various projects I'm now engaged in, in particular as a way of making surfaces that can have things embedded into them.<br /> <br /> The first and possibly most important issue is the 'conversation' that it is possible to have with both the various processes involved and the materials that go into the making of a sheet of paper. Now that I am more aware of animism as an approach to making connections with the world, I'm finding it much easier to let my mind drift into the lives of things that are not human. As to the material nature of paper, the 'ur-history' of cotton rags could also include the previous lives of cotton clothing wearers, as well as rag pickers, whilst some papers may have embedded into their histories stories of mass tree planting for re-forestation. Hand made papers might include vegetable materials available locally, therefore the lives of local plants might be woven into the story. I went to an interesting exhibition in Leeds over the weekend by Invisible Flock, 'This is a Forest'; an exhibition that tells the story of the artists’ journey across sites in Leeds in an attempt to reclaim a part of the city as a forest. I could easily see how paper making could have become much more embedded into the project they were developing, especially if paper had been collected from the various sites explored and then pulped and mixed with plant fibres also available from plants now growing on the sites. There was a handout available made of handmade paper, that used sawdust made from a tree that had died in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, something that perhaps triggered my thoughts for today's ramble, but I wanted the paper making to be more conceptually embedded into the process. However that was my own 'this is what I would do' response, and it was great to see a big space devoted to a serious attempt to get an idea across in a visual art form. In fact Leeds has been lucky lately and we have had some excellent visual art to experience, such as 'And She Built a Crooked House' by <a href="https://www.gemma-anderson.co.uk/">Gemma Anderson-Tempini</a> an exhibition that is still on and which fills the rooms of Burton Grange house in Headingley, as well as the opening last weekend of Hibiscus Rising by Yinka Shonibare. I. e. art matters and if you are a student studying art in Leeds this is a great time to get out and visit these exhibitions. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">However, back to paper making.<br />If you are going to make a practical start and want to have some results quite quickly there is a basic set-up.<br /> First of all you will need a mould and deckle. The mould is a frame covered with metal or nylon mesh, and the deckle is the frame that sits on top of the mould. This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxyKvyGC5GA">how to do it video</a> suggests that you use two ready made picture frames as a simple and quick way to get these made. <br /><br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwpZx81EeXgXdemC6lzeRujhcuVGmKpC0MKjv10QrGMl0RkExCKgQoykhJcFmveQEnz_pBJMkBAFOuk_EfzUIP2WXdsqaX-MK3VeytF5pysrXLuvlbZKVJVA9HmFDsNwmySUJD9cDGrE/s1600/1993+12+dec-jan+-+make+paper+-+00+mold+and+deckle+jpg.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwpZx81EeXgXdemC6lzeRujhcuVGmKpC0MKjv10QrGMl0RkExCKgQoykhJcFmveQEnz_pBJMkBAFOuk_EfzUIP2WXdsqaX-MK3VeytF5pysrXLuvlbZKVJVA9HmFDsNwmySUJD9cDGrE/s320/1993+12+dec-jan+-+make+paper+-+00+mold+and+deckle+jpg.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> How big your frame is will be vital to how you proceed. If only small you can overlap each sheet as you transfer it and gradually construct much larger sheets. <br /><br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTdkp_BLba-jm-eoS9BiBteb4tCkOQyZ3RvcSvZG8gJq5VeTjx1sE2VkJ_V3kJCVPsIfcx6UsxfMneWd1HLfnTdmClKkRFbg3Dx3XECbJa2X5rRP6BoEEARxYzgZKSDo8oVBBhXNE-YI/s1600/Mould-and-Deckle-in-Container--Paper-Making-Craft-MPS-KS2-black-and-white-RGB.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTdkp_BLba-jm-eoS9BiBteb4tCkOQyZ3RvcSvZG8gJq5VeTjx1sE2VkJ_V3kJCVPsIfcx6UsxfMneWd1HLfnTdmClKkRFbg3Dx3XECbJa2X5rRP6BoEEARxYzgZKSDo8oVBBhXNE-YI/s1600/Mould-and-Deckle-in-Container--Paper-Making-Craft-MPS-KS2-black-and-white-RGB.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Your mould and deckle will need to be pushed down into a tub of water with suspended particles of fibre floating in it. But you can get over the need for a deep tub by pouring the paper suspension directly into the mould if you keep it in a large jug. You then need to transfer the wet paper suspension onto a flat absorbent surface, such as a felt mat. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs5468dKCmwNftQVETduNKx8CqHrzw3LlGui6aPxTt5_81W6hk66eEfolM7f-mT9a0zZGYVwbrtsmfM5NxnAO5iuW09r4fXxNywJi8UJ46QTa7bKfGvF5tKpTrAwh7o5BRbxxvXrgHDnhAnYqe6dFIqo-4GswdUFbehRfrZCC5sSj67tQZqXbXmVTKigk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs5468dKCmwNftQVETduNKx8CqHrzw3LlGui6aPxTt5_81W6hk66eEfolM7f-mT9a0zZGYVwbrtsmfM5NxnAO5iuW09r4fXxNywJi8UJ46QTa7bKfGvF5tKpTrAwh7o5BRbxxvXrgHDnhAnYqe6dFIqo-4GswdUFbehRfrZCC5sSj67tQZqXbXmVTKigk" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Typical papers made by recycling </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://makezine.com/projects/papermaking-101/">This is a step by step guide to making small paper sheets.</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you follow the simple steps in the guide, one thing you might consider is overlapping the small sheets as you transfer them from your frame, so that you can build larger and larger sheets. As you do this you can also embed other things into the gradually growing area of paper. This takes far more time, but much more ambitious projects can emerge from this. </div><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEdEsMgdN0z87YusmSpgGJz7viynajNkPll4juOk4ib1NDc-CiQXKOUUMLRLU37xcDe1O56Fcyuzl2EyPOR49UxV3PM8OhMoZFSlh2mV5N6sLHb2D2IEar9l7OPFl16s8-3P5e-kSPgKbQpt5p_6QauZ30gUt0LJaNanQ7kvL5mWyFPfPJFL-YdXO4Jw/s930/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-26%20at%2010.12.18.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="930" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEdEsMgdN0z87YusmSpgGJz7viynajNkPll4juOk4ib1NDc-CiQXKOUUMLRLU37xcDe1O56Fcyuzl2EyPOR49UxV3PM8OhMoZFSlh2mV5N6sLHb2D2IEar9l7OPFl16s8-3P5e-kSPgKbQpt5p_6QauZ30gUt0LJaNanQ7kvL5mWyFPfPJFL-YdXO4Jw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-26%20at%2010.12.18.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">David Hockney: From the Paper Pool series</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Essentially you are making what is normally thought of as a surface on which to make marks, into a substance that will make your visual communication directly. Either as in Hockney's 'Paper Pools', as a substance that carries the image directly by being 'painted' with, or as a material that can be applied as a new surface on other things, or as in papier-mâché, as a building material.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">David Hockney came across the technique of working directly in paper pulp at the Tyler Graphics studios in upstate New York. This involved dyeing wet pulped rag papers, which were then applied in various ways to recently-created and still wet paper substrates, until once a satisfactory image was made, they were finally pressed flat and dried. There were opportunities for Hockney to manipulate the application of colour at all stages and the final result was a cross between paper-making, print-making and painting. I am learning new techniques in stained glass manufacture and in their very restrictions find invention. Hockney also found learning a new technique and its specific restrictions, facilitated invention. He realised the process could be very conducive to variations on a theme, in particular, swimming pools and the effects of different lights and movements on their water. In Paper Pools, Hockney addresses a formal and paradoxical problem: how do you depict the elusive, ever-changing qualities of a body of water, using a flat, stationary, two-dimensional medium? In these images, colour does not sit on the surface, it is fused and completely integrated. Like water itself, light and movement are subsumed into these works, and in doing this, Hockney is able to close a conceptual loop between what is represented and how to represent it.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Peter Gentenaar and Patricia Torley are a couple who specialise in organic paper making. <a href="https://gentenaar-torley.nl/">Their website</a> also gives tutorials on how they work with paper, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Patricia Torley in particular offers some fascinating insights into possibilities for painting directly in paper and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Peter Gentenaar uses paper to develop three dimensional structures. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggKta5_CDW5Ro-uTPaIL9Y9xXAfZwektZpmSin9ey9lqwa-Ch_O8GKVDj9Ec9TvaSfhCof6mxLBkdKEQmss2K8mmCeDDnUZpAeKJDhfgEdNuf5HG8tQR5LBnNS6PdGi1i0MGXz2GHHK_F38TXMz_k6fCEfq6mK7rQLG3I5Mw-KrlekSisnNSlhNKjoJc8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggKta5_CDW5Ro-uTPaIL9Y9xXAfZwektZpmSin9ey9lqwa-Ch_O8GKVDj9Ec9TvaSfhCof6mxLBkdKEQmss2K8mmCeDDnUZpAeKJDhfgEdNuf5HG8tQR5LBnNS6PdGi1i0MGXz2GHHK_F38TXMz_k6fCEfq6mK7rQLG3I5Mw-KrlekSisnNSlhNKjoJc8" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">Patricia Torley</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLuQBO7Boi_seSmMyWrs4tKqZEWYxN21mjIVHLMVEBm_VH2VJSX5rscYlWAGuyWeeYKNFZakilT0aGP53onVyyw47CIifHI_j9ipX329GVslbw-MFCqAjMDuD-JCEEr1PawOkLZO1bq2c_AMu1EYutLODCo8MXbSNw8o2VEtvoQYBQ92yHBh9ZXlMb0dk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLuQBO7Boi_seSmMyWrs4tKqZEWYxN21mjIVHLMVEBm_VH2VJSX5rscYlWAGuyWeeYKNFZakilT0aGP53onVyyw47CIifHI_j9ipX329GVslbw-MFCqAjMDuD-JCEEr1PawOkLZO1bq2c_AMu1EYutLODCo8MXbSNw8o2VEtvoQYBQ92yHBh9ZXlMb0dk" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Peter Gentenaar</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Hockney has a much clearer grasp of the conceptual issues surrounding this type of approach to image making, but you can learn a lot of techniques and technical approaches to paper working from specialists like Torley and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Gentenaar. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidwidL7Osi8p_DQ2bMrIYcFMNbvf9o0gkHA28Ge5d8raP_JaA0kADdilgd9VNpFYVGwNr-OPA4PdlSDz21usNvWZ1daRNKqmTS2thJrGfBanvJabjWUZ1A_YwEeknywKEhaMXTGyxzgNsZU6YGyzE0lb_Cl4x4Poj5Vqsfm2F75qxPHERNOsklyTHuL4M" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Anthony Caro: Paper sculptures</div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;">Anthony Caro used paper casting processes to work through ideas for sculpture. He</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> would press paper pulp onto smooth plaster forms, then cut, fold, squash and join the dried sheets to create ideas for sculpture. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The artist Wangechi Mutu, often uses paper pulp. In her case she uses an oatmeal-like mush made from a range of papers and added ingredients that are chosen to give the work specific meaning, such as particular soils or coloured dyes. Mutu first came up with her paper formula when adding the final layers to the Afrofuturist sculptures she created for the 2015 Venice Biennale, wanting to recreate the organic look of mud-brick houses traditionally built by women in Kenya. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmP9QmewlyJkYgFTb-8vAD7lIBIw2-rCorHI0_g8bHlpk-P2YTqTLtIbMdDuzEgdHmjdD1ZAzsecXaC81iJJEUmDEpzk1FIkCfsi-Rc5vcqpmPVElKUkUNh5XFd2ujUNzRXb4KYuUdoeG6flGlLt0fJtkVdMZ7I2gs-auGF2M1twIl17UG1N7LyPbRseA/s1182/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-26%20at%2014.42.58.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="848" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmP9QmewlyJkYgFTb-8vAD7lIBIw2-rCorHI0_g8bHlpk-P2YTqTLtIbMdDuzEgdHmjdD1ZAzsecXaC81iJJEUmDEpzk1FIkCfsi-Rc5vcqpmPVElKUkUNh5XFd2ujUNzRXb4KYuUdoeG6flGlLt0fJtkVdMZ7I2gs-auGF2M1twIl17UG1N7LyPbRseA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-26%20at%2014.42.58.png" width="230" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wangechi Mutu: <em style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Mirror</em><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">, 2016</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Paper pulp, soil, wood glue, and mirrors</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This is her basic recipe:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Step 1: Shred enough paper to fill a one-gallon container. Fill three-quarters full with boiling water. The paper will absorb the water. Mix contents with a wooden spoon. <br /><br />Step 2: Cover container with an airtight lid and put mixture aside for a week. (If you have a strong good quality blender, at this point you might blend) Add two cups wood glue, and stir until all shreds are soaked in water and glue. The glue will lighten and fluff the mixture. <br /><br />Step 3: After the mixture sits for a week, it will be time to strain the pulp. Place a sieve over a bowl and pour the paper mixture in.<br /><br />Step 4: Press on the pulp in the sieve with a spoon to remove excess liquid; discard liquid. Add half a cup of rubbing alcohol to the remaining paper pulp to kill bacteria. The texture should be the consistency of tacky oatmeal.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Step 5: Wearing plastic gloves, take a handful of the mixture and form a ball. Knead and shape it in your hands.<br /><br />Step 6: Place the ball on a flat surface and sprinkle with coffee grounds, tea leaves or paint pigment on the surface. Compress the ball and add more pigment to stain it further and form a coloured coating. Add more liquid pigment to the mixture for additional colour. It now works like paper clay.<br /><br />Step 7: Shape the paper clay mixture into a sphere, a sausage or whatever shape you desire and begin to explore its formal possibilities. Some forms will work but others will not. <br /><br />Step 8: Mould the paper clay over anything you might want to cast, or simply cover, by putting cling film over objects and pressing the paper onto them and then you can link to any other forms you might have made by laying more paper clay around, over and into joint areas and once again pressing tightly to adhere the mixture. <br /><br />Step 9: Set the forms to dry (ideally outside in the sun), where the colours will change and cracks may form. As you get used to this process you may begin to add reinforcing materials such as muslin. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDsEAFYq6DKGkq4iDIkhxHTnWTaSQErCEurbgkr-5YiO-rKvMStbrxghuM5ItrVUlCIC-bm4NOC1PbtlqxFMKjJJdSetnOXllgJ_k9d3SJpND3GAAngGOAm5a4jpCEoWeKNcJEZT8qaqiPU07gQ4DbD8BmOTNaxvUIwTTEoQCt0man1-JkTt7AzWSXGdI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDsEAFYq6DKGkq4iDIkhxHTnWTaSQErCEurbgkr-5YiO-rKvMStbrxghuM5ItrVUlCIC-bm4NOC1PbtlqxFMKjJJdSetnOXllgJ_k9d3SJpND3GAAngGOAm5a4jpCEoWeKNcJEZT8qaqiPU07gQ4DbD8BmOTNaxvUIwTTEoQCt0man1-JkTt7AzWSXGdI=w213-h320" width="213" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: center;">Wangechi Mutu: </span>Sentinel IV 2020: Paper pulp, wood glue, soil, emulsion paint, charcoal, ink, coconut hair, Natal Rhus (Rhus Natalensis), Silver Oak (Grevillea robusta), Croton (Croton Megalocarpus) and Jacaranda (Jacaranda Mimosifolia)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Wangechi Mutu uses paper pulp to bring together various materials, so that they have one harmonious surface. She also mixes into her pulp locally sourced earth and colourants. The materials embedded into her 'Sentinels' all have specific meanings, for instance the African tree 'croton megalocarpus' is known for its high nitrogen content, and its leaves are often therefore used for mulch. Traditional medical uses for croton include the bark, seeds, roots and leaves being used for medicinal purposes such as the cure of stomach ailments, malaria, wound clotting, and pneumonia. This Sentinel also acts as a healer, and as a<span style="background-color: white;"> harbinger of the acute imperative to improve our relationship with each other and our planet or we will have to accept that environmental destruction will inevitably decide the fate of us all.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">There is so much paper around that it is a natural material to use for anyone that wants to reflect on a society that creates too much waste. I am suggesting very home made ways of working with paper, but commercial print operations take the making of paper pulp prints to high levels of technical sophistication, in particular it is fascinating to see how the artist Chuck Close used paper pulp technology to have prints made of his portrait work. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lZttkbmtqKo" width="320" youtube-src-id="lZttkbmtqKo"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Paper pulp printmaking processes </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_9R7BzJMxfs" width="320" youtube-src-id="_9R7BzJMxfs"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Paper pulp printmaking processes: Chuck Close paper prints</span></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>See also:<br /><br /></span><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/06/paper-and-sustainability.html">Paper and sustainability</a><br /><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/05/interesting-online-books-on-paper.html">On line books on paper</a><br /><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2014/11/research-into-paper.html">Research into paper</a><br /><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2018/09/more-thoughts-about-paper.html">More thoughts about paper</a><br /><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2015/02/paper-sizes.html">Paper sizes</a><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2017/09/paper-folding-and-songs-of-trees.html">Paper: Folding and the songs of trees</a></span><br /></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2014/10/making-your-own-drawing-tools.html">Making your own mark-making tools</a></span></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-53218569777507180082023-11-24T00:55:00.000-08:002023-12-16T02:32:40.075-08:00Stained glass: Session five<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Session five was focused on cutting glass. I had to make sure that I had all my pieces cut and ready for session six as this was when the painting sessions would begin. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I had already made some headway in cutting out the sections needed, and the only parts left to cut for the main image were slightly larger pieces of green and blue glass. This meant sorting through all the offcuts, out of which I managed to cut another five sections, and then I had to use glass from the workshop's stock, in order to finish the central section. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgvVPLdENeSEu0yGLUW0DYeMwoXTudBZMWYXvPJPmBVQWReoAt8Mf3cUoZcC-0Zy2qa8B7X8wUjXclRK_b9RjTzJfNibAQdCnUMmEyNGItTb8zz9YysroT4_E0IMcosKlB29HEgo25SKr7KQu_vIPAKbMG4RmlfYWpZfp2rCmfISn9ZThyDgTqNQ6Wu0/s640/IMG_6719.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgvVPLdENeSEu0yGLUW0DYeMwoXTudBZMWYXvPJPmBVQWReoAt8Mf3cUoZcC-0Zy2qa8B7X8wUjXclRK_b9RjTzJfNibAQdCnUMmEyNGItTb8zz9YysroT4_E0IMcosKlB29HEgo25SKr7KQu_vIPAKbMG4RmlfYWpZfp2rCmfISn9ZThyDgTqNQ6Wu0/s320/IMG_6719.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Each piece of newly cut glass was put into its place on the cartoon and reattached by tape to its paper template. As each section was completed its number was ringed in red on the cartoon. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I couldn't find a big enough piece of glass for shape 16, so I decided to re-draw the cartoon and make that section out of two pieces. </span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQE6O0wqrGojxsAOzCe1FXHv26kBaoNxqkgEyrUJ_TXmvGPbSLZKVUohfjV0yI_dIeKsZ9P2VFohlF9kt8aSzrHRskQPiIqHid804KtZaIGAjzJo21f5ghTebO2iOWQuuj_LX76MxAEwkAOqex5EYVr-ywZRztdhXXnDri7VZx6IluIlIclqztsqsU7g/s640/IMG_6720.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQE6O0wqrGojxsAOzCe1FXHv26kBaoNxqkgEyrUJ_TXmvGPbSLZKVUohfjV0yI_dIeKsZ9P2VFohlF9kt8aSzrHRskQPiIqHid804KtZaIGAjzJo21f5ghTebO2iOWQuuj_LX76MxAEwkAOqex5EYVr-ywZRztdhXXnDri7VZx6IluIlIclqztsqsU7g/s320/IMG_6720.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Section 16 is now labelled 16 and 16B</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In order to transfer the drawing onto the glass, I used the original template for three sides and a tracing from the cartoon for the side now making the join between the two. Finally once the glass sections were cut, I traced the new cut line from the cartoon onto the paper template and cut that out using the paper cutting sheers that take out a thin strip of paper to compensate for the leading. It might seem very pedantic all this attaching paper templates, numbering etc. but with so many pieces to put together for the final image, it is so easy to get lost. Also cut glass sections tend to look very similar, but they have to fit in exactly the right places, or the jig-saw of the window will never fit together properly. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggv4MWJJQ5lL5qBDkiLX7o3v8gHFemWUInmyYyutG3cHjygs5z2k1gJfwQs-WtFHUfJnqPBHMFUyOryupY8m6fOdNo7d8cUR33FvFlvgf-ak3jobtgRwLEfPHfeeGZ8vUKyaZoWXz5XABUVuYlEAyaL0ukTIe1mgjBYcyTn9XJJ9wOqcMxTdaMKcjdcYE/s640/IMG_6722.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggv4MWJJQ5lL5qBDkiLX7o3v8gHFemWUInmyYyutG3cHjygs5z2k1gJfwQs-WtFHUfJnqPBHMFUyOryupY8m6fOdNo7d8cUR33FvFlvgf-ak3jobtgRwLEfPHfeeGZ8vUKyaZoWXz5XABUVuYlEAyaL0ukTIe1mgjBYcyTn9XJJ9wOqcMxTdaMKcjdcYE/s320/IMG_6722.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Earlier sections already cut are marked by red circles</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once all the central sections were cut, it was time to look at the border. I had some pink glass left over and as this was very expensive, decided to use this as part of the border. (It was also an aesthetic decision, as it brought colour from the centre out into the edges). I was then shown how to make sure all border sections were going to be the same width. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0lJRZ7p2gD7YDV0cBK3CZzzd9tjNz6cR2dlyjOgkUROoOgzZq9cgcyRes-X0M62FwAY1MzofK5Q6Kl8lxs58T6njgdtcZumlZ5x4KQsfC3Uv50FqfR5N0ROPpZQZ_3HwwxT4o24LfhmfEdSQDiD4ZDPUoPkUxXm8p6o-ni5vBiSgNGWM-PD5xMor4Cyk/s640/IMG_6723.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0lJRZ7p2gD7YDV0cBK3CZzzd9tjNz6cR2dlyjOgkUROoOgzZq9cgcyRes-X0M62FwAY1MzofK5Q6Kl8lxs58T6njgdtcZumlZ5x4KQsfC3Uv50FqfR5N0ROPpZQZ_3HwwxT4o24LfhmfEdSQDiD4ZDPUoPkUxXm8p6o-ni5vBiSgNGWM-PD5xMor4Cyk/s320/IMG_6723.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Making sure the border is cut at a right angle. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By using the first cut strip as a marker, you can align the wheel of the cutting tool up alongside the edge of the right angle, so that it is exactly positioned for a width that will be the same as the strip above. I managed at this point to break a couple of strips, because the pink glass is very thick and uneven. But I cut enough to get out what I needed. </span></div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMk96dw1bIeduc4MOc7PKjO2sCHdJOKq0Z_Ggam7hWE5AV6oCWBNcY28AHe8SIo3D4C5hUMq14PYX7TW7B-NWY9MuNXaDgP82DmrBCfnzPcjjOGCCdLkbnpohLuOyxTGO18G4pdORMnjQQwoDJr__GqB8qZFYn-buWUVHP7G4D0OYX7yZdR7gLHHklBa4/s640/IMG_6726.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMk96dw1bIeduc4MOc7PKjO2sCHdJOKq0Z_Ggam7hWE5AV6oCWBNcY28AHe8SIo3D4C5hUMq14PYX7TW7B-NWY9MuNXaDgP82DmrBCfnzPcjjOGCCdLkbnpohLuOyxTGO18G4pdORMnjQQwoDJr__GqB8qZFYn-buWUVHP7G4D0OYX7yZdR7gLHHklBa4/s320/IMG_6726.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As pieces were cut they were placed on the cartoon. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fc2cQnQVhqT5L6avsi8TXqhXoxSlIsnVaOcQ1zgqih62FQuPUbIyEDF5QWJnYXpE9NG8TsHt5iiRzz78P_y7UJ9ykyoNnRc3F6iQ2o_qVFAb0FRg6RzIau_lBzxsh6vb8ac6Dx8nU-pxokN0AOFDlkU8UQpD-U3Z6t66f3oLE7UcXh32XYXub-t_oXY/s640/IMG_6725.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fc2cQnQVhqT5L6avsi8TXqhXoxSlIsnVaOcQ1zgqih62FQuPUbIyEDF5QWJnYXpE9NG8TsHt5iiRzz78P_y7UJ9ykyoNnRc3F6iQ2o_qVFAb0FRg6RzIau_lBzxsh6vb8ac6Dx8nU-pxokN0AOFDlkU8UQpD-U3Z6t66f3oLE7UcXh32XYXub-t_oXY/s320/IMG_6725.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Section 72 was a continuation of the arm (82) and so broke the symmetry of the border </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The border would be too predictable if it was the same all the way round, and so by responding to the visual arc made by the arm coming in from the side, I could both give the border that needed shift to enliven the dynamics and at the same time anchor the arm idea into the edge of the design. I hope it works, but I shall have to see. A bit of a risk, but without risk you cant learn. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxbWA1G0RKHtvSQhVCZxqTdXZsx7zxwAJGVbA4pKxRigfHj-NX9e40SgP4jBzxDu9hIs6zAZucumqvhVLiCt9VM3g9eKioHyairkBtuZyGvPfmdWgMBeINfA6l_111kaTuoKzZvuQbBb9ZPw8K6JYjTxWwJ_Ax4yx3-3P0dzVO3f1LQlF2_WPT-Dg1ag/s480/IMG_6730.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="480" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxbWA1G0RKHtvSQhVCZxqTdXZsx7zxwAJGVbA4pKxRigfHj-NX9e40SgP4jBzxDu9hIs6zAZucumqvhVLiCt9VM3g9eKioHyairkBtuZyGvPfmdWgMBeINfA6l_111kaTuoKzZvuQbBb9ZPw8K6JYjTxWwJ_Ax4yx3-3P0dzVO3f1LQlF2_WPT-Dg1ag/s320/IMG_6730.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The purple glass</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jo-Ann also had shown me some purple glass she had available. I had used some for the areas filling in around the leg and Sooty, so decided a little could also go into the border. I realised could use it to emphasise the slight off symmetry caused by my introducing section 72 into the design. I have yet to see it all together on the light-box, but I only have 4 border pieces to cut next week, (blues to sit between greens and pinks) and then I can check how it will all look. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj73qs4vjDZ2P06CyCtY13hZJV99AAq6p32_PeOM9_zhknY6YwlcVPmyd65ak8iLrfXaMvgUisdxJo-9eFlWKKah-62e9zzJkuq3PsLob2Pr6fSSbpcpUOz-4ZmnkpeQUoTptj4AMln_qmFJyQzjKClqWPLpB70YCGUJeNS4PyvHrTwHi-a5UtpidKbHJQ/s640/IMG_6727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj73qs4vjDZ2P06CyCtY13hZJV99AAq6p32_PeOM9_zhknY6YwlcVPmyd65ak8iLrfXaMvgUisdxJo-9eFlWKKah-62e9zzJkuq3PsLob2Pr6fSSbpcpUOz-4ZmnkpeQUoTptj4AMln_qmFJyQzjKClqWPLpB70YCGUJeNS4PyvHrTwHi-a5UtpidKbHJQ/s320/IMG_6727.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The state of the border at the end of the session. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Homework for this week was to make studies for the painted sections, because the next few sessions focus on painting glass techniques. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html">Session one</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html">Session two</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html">Session three</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-four.html">Session four</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/12/stained-glass-session-six.html">Session six</a></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-29913406842760758982023-11-19T01:56:00.000-08:002023-11-24T01:03:42.279-08:00Drawing on Experience<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">John Dewey wrote ‘Art as Experience’ in the 1930s and set out the centrality of the communication of experience to the practice of art. I have been involved for a while with a research group associated with the university of Porto entitled <a href="https://i2ads.up.pt/en/projetos/opdrawing/">'</a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://i2ads.up.pt/en/projetos/opdrawing/">The Observation of Perception, considered through Drawing' </a>and my own research in relation to this has been to explore how we might visualise experiences of </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">interoception. I have posted fairly regularly on the different aspects that I have confronted as the work around this has developed, from a consideration of 'qualia' as the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial;">phenomenal quality of experiences, how we now think about inner body perception in an age of CGI, the relative benefits of hand drawn and computer refined imagery when making representations of inner body experiences, how the body and its nervous system construct inner maps of experience, how we might use this process of visualisation for the development of a contemporary type of votive and other issues that are all related to why interoception is an important aspect of perception, especially if we want to reflect the full complexity of perceived information, that comes from both outside and inside of our bodies at the same time. However I'm also very aware that as well as making images about this, which I regard as my primary research, I'm also writing about the process and sometimes forgetting that I'm writing in English and the English language is itself a somewhat limited communication medium. This post is therefore a reminder to check out how other languages deal with issues that are similar, but in their very difference, open out conceptual alternatives. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial;">The word 'experience' in German can be translated as either 'erfahrung' or 'erlebnis'. 'E</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">rfahrung' represents deep, full blooded experiences that lead to knowledge, whilst '</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">erlebnis' is a word that stands for more superficial experiences that are perhaps enjoyable but not necessarily profound. In English 'experience' is a thing, but in German it is a quality of perceiving. There is a diagram that might help illustrate this difference. </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrSdmODSYvJngo0AHbm8v678l7oNBuHrIbxlVEldMTSr_8uo5jcUgMTtx12nMY3Z5uhkQtNwgjuz19PbVgfyiQeXeqBwKiPUA-9eF__l9dYxZ1AwHaOs5E560KUr6Iff5h0efCqS1jCx5hcRNLPB4sVTcLLNtS6D0BZIBI7O7YwM1TXq5PEzSDXqsYcAc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrSdmODSYvJngo0AHbm8v678l7oNBuHrIbxlVEldMTSr_8uo5jcUgMTtx12nMY3Z5uhkQtNwgjuz19PbVgfyiQeXeqBwKiPUA-9eF__l9dYxZ1AwHaOs5E560KUr6Iff5h0efCqS1jCx5hcRNLPB4sVTcLLNtS6D0BZIBI7O7YwM1TXq5PEzSDXqsYcAc" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">In the diagram we have two very different German words for something that is another single one in English. Körper refers to the body as an object, something to which physical qualities can be attributed. Leib, by contrast, implies the body as a subject. 'Körper' represents the physical/material, objective body and 'Leib' the lived/animated, subjective body. In English of course we have the word 'corpse' to define a 'dead' body, but this is not what the German word implies. These distinctions are vital to our reading of phenomenology because the main early thinkers are German. <span style="background-color: white;">According to Husserl and, then later, Merleau-Ponty who takes his reading from Husserl, '</span>Körper'<span style="background-color: white;"> is the body-object, </span><span style="background-color: white;">while 'Leib' is the lived-living body.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">In German what it is to be a body (Leibsein) can be contrasted with what it is to have a body (Körperhaben). </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Körper stems from the Latin corpus and refers to bodies as physical entities, including celestial bodies, geometrical entities, and dead bodies or corpses. Leib, by contrast, is related to the verbs leben (to live) and erleben (to experience, to go through) and the adjectives lebendig (animated, lively) and leibhaft (in person, in the flesh). As such, Leib refers to the body as it is experienced or lived, instead of the body as it can be measured or quantified. Therefore for my purposes I'm dealing with subjective experiences of the lived body, (Leib) not a set of measured physical bits of objective information that are records of the physical nature of the body, (Körper). </span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAHpSbEVnkYNUr19Izmp3c4sGiCdi0zt9N2Ei9qfFAOYxIPC6qGmBzNmR3jVWEsydFptvo0-nBexY0cN0XPRZm6P9flKq_nVHpNOK3Dfm3vxD5ZZBoyZkSh1GXMzwQbwLs9Dy9R00cN0JRTD2i0lhVWusyLDj98_vVXLs7V1UNj7Iy2O894hB90j8jTw/s627/stomachpain2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="627" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAHpSbEVnkYNUr19Izmp3c4sGiCdi0zt9N2Ei9qfFAOYxIPC6qGmBzNmR3jVWEsydFptvo0-nBexY0cN0XPRZm6P9flKq_nVHpNOK3Dfm3vxD5ZZBoyZkSh1GXMzwQbwLs9Dy9R00cN0JRTD2i0lhVWusyLDj98_vVXLs7V1UNj7Iy2O894hB90j8jTw/s320/stomachpain2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A representation of stomach cramps (A subjective experience of the lived body)</div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">If we go back to </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">'erfahrung' or 'erlebnis' we can then open out the two differences in meaning even further. In this October issue of Art Monthly, Matthew Bowman looks to Walter Benjamin and his understanding of the distinctions between </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">'erfahrung' or 'erlebnis' to open out a reflection on why we are no longer able to sustain '</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">erfahrung' or deeply felt experiences, and how we use '</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">erlebnis' as a way to protect ourselves from the constant bombardment of information that is our contemporary state of being. We in effect can only deal with shallow or superficial responses to experience because if we tried to deeply experience the constant flow of stimulus that we are now subjected to, we would seize up and be crippled by information overload. My reading of this is to keep making slow things by hand, things that you can take your time with, rather than trying to make another incursion into the world of mass media. Instead of trying to avoid confronting profound, deep feelings; to cultivate them. To use a sense of </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">'</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">erfahrung' as something to strive for in your work. Colour, surface texture, tonal variation and other basic elements of image making can be deeply emotional, and we can have profound relationships with both objects and other people. Events still move us. Yes we are subjected to a constant bombardment of information, but we can still recognise the qualitative emotional differences between life changing events, such as experiences of birth, death, and of those special times of unexpected spiritual awareness that can become moments of epiphany. If not, we will become empty, emotionless husks, incapable of deep feelings. In slowing things down, we help ourselves and others to feel more, to attune ourselves to the wider cosmic wonder that we live within. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISKSQfl1j_WuNl-bQEgUs58UJ7PBipLwjjBT66fK_D1R0QKTSZ8Hr6cH5_ot2sBQCRMqbrQAxZScRigvcbLZuWV13-7tGIP5BDiCEMYBQ7SuAdUY2-IDoSTkMUkj_Qq3WP2kIaMq3m0L5E5T8xJ9GlO5kuzPVws8cT-beVXDR_t7LLW_oiqzeQyt8Ps0/s3922/The%20textural%20feel%20of%20sputum%20as%20it%20rides%20against%20the%20hardness%20of%20the%20chest.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3922" data-original-width="2787" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISKSQfl1j_WuNl-bQEgUs58UJ7PBipLwjjBT66fK_D1R0QKTSZ8Hr6cH5_ot2sBQCRMqbrQAxZScRigvcbLZuWV13-7tGIP5BDiCEMYBQ7SuAdUY2-IDoSTkMUkj_Qq3WP2kIaMq3m0L5E5T8xJ9GlO5kuzPVws8cT-beVXDR_t7LLW_oiqzeQyt8Ps0/s320/The%20textural%20feel%20of%20sputum%20as%20it%20rides%20against%20the%20hardness%20of%20the%20chest.jpeg" width="227" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A chest pain visualised</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEKr3gdluSINv68lI8y4yBbw3Lkxc-F4CBFj-uAbIGnrwVohjXam4DraQFaryRcFZR88fY1zHJQR-Qp8wRPKCiqSzEgBJNoyY6R2GrpFDHKSG97DMHvsl7yyciJkR3QtxMZUCAvaedxERwIV_mlUc5-t46fwA5k3o6-faYO6pxX__ilOtnyk8GsT55MY/s3543/body2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="2507" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEKr3gdluSINv68lI8y4yBbw3Lkxc-F4CBFj-uAbIGnrwVohjXam4DraQFaryRcFZR88fY1zHJQR-Qp8wRPKCiqSzEgBJNoyY6R2GrpFDHKSG97DMHvsl7yyciJkR3QtxMZUCAvaedxERwIV_mlUc5-t46fwA5k3o6-faYO6pxX__ilOtnyk8GsT55MY/s320/body2.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A meditation on the body</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">Sometimes thoughts can be carried in materials in ways that you don't expect. In the image above, I found myself talking in a language of pigment diluted in water. As the image emerged out of swirling liquids, it seemed to develop some sort of harmonic with my own body. This is something that can happen both within and without; can be both portrait and landscape. Finding the right material to work with can be vital, for instance, </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">Sue Bryan's drawings of trees, mainly using charcoal, sometimes achieve a close harmony between the dry crumble of the charcoal, the texture of 'treeness' and the atmospheric emergence of the tree; the 'crumble' and soft smudge of the chosen material representing both object and the space it grows into. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsrU6X5ibEaKtuRfhg5zW5bqZaVFrsGwUPfwIpscOfN2fsfyR8U7JYi-qyRuQcWGL-NkFfcBxarE7xaVwFZ0RW2pY-lVE5fUS40JIwS3ePT-INwlCEP0QRTs05EF1okLaHRY7DxKUdS9A7R5Lp4dnoGVpcgvycya8NAhFloGZUtf-NAHKwAej41aRlUD8/s1102/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-03%20at%2020.27.49.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1102" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsrU6X5ibEaKtuRfhg5zW5bqZaVFrsGwUPfwIpscOfN2fsfyR8U7JYi-qyRuQcWGL-NkFfcBxarE7xaVwFZ0RW2pY-lVE5fUS40JIwS3ePT-INwlCEP0QRTs05EF1okLaHRY7DxKUdS9A7R5Lp4dnoGVpcgvycya8NAhFloGZUtf-NAHKwAej41aRlUD8/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-03%20at%2020.27.49.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sue Bryan</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Just looking at a tree or listening to your own body can be antidotes to the constant flow of digital information. So perhaps leave off reading this blog and go outside and look at stuff. With a pencil in your hand, examine a tree and when you are ready, begin to draw it or if you are stuck inside think about what it feels like to hold a pencil, and draw that. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">See also: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://i2ads.up.pt/en/publicacoes/psiax-7/">The magazine PSIAX issue 7 </a> This link is to a PDF download of the magazine which includes my recent article on visualising interoceptual experience</span></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/05/qualia.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Qualia</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2021/01/surface-and-inner-body-perception-in.html">Surface and inner body perception in an age of CGI</a></span></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2019/05/john-dewey-art-as-experience-leonardo.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Dewey</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/06/drawing-analogue-and-digital-processes.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Considering analogue and digital drawing processes in relation to the visualisation of inner body experience</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/08/maps-made-by-our-nervous-systems.html">Maps made by our nervous systems </a></span></p><p><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/09/drawing-and-healing-traditions.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Drawing and healing traditions</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/05/why-interoception.html">Why interoception</a></span></p><p><br /></p></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-29028923433370974152023-11-14T22:20:00.000-08:002023-11-24T00:58:26.480-08:00Stained glass: Session four<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Most of session four was devoted to cutting glass but an important decision had to be taken at the beginning of the session related to the fused glass section which had been fired during the week. The fused frit circular element, that I had made to represent heel pain was now finished and it posed a few issues. The first was that although it was the right thickness it was lumpy. I could have it re-fired but I decided I liked the look of it and would like to keep it as is. This will make it hard to clean when working on fitting and holding the leaded sections together later on, but I think it will be worth it. The other issue was that I made the circular shape larger than I needed it in relation to the original design, so that I could cut it down afterwards. Now that I have decided to keep the lumpiness, it is impossible to cut, so that It was decided to grind down the edges, and to smooth out the curve, but to maintain the more organic edge, as opposed to the original shape which was drawn using a compass. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qCu-qF0pR215aVHhQalWIV5OKcdjEw9c0O20l6ms2NdKfZ959QfSfmmu9qbOaE9ZVTPceJNHI0MV7iC8IpoBL8zc0XZygJbbjdyzcdP1CZKHzBLQE9qTbIbURjZU612oCMoqF2YfddfriQnSofhFOUGGbGrCLA1kLZHdzlDOdU87itvovsrMmpBNIgE/s640/IMG_6645.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qCu-qF0pR215aVHhQalWIV5OKcdjEw9c0O20l6ms2NdKfZ959QfSfmmu9qbOaE9ZVTPceJNHI0MV7iC8IpoBL8zc0XZygJbbjdyzcdP1CZKHzBLQE9qTbIbURjZU612oCMoqF2YfddfriQnSofhFOUGGbGrCLA1kLZHdzlDOdU87itvovsrMmpBNIgE/s320/IMG_6645.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fused glass made of various course and fine frits</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can just about see the sharp bits on the edge and the fact that sometimes the edge dips inwards, I needed to remove both sharp edges and smooth out the indentations. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimcvKVdVTGQfomdaD8yaHh6aLMiHOtqN9lbvlspPW_iV_msT0r1d5RlQ0BQpSD88eBCE7Qv4cDFntTH0gngBVOrAdQ0mHb7YD0yPAFgbd7bBAz5MQ2jQgomKTK4zN73puBGUEqrEVitYkv1lzTrUSKJ_EA2Syke_3R51ajGvCXm3eKu4MfM0otV-IVf3o/s640/IMG_6646.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimcvKVdVTGQfomdaD8yaHh6aLMiHOtqN9lbvlspPW_iV_msT0r1d5RlQ0BQpSD88eBCE7Qv4cDFntTH0gngBVOrAdQ0mHb7YD0yPAFgbd7bBAz5MQ2jQgomKTK4zN73puBGUEqrEVitYkv1lzTrUSKJ_EA2Syke_3R51ajGvCXm3eKu4MfM0otV-IVf3o/s320/IMG_6646.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All-Star Glass Grinder</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The workshop has an All-Star glass grinder, the main thing to beware of is forgetting to use goggles or to have glasses on to protect your eyes. A smooth movement is needed to keep the curves smooth. (Nb the company that makes these is no more, so replacement grinder heads will be very hard to find)</span><div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmGebWJlBOKZoJQpI2mKh2tw9Q6-1w4cUVALJICVS6rz1hCcIQ_GAehh4MXdfEtRTuWByWtYzhimA-l7X6gzgJYzq4c1o5GPeMO8Bn4uUOEJQ6fxa4hY0AmSJkmr2Tklij7u00jUympVvHwLTFRcsFBdPnrnb6AWfU-DzHjwFmiVUE4sYhJyBUDvxuRg/s640/IMG_6647.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmGebWJlBOKZoJQpI2mKh2tw9Q6-1w4cUVALJICVS6rz1hCcIQ_GAehh4MXdfEtRTuWByWtYzhimA-l7X6gzgJYzq4c1o5GPeMO8Bn4uUOEJQ6fxa4hY0AmSJkmr2Tklij7u00jUympVvHwLTFRcsFBdPnrnb6AWfU-DzHjwFmiVUE4sYhJyBUDvxuRg/s320/IMG_6647.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once the edges had been smoothed off the new shape is placed over the cartoon </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once in place the Black Sharpie drawn lines indicating the edges between sections of glass, are extended using a white Sharpie onto the fused frit glass circle. An arrow is also drawn so that it is easy to find the top edge. A new more organic circle shape is now drawn using the edge of the glass circle as a template. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiclwYfUI8GJQUZoMDaBs69yLq0vnO1ZB-saC5JcOB6K9vnRdAm5JGE2S2aKcjNooSNZURZuhtTSAX12LwmI87bHya4cxjajC2-Jv8-P_UPczgvTJhabcm4KRuSmcjTsMPdpxX80tQsjyR5VRi8AOlbo2EOXDL-ePCvwwSjiOhy80fXmvobcEAKFhxw8mg/s640/IMG_6649.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiclwYfUI8GJQUZoMDaBs69yLq0vnO1ZB-saC5JcOB6K9vnRdAm5JGE2S2aKcjNooSNZURZuhtTSAX12LwmI87bHya4cxjajC2-Jv8-P_UPczgvTJhabcm4KRuSmcjTsMPdpxX80tQsjyR5VRi8AOlbo2EOXDL-ePCvwwSjiOhy80fXmvobcEAKFhxw8mg/s320/IMG_6649.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The new shape is drawn and the old one slightly greyed out using the white pen</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The new shape cuts into the sections surrounding it, so the first thing I have to do is trace this onto the pieces of pink glass I have already cut. Then I go back into glass cutting mode, first of all recutting the pink and then using the adjusted cartoon, alongside the template sheet that I still continue to cut out, to draw up as many pieces of glass as I can, searching through the trays of glass off-cuts for pieces that are slightly bigger than the paper templates. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifcmSAuJgOQ325NhsgANcah-U98XSFYOWEBzYBkTYNCCAsEzPS6TWLKvbvVr_iINmHNuZEa0a5koWy9CEsQ_1pCD0JzdLzFaACkafhUN8G5XJA5Cv3Qvia71bk91L3BGZ5LNpYOp_CdJMihNZBGl2Hnt5pgokb0-DXaezqR4pj5p7HME7voNUUG3nb91o/s640/IMG_6648.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifcmSAuJgOQ325NhsgANcah-U98XSFYOWEBzYBkTYNCCAsEzPS6TWLKvbvVr_iINmHNuZEa0a5koWy9CEsQ_1pCD0JzdLzFaACkafhUN8G5XJA5Cv3Qvia71bk91L3BGZ5LNpYOp_CdJMihNZBGl2Hnt5pgokb0-DXaezqR4pj5p7HME7voNUUG3nb91o/s320/IMG_6648.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Marked up glass pieces with their paper templates</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once cut I was able to place the sections on the light-box to check how the colour was working. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHIhhXVuaCFkTovEd_aiP-MbLTqAZKNqy7kYne6rDv8HBK-mOBC6Yj-uD3RDRwWHaNTninlN8eJ1OyO3nPchorR0TYeWW80QiBNnC7UWyW-vEqmD0RcdOFuYzOJt5AhKzmkCKBPMmEjijwRyamZdwnTpJ9F4fvpFBlB8IivOHsYDvSAFkFCz85n-cG7U/s480/IMG_6650.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="466" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHIhhXVuaCFkTovEd_aiP-MbLTqAZKNqy7kYne6rDv8HBK-mOBC6Yj-uD3RDRwWHaNTninlN8eJ1OyO3nPchorR0TYeWW80QiBNnC7UWyW-vEqmD0RcdOFuYzOJt5AhKzmkCKBPMmEjijwRyamZdwnTpJ9F4fvpFBlB8IivOHsYDvSAFkFCz85n-cG7U/s320/IMG_6650.jpg" width="311" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cut pieces set out on the light-box</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 'fit' between sections of cut glass can now also be checked. In this case they seemed to fit pretty well, close enough to not need any immediate grinding off, but when we come to the reality of fitting it all together with the leading, some adjustments will inevitably need to be made. I am personally reassured that I am getting better at the glass cutting and am making less mistakes. In particular I am getting better at controlling the weight of the cutter when making changes in the curve direction when scoring. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The rest of the session was me cutting glass, including the amber range of glass for the Sooty figure and more small sections of green and blue. By the end of the session I had only 10 pieces of the main design left to cut, but these are larger and I might have to buy in glass for these. Then finally we will look at cutting out glass for the border. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html">Session one </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html">Session two</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-3.html">Session three</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-five.html">Session five</a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-10507153258092726612023-11-10T03:17:00.001-08:002023-11-25T03:50:41.666-08:00The drawings of Henri Michaux<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AfNqHw50vUYV1TJX_CYQ0pP4pd49ThNclz_SwN3amK5yCnFdtyP_3bYgTuWnXwlaMebUDmrmKMgyKRVQZrdx8WmEcMurtOyjMRIs3IS9bvsq9FTzxlh-exZMp85NmxV7ldLoZawRnvY/s1090/2129_10372826_0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="840" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AfNqHw50vUYV1TJX_CYQ0pP4pd49ThNclz_SwN3amK5yCnFdtyP_3bYgTuWnXwlaMebUDmrmKMgyKRVQZrdx8WmEcMurtOyjMRIs3IS9bvsq9FTzxlh-exZMp85NmxV7ldLoZawRnvY/s320/2129_10372826_0.jpeg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="DinPro-Medium, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #081b3f; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; text-align: left;">Henri Michaux: </span><span face="DinPro-Medium, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #081b3f; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; text-align: left;">Visage</span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Every now and again a particular artist re-emerges as being of vital importance to me and because of my interest in visualising the body, by combining the visualisation of inner and outer perceptual experiences, the frottages and drawings of <span style="background-color: white; color: #081b3f;">Henri Michaux have come back into focus. I was reminded of his work by a reviewer of a paper I had submitted about my own drawings, the reviewer pointed out that Michaux had explored a similar territory many years before and that I had not referred to this. Sometimes reviewers pick up things that really make you think again and in this case I must admit I realised I had not really thought through certain aspects of what I was writing about and that the paper I had submitted did indeed need some serious revision. Probably the most serious error I had made though, was that some of the particular issues I should have picked out in the paper were ones I had written about before and I had simply left them out, my mind having a 'been there, written about that' response, forgetting that I am probably the only other person to have read what I was thinking about before, and that without some precise information about how drawing can solve certain problems, the writing didn't really make sense. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuUyCqWjEjfjDmM0dh6rGiIXg3F4Ast4PT16D-Txzz5Fxw_hnSHEJ2Vq_EvGgoKAQITNRDEwPyM8UII5vnlee-noIRBfxlkDcI097SrU4oBHPQMMwBcsMqwm6MoDScFi5RBukX8nMCug/s600/488581.bin" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="451" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuUyCqWjEjfjDmM0dh6rGiIXg3F4Ast4PT16D-Txzz5Fxw_hnSHEJ2Vq_EvGgoKAQITNRDEwPyM8UII5vnlee-noIRBfxlkDcI097SrU4oBHPQMMwBcsMqwm6MoDScFi5RBukX8nMCug/s320/488581.bin" width="241" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="DinPro-Medium, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #081b3f; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; text-align: left;">Henri Michaux: </span><span face="DinPro-Medium, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #081b3f; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; text-align: left;">Visage</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I mentioned <span style="background-color: white; color: #081b3f;">Michaux's work in conjunction with Unica Zurn a few months ago, but he is well worth looking at as an artist in his own right. </span></span><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #081b3f;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRgpVMpEpNwcr5RH44pOWeJDto4VI-6FNfdQIU9OX6NgsowvafFgOyhatVHDEcRv5cAQ1hyR3Bm9bBHc6Td66cp_HEgXupwu3IArQv6TI4GPmcY2u2U7wk-9g8eUW7hcLngrjOwGF3kynBNKFk3n7xUdft5MFFPIVgLOcJXozCixM2HzEqSAMo10kqtxA/s910/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-25%20at%2011.50.02.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Henri Michaux: images</span></div><br />Michaux became famous for taking mescaline but his drawings were never done under the influence of the drug, in fact he said that drawing was impossible whilst under its influence. However the visions he had of the mind working, were strong and they directly influenced his approach to image finding. His idea, of finding images in the process of making a drawing is not new, but his particular take on the idea was that he was finding out about the structure of the brain itself. This has helped myself when working to sometimes just let images become what they need to be, to allow them to emerge and in that process to look for a synergy with my own inner body language, the language of feeling tone, of stomach ache and backache, of inner excitement, of breathing in and out, of feeling fine or feeling down, all perceivable embodied moments, that can be thought of as interoception. I've also now re-written that paper, 'Drawing the embodied mind' and it is available in <a href="https://lau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17771/1/BARKER%2C%20G.%20Drawing%20the%20Embodied%20Mind.pdf">edition 5 of the magazine PSIAX. </a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #081b3f;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #081b3f; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSqgkN4xoGS0Ary-4_cJNtrw2Fa2GJW1AJVuAqFIX0pEf-eRaOtdNF5-USkTQSoTFfHYe45bfU6EVjSiKTTZdkpF2jZ9rB5sS_B5CCNjU2BitJcEFdhxiV3IfBajgWvFdQ-aWglKhDlTfam6XB3am0daoO7q0dmdJbOFN88PRqnvqnqFVBIZhaEkbYD2I" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="311" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSqgkN4xoGS0Ary-4_cJNtrw2Fa2GJW1AJVuAqFIX0pEf-eRaOtdNF5-USkTQSoTFfHYe45bfU6EVjSiKTTZdkpF2jZ9rB5sS_B5CCNjU2BitJcEFdhxiV3IfBajgWvFdQ-aWglKhDlTfam6XB3am0daoO7q0dmdJbOFN88PRqnvqnqFVBIZhaEkbYD2I=w249-h320" width="249" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Silence of the World: <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Henri Michaux</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Silence of the world is one of Michaux's hallucinatory representations of faces. A half remembered image perhaps from a book on pre-history, from a police forensic investigation file or a 1950s pulp science fiction comic. It sits between readings, half a face, a single tooth protruding, as in an old battle weary smilodon. There is something about </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Michaux's images that take me back into the world of the half seen, half dreamed, remembered something that sits on the edge between perception and reverie. His images enter the world of magic via an oblique direction, they find their way into our brains via the root of the fetish, and engage us as awkward strangers do. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Perhaps above all </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Michaux's</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> work reminds me that you need to tune yourself into the world of things that are 'other' than yourself, if you are ever as an artist to find those images that surprise you, that come from nowhere but somewhere. If I could tap into the logic of an apple, or think with the brain of a crystal or smell with the nose of a dog, then perhaps I would be able to draw with the eyes of a bacteria. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #081b3f;">Reference</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #081b3f;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #081b3f;">Barker, G. (2021). Drawing the Embodied Mind: A Project Report on Research Into Interoception. PSIAX #5 ESTUDOS E REFLEXÕES SOBRE DESENHO E IMAGEM, 5. pp. 17-24. ISSN 1647-8045.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #081b3f;"><br />See also:</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #081b3f;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #081b3f;"><a href="https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2020/07/unica-zurn.html">Unica Zurn</a><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://lau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17771/1/BARKER%2C%20G.%20Drawing%20the%20Embodied%20Mind.pdf"><span>Drawing the embodied mind</span></a> (a link via my old university repository for research)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-imprint-and-trace.html">The imprint and the trace</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-portrait-as-witness-and-control.html">The portrait as witness and control </a></span></p></div></div></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909721973837480194.post-32255739358577169922023-11-06T01:58:00.003-08:002023-11-24T00:57:51.782-08:00Stained glass session 3<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuL83nMl3jyxmBONxhO3JdWbydFWt2tnJV7IpM1TUvKh4-Bxl4ggEDKPh9T7_KaLbeF7phdK-VoqNrAM5EQuhN-OrUV0jpLbu8hhvSEPAQpf2diCC_IUacA3sh5Aue79aY4URmwcl9t3XXfDSTOHWFVhT4i3FKXJgmi5vQ3nUfyAY9RxrqnNDadDvNCk0/s640/IMG_6622.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuL83nMl3jyxmBONxhO3JdWbydFWt2tnJV7IpM1TUvKh4-Bxl4ggEDKPh9T7_KaLbeF7phdK-VoqNrAM5EQuhN-OrUV0jpLbu8hhvSEPAQpf2diCC_IUacA3sh5Aue79aY4URmwcl9t3XXfDSTOHWFVhT4i3FKXJgmi5vQ3nUfyAY9RxrqnNDadDvNCk0/s320/IMG_6622.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Using paper templates to choose which off-cuts I could cut out from </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">This session was mainly focused on glass cutting. I had had delivered to the glass workshop a sheet</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"> of '</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Lamberts Gold Pink on Clear' glass. This was going to be the base colour for the leg and arm sections of my design and as it was hand made and very expensive, I needed to do the cutting very carefully. Because of this, before I started, I cut two sections out of much cheaper off-cuts in order to practice the techniques learnt last week. </span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">During the previous week I had bought my own leading sheers, so was able to cut the paper templates with my own sheers. I was now getting very used to the small repeated scissor action when cutting curves. As before these templates were used to mark up the glass for cutting. However when it came to using the pink glass, the most</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> important issue was deciding which side of the glass to mark up and score. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Lamberts Gold Pink on Clear is a 'flashed glass'. When scoring flashed glass you need do this on the unflashed side. If you score on the flashed side, the wheel may only penetrate the thin flashed surface leaving the thicker base glass unscored and this can cause the glass to break unpredictably. So my first job was to find which side was which. I found this very hard, as it was not easy to spot the difference.<br /><br />Flashed glass is a type of specially produced mouth-blown sheet glass. Colouration is created by means of the flash technique, hence the name. The clear or tinted carrier glass is over-laid with one or two layers of coloured glass. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7p_o7eh2QZJzkDOHx-D1-VelWoj5Rzf-bIeVQPlkhJs3IV9FM465Y4NeQQbvWABnKdXZJIzU3GefZ5rphQ8zOizo6NvEekzwI7OEGvbs_p5OA1TqBKcrJA0ZgF0KJaY_53_Lqc9qCboESgxcqtGdL2C8So038-BT99V6jtOHGrZyREDx22tmRB0WsT0/s560/csm_flashed_82303a846a-62a31edb.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="560" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7p_o7eh2QZJzkDOHx-D1-VelWoj5Rzf-bIeVQPlkhJs3IV9FM465Y4NeQQbvWABnKdXZJIzU3GefZ5rphQ8zOizo6NvEekzwI7OEGvbs_p5OA1TqBKcrJA0ZgF0KJaY_53_Lqc9qCboESgxcqtGdL2C8So038-BT99V6jtOHGrZyREDx22tmRB0WsT0/s320/csm_flashed_82303a846a-62a31edb.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Once cut you can see the thin coloured glass layer by looking at the side as in the illustration above. However my new glass sheet had 'soft' edges due to its manufacturing process, which also means that it can be thicker towards the edge where it finishes, so you also need to avoid this when marking up. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_IWga5CuxDxz9x5Y8W2nv6q8N6JBExLea9Ej9aQzXroCXFMmdSt4ZighAwKLrFvIyZJttxQZYEO7xIz06E3FRgYHJEo5a6srl3qze8__l9TTUqG4PQkibm8_6KIy_9kSl70Ci3IhzwFqY-niSVvCT_CZIvZjrPVys-irUeowI59o88SXZUUA4GZOl68/s1294/glassedge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="1294" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_IWga5CuxDxz9x5Y8W2nv6q8N6JBExLea9Ej9aQzXroCXFMmdSt4ZighAwKLrFvIyZJttxQZYEO7xIz06E3FRgYHJEo5a6srl3qze8__l9TTUqG4PQkibm8_6KIy_9kSl70Ci3IhzwFqY-niSVvCT_CZIvZjrPVys-irUeowI59o88SXZUUA4GZOl68/s320/glassedge.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The sheet of pink glass had been cut from a larger sheet, so had a sharp edge</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">My sheet had a label stuck to the flashed side, but I wasn't sure whether this was just chance and I had to look carefully for 'clear spots' in order to decide. I needed to keep checking with Jo-Ann which side was which and didn't yet feel confident. More experience with various different sheets of glass will I'm sure help, at the moment the fact that flat glass sheets are made in different ways is just part of the learning curve. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I marked up the glass first of all by dividing it, into a strip that could then be used to cut out my shapes. This seems like a way of wasting glass, but I was assured that in this way, each section is easier to handle and therefore you get less breaks and any mistakes cant damage the whole sheet. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmQvCye-VNC9PQZIhPHG5GMdAlYG5yixz9OOb6LI0XhB_bF9XNLU0giE9WMwsh6G-EjoBvRBdLF00bFe5kdw_OWyfaylXCW8umdo90bbobz8tjxFj0YPoqKWrG5r65UKiANIiHyKA55qSAif-AKM3FGcTJ08xGehkev6FuKqQc_00cSpy1xq7T7MO8GhU/s2739/glass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2739" data-original-width="2031" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmQvCye-VNC9PQZIhPHG5GMdAlYG5yixz9OOb6LI0XhB_bF9XNLU0giE9WMwsh6G-EjoBvRBdLF00bFe5kdw_OWyfaylXCW8umdo90bbobz8tjxFj0YPoqKWrG5r65UKiANIiHyKA55qSAif-AKM3FGcTJ08xGehkev6FuKqQc_00cSpy1xq7T7MO8GhU/s320/glass.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Two paper templates were placed on the full sheet and it was marked for cutting and then cut</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPCUcz5vWOy4GTeaj5hEe0gpmffaDnyvmwuoh0xhO9NNKlqfDjOmwIkumZs-AJh6WiOwYYIwxYpC_wolftoJKDcshb0nO86n0hWg9KiXblKwdxZ0Kd0bYsN-G4TOOeI-Y54OQghQU-svSZhZPGrk8keE4FDANmwcIehPPj_LH3D8C90Gg9OX6zzrO_fnk/s2031/glass2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="2031" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPCUcz5vWOy4GTeaj5hEe0gpmffaDnyvmwuoh0xhO9NNKlqfDjOmwIkumZs-AJh6WiOwYYIwxYpC_wolftoJKDcshb0nO86n0hWg9KiXblKwdxZ0Kd0bYsN-G4TOOeI-Y54OQghQU-svSZhZPGrk8keE4FDANmwcIehPPj_LH3D8C90Gg9OX6zzrO_fnk/s320/glass2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Paper templates are now drawn around and are then scored and cut out</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When scoring deep curves, which some of my shapes had, I needed to do this as a series of shallow curves. Otherwise, the glass might break off in its own direction. A later use of a grinder will finish these off, but they need to be as precise as possible. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Because I was new to the cutting process, I was still getting the weight right and I did tend to put too much weight on my cutter, something that Jo-Ann could pick up by listening to how loud the scoring sound was. The more I cut the more I was able to control this. Much of the learning resides in your body muscles and you cant quite describe it in words. How you hold the glass cutter, how one hand guides the other, how you twist your body to ensure the cutter follows a smooth curve, how you need to lower your body, so that your eye level coincides with the action of the scoring, and how you keep focused on the drawn line as the cutter wheel moves along it, are all essential things to do and they are seamlessly integrated in the doing. It was also important to remember between each scoring to use the dustpan and brush to remove any traces of glass splintering from the cutting surface. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4yTKvluZQQTof2bOVMvJuU5VSnqgwv5zTnapw1nwits1sHA6abbrq61jxA_pssC4Z56G4vJRe91_F9BRrCHrJ0WZgZGbKhvk_IRxcsYc3Su4X_NmB6n4TCmK0yBPJbjHd6xd1nFr_X9z3fFIXkSbAiCab2GYgiiMbmrxcktoT15b-bB92F456PpCR1gs/s640/IMG_6623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4yTKvluZQQTof2bOVMvJuU5VSnqgwv5zTnapw1nwits1sHA6abbrq61jxA_pssC4Z56G4vJRe91_F9BRrCHrJ0WZgZGbKhvk_IRxcsYc3Su4X_NmB6n4TCmK0yBPJbjHd6xd1nFr_X9z3fFIXkSbAiCab2GYgiiMbmrxcktoT15b-bB92F456PpCR1gs/s320/IMG_6623.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At the end of a day's cutting I had 15 sections and I need just over 80</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Although working slowly I managed to get all the pink glass pieces cut out and I was able to check on how they were beginning to visually work, by placing them on the lightbox. Finally I lightly taped each cut section to its paper template, so that it was easy for me to check its number and position in relation to the cartoon and then on the cartoon circled in red all the numbers of the pieces that had been cut so far. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During the process of cutting the pink I had made one bad mistake and this was when cutting the piece for the arm, which I had tried to do in one. The glass was broken in the wrong place, (I could now see clearly why I needed to do the scoring using smaller sections rather than trying to cut out everything from the whole sheet), I had tried to break my glass along a curved scored line by using pliers that were not placed close enough to the score. Jo-Ann pointed out that perhaps the piece was too big anyway and that I could make it in two separate sections. I had to go back to the cartoon, adjust it and number the additional piece. Then cut out a new template and find a pink off-cut out of which to cut the new addition. A useful experience as I realised that what seems like a fixed thing once the cartoon is drawn up, can still be adjusted in response to what happens. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4z8vicMMgbyCUu2nPz6DvzmxAHQp3guq0CeUwLY3TEUUyq9V236Wxxvs0el1guUHAh09G4Xsc8Z7WOO-t3uaoXPX6aQYVWziRXIp7n2vk6IBZkBFx2hEoJzQlAqG403F2xrfoXjzrKaI511hpGtADMBf9FiE0RmnnoC_vhOfA5qO0vJunp8t0gy9xmlc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4z8vicMMgbyCUu2nPz6DvzmxAHQp3guq0CeUwLY3TEUUyq9V236Wxxvs0el1guUHAh09G4Xsc8Z7WOO-t3uaoXPX6aQYVWziRXIp7n2vk6IBZkBFx2hEoJzQlAqG403F2xrfoXjzrKaI511hpGtADMBf9FiE0RmnnoC_vhOfA5qO0vJunp8t0gy9xmlc" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Course frits, fine frits and powdered frits</div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I then turned my attention to the fused glass section. During the week this had been fired and it had several holes in it which would make it very difficult to cut, so I needed to fill these and sort out the edges which were splayed out blobby shapes. I used various frits; course and fine as well as power to do this. As I filled the holes I was hopefully able to keep the design working. Finally I used clear frit to hold it together. The big issue here was thickness. I had to make sure it was not too thick or too thin, as this fused glass section has to fit into the same leading as all the other types of glass used. Finally I used fine frit to cover the 'mess' around the edge, so that on firing it should be less blobby. Nb before starting making these additions I placed the fused frit circle over my cartoon to check it was about 1cm bigger all round than the shape I was finally going to need. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUv5EONFkOyUJt5Lq0SgB_kHJdQcJBJfntUxliM57v-WitcL9WVPFWOJ_Zz3ldk_JJrxNqI_DYQp-DJqUBtduK4Q5Q-WxBwGD0BRX5nXqpeMx1_sjPo0GxfNTfWzCRulojKS-i3AlwE1C7q9k2TXeYyuj9c5aJc6QAr0waKCZJdvDe8wKoVNty7gG3zhE/s640/IMG_6621.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUv5EONFkOyUJt5Lq0SgB_kHJdQcJBJfntUxliM57v-WitcL9WVPFWOJ_Zz3ldk_JJrxNqI_DYQp-DJqUBtduK4Q5Q-WxBwGD0BRX5nXqpeMx1_sjPo0GxfNTfWzCRulojKS-i3AlwE1C7q9k2TXeYyuj9c5aJc6QAr0waKCZJdvDe8wKoVNty7gG3zhE/s320/IMG_6621.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fused frit circle with additional mixed frit and a layer of clear frit to make sure all holes are filled</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This work was done on a kiln shelf and then other pieces were added from other people, so that there was no wasted space in the kiln. (I.e. to not just do what you want to do in the middle of a shelf, leave room for others)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally all my pink offcuts were put in the bottom of a plastic container, the remaining pink sheet was put away in a safe spot in the glass rack and I covered the offcuts with cardboard, so that all my cut pieces could be laid flat and one slightly longer piece that I thought was more fragile, was individually wrapped in cardboard and this container was put away for next week. </span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIw5NiN6dlBYeV_5Yj1YGiVsbOsIgVqN5S72XQMAP-T2IPrQRA3uSoxmTORHEYiYeNleIrlKPQG_U8ZQXN-KMFdX6EuJN1xRiMEhC8JynuiynezAelmWFDXk2GSpGR6fgtRrrt3h804B5vzDmg4lSqgoOXGQ6KOfk-_43_Zir2jEtRR9WBd5EJX6O0Ubg/s640/IMG_6624.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIw5NiN6dlBYeV_5Yj1YGiVsbOsIgVqN5S72XQMAP-T2IPrQRA3uSoxmTORHEYiYeNleIrlKPQG_U8ZQXN-KMFdX6EuJN1xRiMEhC8JynuiynezAelmWFDXk2GSpGR6fgtRrrt3h804B5vzDmg4lSqgoOXGQ6KOfk-_43_Zir2jEtRR9WBd5EJX6O0Ubg/s320/IMG_6624.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Offcuts and cut pieces collected together in a plastic container.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">See also:</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-bursary-session-1.html">Session 1</a></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/10/stained-glass-session-2.html">Session 2</a></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-four.html">Session 4</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/11/stained-glass-session-five.html">Session 5</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://contextualandtheoreticalstudies.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-film-art-form.html">Stained glass and film</a></span></span></div>Garry Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702552491998993332noreply@blogger.com0