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Cosmology 01-22 (2022) Drawing by Philip Guest
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Drawing,
Ink
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 3.9in, Width 5.9in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Drawings under $500 Abstract
Alternate versions will be posted as 'Alternate Views'. including language versions.
Initial Version - Midori Paper
Words - Ditto
3rd Version - Fabriano Watercolor Paper
At this point this has become almost a performance piece with an exact sequence of color gestures responding to the materials.
Here is a legible version of the words, in the sequence they are applied:
1. Blue-Violet
The intangible world. Thoughts, Ideas, Ideals. Beliefs; original, cultural and inherited.
2. Brown
The tangible world. Here are some things I can trust. An illusion of course, but helpful in the short term?
3. Red-Violet
The emotional world of individual and tribe.
4. Green
The field of actions is necessarily mutable. Predictions meet experience. We need to respond to its response.
At this point the Blue-Violet and Brown are drawn in to meet at a central point.
5. Red-Orange:
I choose to act, to make change.
Consequences spiral back from this action to realms both above and below.
6: Rust:
What have I done to the world?
7. Purple:
What has the world done to me?
These shapes have developed from the original sketch. In one recent version I was delighted to discover that the whole image could also be seen as symbolic of the heart, with its red and blue blood flows mediating inner and outer worlds!
More recent versions have added two final pillars:
8. Fox-Red (n.b. descends from the intangible)
Regrets. Evasion and avoidance. Alternative strategies.
9. Pink (n.b. ascends from the tangible)
Hope. I will strive to find a better way.
Each color has an exact value. I am so pleased that I am now able to distinguish pink from orange, hope from regrets, Spring from Fall. I am also pleased that I have a vocabulary with three different oranges; activity, realization of world-consequences and response-strategy.
I don't think it's found its final form yet, but it's a fun series of experiments and I'm learning a bunch about ink, paper and technique!
p.s. Another discovery: I am used to the four Euclidian elements being arranged by weight: earth is heavier than water, fire is lighter than air, but here I had to break that 'rule' and discover that within the realm of human experience, fire is at the center!
Related themes
The artwork isn't here yet, but I have been enjoying the process of preparing for its arrival!
There are three sub-galleries:
Color - is where I am allowing myself to be educated by the forces of color. Golly, they have taught me a lot already, especially about myself.
Form - I have taught Geometry for many years. Some of the work my students have produced blows me away! Near the dawn of time I was an architectural draftsman. Originally I was going to have Music as a separate gallery, but I think it properly belongs here. Music and Math, Architecture and Astronomy, Pattern and Form.
Alphabets - Symbolic representation is such a unique human power. My theory is that we developed this from watching the stars, seeing the correspondences between those patterns above and events of our experience. The development of Chinese characters from Cave Drawings is a straight line. Syllables and Phonics are a bit more complex. And then, at this point in history, so many layers! The throw away attitude to letters, words and language that both schools and general culture seem to be deteriorating into I find both saddening and appalling! Please let's not squander such awesome possibilities! Convenience is all very well in its place. Quantity is an attribute. But let's not close ourselves off to the beautiful and the profound.
My hope is that the art will be a fusion, a weaving together of these three strands.
Products to me are incidental, evidence, we hope, of a living process, and that process needs to be an adventure.
I have been collecting words, colors, shapes and patterns that I enjoy. I can do some work with those, but collaboration is always more exciting! If you have some words, shapes and colors that you enjoy, that resonate or that mean something to you, then please let me know. Maybe we can work together to produce something significant? I would enjoy that!
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Nationality:
UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary American Artists
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