After an encounter with a seal (who visited my dreams and cured my aching sacrum) I am strongly feeling the presence of these graceful creatures… the synchronicity of finding this conversation lights up my world, magic as a way of perceiving differently….
Contains the line:
“…David do you mean that that rock literally spoke to you?”
and more here:
The largest Ivy heart 2020
“Intricacies” 2020
Loose connections and brief encounters” 2020
“She came from Nowhere” Cyprus shadows and Dryad 2020
During Lockdown archetypes whirled about and this one surfaced “The Magician”
Selected for the Indie Cork Festival 2020
…moment…
[ moh-muhnt ]
an indefinitely short period of time; instant
the present time or any other particular time
a definite period or stage
importance or consequence
a period of success
MONUMENT
[ noun mon-yuh-muh nt; verb mon-yuh-ment ]
something erected in memory of a person, event, etc.,
any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age
any enduring evidence or notable example of something
an exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality
and also a verb….. (a doing)………
*(abbreviated & adapted from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/monument)*
Talking with the students at Killard House School this week, revisiting the moments we spent together at the MAC International in February and bringing forth some old mo(nu)ments – one could say these things I have piled up here on my desk are enduring (if inscrutable) evidence (perhaps even personifications) of an indefinitely short period of time (I had named them ‘witness’) ……or to be ambivalent – from the perspective of now – the now – of any number of other times, as they have lain in my studio as a constant ….beckoning……
in “still life” – primordial object – form becomes matter.. original purpose withdraws, the thing vitality is solid, its performance magnified in the stillness of its own particular vibration, inscrutable, ever present, monumental.
I decided not to submit, though am tempted by the Eigse curatorial theme this year :
This year’s Art Works Open Submission invites artists to submit work that considers farming, sustenance and encounters with the land.
Encounters with the land perhaps, farming at a pinch, sustenance yes. Ecology drawings can spin from all of these things. Titles remain elusive for now…
Nearing horizons: Weather growth knot
Beeswing: Comb rhymes with home
Some of the drawings from my Mixed Ecology Series will be on show at the glorious Siopa gan Ainm, Cornmarket St., Cork as part of Zolala #17 from the 14th February. This one is rrrRadiatorrrrr
I am constantly trying to tune in with chance in my practice, invoking coincidence and allowing random events and chance encounters to open up connections with the world about me and help me to tune in to resonances from the universe.
This drawing I called Tesla’s Egg, and I made at the end of August . At the same time astronomers were getting their first magnetic waves back from a collision of neutron stars 130 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth…..as I found out from an article published in Discover Magazine this week
these coincidences offer moments of synchronicity perhaps a tapping into the fine tuning of universal phenomena…. I am struck by Robert Dienel’s impression of the event and how similar in form it is to my drawing…
this is from an article
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/10/16/gravitational-wave-neutron-stars/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=News0_DSC_171016_000000_Final&utm_content=&spMailingID=31037036&spUserID=MTE2MDc4NTMyNzY5S0&spJobID=1142063036&spReportId=MTE0MjA2MzAzNgS2#.WeTw74ZrxZoreate
