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Painting acrylic on canvas,size 30+30 cm,2015.This is a decorative work, I love interesting patterns and combinations of different colors.
Assignment was to photograph triangle. My mind just doesn’t see them for photo composition. So here is a snapshot of a patch on my backpack
Penrose Triangle... Created by Oscar Reutersvärd... and described by psychologist Lionel Penrose and his mathematician son Roger Penrose as "impossibility in its purest form"...designed in #adobeillustrator #adobephotoshop by Gary Horne...
Two mirror triangles, they form diamond, which is basic block for the quilt. Whoe quilt is here: www.flickr.com/photos/imichalova/2588398552/
From the 1890s (?) and tied with wool yarn rather than quilted. Prized by it's owner for the fabrics.
Tres ángulos tuvo esta relación, cada ángulo representaba de nosotros lo que nos mantenía juntos, líneas perfectas que sin darnos cuenta crearon diferentes caminos, secciones paralelas. Tres argumentos distintos a un problema de los dos.
Wikipedia: The Hess triangle is a triangular tile mosaic set in a sidewalk in New York City's West Village neighborhood at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street. The plaque reads "Property of the Hess Estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes.
The plaque is the result of a dispute between the city government and the estate of David Hess, a landlord from Philadelphia who owned the Voorhis, a five-story apartment building. In the 1910s the city claimed eminent domain to expropriate and demolish hundreds of buildings in the area in order to widen Seventh Avenue and expand the IRT subway. According to Ross Duff Wyttock, writing in the Hartford Courant in 1928, Hess's heirs discovered that, when the city seized the Voorhis, the survey had missed this small corner of the plot and they set up a notice of possession. The city asked the family to donate the diminutive property to the public, but they refused and installed the present, defiant mosaic on July 27, 1922.
In 1938 the property, reported to be the smallest plot in New York City, was sold to the adjacent Village Cigars store for $1,000, approximately $2 per square inch. The new owners left the plaque in place, and, as of 2015, it remains.
Justin
The new section of the trail at the Triangle Garden, not quite completed, pushed through by the Parks and Trails Society and being finished by the Townsite Ratepayers Association, all with volunteer labour. The Garden is a small jewel in the city and this extension makes it even better.
This is in the front of the old Tulsa Club Building, a hot spot during Tulsa's oil boom. It was built in 1927 but has been abandoned for the past 20 years. It recently sold to a gentlemen that dreams of refurbishing the building and bringing back the rooftop dining it once had. It will be nice to see the building come back to life again.
When I woke up this morning I felt singularly uninspired. The stroll I took first thing to look at what nature was growing didn't improve my mood. I did witness, however, the dog owner who lets his dogs **** all over the place without clearing it up that I mentioned last week. He's one of those people who drives away from his home then lets his dogs out to crap in someone elses back yard (not literally) then they get straight back in the car to drive home again. I suspect he might have to give up on his little scheme quite soon.
I've been wanting to move away from the leaves and light series and explore some new materials and ideas. Despite all this being just something I do for my own satisfaction I do feel some, I guess self-imposed, pressure. I don't really know where the ideas come from and I am fearful that one day they will dry up, especially if I had hit on something good with the leaf series but I cannot repeat that formula with something new. I guess we all think a little too much about things sometimes.
Yesterday I collected some very tall grasses and started to play around making 3d shapes - pyramids, diamonds, cubes - and lacking inspiration I though I would combine them with coloured leaves. At this point my doubting thoughts increased and I thought to myself "is this art? Just repeating the same formula isnt art, what new things am I learning? what new things am I discovering about nature?"
And therein lies the secret that was hidden from my conciousness this morning. There aren't any discoveries to make in the thinking or the planning or indeed the worrying. Instead you need to just "do" (I haven't been talking to Yoda honestly) and so I did. I sat down with these grasses and some thorns and just got absorbed in making all sorts of little things.
I tried and tried to make little diamonds with coloured leaf windows but it was just far too difficult. I had neither the skill nor the patience to get it right. But all the while the land art lessons you often receive when exploring a new material started to seep around the edges. For several hours I learned about these grasses, their structure and form, their pliability and what they lent themselves to be made into just by playing around with them without expectation.
And so I remembered that this is what it is all about. By trying to make things you learn many new aspects about the plant and what you can do with it. Its like a tandem race. The material shows you what you can do with it and constrains what it is possible to make and then your artistic imagination catches up and you reach a point where knowledge of the material combines into making something new that both expresses the properties of that material, what you have learnt about it and your idea for an artistic representation of all those things.
I am always saying that the material itself and how it behaves influences the final result. It isn't just that the sculpture is made out of the material it is more than that. This is going to sound really arty-farty and when I used to read this stuff when other people spouted it I thought it was total guff. But I've never been to art school or been indoctrinated to be airy-fairy, I am a computer programmer after all who studied science at school! But it really does feel like a symbiotic relationship creates each sculpture. The material, environment and nature have an influence, I have an influence and they combine to achieve the finished result. But it is more than just using the material itself. It is as though the influence nature exhibits I am aware of at the time but I don't or indeed can't control it and each material and environment that I work in and with provides a different experience. It's really hard to explain but I hope some of what I am getting at comes across. It honestly feels like nature behaves in a sentient way and influences what I am doing. Of course I realise that I am anthropomorphising nature and that isn't what is really happening. I am just trying to convey that that is how it feels and the meditative quality of getting to know a natural material in that way can be very satifying and enlightening. I think that is why I am drawn back again and again to make something new. The little discoveries it brings me to are very interesting to me and touch me deeply but in a way that is hard to express. That said that isn't always the case and sometimes it's just for fun. Perhaps these words are reflecting my current introspective mood but what I have grown to love about art is that the whole world of emotion I can feel is present in my experiences making art. I have never in my life before understood that this may be what art is all about when you experience it in this way. It has certainly quite a interesing process whatever is happening at the time.
These triangles are made from that grass I researched this morning and are the culmination of everything I have learnt.
One thing I haven't managed to learn yet is that the midges are still out in force and if you stand knee deep in a stream for a couple of hours that you will get bitten a lot. My partner and I are now covered in red blotches and we look like we have chicken pox. But was it worth it? I think so. I am not sure if my partner agrees. If you made it this far then you'll pleased to know that my arty-farty nonsense normally doesn't last too long and eventually the funny little kid that lives inside me will return. (Multiple personality disorder comes and goes).
This was made for the Land Art Connections project - theme "Water" - June 2009 at Trough Brook near Birk Bank, Lancaster, Lancashire on 20th June 2009.
Triangle quilt along. designer roll of red and yellow Kaffe collective with added stash Kaffe. solids by kona.
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.
Galileo Galilei
Thirty Interlocking Triangles 90 units
In my hand.
This model is the first compound of thirty triangles rendered anywhere, as far as I can tell. It is similar to what would be an icosahedral assembly of the 12 Interlocking Triangles, though not exactly, as the "inner" point at each 3 point macro vertex is not under the edge of the respective "outer" triangle of its' dual macro triangle (if that makes any sense). The result is slightly more "regular" looking than I would prefer- in fact, it is very easy assume at a passing glance that this is in fact one of the unfolded models from Robert Lang's polypolyhedra set. I did the "trivial" 30 triangles compound on the way to this (one where the weaving resembles Annapurna), and once again, like the 12 triangles, it was beautiful, but not very exciting. This weaving is far superior. The model is still slightly loose here, but since this is the third version, I have had enough of it for now.
Designed by me.
Folded out of copy paper.