The New York Show

Some wonderful people came to the opening and many artists. It was nice to get strokes from other artists and to have so much assistance from Cythia Reeves and the hard working people in her gallery.

A very positive experience for me. I have a few picts from the trip.

 

 

 

I was enjoying the play of the circle and the square with this design. I have to confess a great love for the old photogaphic processes and especially the bromoil technique. I was striving to achive that look in the printing of the photographic images in this artists’ book.

Here are a few images from book2

There is a 100 year archival DVD under the photograph on the right. The disk on the left is to play regularly. The colophon is a brief description of how the book was made.

The Books turned formal in part because of the photography and because of my interest in eastern philosophy and aesthetics

book 1

Back to traditional photo for an artist book for Seas

I have been printing some traditional black and white film scanned to digital with the Epson 3800 and I am impressed. It has a photo black and matte black ink set up that you simply indicate which one you want to use and presto you are working with the right inks.

The “seas” show in NYC is encouraging me to finally print some beautiful shots I took of the ocean in winter. I will post a few here along with the handmade book I am working on when I get it finished. Here are some prints that will go inside the book.

November 7th, 2009

Jennifer

Steel and Water and Air = Rust (nice color)

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

Existentialism and Wire Hair (they are not related, or are they?)

I lost the last post? I wonder where lost posts go? I have been thinking about human liberation since Paula Fitz asked me who is my favorite Western Philosopher investigating the subject of freedom vs determinism. I found myself thinking about Jean-Paul Sartre and so I have been re-reading his work and enjoying the liberated thinking behind his writing. The hair is for the larger sculpture, the steel wire needs to be rusted. I will take it on a ride to the ocean next weekend and get some salt water exposure to hasten the process.

From, Existentialism and Human Emotions

In responding to criticism of Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre writes,  “ We know the commonplace remarks made when this subject comes up, remarks which always add up to the same thing: we shouldn’t struggle against the powers-that-be; we shouldn’t resist authority; we shouldn’t try to rise above our station; any action which doesn’t conform to authority is romantic; any effort not based on past experience is doomed to failure; experience shows that man’s bent is always toward trouble, that there must be a strong hand to hold him in check, if not, there will be anarchy. There are still people who go on mumbling these melancholy old saws, the people who say, “it’s only human nature whenever a more or less repugnant act is pointed out to them, the people who glut themselves on chansons rèalists; these are the people who accuse existentialism of being too gloomy, and to such an extent that I wonder whether they are complaining about it, not for its pessimism, but much rather its optimism. Can it be that what really scares them in the doctrine I shall try to present here is that it leaves to man a possibility of choice?”

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

Cynthia Reeves Gallery in New York requested my “Seas” video projection for a show in November. I am looking forward to a trip to the big city.

Beth and I have been working on the “hair” for the sculpture. It is made of bent steel wire and we need it to rust. So far the labour is intense cutting each wire and then wrapping the wire on a pole and then pulling the wire from both ends (Beth and I pull it together) so that it hold some curve. Then we put the wire into a predrilled hole in a wooden bowl.  I hope to have the sculpture done by Christmas.

So many great things to do. But first things first.

I am glad it is Fall. So good to be teaching again, two classes  Computer Animation and Conceptual Development at AIB and Advanced Digital Photography at NESOP, how great is that?

The H2O show did get a write up in the Boston Globe.

Click on this link to read the article: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/09/11/h20_film_on_water_is_up_at_four_venues_in_nh_and_vermont/