Exploring Painter X.
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I have forgotten when and where it was they died
War
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I have already posted this as part of the Earth Crosses series. It does not have an entry of its own, and I wanted one to have a name for this image, I just printed it out and I want to name it.
Title: War
That is accurate but it adds nothing.
The lines from Maori Battalion Veteran by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell say it better…
… I have nightmares.
Night and day I see pictures
of my closest mates falling
beside me in so many battles
I have forgotten when and where
it was they died
Title: “I have forgotten when and where
it was they died”
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I think of my fathers story, he was in the five day war over Holland with Germany in August 1940. He saw his mates die.
I also think of the war reports I see every day of my life … death tolls, I forget how many.
Yet the image takes me to the here and now feeling of life & death within me, where war is a metaphor for the intensity of life.
These darkest moments of history produce stories that mirror intensity of the bodies struggle to survive, the daily cellular battle for air & water and the heart’s craving for love…
Title: The heart’s craving for love
the hearts battle for love
???
Later: Sunday, 6 July, 2008
This image is now featured in the Gallery
Colour Collage 2
Here is another. With these, wait till the fourth image loads and see the collage.
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Colour Collage
Three related images 13 inches square printed on Hahnemühle Paper and bonded to canvas with acrylic colour and media. This is in the same format as this one.
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Dreams
Here are some images I am working on for a project.
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Black
Got involved last night exploring black.
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Earth Crosses
The Earth Crosses – a series I began as part of the Thousand Sketches and then added to since. I thought it completed in February 2008, but have done some since not in this selection.
The way up is the same as the way down. – Heraclitus
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Transition Contours
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I can imagine printing these three and sticking them to a heavy paper and giving the lot a thick cover of gloss.
What do you think?
Later: I am doing just that today, Friday, 21 March, 2008 harder than I thought, the buckling, as you might have guessed. Canvas on canvas? I have printed on canvas using my Epson R2400 but it is blurry, I need to get the profile right, how do I do that?
Maybe get as roll of wall paper? Paper on paper?
Bush – acrylic work in progress
I am working on a 600 x 600 acrylic on canvas, a stylised of the view of the bush at Mt. Lyford. Here is how far I have got with it, a reasonable photo of how it looks.
Bush – Acrylic on canvas 600 x 600
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I have been testing out how it might develop using the Tablet… quite fun, and I have another digital version brewing before I commit to paint!
Bush
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Land
Landscapes….
Mt. Pete