Last year Paul Noble and I explored his remarkable world of Nobson New Town [Link]. Our conversation became [In Parenthesis] a kind of inventory or dictionary of topics in the way that form emerges in Paul’s drawing [Link] Here’s one of my initial reactions [Link]: In Nobson, buildings and structures give form to letters; things…
hylography
hylography – entomological ichnography
Hylography – [Link] Navarro beach, California – driftwood (click on image for full evocative resolution)
hylography – terra sigillata
Hylography – the process of emergence and disappearance, intentional or unintentional, of graphical form out of matter – [Link] Here in a work by Helen (Shanks). The technique is terra sigillata – employing a fine slip applied to the surface and manipulated in firing to various effect. In antiquity the results were fine and very…
design and antiquarians – 6
This is a comment on the seminar series currently running between Stanford and Bard Graduate Center. [Link] [Link] Our exploration of the world of engaging things continues. This week the theme was Assemblage We visited the Manhattan studio of Ghiora Aharoni – Genesis sculptures – seven extraordinary and wonderful assemblages of laboratory glassware, engraved texts,…
Howick – Bathing House
Another experiment in hylography – [Link] [Link] Howick, Northumberland UK
Craster – basalt foreshore
Another experiment in hylography – [Link] [Link] Craster, Northumberland UK
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