Rock Walls and Mountains

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This is backwards glance at the images that I created earlier this week. I wanted to find the relationship of stone to mountain, and I had the impression that just working them into a single composition would force the similarities to emerge.

Using the working methods from 1990s, this almost happens. The relationships are there, forced by my own sense of design and compositional skill. I take some pleasure in this, in knowing that with enough layering of images, enough going back and forth, I can make (visual) relationships work.

Nonetheless, these are the images that sent me back to the (digital) drawing board. I want to feel the forms, as an artist who draws, who feels contours, edges, volume, weight. This is. after all, to be a period of exploration, not just production.

Out of sequence blog posting. Another idea to explore.

Stones

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I am trying to make sense of the textures of daily life. The stones that now are only evident on the city walls and a few isolated houses. These were once the stones that were also the exterior of the houses, the stones that, in their infinite irregularity, must have caught the eyes of the medieval residents of Arles-sur-Tech on their daily walks around the town.

Do I notice the stones more because I live in a house of wood in the Northeast of America? When I had a patio built in my back yard, the landscapers wanted to put in blue stone. I resisted - I wanted colorful stone, red, black and blue. I wanted contrast, rhythm, from color - but here it is, in the form.

Now I spend my days in a land of blue stone. A color that would be nothing, without the forms. The shapes. The jagged irregularities that invite the eye to trace the counters of each stone.