Rilke poem rendered this week. This image shows the pencil marks for the mat; the marks were erased later.
Tallahassee #4
Here’s another one. There was another one — I don’t have an image for it — which was reader poem about the 2000 election. I did it as a sort of reverse to this one: white italic poem on black center, with black copperplate Election 2000 words on white. I like the idea of having the two election subjects done in a similar manner to connect events which are separated in history by 25 years.
Tallahassee #3
Another one for the exhibit, which will actually happen now, I think. This one contrasts two articles from the newspaper — a 1930 article congratulating the women of Tallahassee on declining to send a bathing beauty contestant to the Miami competition, and one in 1974 discussing the new craze: streaking.
Tallahassee #2
Tallahassee: In Its Own Words
Here’s a piece that may not see the light of day in real life. I’ve been working on 10 pieces for a show that was to be hung tomorrow in the local community theater. The pieces are based on lines from the script of the play that starts next Friday. This had been in the works for 2 months, but there may not be room for my pieces.
In the original post, the picture was much bluer than this one. This one’s color-corrected.
What not to do
Sometime when you don’t have a project that must be done, head over to 52 Projects and check out the exhaustive list of what not to do when you’ve got a project deadline.
Yes, I’ve got a project deadline. And I can’t believe how much of that list I’ve accomplished just today 🙂
So small a thing
The dogs days of summer
Little landscapes
A column of little landscapes
Here is a study I did last week. I started with the column of little landscapes, with no particular purpose in mind. Later, I added this quotation from Alexander McCall Smith’s book Portugese Irregular Verbs, amazed when, with no copyfitting or planning ahead, the length of the text fit the length of the column of paintings. This kind of fortuity doesn’t come along every day, or week, or even year.
I wanted to reproduce the feeling of texture engendered by the text itself, so I used no line spacing and tight letter spacing.
And here’s some detail: