Boy
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I have been doing a lot of this sort of quick sketching in my sketchbook, as in physical book. But I like to play with that background!
More of these then? So much to learn! The line is not quite following its desire.
Leaves
Leaves
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Now this one grew out of the last one. One thing leads to another. But the process is not done. I can see this leading to more “design” style images, I am getting the hang of it and using a few new functions I am learning in the software (like copying a layer and then moving it slightly etc)
But what do I do, work on the bush or play more with designs? So this is what happens… a myriad of scrappy projects that I love doing… To be honest I think I will get there. Sooner or later I’ll get a series done and they will a unified life.
Earth Crosses got there, though there is a printing job to finalise there.
Next post, more moves into different directions.
Pseudopanax arboreus
To continue from the previous post, here is one that is not in a new style, but it led to one that is, I’ll put that in the next post. (I like to see one image per post.) This one conforms to my Bush project, except it is not quite right, maybe another go?
This is a five finger, a fairly ubiquitous native. Even in the darkness of the bush those leaves can shine pure white reflecting the light. Little curly bits of white… ah, I need to give it another go.
Leaves
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Here is quote from Wikipedia
Pseudopanax arboreus or Five Finger (MÄori: ‘Puahou’ or ‘Whauwhaupaku’), is a New Zealand native tree belonging to the family Araliaceae. It is one of New Zealand’s more common native trees, being found widely in bush, scrub and gardens throughout both islands.
Journal
I am searching for my (art) style. The Thousand Sketches was like a satellite view, a grand sweep of who I might be, a way of sorting land from sea.
I am searching by engaging in smaller projects. I can see where 5 years at university would come in handy though, this is hard work, time is only half of it. I have half a dozen scrappy projects on the go and need to wallow, play, explore, focus and get inspiration and tuition and critique on them all!
May be I need a better warm up. Yes I do.
How to engage the muse?
Maybe that is the title of the paper I am writing for the ANZPA Journal.
Maybe with that question in mind I might make sense of the following projects…
Where I am up to
Earth Crosses
in prints and also paint
Landscapes
A plan to produce a series of about 10 digital line & wash prints
Bush & plants
Like above, A plan to produce a series of about 10 digital somewhat abstract plant series
prints and have begun one in acrylic paint
Squares
I am aware I am drawn to the square format… the landscapes? Perhaps those prints need to be in three adjoining prints?
Presentation is on my mind, and I have just ordered 10 frames to work on a show of some sort.
Just as I want to focus on the above – and that is a lot of work! What happens: new styles emerge.
Let me post some in the posts ahead. Or would that be procrastinating?
Acrylic – Forgotten
Forgotten
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I have completed my first painting in acrylics. There are pleny of
half finished or failed ones lying about but this one I’ll consider
done. It is the first of a series.
It is on gessoed canvas, unframed, the image is 600 x 600 mm
just under 24 inches square.
It has taken a while to get to this point. I have tried a few oils,
some and line & washes – but this one is the first result – that is
not digital.
Digital is clean & quick. Just how quick comes home when I need
to re-arrange the office into a studio. Paints, water, table floor
coverings, easle. Surfaces to prepare and techniques to try out.
And the waiting for things to dry. The cleaning up.
On Sunday (13 April) I was productive. I had about four Earth
Crosses in acrylic on the go. I also prepared some more canvas &
a board. Paintings come on and off the easel as I add something &
then wait for it to dry.
It is based on an earth cross from a few weeks back, see it here.
The photography is patchy but it gives the idea,
Details:
Forgotten
Detail
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Detail 2
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Proposal for Rhizome
I have prepared my proposal and entered it.
ArtNet
NetArt
is a project to make visible the flow of meaning between works of art
The Seven Laws of Money
I recall this book from a Whole Earth Catalogue, the summary here is enough I imagine, seems good stuff to me.
THE SEVEN LAWS OF MONEY
The following laws were published in 1977 in ‘Seven laws of Money’ by Mike Phillips. Mike, a Bank of America banker, was instrumental in developing Master Charge.
1. Do it! Money will come when you are doing the right thing. The first law is the hardest for most people to accept and is the source of the most distress. The clearest translation of this in terms of personal advice is “go ahead and do what you want to do.” Worry about your ability to do it and competence to do it, but certainly do not worry about the money.
2. Money has its own rules: records, budgets, savings, borrowing. The rules of money are probably Ben Franklin-type rules, such as never squander it, don’t be a spendthrift, be very careful, you have to account for what you’re doing, you must keep track of it, and you can never ignore what happens to money.
3. Money is a dream – a fantasy as alluring as the Pied Piper. Money is very much a state of mind. It’s much like the states of consciousness that you see on an acid trip… It is fantasy in itself, purely a dream. People who go after it as though it were real and tangible, say a person who is trying to earn a hundred- thousand dollars, orient their lives and end up in such a way as to have been significantly changed simply to have reached that goal. They become part of that object and since the object is a dream ( a mirage) they become quite different from what they set out to be.
4. Money is a nightmare – in jail, robbery, fears of poverty. I am not expressing a moral judgment. I am making very clear something that many people aren’t conscious of: among the people we punish, the people we have to take out of society, 80% or more are people who are unable to deal with money. Money is also a nightmare when looked at from the opposite perspective – from the point of view of people who have inherited a lot of money. The western dream is to have a lot of money, and then you can lead a life of leisure and happiness. Nothing in my experience could be further from the truth.
5. You can never give money away. Looked at over a period of time, money flows in certain channels, like electricity through wires. The wires define the relationship, and the flow is the significant thing to look at. The fifth law of money suggests that by looking at the gift in a larger or longer-term perspective, we will see that it is part of a two-way flow.
6. You can never really receive money as a gift. Money is either borrowed or lent or possibly invested. It is never given or received without those concepts implicit in it. Giving money requires some payment; if it’s not repaid the nightmare elements enter into it. A gift of money is really a contract; it’s really a repayable loan, and it requires performance and an accounting of performance that is satisfactory to the giver.
7. There are worlds without money. They are the worlds of art, poetry, music, dance, sex, etc. the essentials of human life. The seventh law is like a star that is your guide. You know that you cannot live on the star; it is not physically a part of your life, but rather an aid to orientation. You are not going to reach this star, but in some sense neither are you going to reach your destination without it to guide you.
Aotearoa Digital Arts Network – Symposium
ADA – Aotearoa Digital Arts Network
Looks like I will be filling my days at a Symposium here in Christchurch this weekend! It look great. I’ll have a go at blogging it, as will others.
hcard and linking stuff
I am still mucking around with Microformats, Id do it on my Psyberspace blog but it is harder to fiddle there on WordPress.com (must change it over to my own server. some time)
Have added a hCard to the bottom of the sidebar in the main view.
Some software will show up what is there eg Operator, Firefox add-on.
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It is not nothing to do with art. Here is a hCard for example for Andy Warhol. It is part of wanting to make maps of connections between paintings, art networks as net artworks. So I am exploring these Microformats and FOAF and JSON all things Google are getting into.
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Making links between painting and so on is definitely art for me, and it is very psyber. I will be blogging and linking these discussions in the Psyberspace blog.
Andy Warhol
Born: August 6, 1928
Died: February 22, 1987
New York
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
About – archival
This is the ABOUT page from maybe 15 years ago. I’m thinking of updating it substantially – so posting it here – Saturday, 27 January, 2018 but back dated to 2008
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In the Psyberspace blog my interest in psyche interacts with my interest in cyberspace. Here I reflect about the nature and development of psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and particularly psychotherapy online, the psychological nature of cyberspace, interaction online and many only obscurely related items.
Psyber
The category Psyber is the main one for this blog.
Journal
I write personal notes. Life story. I add them to the Journal category. While there is a central “psyber” theme to this blog, it is also my MAIN blog.
Whatever else I do I will keep tabs and tags on it here in psyberspace.
Other favourite categories
World – Occasionally I am moved to get political!
Tech – anything geeky that is not particularly psychological.
Psyche – anything psychological that is not particularly cyber related
Art
My exploration of psyberspace took graphical turn in 2006-7 and I did a Thousand Sketches, a project I completed in one year. I now blog my art work at http://walterlogeman.com/art I show case my art work in an online Gallery.
Writing
I have been writing about psyberspace for years, and also about Psychodrama and other things. Storage online has got a bit messy over the years but I am working on making the Writing page on this blog the clearing house for all that I have online.
More about me here.