“A composer who hears sound will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.”
Cornelius Cardew
Research
Indeterminate Procedure: Jigsaw
Much of my current focus has been aimed towards applying indeterminate procedure towards visual practice. Due to the ambiguous nature of the concept and the resulting imagery it creates, it is important to retain template example pieces that act as Continue reading
Indeterminate Procedure: Tile Puzzles
Much of my current focus has been aimed towards applying indeterminate procedure towards visual practice. Due to the ambiguous nature of the concept and the resulting imagery it creates, it is important to retain template example pieces that act as Continue reading
Indeterminate Procedure: Dot-to-Dot
Much of my current focus has been aimed towards applying indeterminate procedure towards visual practice. Due to the ambiguous nature of the concept and the resulting imagery it creates, it is important to retain template example pieces that act as Continue reading
Indeterminate Procedure – Paint by Numbers
Much of my current focus has been aimed towards applying indeterminate procedure towards visual practice. Due to the ambiguous nature of the concept and the resulting imagery it creates, it is important to retain template example pieces that act as Continue reading
Profound wisdom / insight of the day
“The thing about being an artist is that you are always a stranger… because one’s always a stranger its nice to find a place where it is natural to be one.”
Howard Hodgkin
Profound wisdom / insight of the day
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
Marcel Duchamp
Profound wisdom / insight of the day
“Abstract art can stand in meaningful relation to your own perception, you can move across a canvas in a way that you move through the spaces of the world… notions of space like proximity and distance can be revealed by moving across a canvas with a brush”
Albert Irvin
profound wisdom / insight of the day
“Procedure is the keyword… The difference is that we [the Abstract expressionists] don’t begin with a definite sense of procedure. It’s free association from the start to the finished state”
Franz Kline
Profound wisdom / insight of the day
“An artist is a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, fiery or happy events to which he responds in every way… Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It’s an instrument of war for attack and defence against the enemy.”
Pablo Picasso