03-02-2013, 12:00 AM
We hear about light jewels and dark jewels
here is an attempt by me about 10 years ago to discern them,
In my university days i experimented with float Glass
taking about 8 kilos of normal by Browse to Save">window glass
i cut it up into squares.. and put it into terracotta plant pots (with a
central hole in the base).. on shelves in a kiln so that as the glass
melted it would flow into plaster and bentonite ingot molds beneath..
on making the ingots.. once they had cooled i would smash them to pieces
with a large V shaped bit of an anvil.. essentially having two ingots
worth in a bucket.
i would then select shapes i liked.. and shapes i did not..
the shapes i liked where markedly more round.. and the ones not.. were hooked and cruel like beaks and claws..
once this separation by Browse to Save">process
was achieved i placed them in the terracotta plantpots(with a hole in
the bottom) one pot of cruelty and one pot of peace.. in the kiln above
the molds and melted them BOTH through the holes again!
apon collecting my ingots of DIFFERENT AESTHETIC ORIGIN but identical form(both now the same dimension ingots)
I smashed them up with a V shaped bit of a blacksmiths anvil into a
buckets worth and selected the aesthetic again..thus extracting peaceful
aesthetic from the cruel formed ingot and vice versa and put the pieces
into melting pots again)
I repeated the process again and again and again possibly 5-6 times
.perpetually melting hooks and claws on the left hand pot.. and rounds
in the right.. heaping together and discerning apart melting down twin
combining smashing up and mixing!until the glass could not take it any
more and had become a bluey white opaque substance... thus losing an
aesthetic of clarity.
and i threw them into a by Browse to Save">skip outside.
the most interesting piece of the work.. was not the completely arbitary
sorting, melting and throwing away of an ENTIRE MODULE of work! it was
in MY MINDs response which intrigued me!
as an artist i imagine process and creation..
and yet although i could EASILY imagine the safe aesthetic melting into its ingot.
the Image of the pot of cruel shapes was impossible to project the process apon.
STRANGE as the two pots melted at the same time in the same by Browse to Save">box.
you would have thought the sincerity of time and 700degrees centigrade..and a half tonne container would have fused the two
streams together within the truth of their FORM!
aesthetic is accord with will and resitance to will..
it is resitence to process on one hand and extrapolation of process on the other.. TIME is confused between the two!
and should we forget the ugly will always return to a place we cannot comrehend it..
and it is from there it wreaks havoc on the subconsious.
The dark jewels are much the same.
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cutting out peoples hearts and imagining dragonflies BOTH HAPPENED.. twin streams.
here is an attempt by me about 10 years ago to discern them,
In my university days i experimented with float Glass
taking about 8 kilos of normal by Browse to Save">window glass
i cut it up into squares.. and put it into terracotta plant pots (with a
central hole in the base).. on shelves in a kiln so that as the glass
melted it would flow into plaster and bentonite ingot molds beneath..
on making the ingots.. once they had cooled i would smash them to pieces
with a large V shaped bit of an anvil.. essentially having two ingots
worth in a bucket.
i would then select shapes i liked.. and shapes i did not..
the shapes i liked where markedly more round.. and the ones not.. were hooked and cruel like beaks and claws..
once this separation by Browse to Save">process
was achieved i placed them in the terracotta plantpots(with a hole in
the bottom) one pot of cruelty and one pot of peace.. in the kiln above
the molds and melted them BOTH through the holes again!
apon collecting my ingots of DIFFERENT AESTHETIC ORIGIN but identical form(both now the same dimension ingots)
I smashed them up with a V shaped bit of a blacksmiths anvil into a
buckets worth and selected the aesthetic again..thus extracting peaceful
aesthetic from the cruel formed ingot and vice versa and put the pieces
into melting pots again)
I repeated the process again and again and again possibly 5-6 times
.perpetually melting hooks and claws on the left hand pot.. and rounds
in the right.. heaping together and discerning apart melting down twin
combining smashing up and mixing!until the glass could not take it any
more and had become a bluey white opaque substance... thus losing an
aesthetic of clarity.
and i threw them into a by Browse to Save">skip outside.
the most interesting piece of the work.. was not the completely arbitary
sorting, melting and throwing away of an ENTIRE MODULE of work! it was
in MY MINDs response which intrigued me!
as an artist i imagine process and creation..
and yet although i could EASILY imagine the safe aesthetic melting into its ingot.
the Image of the pot of cruel shapes was impossible to project the process apon.
STRANGE as the two pots melted at the same time in the same by Browse to Save">box.
you would have thought the sincerity of time and 700degrees centigrade..and a half tonne container would have fused the two
streams together within the truth of their FORM!
aesthetic is accord with will and resitance to will..
it is resitence to process on one hand and extrapolation of process on the other.. TIME is confused between the two!
and should we forget the ugly will always return to a place we cannot comrehend it..
and it is from there it wreaks havoc on the subconsious.
The dark jewels are much the same.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cutting out peoples hearts and imagining dragonflies BOTH HAPPENED.. twin streams.