more art...
I have a lack of adjectives....Phil Hansen 1980-
I am always amazed by the use of figure/ground in art. I guess I just can't see that way, even though I can understand the concept. knowing what to leave out, and what to highlight to make an image work. I think I use it in musical terms, though I think I should pay more attention to it as I write.
anyway, great stuff, and very powerful.
much to get
lost in...&I've been reading a book by Alan Arkin (the actor), describing his life journey (thanks, Melissa!), and he mentions an artist that I had never heard of (not that that's surprising...), Nicholas Roerich. so I did a bit of searching today, and found this:
Nicholas Roerich 1874-1947
there are some wonderful paintings, and hints at what looks to be a fascinating life. some of the paintings have hints of Hopper (and it shows how little of painting I know that I don't know if they were contemporaries, or who came first, etc...[ok, a quick search shows they were contemporaries]) in the softness of the edges.
here's a gallery of Edward Hopper works:
Edward Hopper 1882-1967
anyway, lots to look at, and think about, for a beautiful summer day.
pretty quiet
around here...my writing has been pretty sparse this summer. some of that's due to busy-ness, perhaps more to laziness... but it's very quiet around here, since Emer and Lincoln have gone back to Iowa, and Chellis went with them for a couple of weeks. he'll be back for school, which will be good. it has been a great summer having them around. so hard not to see them everyday, though. life is strange.
anyway, the busy part has mostly been the Voices movie, which has slowed down a bit for me, since most of the songs have been filmed, only one more next week. then I get to start doing the scoring, which will be great! and then sometime this fall, we'll bring the actors back to record their vocals for the final tracks. I still have a lot of work to do on the backing tracks, but that will be fun, too.
the lazy part is just summer. and me.
a friend on another forum (progressive rock music, of all places) has been posting some terrific sites that focus on industrial photography, especially abandoned places. I'm not sure why, but I just love this stuff. perhaps it's the archaeologist/future historian/liker-of-big-mechanical-things in me, but I could spend hours (days?) looking at these:
industrial ruins, abandoned places ...
enjoy!