im-age ar´chae-ol´o-gy™, [im-ij] [ahr-kee-ol-uh-jee], n. 1. The systematic recovery by artistic methods of imagery within the ground of a painting. 2. A dig into the surface ground with the butt of a paintbrush to imprint an image. 3. The space between the figure and the ground from which emerges a skeletal impression of an image. 4. A constant searching for the middle ground through the application of paint and projected thought that culminated into a work of art.
Friday, February 1, 2013
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Since August 8, 2008, I have been inspired by the painting a day phenomenon that is happening in the blogsphere. This truly is an art movement. I started my first daily painting with a tomato from my summer garden. I will also be using my “Earth Objects” as inspiration. This should be an interesting ride.
My plan is to post a painting a day at least five days a week. Please feel free to "feed your burn" and tell other art lovers about this blog site.
Thinking with my pencil
Thinking with my pencil
I am putting pen to paper and thinking with pencil and
so the new work entails more of the "tulip tree" twig but with a
language all it's own. they are speaking to me and I am listening. I
have decided to configure them into letters for this series and create
an alphabet with them.
Since August 8, 2008, I have been inspired by the painting a day phenomenon that is happening in the blogsphere. This truly is an art movement. I started my first daily painting with a tomato from my summer garden. I will also be using my “Earth Objects” as inspiration. This should be an interesting ride.
My plan is to post a painting a day at least five days a week. Please feel free to "feed your burn" and tell other art lovers about this blog site.
A is for a-sem-ic
Today begins my journey into new work and post doctoral musings. The ideas rolling around are based on my previous work in that I am using the "tulip tree" twig as a starting point to develop a series of paintings using the Latin alphabet. In an effort to be less academic and more artistic, I am forcing myself to move off the research and into the studio. My thinking brain really wants to rule this process but my body needs to stop thinking.
My research on the alphabet has lead me to correlations in my work with asemic writing. The definition I like best is that asemic writing is the continuum between text and image. This is similar to the looping process that I discuss in my dissertation with regard to visual metaphor.
Asemic Diagram
Tim Gaze and his Asemic diagram
Sinking Map Loops
The reality loop is the perfect way to describe what takes
place when using the sinking maps. By
mapping a visual process with a conceptual mapping tool, a loop is established
that can reverse manufacture itself. In
other words, concepts become visuals and visuals become concepts with the
sinking maps. The loop simply means that
a word becomes an image and an image becomes a word.
My research on the alphabet has lead me to correlations in my work with asemic writing. The definition I like best is that asemic writing is the continuum between text and image. This is similar to the looping process that I discuss in my dissertation with regard to visual metaphor.
Asemic Diagram
Tim Gaze and his Asemic diagram
Sinking Map Loops
A visual metaphor is a bi-directional
thought. For example: “the warts on her
nose look like a big green pickle and a pickle looks like a nose with
warts”. Both the pickle and nose with
warts are words that can be images and both images are bi-directional. Because visuals have this bi-directionality,
visual metaphors do not need to be based on logic since they rely on
perception. Barry (1997) states
that “the creative mind is mainly oriented by perception and only in a later
stage by reason” (p. 72-73). Sinking maps develop visuals from cognitive thoughts
or ideas. This bi-directional process of
when perception feeds conception and conception feeds perception forms a
looping pattern. According to St. Clair
(2005):
There
are other ways of knowing the world and they are not structured in the same way
as language systems. Visual systems, for example, are not linear…there is the
philosophy of structural communication. A significant part of this model is the
reality-loop in which meanings are externalized into forms and already
established forms are interpreted into a system of meaning forming a reality
loop. Meaning takes place within these loops. (p. 85-101)
A great visual metaphor to represent
this looping process is the Fibonacci spiral (figure 17). St. Clair (2005) uses this diagram of a Fibonacci
Spiral in his research on visual metaphor to show how mathematics is the
conceptual formula for an existing visual in nature—a nautilus shell (figure
18). The spiral of the chambered
nautilus is a logarithmic spiral. This
form can be found in the human body and nature, for example the inner ear and
the star
cluster nebula.
cluster nebula.
Since August 8, 2008, I have been inspired by the painting a day phenomenon that is happening in the blogsphere. This truly is an art movement. I started my first daily painting with a tomato from my summer garden. I will also be using my “Earth Objects” as inspiration. This should be an interesting ride.
My plan is to post a painting a day at least five days a week. Please feel free to "feed your burn" and tell other art lovers about this blog site.
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