Category: Conceptual art

  • Thoughts confned

    Taken for granted simple things are often complex, made difficult through circumstances.

    Movement,  Thought, Understanding, Centred in our universes, we are confined.

    interlectual confines

    “I am trapped, confined in the matrix of my time, whilst thoughts orbit around the centre of I”

     

     

     

     

  • “Simplistic Complexity”

    “Evening Entrance to Cockburn Street  – Edinburgh”

     is the latest picture based on the concept of

    “Simplistic Complexity”

    A  concept has been distilling over a number of years now.

    entrance to cockburn street edinburgh
    “Evening Entrance To Cockburn Street”
    – Edingburgh

    This concept is on the premise that we use vertical line to make sense of our surroundings and to orientate.

    The colour information is distilled and the vertical lines added in high contrast.

    The concept grew out of a series of painting  called City Signatures which in turnt gave birth to

    Edinburgh cityscapes and finally “Evening Entrance to Cockburn Street = Edinburgh”   is the latest

    the journey continues.

    Does it have a presence ?

  • A visual experiment – dyslexia

    Dyslexia a disability – not just different but a disability

    – why? because:  “They say so –

    They insist that you need to conform to their perceived normality, they are the norm you are not.
    – Because you see things different and deviate from the norm you have a
    disability, you cannot just be different.

    The following simple visual experiment to permit  the “normal” the reader in experiencing the effect.

    Prufrock

    The vowels have been allocated different colours.
     

    How easy did you find it to read?

     Did your reading slow down?

    Imagine having to do this every time you read a piece of text.

    Disability or enhanced ability – you decide.

  • Dyslexia, Art and the meaning of Life

    It has been suggested that the phenomena of dyslexia may be the next stage of human evolution; individuals who are gifted with the phenomena

    of dyslexia often see more than others.  At times they may read slower, but imagine if you had to decode every page first would it not slow down your reading?

    In the beginning was the word but there was always another element the spaces between the words, a hidden code, just like without silence there can be no music.

    Reading without the spaces i is just one big word-search, difficult to understand.  As an artist every written page, past present or future is a unique piece of art.

    This is the first piece that was created Hamlet In Dyslexia,

    Each dot represents a space whilst the dark flowing lines represented the “rivers” often experienced on a page sometimes static

    at other times skipping and dancing down the page.

     

    The next piece created focused on the vowels in a piece of poetry by T S Eliot each vowel allocated a colour.

    The aim here was to simulate the promotional effect that is sometimes experienced where certain letters

    seem to jump of the page whilst others seem to hide in the distance giving the text a 3D effect.

     

    The final piece in this post is Numeric Symphony in Red and is based on the effect that when you look at a table of numbers  they seem to come together

    and dance.Numeric Symphony in Red

    Curiously although this is based on numbers most viewers who have dyslexic traits can see the numbers

    quickly whilst those who have not the gift see dancing shapes.

     

    finally  I would like to leave you with a comment I heard or imagined cannot remember which :

    ” Dyslexia is frustrating, – Frustrating waiting for others to catch up”.

     That all for now, as usual look forward to hearing your views.

     

     

     

  • An Unsolicited tribute to Leonard Cohen

    Imafe of Famous blue rain coat

    It was at six on the third under a chocolate sky that he appeared in his famous blue raincoat,

    you know the one, the one that was torn at the shoulder.

     Still talking,

     “But when he new for certain that only drowning men could see him. “

    image of rescue_of_a_drowning_man

     Does the drowning person    consider that the rescuer  may be a  deviant, or has a pretty smile?

     Or is it breath that occupies the mind?

     Both tributes to the brilliant   poetic songs and

    ability of Mr. Leonard Cohen,who has given pleasure to me and so many over the years.

  • Aspects of Pi and Phi

    Pi

    Oh! faithful servant of nature, art and life

    You are loved

    and so a gift

          immortality in design .

    Thank you, Pi for your patience.

    Image of Aspect pf Pi

    Does the gift please ?