Trance Thrill
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This one was born on the same night I did the last ten or so of the Thousand Sketches, but it missed out getting into the project somehow. All part of that same final meditation.
My New Art Blog
I have just set up a new art blog. In this Moment. That means this psyberspace space can return to its slow reflection & exploration of the psyche in cyberspace in all its forms, not just the visual.
Now
One month ago I completed the Thousand Sketches project. That bought to a close a life changing year. A Thousand Sketches in one year on a Tablet PC, it took a few weeks longer than a year and it led me to give up my day job in psychotherapy for 4 months, travel to the USA and New York. It took over my life.
I will continue to add to the Thousand Sketches blog as the story continues as the project has its life. Life as there are exhibitions of one sort or another, news items and more ways in which the digital images find physical form. New insights, and new projects might also stem from that foundation year.
I’ll continue to write in my longstanding Psyberspace blog. I have been popping the odd post-thousand-sketches sketch in there, but the focus of that blog is where psyche &cyberspace meet. I envisage that as a very broad realm, and am happy to journal away in there about most things, but today I wanted a new blog.
This is a journal about my art. Nothing but art, artists, art talk, art history, art philosophy, pictures and projects. This is the first post, and fittingly begins with reference to the last art project, and the last of the 1000 sketches. I have no current art project but will write about one moment to the next. Coming up is my workshop with Jane Zusters in January and an art history course at Canterbury.
Warhol in Brisbane
Now I want to go to Brisbane.
Exclusive to Brisbane, Australia’s first major Andy Warhol retrospective brings together more than 300 works spanning all areas of his practice from the 1950’s until his death in 1987 – paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos and installations.
The future is not what it used to be
I am (still) reading Walter Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction I enjoy the quote that opens it by Paul Valerey. Sounds like Mcluhan, but he is talking (Benjamin too) about shifts due to mechanical development – reproduction, now this needs updating with an essay about art in the age of electronic production.
More Paul Valery quotes follow, including the bit I have paraphrased above from the Benjamin essay.
Not psyberspace but busy with life
Right now working on Otahuna Horse Riding website. Pleased to have got it up & running and now there is more content to get on.
2007
The year has found some footing. Years of course have a place in space not just time. This one is in cyberspace but as the one tending it I see a New Zealand summer outside my window. I have returned to work after a summer break and so the feel for me that 24 January is bringing has that sense of a new start and this feels like an early moment in that.
Psychotherapy Online – I have opened my book for new clients – it has been closed for most of 2006 as I had a full case load.
Thousand Sketches – This is still the “year of the sketch” it will be until Spring 2007. I am about a third of the way through doing the 1000 digital ones I am committed to. it is a project in psyberspace!
The Psyberspace Podcast – I am quietly continuing this project and have been chatting about the sketches. However there are more brewing on purely psychological matters too. Subscribe to the podcast.
Paris Breakfasts
I am obsessed with sketches
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This is one image from 100’s I have been delighted to peruse in the “Philadelpia Printshop”
Useful psychotherapy page in Wikipedia
Category:Psychotherapy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a different page than the one that appears under Psychotherapy, which is also useful. This is a Wikipedia “Category” and it shows well how Psychotherapy is just that. Psychotherapy is a category like “tree” then there are many species some very different from others. In New Zealand we have one organization that covers all the various modalities, this is rather unusual in the world, even though there is also a World Council for Psychotherapy WCP (A trip to Beijing in 2008 could be a good thing to do!).
While there are irreconcilable world views behind some of the modalities, they reflect the complexity of the mind & soul. No one modality can really capture it all. My own training was in Psychodrama – which has its strengths but is essentially a group method. My one-to-one work is informed also by my training as a Social Worker and through my experience of personal Jungian Analysis.