January 2003: Gallery Views compilation
Thursday, January 9, 2003
01/05/03
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Fantasy time: I don't always imagine the drawings here as anything other than
what they are here- flat, small, pixels. But I do often think of some in terms
of being made with paint. The depiction above might show the size of this drawings
as being a little larger, or quite a bit larger, than the size I've imagined
that these drawings could become as paintings. For the current drawings I imagine
them being perhaps up to 4 X 4'. As shown here it would be around 6 X 8'.
I envision the Sea
Ranch drawings I did last July as possbily being as large as depicted here.
The
Nines maybe being in the 2 X 4' range. The
Asian Influence in Drawing pieces would range all in between these large
and small sizes- can you guess which would be large or small?
Friday, January 10, 2003
The above uses a drawing from October
18, 2002. Again,
the size of this representation is pretty fantastic. Imagine this painting being
around fifteen feet high. More realistically it might be something in the six
foot range. But it's very interesting to me to think of something with this
kind of scale relationship to people.
It's interesting that Lynn
thought that some images from the October series might be thought of as quite
large and that I'd intended to produce this imagined view of the October 18th
drawing. Nice little bit of serendipity.
Saturday, January 11, 2003
Drawings
from July
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Anything worth doing once is worth doing again... and again and again. Hence,
another gallery view (see yesterday,
and day before).
Sunday, January 12, 2003
From a series called People
I Have Known
Monday, January 13, 2003
Images from 051602
& 060902
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
Images from 052802,
061602, 071202.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Images from 042202,
042402, 043002
& whoami.
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Images from 121702,
121802, 121902.
Friday, January 17, 2003
Images from
041302, 041402,
050802.
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Peter Ford asks
how these these fantasy gallery views are made. All the original drawings are
straight HTML using Dreamweaver- that's why they're so flat, hard-edged, and
simple. These gallery views are of course made with Photoshop, heavy on the
use of layers and the gradation tool.
Karin: see 010803
for an explanation of how I am flipping one day ahead. Yes, so far most of the
galleries are invented. However, 011603
is built over a picture of a room I scavenged somewhere, and 011803
will also use another image of a room (that gallery view, by the way, is already
finished and awaiting the Saturday flip on Friday afternoon). It's all pretty
crude; I won't be sending my resume to Pixar anytime soon.
I'm pleased that others (KK,
IM, RY,
CY) like these gallery views,
as I like them, too, a lot. They bring a real satisfaction to me. The scale
of these depictions may not be as I have usually pictured some of them, but
I do almost always also think of these table drawing thingies as being made
of real materials and hanging on a real wall. I've talked enough about looking
at a paintings that I'm surprised no one else really made the kind of connection
I've been carrying around inside my head. But that's inside my head, not yours,
so I shouldn't be surprised, I guess.
I just noticed how I keep calling these things "table drawings," yet in my
head as I've used them in these gallery depictions they are paintings. That's
a clue for me as one difference between the digital media and the real material.
Drawing in HTML is mostly dealing in defining edges, boundaries, which is drawing.
Then the shape is filled with color. In painting the action can be about line,
but it's also about volume and surface and thickness. It's tactile in a way
the HTML drawings can't be. That may be why I can't call these things table
paintings. By can't, I mean that when I start to say it my brain stops me. I
feel a difference and am forced to use the word "drawing."
Saturday, January 18, 2003
For Joe
Strummer August 21, 1952 - December 22, 2002
Images from 042101
& Mission
La Purísima Concepción
Sunday, January 19, 2003
010803 &
010303 inserted
into an image made from a couple of borrowed images: book
& table top.
Monday, January 20, 2003
Drawing from 101502
(& TAIID)
inserted into LOC,
(Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1959 July 14. International
Business Machine Country Club, Sands Point, Long Island. Seminar room II.).
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Images: 082802
& borrowed
studio view (Max Gimblett).
What started
as a little fun- imagining what one of these table drawings might look like
if it existed as a painted object on a wall- has turned into, as of today, thirteen
days of Photoshop fantasy (I,
II, III,
IV, V,
VI, VII,
VIII, IX,
X, XI,
XII, XIII).
I never imagined I'd ride this and stretch it out to two weeks. You try something,
it works a bit, you keep repeating it with some variation, and suddenly fourteen
days have gone by.
These have been fun to make, but they are also frustrating reminders. When
I began teaching my artwork moved to the classroom, and the small studio I still
have became storage over time. I've made small pieces over the years, painting
and drawings, but it's been a long time since I had a dedicated space to do
this work. A spare bedroom just doesn't work. Right now, without adequate space,
when I think about it for too long, I feel so impatient I want to jump out of
my chair.
As our house hunting drags on the period of time when I don't have a place,
even a corner of a garage, makes me practice patience even more, something I'm
not always good at. There are times when patience turns for me into boredom.
I like to do, not to wait, not to cut myself off. There is no substitute for
working on a scale that I've imagined in these fantasy views.
This weekend we visited twice each and talked a lot about making offers on
two houses. Both had lots of space for living, indoors and out, and space that
would work well as a studio. For various reasons we didn't make offers. We haven't,
I guess, still found "our" house.
When I think and talk about my weblog as a studio, and when I'm doing these
very plain and simple drawings in a very restrictive medium, I'm finding a way,
given what is and isn't available, to continue to work.
Tomorrow, the 14th image, will be the last of these- at this time, anyway.
And then I'll start something new- I don't know what, yet- and wonder what that
will turn into.
Thanks, Lynn:
"Zelig-like." That's accurate.
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Images: 100202
& James Harkins.
Views: I,
II, III,
IV, V,
VI, VII,
VIII, IX,
X, XI,
XII, XIII,
XIV.
As I look back on these I realize now very clearly that what I really wanted to do is show paintings in places where people interact with them, alone and in groups. I wanted to show how a painting can be alive, something to live with, and something to look at again and again, that a painting can become part of a life.
March 2003
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