Walter Logeman Art Project 2006-7
I wrote in the invitation: ““Thousand Sketches†brings together my interest in drawing, psychotherapy and cyberspace in a dramatic & dynamic way.”
I am preparing for a short talk at the launch and these are the three headings for the talk:
This project is at a perfect storm moment for DIY media & creativity. What has come together to enable me is the Tablet PC, broadband, blogging, Trade Me, You tube, and the new printing technology.
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Managed to do it! My first Thousand Sketches video on YouTube
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I was on Plains FM with Ronn 10 October 06, MP3.
My friend Eileen’s response to the story of my project. Thanks Eileen!
Right now the flame is a glow, re-kindling after days of intense focus on my psychotherapy work with the NZAP council.
I have some air-port sketches. (I posted them already)
What does this flame want? Ideas flood in about the whole rather than the sketches. I am sure that online auctions & the market, are integral, not just a business add on. It began with the “sponsored links” on the sketch pages. There a desire, but also a wish to suppress. My way out of that tension – as I have already mentioned here – is Hermes. The very same impulse to crate a hermetic vessel, brings with it the notion of gold and trade, as Hermes is the God of trade… that is how it is in cyberspace.
Art is investment, it is trade, Hermes the trickster has a hand in it.
Make something out of nothing.
I think auctions are right! It is “what it wants to be” it may be me that is holding back, it hard for me to embrace. There is also a learning curve to auctions – and it is a bit much right now.
Khan’s platonism again of course. Here is a quote on the nature of the nature of things.
I posted earlier about my relief that I had a new perspective on the website. I am reading Louis Kahn, and was struck by the similarity when he could not wait for the crane to leave hisbuilding site, and how later he came to see if as his friend,because it stimulated him to think of new forms. Interestingly hesees it as an extension of the arm, much like McLuhan. see quote.
Form is on my mind. I think of the blog as a new form… not that new, I think I posted that idea about 10 years ago. A new form like once the sonnet was a new form. it feels like cooking in this incubator is some sort of form emergence.
Duane Keiser on in his blog “On Painting” is conscious of the online world impacting on art – the blog is even has: “about painting and how the Internet is changing the business of art” in its title . There is something of a shift happening as he abandons galleries for eBay, much in the way My Space is impacting on the music industry.
It all adds up to that the medium is the message.
About once per week I will write an email update about the sketches and how the project & I are doing together. I have a mailing list for that and you can subscribe here. You can also remove yourself at any time.
It is text based, with links to what I think are the highlights of sketches & process.
I have updated the Launch post – it is about to be distributed far & wide.
Have a look: Launch
There is a PDF too – download to print.
I have sketches on Trade Me. Still learning about this too! All part of the “archetecture”. A Web Gallery, a blog and now an auction room. Contrary to my expectations I like the more public viewing! The images have not been up long and there has been more interest as the word goes out.
#80 Hill_Lines3a
I like a couple of things about this one. The silver & gold – as it looked to me – relates to the hills which have been stripped of their native bush – for commercial reasons. And I have worked this from rough sketches to this more definitive … sketch?
That is the trouble – this is beyond sketching. I wanted these things to be sketches in their own right – but this one wants to be a painting. It wants real paint too. Damn. Why is it a problem? There is no way I can do 1000 of these in one year. Ah!
Some of the sketches are having a battle with the project!! I hope they sort it out 🙂
For all that it looks good in its A3+ print!
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