Hair Brained

I am working on some studies for braids and knots. In order to get my eyes to focus on the task at hand I gathered some images of hair braids off the net and photoshopped them so that i could see how they shape around the head. Hair brained.

A philosophical investigation

"Said Doctor Bunny Rabbit, staring at his shadow black,
"Indeed, I had no notion that I looked so like a quack!"

I wanted to re-visit Wittgenstein's duckrabbit thought experiment after setting myself the task in the studio of pursuing 2 different approaches to drawing; namely, drawing from observation and drawing from my imagination. The idea was to consider how these 2 different approaches to drawing effected the outcome. Of course, I realize that making art is hardly an empirical process, and that setting up an 'experiment' in the studio often produces something unrelated to the experiment itself, it was nevertheless a means to look at how I see. What I found through these drawing exercises is that the process of looking and seeing (observing and imagining) are bridged by an hallucinatory space. While drawing I sense what I can only describe as a sort of zooming between microcosm and macrocosm; and a sort of flipping between inside and outside. This seems to be occurring both on the page and in my body. It feels so radically ambiguous, a perpetual de-stabilization of the figure and ground, body and page, tool and hand, eye and mind.



There is a clearly written introduction to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations on wikipedia. I found 'A Shadow Show' on BibliOdyssey's blog.

GLASS MOUNTAIN

a few drawings from the studio this week

BOBBIN

a simply gorgeous animation that shows how the bobbin works in a sewing machine

OROBOROS

OH MY GOD - DESS!

In Hinduism, the Goddess Durga ( दुर्गा the inaccessible, the invincible) is a form of Devi, the supremely radiant goddess, depicted as having ten arms, riding a lion or a tiger, carrying weapons (including a lotus flower), maintaining a meditative smile, and practicing mudras, or symbolic hand gestures.

An embodiment of creative feminine force (Shakti), Durga exists in a state of self-sufficiency and fierce compassion. She is considered by Hindus to be an aspect of Kali. Durga manifests fearlessness and patience, and never loses her sense of humor, even during spiritual battles of epic proportions.

She's a knockout! Watch her 10 armed fierce compassion in action in the trailer for the Tamil production of Padai Veetu Amman (2000) directed by Pugazhmani, with Meena as Durga..

ROMANCE SECTIONED

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