This, and the next are today’s effort. Having these two sitting there prompted me to start this new blog.
Trance Thrill
Trance Thrill
Larger Image.
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.
Echos
Here is one of the first sketches I did after completing the 1000. I have this one & a few more on my Psyberspace blog, and will add them here later.
Earth
Earth
Larger Image.
Copied from my other blog:
This is another that could belong to the Thousand Sketches series, except that that project is complete. The work with these crosses is not. I am working on a Gallery for my work right now, and there will be an exhibit of Earth Crosses, mostly from Thousand Sketches, some new ones as well.
Later: That is done!
This image is now featured in the Walter Logeman: Gallery
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.
J. L. Moreno & CBT
George Kelly was influenced by J.L. Moreno Wikipedia. The interesting thing I just learned from my friend Don is that Kelly in turn was an influence on Beck, one of the founders of CBT.
Makes sense, in that the work of Moreno is about the whole person, thoughts, feelings and action, the individual, the collective, the practical, the relational and the cosmic.
In the psychotherapy I do it is useful to move along the continuum of role training on the one hand and the psychological roles and the psychodynamic aspects that Moreno called the psychodramatic.
JustBlogIt
JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
I have changed blog software a few times. And I have had a few reasons to reinstall everything, so it is years since I had a right click to blog app.
This one is great.
Tools make a difference, this will lead to more little posts like this one!
JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away.
The Michael Leunig Website
While looking over the ditch…
Picasso and the Bull.
The life of the artist is torn between the need to communicate and the desire to flee.
Artist, leave the world of art,
Pack your goodies on a cart,
Duck out through some tiny hole,
Get away and save your soul.
Leave no footprints, don’t look back,
Take the dark and dirty track;
Cross the border, cross your heart;
Freedom from the world of art.
There is a lot more on the site about Picasso Exhibit that was in Melbourne a while back.
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.