have decided to collate in one place my experimental haiku-style poems, from the making of the recent saltscapes series, written May 17th to June 17th 2009...
from salt and earth,i made a dystopian green with envyand chemistry smiled, slyly…May 17th, 2009...
the ashes sighed,mourning the old flame,murmuring, if only…May 18th, 2009...
a bloodshot skyhand in hand,we returned cautiously…May 19th, 2009...
in a waterlogged eden,the birds took flighton sensing the eyes of strangers…May 20th, 2009...
through a grimy haze,all burnt golden, mouth glistening blackfaces, charred by an obese sun…May 21st, 2009...
the haze cleared, a crystalline sky,salt lakes and tidal poolsmelted, into the silvered silt…May 22nd, 2009...
a disaster areabelches blackfury inflamed...May 25th, 2009...
in ore, the chromium mirelife lies, sleepingslowly mineralised…May 29th, 2009...
the melting cavern,into saline poolsit plinked, dyspepsia…May 30th, 2009...
limestone rockssalt trails a scarin time, healed…May 31st, 2009...
underground, a stream,of consciousnesswhere perception flows…June 6th, 2009...
bruised rouge, to greyclodded clay,clawed deep, the way…June 10th, 2009...
a rockscape mouldedvestigial traces, marksthe slippery way out…June 11th, 2009...
stepping on stones, skippingthe sedimental slabs, water blackenedstriated, to the shore...June 15th, 2009...
abraded, by seawater and saltcoarse skin, furrowed then frownedat a more polished reflection...June 17th, 2009...
on colour, ways and means
My colour values system, as a means to apply subjective titles to these very formalist small abstract works on canvas (and now, an untested method of contextual research-in-reverse), has resulted in more virtual travels... this work is subsequently entitled Inca...
Inca 2010, intaglio collagraph print and painting on paper on canvasMy research led me to a site of significant archaeological interest, now known as The Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu (or 'old peak'). Although it is estimated that the site at Machu Picchu was first constructed around 1450, after the rise and fall of the Inca empire (and the subsequent pillaging and vandalism) it was only formally re-discovered as an ancient site in 1911, by the Yale historian Hiram Bingham.
...Here is everyone's favourite tv traveller, Michael Palin, visiting this sacred site... Palin refutes claims that his many years of travelling the globe for tv purposes impacts on the green campaigns of various eco-groups, in that he conversely encourages the would-be-traveller to stay at home and watch from the comfort of the sofa instead... with a nice mug of hot chocolate made with Peruvian cocoa, no doubt......
more experiments in green
Not enough art-making this week...
but I did do these...some mixed media experiments on paper... a couple of scans showing details of texture at life size... texture is integral, relevant, vital; it's the ecology, stupid...