CARBORUNDUM – CHINE COLLÉ and some drypoint My featured picture for this post shows “Nature´s Spirit”. It contains it all; carborundum, drypoint and chine collé. The print was done without any sketch, just starting out painting carborundum, following up with drypoint/engraving. It was a journey of the unexpected. And still, looking at it afterwards I recognize it all. I feel …
I love factories – and Awagami Factory is no exception.
Days float like a river, sometimes calm and clear, and sometimes unpredictable. It is all about water. Pulp floating in water, linking together, making shiny, wet canvases to work in and on. Every day there is only one question, “what if I try….” No normal, daily life with all the disturbances. I enjoy the life in the factory, working side …
Questioning the pulp – reaching for the stars
As I did not understand the dialogue between the employees, or being able to talk much with them, I was having a kind of inner dialogue with myself, about clouds on the sky, wondering how it would work out to actually catch one of them, or freeze the blue sky and keep it for rainy days. Takuma Abe is the …
ART CONNECTS
When an idea occurs, or may be I should rather call it a feeling of progress, I grab my pencil and very quickly make the notes needed for remembering. Weeks later I find my notes, wondering what this is about. The intentions are forgotten, and I am left with some scribble I cannot interpret any longer. Till I find another …