Cyclist
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Cyclist, © Tim Lowly, 1993, ink on paper, 9" x 6", private collection.
In this image of my friend John speeding towards me on a bicycle I was interested (when–many years after taking the photograph–I was thinking about making it into an ink painting) in the image’s compelling sense of mystery, action and potential danger. While working on the ink painting I was thinking of Turner's painting Rain, Steam, and Speed and the futuristic (zooming into the future) implications of the image. I'm not sure how much I was aware of this at the time I made the drawing, but there is also a meaningfulness in making that complicates the image: the initial spontaneous and instantaneous snapshot of a figure blurred in motion then replicated with a labor intensive, meditative act of making the painting. This was a very different process than traditional Korean ink painting, but in some respect similarly meditative.
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Cyclist
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Cyclist, © Tim Lowly, 1993, ink on paper, 9" x 6", private collection.
In this image of my friend John speeding towards me on a bicycle I was interested (when–many years after taking the photograph–I was thinking about making it into an ink painting) in the image’s compelling sense of mystery, action and potential danger. While working on the ink painting I was thinking of Turner's painting Rain, Steam, and Speed and the futuristic (zooming into the future) implications of the image. I'm not sure how much I was aware of this at the time I made the drawing, but there is also a meaningfulness in making that complicates the image: the initial spontaneous and instantaneous snapshot of a figure blurred in motion then replicated with a labor intensive, meditative act of making the painting. This was a very different process than traditional Korean ink painting, but in some respect similarly meditative.
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