Collaborations with Jacqueline Freer - AMAZING to work together and trust me - when I was ready to CHUCK her master strokes saved the two flowers… We have concentrated on a series of paintings of a sculpture in Spain (which I can’t find any information on!). So somewhere out there, there is … [Read more…]
In Module 1, The Right of Writing, we covered a variety of writing forms and styles, terminology and creative actions. The point of the course is to use writing as a visual rather than a communicative methodology to access creativity. To this end we discussed: : The liminal space (the threshold/the place of all … [Read more…]
When one explores the term ‘asemic writing’, there are very few variations in definition. It is generally perceived to be wordless writing, with open, or no semantic content. Since making artworks of asemic writing, without even understanding this as an art form, I had always referred to it as writing in the shadowlands - … [Read more…]
What is a mythology? It’s a place to store your secrets, your dreams and passions. A place where word and image are loaded with meaning known mostly to you. There are many things that are universal, and we take them for granted, such as ‘fairy stories’. But they’re not ‘fairy stories’ they are stories of … [Read more…]
I have added another blog to which creators of artists books are invited to contribute: http://collaborative-artists-books.blogspot.co.za Other blogs include: http://collaborativecanto.blogspot.com http://newalexandrianlibrary.blogspot.com http://an-encyclopedia-of-everything.blogspot.com http://cherylpenn.com/wpb/ http://bhubezi.blogspot.com
We are attempting to revamp an old tool used for Gospel Proclamation – the Bible Exhibition. In the old days, this exhibition travelled around the country and had a very positive effect in terms of building comrade with the members who manned it, as well as those who were introduced to the Christadelphians via this … [Read more…]
A new artists book to replace The Chronicles of Lyrehc. The book is hand painted and chronicles the Women who Hold Up the World, Vessels in Dispute, The Keys etc. Written in Bhubezi Asemic Script this unique book will give a historic account of the tribe of women who hold up the world.
http://collaborativecanto.blogspot.com See the link above for new Aleatory poetry, free verse writing. In Cemeteries Say What (with John Bennett (USA) Port of Empathy with Wolfgang Guenther (Kassel, Germany) Untitled but something to do with time and colour. Also see An Encyclopedia of Everything - The Expanded Version http://an-encyclopedia-of-everything.blogspot.com
The New Alexandrian Library - my personal collection of purchased and swopped artists books. See: http://newalexandrianlibrary.blogspot.com I am reviving the New Alexandrian Library as I have received some beautiful books, which don’t fit the format of An Encyclopedia of Everything. I have been collecting and swopping books for years from all over the world and … [Read more…]