Walter Logeman: Journal
I have done it. The Gallery with five presentations is ready for viewing. It has been great to select images and make some new ones.
The site is made using WordPress, but not as a blog, more as a website. I have used wp-simpleviewer for the images.
To finish this post: Here is an image in the Gallery that I have not shown before on the blog.
Blue Rays
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Question:
In a Limited Edition of digital prints can some be landscape and others square? Is it wrong to meddle with the original file if it is still used to print more in that edition?
Answer:
There is no right or wrong here, who would decide? I have two principles I adhere to:
1. Relationship!
The purchaser has a say. If I have a square one and a landscape version, there is a choice. A purchaser may also have a choice about the size, why not? It is not all democracy. Some prints I just like one way, and I won’t sign what I am not happy to sign.
Now here is an hypothetical situation, one that is possible. Someone owns a print of mine from say a year or two ago, and sees it on my site in a form that they like better… relationship! Talk to me. I may print another one, or replace the old one.
2. Trust.
Editions are what they say they are: usually limited to 25. I stick to that. I will never sell a print below the price of the last one sold in the edition. Prints in the editions may vary a little, one from the other. For one, I sign them on the date I print them, to honour the fact that each print is an actual work, the file is just a file.
You may also be interested in my copyright notice
I have heard that traditionally the square format is meant to be hard to compose. Maybe. I am working on my new Gallery, and for some reason I want all images to be square. Not just in the Gallery, I think it began with the prints. I wonder how long this itch will take to scratch?
The Gallery has images from Thousand Sketches and also new ones. Wherever they have been shown before, in whatever format, now they are also square.
What do you think?
I am slowly finding more artists who do digital work that impresses me. Lisa Rivas is one. Mud Pie e-stamps for the WWW
This is one of my favourites, it looks good and it is a really quirky collectible concept!
I thought that Yves Klein’s Blue must have been the purest blue #0000ff, all the blues and nothing else.
But not so. I discovered that IKB is in fact #002FA7
| #0000ff – Mathematially pure blue? | |
| #002FA7 – International Klein Blue | |
| #8B8BFF – mid-point light blue |
This image is all mouse. The Tablet PC is down.
Layers and layers
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I was thinking today about layers. There are heaps of layers in this image, as in most of what I do. The Earth Crosses are also to do with depth. The “vertical” line goes up and down. The life line in that direction is vastly different from that in the horizontal line. A line that goes “across” like that invariably is seen as the horizon, the earth edge.
In my work as a psychotherapist I always think “deep”. I want the work with my clients to go deep. But what is deep? My son once said, while pondering this with his fresh mind, it is “wide on its side”, nice! But it is not so. In the case of wide one end is equivalent qualitatively to the other. With the vertical line that is not so.
Deep means going into origins, not the past per se, though origins are usually in the past. Perhaps the future can draw us, and thus origins could be seen in the future as well.
Maori have a word: Whakapapa which is tied the notion of a layer, papa. Ah, a quote, from here, that expresses the exact idea I was looking for:
“Papa” is anything broad, flat and hard such as a flat rock, a slab or a board. “Whakapapa” is to place in layers, lay one upon another. Hence the term Whakapapa is used to describe both the recitation in proper order of genealogies, and also to name the genealogies. The visualisation is of building layer by layer upon the past towards the present, and on into the future. The whakapapa include not just the genealogies but the many spiritual, mythological and human stories that flesh out the genealogical backbone.
The layers of a painting give it its dept, they cover its origins, they influence the next layer, and the final layer is a relationship with a viewer. My Earth Crosses, flat and hung vertically I think of as a more transverse section with the top being the ether and the lower reaches the depths. The vertical line however is the yang to the yin of the earth. it is something only humans do, see into the depths of the soul and reach for the spirits of the sky.
Here is another Another version of this Earth Cross:
Layers and layers
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My Toshiba M200, which has been the took for most of my work in the last few yours suddenly won’t work as a Tablet. No pen. Hope it is a quick fix but I can’t see how to do it. It is Queens Birthday here, so I can’t even take it in to be fixed. Any ideas?
Whatever ‘design-art’ is, it’s thriving – International Herald Tribune
But is it art?
I love that question! I know there is no answer, calling something art does not make it so, but calling it art is one essential step?
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