Tag: oil on aluminium

Between Silence and Substance: The Generative and Transformative Power of Pictopoiesis

    Between Silence and Substance: The Generative and Transformative Power of Pictopoiesis A deeply rooted cycle of regeneration and transformation threads through my work, progressing over four decades. Central to this ongoing evolution are pictopoiesis, semiosis, and symbiosis – three guiding forces. Pictopoiesis is the art of painting as if it were the cultivation […]

The Symbiotic Evolution of Art: Cultivating a Living Painting

A painting in progress involves a continuous cycle of conscious removal and return, as I work on it and then step back to reflect on it. This dynamic, a bodily experience in which I am both creator and viewer, is significant in pictopoiesis. The painting evolves like a living organism, a growing and developing body […]

What does intelligence look like?

This post is informed by the Antikythera Studio webinar and the Cognitive Infrastructures theme. The Antikythera Studio will be at Central St Martins this Summer, where the MA Visual Arts, Fine Art Digital course, from which I graduated in 2019, is now based. MIND MIRROR – step back and breathe in the atmosphere of your own […]

Poem a Day

As a start to the day, I love to receive these poems, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation, and this one, along with so many others I have received, is beautiful: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/157534/christos This led me to prompt the ever-so-popular AI bot (see below dotted line at the end of this post) which always gives me a […]

Titles for paintings

I have added dimensions and current titles to the images in the previous post. This naming of work is something I have talked about in a previous post. It is possible that the works will acquire additional titles in the future as they may reidentify themselves once they are fully in the world – much the […]

The future as a matter of the continuously evolving past

The painting above (125 x 127 cm) is one I have been working on today as I would like to complete it for the Summer show. It has been suspended for a year having been started early on in the MA. Here is a reminder of how it began and its story so far:

Founding, Refinding and Unfolding

Precedents:   I did not imagine it I made it to disclose the instant through the instance of its making … Painting series above by JWR: each oil on aluminium, different scales (largest approx 125 x 125cm) Notes to self: founding and unfolding pictopiesis//qualities: corporeality, thingliness, dinglichung//https://phenomenology//architectural – line, point, weave, fabric, loom, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology         […]