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Brancusi cont.

practice — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:23:49 +0000

Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi/span>

I should really update stuff with deets on a group show that just opened and the thousand other things, but in the meantime, here’s a Brancusi, feels like there’s a lot to learn from this one.

Space pics

practice — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:43:43 +0000

Terrestrial photography was feeling a little dull, I’m into space pics now. (Brancusi is of course an exception, in everything he touched he channeled other worlds, continued study.) The heavenly bods are positively gravitational, it’s delicious to muse on such hunks. This class of image is close to what we see in digital art these days—infinite space, gradients, spheres. Yet digital images don’t often muster gravity and magnetism. In a way digital simulations have too much freedom, the constraints of physics generate power, learning from simplicity and scale.

Rosetta (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko anagliph)

Titan from Cassini via Jacint Roger

Thor’s Helmet (NGC 2359) by Rolf Wahl Olsen

Saturn and Titan from Cassini via Val Klavens

Bit more Brancusi

practice — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:02:07 +0000

Still bugged by the eternal Brancusi, as ever marvelling. Making a bit of a study of the images he made of his work in situ around his studio, as if he’d set in motion a metaverse all his own. “Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it,” he said. Which prompts a bit of musing for digital art, where 3D renderings are generated through the abstraction of a camera. There’s nothing else quite like these in the history of either sculpture or photography.

Manic Castle Hashes spotted in the wild

practice — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:52:30 +0000

Back in 2020, I made a set of stickers using images from Manic Castle Hash, cut them from brushed-chrome vinyl on the same vinyl cutter I’d used to make the mural, and sent them out as a bit of art mail to some friends, colleagues, and awesome people. It’s been an unexpected joy to find out where they went, with the evidence still trickling in — only wish I had more of the rather ephemeral snapshots at hand.

Many of the stickers remained pristine on their original backing. But others seem to have been attracted to technological devices, doors and windows, David Bowie, and surfaces within arm’s reach of children. Could not be more delighted with these discoveries.

Photo by Brandon Herman

Photo by Steven Chodoriwsky

Photo by Chris Fite-Wassilak

Photo by Steven Chodoriwsky

In the mix

practice — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:57:46 +0000

‘All those who follow this particular life meet in the night in dreams. Rumi said, “The prisoner is not in his cell. The king is not in his palace. The soul in the night is free.”‘ — Irina Tweedie

Old Man Burl

practice — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:02:39 +0000

Variations on a theme from my postcards-of-the-west collection. Love the color and wear.

The dollar store across the street has amazing pencils

practice — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:13:00 +0000

proto-LOL

practice — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:36:28 +0000

The inimitable Jayme Yen found the image below buried deep within the Library of Congress Archives. It’s a photograph from 1898, a proto-LOL treasure. Note the contrast and affinities with the bottom image, which is typical internet kitteh flotsam, circa early 21st century. Cats have always loved technology and protraiture.