The study below was inspired, in part, by my recent birthday as well as by Joan Miró. My mother always used to say, “May you live to be one hundred and twenty.” By her reckoning, I am just past middle age. I don’t feel old and yet, by many standards, I am. I get a […]
I present my abstract today without delving into process too much. I will say that I still include tokens (expressed as iconic forms) of the influence my brother Mike* had (and still has) on me. Here are the recent posts that document the development of some of the symbols I use in this series of studies: Seeking Inspiration, […]
I let my pencil point out for a walk today. I admit I had a plan about which areas of the paper it should traverse, based on my work of the past couple of days (Motor Tic, Planes of Unreality, Abstract Double Portrait). I wanted the terrain to include hands and brains, particularly my brain […]
I used the shape I discovered yesterday to construct today’s composition. This squashed kidney bean became my older brother‘s* head in his particular plane of reality in that study. I expanded on my Miró-inspired shape by superimposing and rotating that shape to form the basis of another head. I included Mike’s hands, which he uses […]
The stick figure in my composition below was inspired by Miró. On half of the paper, I incorporated my brother’s wandering eye and a freeze-frame of his hands, shown in positions where he typically held them. [Note: my older brother Michael is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal.] On the other half of the paper, divided by […]
I am convinced that I am on the right path to finding some design patterns to tell my story. I have been studying some of Kandinsky’s compositions and marvel at some of the small patterns he smatters across the canvas: a grid here, an eyeball there. I am sure I can make something visible about […]
My original idea for today’s experiment was ‘compartmentalization’. I have always been very good at keeping unpleasant thoughts or subjects at bay (on a conscious level). On the other hand, I am also known to be something of a ‘worry wart’. For the big things (i.e., serious illnesses), I try to lose myself in the details. […]
The suffix ‘-ology’ means, ‘the study of’. For example ‘cosmology’ means ‘study of the cosmos’, ‘biology’ means ‘study of biological phenomena’, and so on. Today I begin studying the symbols that were and are important in my life. I want to identify the symbols from my early years that have, and continue to affect my psyche. My […]
Today, I continue with my abstract designs. I saw a video bit about a series of Miró prints that inspired me. He used some of his plates repeatedly on the same paper. In between prints, he would rotate the plate by 180 degrees. He got some very interesting results, especially when using another color for […]
Today’s piece is a companion to yesterday’s. A little more information about my process: I drew the design first. Since I drew the lines with a permanent oil pen, I was free to wash the entire paper with watercolor. I chose an earth color, to copy the backgrounds in some of the paintings in Miró’s […]
