Comments on: Studio as laboratory http://artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html a multi-disciplinary dialog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:27:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: June http://artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-32344 June Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:34:38 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-32344 Oh Birgit, now you've got me distracted. Our old pear tree is dropping its (hard and pockmarked) fruit on the studio roof and the car in the driveway. As an antidote to the beauty of the pears here, maybe I should concentrate on a still life of the ancient warped inedible and sometimes smooshed by tires kind. Oh Birgit, now you’ve got me distracted.

Our old pear tree is dropping its (hard and pockmarked) fruit on the studio roof and the car in the driveway. As an antidote to the beauty of the pears here, maybe I should concentrate on a still life of the ancient warped inedible and sometimes smooshed by tires kind.

]]> By: birgit http://artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-32335 birgit Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:15:25 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-32335 I just found three pears on our window sill. I played with them arranging them in different ways. Our A&P toy; pears. I just found three pears on our window sill.

I played with them arranging them in different ways. Our A&P toy; pears.

]]> By: June http://artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31954 June Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:30:11 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31954 Karl, It's wonderful that we can accuse ourselves of being both masochistic (wind, sun, heat, gnats, snakes) and self-indulgent (air, light, water, breath, expansiveness) at the same time. Maybe we should claim hedonism and abnegation of self instead? At risk of sounding sentimental and lala I must say that being outside brings me closer to subjects I love and so it's definitely self-indulgent and hedonistic. But if someone wants to think of me as being selfless and fearless (I'm thinking of snakes again), I'm good with that. And Steve, I also like the disappearing pear a whole lot. Is it kin to Karl's blur in its subtle impact? Karl,

It’s wonderful that we can accuse ourselves of being both masochistic (wind, sun, heat, gnats, snakes) and self-indulgent (air, light, water, breath, expansiveness) at the same time. Maybe we should claim hedonism and abnegation of self instead?

At risk of sounding sentimental and lala I must say that being outside brings me closer to subjects I love and so it’s definitely self-indulgent and hedonistic. But if someone wants to think of me as being selfless and fearless (I’m thinking of snakes again), I’m good with that.

And Steve, I also like the disappearing pear a whole lot. Is it kin to Karl’s blur in its subtle impact?

]]> By: Karl Zipser http://artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31952 Karl Zipser Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:33:38 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31952 <em>I too want to hear what Karl has to say about his landscapes — what is it visually that you get from being outside, Karl?</em> June June June, Good question. I need to write about this. I need to explain it to myself. I need to cycle an hour to get to the sea, am at the mercy of the weather -- today too windy to go out there. What exactly is the benefit of painting outside? Is it simply being self-indulgent? I too want to hear what Karl has to say about his landscapes — what is it visually that you get from being outside, Karl?

June June June,

Good question. I need to write about this. I need to explain it to myself. I need to cycle an hour to get to the sea, am at the mercy of the weather — today too windy to go out there. What exactly is the benefit of painting outside? Is it simply being self-indulgent?

]]> By: Birgit http://artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31929 Birgit Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:28:23 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31929 Being familiar with the pear trio from the past blog, I admire Steve's art of cropping. Being familiar with the pear trio from the past blog, I admire Steve’s art of cropping.

]]> By: Steve Durbin http://artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31927 Steve Durbin Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:21:05 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31927 That's an interesting observation, Tree. Having something unobtrusive in the background is one way of complicating the picture a bit, so that one discovers more as one looks longer, repaying the effort of engaging with it. I do like pictures that are intriguing enough to draw one in that way, even if it's not clear why at first. I don't always remember to think about that, though, which is probably good because I might slip into habitual ways of attempting it. Which I might be doing unconsciously, anyway... That’s an interesting observation, Tree. Having something unobtrusive in the background is one way of complicating the picture a bit, so that one discovers more as one looks longer, repaying the effort of engaging with it. I do like pictures that are intriguing enough to draw one in that way, even if it’s not clear why at first. I don’t always remember to think about that, though, which is probably good because I might slip into habitual ways of attempting it. Which I might be doing unconsciously, anyway…

]]> By: Jay Hoffman http://artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31924 Jay Hoffman Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:11:38 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/08/studio-as-laboratory.html#comment-31924 Tree: Terrific! Tree:

Terrific!

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