a new work – into the trees
acrylic paint, emulsion paint, coloured pencil
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Music and Bubbles – video of a video
At the Science Festival in Edinburgh, City Art Centre, Market Street 9th April 2016. I took a video of a giant bubble machine, music and background noise.
Quote, N.T.
“You don’t test a gentle person the way that you don’t steep tea for too long. Submerge me and I will imbue, and what was sweet will be bitter. I will be strong on your tongue and unpleasant to the taste, you’ll regret drowning me in your guile. My gentleness is not for your taking.”
Quote, William Meredith
“We must be ready to be astonished, even when it is uncomfortable and morally expensive.”
On reading poetry
Quote, C.G. Jung
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all of these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.”
C.G. Jung – Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Quote, Timothy Morton
“I think I’ve had your music and words in me for decades…I mean this word I use, “hyperobject” for instance, it sounds like one of your words. You have so many nonhuman beings in your work, both obviously alive and not so obviously. I tend to see things in an animistic way. I try to argue that everything is alive (or undead…almost as good!).
from a series of letter exchanges with Bjork
Quote, Carl Sagan
“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.”
Quote, D. Antoinette Foy
“Step into this experience with butterflies in your bones; with a nervous feeling so beautiful, you know you’re doing something right.”
Quote, Louise Bourgeois
“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.”
Glimpses – course with Eleanor White
I recently took part in a two-day painting course entitled ‘Glimpses’, at Leith School of Art, led by tutor Eleanor White. The premis for the course was the idea of momentary glimpses of things seen – either momentary in time or in space. So a momentary glimpse in time might be a certain way light falls or an expression on someone’s face. A momentary glimpse in space might be a keek of something which catches your interest, such as a view between buildings or flashes of colour on different objects which dance together.
We worked on drawings to make ‘views’, by working with blocs and with windows, and then worked on a larger painting, mindful of the idea of ‘something glimpsed’.
The final act was to ‘kill your darlings’, and to bloc away parts of your painting, creating windows, with glimpses of what lay beneath. This glimpse could be a particular passage in the painting, or you could completely destroy your original glimpses, and recreate a new one, by adding and taking away, being bold, and working away at your surface.
I don’t think I was very bold, the original painting I made was quite strong, in colour and form, and my working over it to create glimpses didn’t do enough destroying. Still, it was a worthwhile exercise. Here is one of the paintings I made.
And here is the ‘glimpsed’ version
JANE FRANCIS 