apr 3
I have been working on a number of these small landscape drawings; this one is around 5 x 8″ and is the usual ink on paper. They are part of a series of small, dense images that pair up with the larger drawings of animals or spaces. It is not really evident in this blog format, but the series complement each other in some unexpected ways. Which is what makes it all worthwhile for me - I am not just representing landscapes solely for the purpose of making a nice image - though I will save the art talk for another moment, or for the comments. A friend has done a tidy job of summing up art-practice nonsense prose in her blog entry here.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
GORGEOUS!
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Some gorse? Burdocks? Smartweed? Looks like good habitat for butterflies. Beautiful and delicate drawing.The series concept is REALLY interesting.
I had a really fascinating conversation yesterday with MIKE HANSELL about bower birds and the impulse to make and enjoy art. “How do we recognize and enjoy beauty?”as he puts it. He’s very interested in the research of ELLEN DISSANAYAKE and her concept of “making special”. Mike even has what he calls “the art school hypothesis”. Are bower birds artists? What is the relationship between brain size and complexity of construction and display in the bower? I left the conversation a lot less skeptical than I went in, and thinking it was an interesting avenue of research. But it will have to wait: He’s off to Botswana for awhile to study how Weaver Finches START nests. Because, like artists, for animal architects, (as Mike puts it): “getting started should be the part of the building sequence where the builder will exhibit the most complex and variable behavior.”
Mark
April 5th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
A ditty for Primary School art Educators:
http://www.notonthetest.com/act.html
OK, it’s not the Phenomenauts and a bit earthy crunchy, but it’s also on point.
Mark
April 7th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Burdock, Smartweed, tons of Red Clover, Milkweed, Oxeye Daisy (my favorite Latin name ever: Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), and once, when I was trolling the field, Asparagus. As in the kind I wanted to steal and eat.