Podcast – Art & Nature
A podcast about art & nature, mostly a personal rumination on a theme, just my need to think out loud. Art, my art, Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey.
psyberspace-2008-07-31-Art-and-nature
Led to me making a digital image (I would like to do paintings along this line).
Horizon
Google forms – what are they like?
I have filled out a few here & there, but want to make one!
Later: It would not embed for some reason.
However the spreadsheet collection of data is great!
Richard Adams at the Arthouse
I was inspired by a visit today to the Arthouse, Richard Adams exhibit.
Image follows:
Hybrid Leaves
I made some acrylics. Here is one where I liked something in the image. This one is a WIP 8 x 8 inches on board. The photo above is probably slightly more contrasty than the original. The next one, I worked on the digital image, not with filters but by adding brush strokes in ArtRage 2.5 A prelude to fiddling with the original?
Persist
Becs wanted me to print #0549 Persist from the Thousand Sketches. I have but first did a bit more work on it. It now looks thus, not that different but livelier!
Persist
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While I was at it I did some more:
Babboo
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Grass
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Images
I am quietly making images, persisting. I find it hard to post them as they seem not to be part of a project. They are floaters, play things and they don’t fully grab me. But this blog is not my gallery, not an exhibition, more like a studio. I want to play, learn experiment. Images follow.
Online Therapy Research Study
Kristie Holmes has a site: Online Therapy Research Study
She has a recent pdf of useful resources and current literature.
I appreciate the effort, thanks Kristie.
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This literature, and in the online therapy field there is so much diversity. There is diversity of helping profession: Social Work, counselling, career, health and specific mental illness focused approaches, from a variety of professions.
My own sphere of psychotherapy is poorly represented online. Psychotherapy is relationship based as works with the unconscious. Perhaps many psychotherapists believe it can’t be done online. When I google the following line:
“psychotherapy online” unconscious relationship
The first two results point to my own site. There are only 112 other sites. When I check the next few sites only one other one offers psychotherapy online, and the modality seems to be solution focused cognitive therapy, which is similar in some ways to my work, but significantly different, to a more psychodynamic approach with awareness of the “here & now” psychotherapeutic alliance.
From an online perspective the diversity broadens out, as there are so many different ways of working online. What is the therapeutic container for the work? Some therapists mix online and f2f, others use scheduled times for chat or video, some use email. Payment varies from by hour to “subscriptions”. I use email only as a therapeutic frame, as the “stage”. I do not make appointments, but use the asynchronicity of the Internet to make use of time in an optimum way. I charge by the hour. These decisions about method online have their roots in my psychotherapy principles and in the way I approach the psyche.
I wonder how useful reseach can be in such a diverse world?
I intend to hang-in there with this question, as some overview of this work is needed.
Digital Images
Strength I
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Strength II
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These two are the result of a few hours of distracting myself from all the chores! I just clicked away cropping and filtering snippets from some earlier sketches. I did that a lot years ago, most of my work now is not created by clicking, but by gestures on the Tablet PC screen. Still it can be fun, and my hand is there in the original shapes.
Ian Boyden – Artist
More on the calligraphy theme…
Ian Boyden’s fascination with materials, industrial processes, text and the calligraphic line led him to China where he studied history and the practice of Chinese calligraphy, painting and bookmaking with masters of those arts. He worked for Walla Walla Foundry where he learned to cast, weld and chase bronze, and in Portland with Kathy Kuehn at Salient Seedling Press to learn letterpress printing and a variety of bindings. He founded Crab Quill Press to produce limited-edition, fine press artist books and in 1998, moved the Press to Walla Walla where he also works as the director of the Sheehan Art Gallery at Whitman College.
Augen – Ian Boyden
Good selection (Most are in the other linked sites too.)
Intaglio Printmaking – Wikipedia
Beautiful books! Images follow. You can only see them if you see the post rather than a whole list of posts. I only show my own in that way.