The Dissertation Series continues with a response to the WE THE MODERNS Exhibition featuring Henri Gaudier-Brzeska at a fairly overcrowded Graves Art Gallery - Sheffield, April 2007
Gaudier-Brzeska Line
Cut it straight
Point out the detail
Turn the corner
Sharp
The war is upon us
Sunday 13 March 2011
Saturday 12 March 2011
Artistic Motivation - Million Dollar Collar
The Dissertation Series turns to Craft as Art with the response to the Seeing Dragons Exhibition featuring Nora Fok at the Harley Gallery, Worksop, March 2007
A million dollar collar
Safety pins and tweezers
The parachutes of artichoke seed heads
If ever one thing confirmed the beauty of art and craft
If ever one exposition showed the complement of art and craft
If ever doubt was mistaken in the search for truth
If ever life for youth
Don't go there
For you are art; however here we see you
A million dollar collar
Safety pins and tweezers
The parachutes of artichoke seed heads
If ever one thing confirmed the beauty of art and craft
If ever one exposition showed the complement of art and craft
If ever doubt was mistaken in the search for truth
If ever life for youth
Don't go there
For you are art; however here we see you
Friday 11 March 2011
Artistic Motivation - Separatists
The Dissertation Series continue, this time from Spain with The Curve of Destiny Exhibition featuring Jesûs Mari Lazkano at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, March 2007
Separatists
Abando
Leave your shadows underground
Let life
Bring your light to the surface
Separatists
Abando
Leave your shadows underground
Let life
Bring your light to the surface
Thursday 10 March 2011
Artistic Motivation - Miami
The dissertation Series continues with responses to the Abstraction, Extracting from the World Exhibition, Various Artists, Millennium Gallery - Sheffield, February 2007
Miami
I don't think so, no I'm sure
We never ever have met
By the washing powder you say
Well, unless it was special offers
I doubt it though
I'd be most unlikely to stray so far
Action
Cameras roll
Pan in pan out - cut across the set
Ladies; in the aisles please
I don't think so, no I'm sure
We never ever have met
Miami
I don't think so, no I'm sure
We never ever have met
By the washing powder you say
Well, unless it was special offers
I doubt it though
I'd be most unlikely to stray so far
Action
Cameras roll
Pan in pan out - cut across the set
Ladies; in the aisles please
I don't think so, no I'm sure
We never ever have met
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Artistic Motivation - Iris Flex
The Dissertation Series continues with Sojourn by Derek Sprawson at the Bend in the River Gallery, Gainsborough, February 2007
Iris flex
Trapeze, wired to the sky
Sinusoidal over the still void that lies below
Skip so dainty, faint lines
Muslin curtains
Hitch a ride swinging so
Go gentle to and fro
Downalong to the strains of string guitars
And the outdoor rhythms of the pavement splashing sedans
Deserts and torpedoes
Cauliflower and rice
Children's toys inflected
Projected film
Spines to splice; sliced, laced
Traced in ever finer lines
Mains braced in suspension
Common kindness
On the boundaries of comprehension
Passed the treacheries, beyond the tension
Iris flex
Trapeze, wired to the sky
Sinusoidal over the still void that lies below
Skip so dainty, faint lines
Muslin curtains
Hitch a ride swinging so
Go gentle to and fro
Downalong to the strains of string guitars
And the outdoor rhythms of the pavement splashing sedans
Deserts and torpedoes
Cauliflower and rice
Children's toys inflected
Projected film
Spines to splice; sliced, laced
Traced in ever finer lines
Mains braced in suspension
Common kindness
On the boundaries of comprehension
Passed the treacheries, beyond the tension
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