Things added in June, 2008
Reoccuring themes in the crowd
Drawing the people on the train. The commuters Seeing the people in the crowds. These cities of strangers. It is too easy to fall into non believing. I feel sick of something, no need ...
Tipi - the space within
The familiar space becomes an enclosed one. Once the cover of the tipi was laced, I sat inside the enclosed space. We have erected the poles in our garden around the fire pit ...
Ivory Moon
I have been filing a warthog tusk to make it into a flintknapping tool. The collected filings make ivory white dust. I will use the white grounded stuff on black charred ivory and ...
Weather Shaman
The train that I take on the journey to the city goes through some interrupted landscape; bridges, tunnels that go inside hills. the trees that grow wild in this narrow strip are ...
Pigments, ivory.
I have been experimenting with natural pigments on buckskin; as a binder I have tried Gum Arabic which is a resin mixed with water. I have also tried water but seemed to ...
Rising Earth
As with the cliffs of lime and flint, the soil of the woods and grass lands is being created by the life and death process. The similarity in form between a grass mound ...
Wood - a worldly process #2
Stone age most basic use of wood to make a fishing spear with stone tools and hardening it with fire: Tools and handles are mostly made from cleaved wood; by using a part ...
The Urban Hunter Gatherer
I want to propose a new way of looking into our modern urban way of life; The following post will be updated over the next few weeks or months. First, the initial observation: We ...
Wood - a worldly process #1
In his short biography ' The Wind is My Mother ' Bear Heart describes wood as something sacred. He says that the wood is like water flowing up. This way ...
Flint - Earth and Sea #3
Getting gritty.... A collection of thoughts and data about the coast. Looking back on my notes I found a few sketches about the flint and lime breakdown. I keep going through this in my mind ...