Month: April 2024
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The large maple tree in our neighbours’ yard that looms over our garage — I call it “ghost tree.” It’s mostly because I have taken many night time photos of it and the starry skies around it over the past few years of living here. The “ghost” is simply because the long exposures that capture starlight also twist and smudge the tree into a spectral figure. Benign and without fear. Since we moved here from the city, the relatively dark skies here on the edge of town have meant seeing more stars plainly visible than almost any other time in…
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I wrote recently about language and words in my artwork and the form of visual poetry I can see in some of what I do. There’s an intention in the way I choose to work that favours a lack of intention. I know… stay with me for a bit here. I try to work in ways that don’t presume what the work will be. I try to not try. And of course that is a structure that pretends to be a freedom but it honestly does help me much of the time to just sit down and start to draw,…
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I first heard about Aphantasia a bunch of years ago in a random news article and was fascinated so I immediately did the casual test for it. The test, if you don’t know about it, is to establish whether you can bring a mental picture of something to mind and what degree of clarity it might have if any. Here’s the gist of the casual test I did… Think about a red apple. Can you ‘see’ an image of an apple in your mind? You might close your eyes if it helps you to visualize. If you can hold an…
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I’ve already expressed how I’m prone to chasing tangents down rabbit holes to often find new rabbit holes along the way. I have a habit of looking one thing up on Wikipedia to then end up multiple tabs deep in discovery. Rabbits live in warrens after all, which are by nature interconnected pathways and structures. The way my brain works, I started thinking about writing this and then went down a literal literary rabbit hole remembering Richard Adams’ post-war Lapine adventure novel Watership Down that I last read at around 8 or 9 years old. But that’s something for another day. To know exactly…