Instead of focusing on my painting as being something limited and constrained, even though it has arisen out of limitation and constraint, I have focused instead on the potential it represents. This begins with the blank white surface, a situation I have come to see in terms of the painting’s Negative Capability – the notion […]
Category: Free Writing
Pictopoiesis – first video
Making my MPR video was a steep learning curve – which is what I like as I now have a new tool in the form of the video storytelling format. Also, I actually enjoyed doing the narration, which surprised me. My idea is to build up, improving as I go a series of very short […]
The painting begins
In the first stage of the painting, I begin to set down shapes Shape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_and_form_(visual_arts) Specifically, it is an enclosed space, the boundaries of which are defined by other elements of art. Shapes are limited to two dimensions: length and width. These shapes grow from within. Each one feels its own extension and is aware of […]
And We Begin Again
Beginning the next painting, (125 x 127 cm, oil on aluminium) So here you are and we begin again you are beautiful just as you are I turn you around and around all ways I would like to keep you forever just like this but I can only have you for a short time because […]
Face to Face – Emerging as Itself
Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there, I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. https://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/en/writings/song-of-myself/section-44 (moving top right towards bottom left) […]
The line as a continuum of corporeality
unedited, unpunctuated stream of thought/free verse concerning the painting and its making: (image below is detail of top right-hand area of the painting in the header of this post, in its present state) chalazae cultivating to somehow suspend and span the unbounded whole this invisible somehow most real by its corporeality paint is corporeal its body […]
Lines on Lines and Lines on Lines on Lines
Lines on lines by J.Waring Rago: edited, unpunctuated, contd: Lines are points which have grown Lines suggest architecture Parallel lines suggest strong structure Lines represent edges Lines misrepresent edges A line denotes the horizon The horizon is not a line There is no such thing as the horizon line A single line makes a […]
Post for Second Symposium
My previous post gave the background (with a lot of technical stuff too) for my exhibit at 2 Girls Gallery. The exhibit consisted of a small 25 x 25cm, oil on aluminium painting and a digital animation, duration just over 2 minutes. which I would like to demonstrate here. So please see below the two items, along […]
Sentences on the Line (continued)
Sentences on the line (contd): I may repeat a sentence The sentence is never the same again These sentences are not rules, These sentences are elemental These sentences are elementary These sentences have endless progression These sentences contain endless expansion Many lines can represent that which a single line does not Many lines can represent […]
Line
as an extension to the continued first tutorial with Jonathan Kearney I add to the sentences so far: (the painting progresses further, header image detailing line) Sentences on the line by J Waring Rago: (second draft) a line is a dot which has grown straight lines suggest structure, particularly lines in parallel an edge is usually […]