Batten down the hatches
Collage by deborah harris, using an image of Botero's sculpted head.
Playing with spaces
by Sae Kimura
by deborah harris
Season of the Reindeer
Photographs from the book 'GENESIS'
by Sebastiao Salgado
Friday's healthy suggestion
We are thinking about our dear friend Yayo.
"Hi Yayo!"
Tuesday with Picasso
Matador 1970 by Pablo Picasso
At the table
Painting by Mark Rothko
Love thy neighbour...
Liberty
crossing the desert
carrying what is left of the flag
face hidden beneath the stars.
Sheep huddle a distance behind
they do not know if she is friend or foe,
they don't remember when she was their shepherd,
when she kept them safe.
Liberty: freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
freedom from control, thinking, speaking , according to choice.
freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint:
A long climb up
...and then what?
Musical Interlude
Joseph Lammirato generously constructs and installs his works on telephone poles
on streets in cities far and wide. He has created these new works and hung them on
the wall surrounding the outside courtyard at the gallery. It seems when you stand
next to them that you are seeing music written on the fence.
Please come and visit.
Improvisation on Chagall
Marc Chagall
The Bride and Groom of the Eiffel Tower (1938-39).
What the birds are wearing
Thank goodness it's Friday!
The Second Experiment
Collage by Sae Kimura
I have a little bit of headache
Collage by deborah harris
8 new works in collage gallery
By Eduard Zibnitski
The Cowgirls Visit
Installation in the main gallery
Charcoal drawing by Vivian Felsen
Waiting
Irresistible
finding a fragment of an image
left lying on the table.
Every semblance of identity removed
and what remains?
eye and nose, closely cropped
looking at a single point of focus, me
when I return that stare..
The face, incomplete
seeks another eye.
In paisley landscape what seems to be
an inward gaze and where the lines converge and twist
small circle, questioning, surprised,
a mouth
The features are expressed.
Without a body the face is a mask.
A body gives place to a face.
When it sits the face can nestle
drop in between the shoulders
chin slide towards resolve.
Hands
make agreement with visage
spontaneously sharing a language
known by habit.
Legs and arms are limbs from the same tree.
They may have sprouted from the head, roots
from the lima bean experiment in grade one.
The possibility of moving is in the feet
or of waiting
undecided,
to stay or to go.
Going is compact but serious.
Staying is inappropriate in the rough terrain
but tempting.
She could almost disappear in the surroundings
is porcelain against the rocks.
Light blushes crystal
bewitching time at sunset
sacred and auspicious,
to be here now.
dh
Harvesting Sunflowers
Photographs by Simeon Posen on exhibit in the photography gallery
In retreat
Mark Rothko, Woman Reading 1933
Moving towards the space between
It is observable that opposite colours
have a tension and a vibration between
them. A dynamic reverberation which
infuses the space between them.
Big Little Lion
This collage was made for a little big Leo friend, Oto, for his 4th birthday.
Big energy in a small body.
How do you know what you know?
A little bird told me so.
Just pretending to fish
We will resume the blog on Tuesday August 13th.
Be well.
The Art of Boro
Boro (ぼろ) are a class of Japanese textiles that have been mended or patched together.[1] The term is derived from the Japanese term "boroboro", meaning something tattered or repaired.[2] The term 'boro' typically refers to cotton, linen and hemp materials, mostly hand-woven by peasant farmers, that have been stitched or re-woven together to create an often many-layered material used for warm, practical clothing.
"Artists together"...
...as our friend Floyd Kuptana used to say.
Faces
Video installation by Joachim Oepkes
From one room to another
something to be explored
Questions open doors
...answers close them
try to keep asking
A Pissarro Day
Berneval Meadows Morning
Camille Pissarro 1830-1903
A little bit of matcha green
(It looks bigger because it's closer than the boot)
Inspired
Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)
Marie at the Balcony Railing 1893
In the heat of the moment
Collage by Eron Boyd
Observing the creative process
Sometimes in collage workshops participants will express
that they are bored that their work seems to repeat patterns.
I believe recognizing our patterns makes perception visible.
We are able to see what we see or rather how we see.
Perhaps repetition is an attempt to penetrate understanding?
The above paintings are by Giorgio de Chirico.
1888-1978
Too Much to Attend to...
...but nothing has dropped yet.
Sharing Inspiration
Today we had a visit from our friend Eric McConachie who lives and paints at his home in Haliburton.
During our visit he shared stories with us of Peter Camani.
This video will introduce him also to you.
Joyful
Sometimes when I open my mouth
a rhino comes out running
another pauses close behind
considering
Running and Considering
friendly siblings
on either side of expression.
Out of the boudoir into the feild, a collage journey
Collage by deborah harris
Painting by Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947
A fugue in three movements
Collage by deborah harris
Collage by Jill Lawrence
Collage by Eron Boyd
Crow complains and Eagle listens
Photo by Dominique Cruchet
"The spring is here and the fields are full of yellow color and we met a crow and an eagle having a conversation in the middle of a field. It felt joyous to have seen them and that they kept arguing in front of us."
From Joan Cullen and Dominique Cruchet in Prince Edward Island
Three Faces
Collage by deborah harris
The Rescue
Today we changed the Library to be home to the painting 'Wolf' by Travis Shilling.
Travis Shilling is represented by Ingram Gallery in Yorkville where he has been showing since 2012
You can treat yourself to a view of these exhibitions on their website.
Walking through an arbour of blossoms
Early morning Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan
In the Dark Room
Daniel Hanequand had direct experience of war. Some years after surviving that experience he made these
pieces, eight in total. We did not have occasion to meet him but we met his wife, Maria Carla, and she
bequeathed some of his work to us. I think that we are living in a time when we need to reflect upon the
madness and sacrifice of war. It is a privilege to be able to show this work which does not champion
political sides but instead awakes us to the enormous cost to all of us if we allow ourselves to be infected
by hate.
Balancing
Collage by deborah harris
Wind and Sun and Chocolate (TGIF)
"Today the wind is not mean." SK
Companions
Collage by Eron Boyd
Where to look if you loose your baguette
Photograph by Simeon Posen, collage intervention by deborah harris
A meeting in the library with three engineering students
How to describe a space which is not merely shaped by walls and ceiling and floors
a space which is held and shaped by attention
a space which changes shape by the questions it poses, by the forms placed in it.
Somethings are too overwhelming to explain.... but we can try
Today's inquiry... what is skill , the ability , through repeated practice to do something well, what part does skill play in all creative endeavors and
what is that other part, the mysterious inspiration which sparks that skill.
A ship takes skill to build, the skill and strength of many workers.
A wave does not take skill, a wave happens.
Couch, the verb
Please, lay down on the couch I have prepared
and I will try to keep my objections gentle
my observations fair and fact
Couched statements are not too heavy,
resisting gravity and serious complaint.
Their feet are poised to fly,
practising exit,
lest they offend.
Not sleeping
The story evolves
Today we added three paintings to the Genesis Gallery.
As is happens when you add or subtract one object everything must shift,
and so it was.
In the top image we hung 'Awakening' by Andrea Maguire
In the context of 'moved by the invisible' it seems to be the spirit which animates the figure in the black kimono.
In the middle image we see 'Fairgrounds' by Chris Langsthroth.
In this painting there are seven figures walking together.
The pillars behind by Ramona Zoladek seem to emerge from the strokes of paint.
There are also seven figures in the painting 'Returning Home' by deborah harris.
All the figures have perhaps left what appeared to be the 'ark'.
They have landed and disembarked to begin another part of the journey.
Remembering
Floyd Kuptana drawing his line in the studio some years ago
Running together thirteen hours apart
...one in the past one in the future
trying to meet in the present
Neither in nor out
Collage by deborah harris
Flying fish
The day that I received this photo from Sae (still in Japan) I had a conversation about planes and how
I could not be complacent about how strange and extraordinary it is that we can make something so
huge and make it float in the air. I thought that if I could make an image of whales in the sky perhaps
it would remind us. Sae sent me this image in reverse, the reflection was not as obvious because
it was upside down but when we turned it around it became the image I had imagined.
Close Up and Far Away
Mount Fuji as seen from Ashigar-toge Pass, north -east of Odawara, Japan.
Here comes the sun, la la la la la
Today the sun came out!
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
I don/t want to blame Sae's visit to Japan for our lack of sunshine but...
