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vom_marloweI am thrilled and nervous to announce that my piece for the Wallace Stevens poetry roundtable is up today.
I don't quite know how to talk about it. I tend to feel that art, successful art, stands or falls on its own merits.
I don't think mine is as successful an interpretation as many of the others. There are so many beautiful pieces, imagined in ways I hadn't even thought of going, and I now kind of want to sit down with pencil and pen and ink again, and do other views, other versions, other worlds. I suppose that is always the way.
Being the kind of person who reads the little curator notes, I guess I'll just say this: Everything was drawn freehand with pencil on Japanese drawing paper, inked with a Zebra G-nib and Pilot drawing ink, except the final image, which was done in Painter XI. I don't think I had properly imagined the end result as blog-posted, but anyway. The originals are pretty large, which was probably a mistake.
Now I want to briefly squee about the other works up over there. I think my favorite (which is not to say the best, per se, just my favorite) is Lilli Carre's Disillusionment of Ten O'clock. (Note that it is a video. My buddies who are migraine sufferers might want to know that it has 70s style painting animation, which might be triggery. I don't know, but mention it in case.) I find it has the same kind of joy that I found as a child watching the magic of the world around me. That video just plain makes me happy.
Marguerite Van Cook's piece, A High Toned Old Christian Woman will appeal to those who enjoy masks, roses, and tricorn hats. You know who you are. *cough*
Edie Fake's piece Floral Decorations for Bananas is incredibly powerful, beautifully inked, and not worksafe if you look closely. It's like a darkly imagined children's piece turned adult. *flaps hands* It's good. Really good.
Anja Flower's Earthly Anecdote is amazing. I find hir inkwork just sublime, the dark and the light and the composition. Beautiful. I've stared at it several times, just marveling.
I quite enjoyed Mahendra Singh's piece, too. It's got a fanciful feeling but quite beautiful colorwork going on with the inks that I really think works well in this format. I want to see a whole book of this, to be honest, just to enjoy it and get lost.
They're all good really. And there's going to be a whole lot more.
Comments are closed on individual pieces in order to collect the commentary at the intro page here. This project was curated by Noah Berlatsky.
NB: I haven't been able to reply to comments on other LJ posts, but will as soon as the machine of servers responds again to my will,
I don't quite know how to talk about it. I tend to feel that art, successful art, stands or falls on its own merits.
I don't think mine is as successful an interpretation as many of the others. There are so many beautiful pieces, imagined in ways I hadn't even thought of going, and I now kind of want to sit down with pencil and pen and ink again, and do other views, other versions, other worlds. I suppose that is always the way.
Being the kind of person who reads the little curator notes, I guess I'll just say this: Everything was drawn freehand with pencil on Japanese drawing paper, inked with a Zebra G-nib and Pilot drawing ink, except the final image, which was done in Painter XI. I don't think I had properly imagined the end result as blog-posted, but anyway. The originals are pretty large, which was probably a mistake.
Now I want to briefly squee about the other works up over there. I think my favorite (which is not to say the best, per se, just my favorite) is Lilli Carre's Disillusionment of Ten O'clock. (Note that it is a video. My buddies who are migraine sufferers might want to know that it has 70s style painting animation, which might be triggery. I don't know, but mention it in case.) I find it has the same kind of joy that I found as a child watching the magic of the world around me. That video just plain makes me happy.
Marguerite Van Cook's piece, A High Toned Old Christian Woman will appeal to those who enjoy masks, roses, and tricorn hats. You know who you are. *cough*
Edie Fake's piece Floral Decorations for Bananas is incredibly powerful, beautifully inked, and not worksafe if you look closely. It's like a darkly imagined children's piece turned adult. *flaps hands* It's good. Really good.
Anja Flower's Earthly Anecdote is amazing. I find hir inkwork just sublime, the dark and the light and the composition. Beautiful. I've stared at it several times, just marveling.
I quite enjoyed Mahendra Singh's piece, too. It's got a fanciful feeling but quite beautiful colorwork going on with the inks that I really think works well in this format. I want to see a whole book of this, to be honest, just to enjoy it and get lost.
They're all good really. And there's going to be a whole lot more.
Comments are closed on individual pieces in order to collect the commentary at the intro page here. This project was curated by Noah Berlatsky.
NB: I haven't been able to reply to comments on other LJ posts, but will as soon as the machine of servers responds again to my will,
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Date: 2011-07-28 02:29 am (UTC)