Walter Logeman Art Project 2006-7
#0705 Empire State
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Not the last go I will have at the Empire State or the New York skyline. This little portal to the icon was just across the road from where I stayed.
Interesting name now I think of it. Empire State – were they neo-cons back then who wanted to dominate the world?
#0668 San Francisco
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On my way to Hayes Valley.
#0623 De Young
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On Friday We went to the De Young. I like the building. I even like the mesh now. There was one flaw, the top viewing deck is “elevator only”, ridiculous. We met a friend of Amy’s Joe Mangrum. Does ephemeral art. I liked the Hiroshimo Sugimoto exhibit, the suble siplicity of the seascapes and the art about art idea is present in his long warrior photo.
Continue reading “De Young – Bay Area Figurative – Richard Diebenkorn”
#0568 Red City
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11″ x 8.5″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival matte paper.
I love to doodle & try things – this looks a bit computery and it is. I think I used about five programs in my fiddling, but it did not take that long for all that.
I have some San Francisco skylines in mind and so this is a warm-up .
#561 Victorian
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11″ x 8.5″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival matte paper.
I am loving all the Victorian wooden Buildings, just like the ones we lived next to in Chester Street in Christchurch!
I will keep sketching till I find a style I like & then do more …
#0483 Chalice
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Neil Dawson’s sculpture in the Christchurch square. Had an idea that as I have the Sydney icons and the Wellington one, what about Christchurch? But it is not in that class for me. Not that I don’t like it. I look out my bathroom and there is a mature lancewood, and it creates a silhouette just like sections of the Chalice. It is also somewhat balanced with the tower of the Cathedral, and you’d think that being a person who descends in to alchemical depths that a chalice would suit me more than a spire. But not really in this place.
I’d like to see the square grey and flat with just the cathedral. I’d force the banks to have only human friendly shops facing the square – high incentives for foot traffic friendly places, big tax sticks for glass walls & anything that does not generate foot traffic. More cafes, pubs, galleries, tee shirt shops (we have those already).
So the chalice to me is an art display, not an iconic feature, and so it needs to find a better home. A square is not a gallery, though some works might go in a square, to build the squareness of it not to compete with it. Neil Dawson’s hanging staircase in the Arts Centre seems to enhance and not compete with the courtyard.
#482 Beehive
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11″ x 8.5″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival mat paper.
It loomed like a space ship over me in the dusk. This is in the middle of a city, but the trees and the building filled the scene. This is the government head office in Wellington known as the Beehive.
#468 Bunker 2
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#467 Bunker 1
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Kate & I have been on some great walks in the Port Hills of Christchurch lately. Above Lyttelton are some old concrete structures, I’ll call them bunkers. The were part of the defences against the Japanese who almost invaded New Zealand in WWII. They are quite beautiful sitting there on the hillside. The remind me of Lois Khan buildings (though I have only seen pix) – and I want to draw more of these buildings with minimalist strong lines. Basic stuff. One Khan image done a while back – Salk Interior.
The sketches are from the photos I took, and here are some more pix, to contextualise the sketches.