Delight-filled Leaves Art
For we are fallen like the trees, our peace Broken, and so we must Love where we cannot trust… – Wendell Berry The assignment: Man’s fingerprint on nature. An ecological/environmental theme. The concept: The distancing of humanity from nature and … Continued
I’ve been reconnecting with nature – at least through art. Nature has always been a key source of inspiration, and during my Mixed Media Painting II course with Diana Kubicek, I had the chance to explore some abstract landscape concepts. … Continued
I’ve entered winter: my “descent into rainy season,” as I described it last year. In British Columbia, it rains most of the month of November, and is dark. At the risk of sounding tragic, I find this constant drumming depressing. … Continued
One of my assignments in the Materials and Media in Art class was to conceive an exaggerated article of clothing and make it out of wire. During the brief moment allotted to me to think of an idea, I recalled … Continued
Communicating in 3-D is like a new language, similar to learning a new technology. For the last two weeks, I have been journeying through a creative process accompanied by a four inch cube of plaster. I was assigned to analyze … Continued
Making sense of my “wrapped cube” assignment – now that you’ve seen me analyzing my cube through camera phone technology, I still haven’t been able to find a whole lot of meaning in this assignment. The task: After I’ve lived … Continued
Communicating in Technology I’ve been fascinated by epistemology and communications theory since studying world view in college. I used to be immersed in this stuff as teaching intern for a professor at the school. This week I’ve unearthed hundreds of … Continued
“Assume a posture of giving or receiving,” the instructor said. We sat around a heavy table scarred by tools and encrusted in dried media, hands extended in front of us. She came around and poured plaster into our hands. We … Continued
As part of my fine arts studies at Emily Carr, I spent the day putting together an art project to demonstrate “the golden mean.” There were lots of rules: it had to be black and white, had to consist of … Continued