Redrawing the Landscape
Explorations at the intersection of traditional process, new media and digital tools.
Progressive abstraction. Process-led psychogeographic redrawing of familiar landscapes using traditional and digital media
Progressive abstraction. Process-led psychogeographic redrawing of familiar landscapes using traditional and digital media
after Justo Gallego Martinez
A finished piece, a work that is part of an evolving line of enquiry and a complete and finished work in and of itself. It sits within the enquiry but can also stand alone.
The decision to make this a “diptych” - that is, to show the finished work, but also to make the process part of the finished work is significant, and relevant to the line of enquiry itself.
The decision to make this a “diptych” - that is, to show the finished work, but also to make the process part of the finished work is significant, and relevant to the line of enquiry itself.
How to Build a Cathedral | Diptych 2021
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Cathedral Builders - John Ormond
They climbed on sketchy ladders towards God, with winch and pulley hoisted hewn rock into heaven, inhabited the sky with hammers, defied gravity, deified stone, took up God's house to meet him, and came down to their suppers and small beer, every night slept, lay with their smelly wives, quarrelled and cuffed the children,lied, spat, sang, were happy, or unhappy, and every day took to the ladders again, impeded the rights of way of another summer's swallows, grew greyer, shakier, became less inclined to fix a neighbour's roof of a fine evening, |
saw naves sprout arches, clerestories soar, cursed the loud fancy glaziers for their luck, somehow escaped the plague, got rheumatism, decided it was time to give it up, to leave the spire to others, stood in the crowd, well back from the vestments at the consecration, envied the fat bishop his warm boots, cocked a squint eye aloft, and said, 'I bloody did that.' |