The white forms in these photographs are the sculptural manifestations of audio footage that was recorded along the border between Russia and Finland. Here the unique old-growth forests stand, The Green Belt of Fennoscandia. Recently these ancient trees are being logged for their valuable timber. There are only few remaining areas of ancient forest in Europe with the vast majority of the vanishing old-growth forests remaining are in the North of European Russia.
The soundwaves are actual objects, each is 6 metres high, reminiscent of the height of a tree, despite looking like digital intervention. I recorded them when the forest was still there. Then, when the trees had gone, I put the ‘sounds’ back to where they used to exist, sounds that look like trees that will never be heard again.
Welcome to Paint My Words! You can contact me (D.B Williams) with comments/questions at danielw@paintmywords.com. The Blog section of PaintMyWords.com focuses on artists reviews as well as documents the progression of my own creative works particularly brewing, oil on board and literary pieces. I also have a website dedicated to Hand Stamped Prints which can be found at www.handstampedprints.com which profiles all of my print creations.
Richard Galpin’s complex art works are derived from the artist’s own photographs of chaotic cityscapes. Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collaging, or additions of any kind – each delicate work is a unique piece made entirely by the erasure of photographic information.
The works enact a reimagining of the city, but their futuristic vision is predicated on the city as it is now, with the intricate details bearing traces of contemporary urban experience. Playing between abstraction and representation, the works draw their visual language from a variety of early 20th century movements such as Constructivism, and Vorticism…
Tine is a jewelry designer who makes wearable metal origami. Her work is absolutely amazing. Her work appears as technical as architecture, however as delicate as ornate decoration. Stunning to say the least.
I spent the weekend writing and working on these pints of beer prints. Vibrant Warhol like colors erupt from the pages. I’m happy with the results. Oil, mixed with block printing ink and charcoal. Each print is 9 by 12 inches or so.
Any blogger worth his or her salt has Google analytic software or some equivalent service established so that they can monitor, analyze and respond to their readership.
I for instance have most of my readership located in either the California or North Carolina area which makes sense. I won’t go into all of the reasons why that is the case, but simply wanted to point it out.
What i find interesting is that the three artist below are the artist which direct the most users to my pages:
Sylvia Grantis
Norman Rockwell
Sam the Dot Man
What i find interesting is the reasons why these artist have the highest hit per page ratio when compared to my other blog pages. Norman Rockwell for instance makes perfect sense. He is a well known artist whose works many Americans have seen; He is so well known in fact that his pictures often show up in history text books. The other two artist, Sam the Dot Man and Sylvia Grantis, I speculate are high achievers in regards to hit per post I speculate because they do not have respective pages that are easy to find on google. Sure, there are a few articles on the net for each artist, however my page appears close to first or second in the search results when you type in either of their names. I’m just capitalizing on the fact that they are not represented online. Mental note, I should search for more artist like these who are well known, but do not have pages online, in order to increase my own page count hits.
I spent a lot of time during my college years training and traveling to races. A Weekend in the Saddle is mostly a fictional narrative regarding what those weekends are like. I haven’t fully finished cleaning up the audio namely where i misspoke and didn’t feel like listening to my own voice to edit out those sections, but i have finished a lot of the conversion and pitch changes, etc. The audio is mostly done. I can’t say when I’ll get around to completely finishing it up. With that said, if you are interested at all, an audio version of the exposition can be found below. The book will be available through Amazon in about two months. The ISBN process takes time. The picture above is from my freshman year of college. There is something to be said for having a good team to race with.
I have had the good fortune to have a few days off of work. As neither Lindsey or I are traveling, I have been dedicating a lot of the time to producing new art and writing. “A Weekend in the Saddle” is now much closer to being finished and I’ve started a short novella about a deranged Sergeant who manages to trap five miniature people in an aquarium. I’m hoping to have an audio version available shortly of “A Weekend in the Saddle”. I recorded it yesterday, however haven’t had a chance to clean it up and convert it to MP3 format.
I created a series of three prints with each production run only 8-10 images using various colors so each one is truly unique. There is a seated man, a magnolia flower and another flower of unknown origin. These were produced using linoleum block printing techniques. The rubbers were destroyed in the process.
I printed off labels and bottled some bees wax and tea tree oil based skin balm for Christmas presents. A picture of these can be seen below. The lotion is smooth, good smelling and does not leave the skin feeling greasy. I love bees!
I spent a lot of time during my college years training and traveling to races. A Weekend in the Saddle is mostly a fictional narrative regarding what those weekends are like. I haven’t fully finished cleaning up the audio namely where i misspoke and didn’t feel like listening to my own voice to edit out those sections, but i have finished a lot of the conversion and pitch changes, etc. The audio is mostly done. I can’t say when I’ll get around to completely finishing it up. With that said, if you are interested at all, an audio version of the exposition can be found below. The book will be available through Amazon in about two months. The ISBN process takes time. The picture above is from my freshman year of college. There is something to be said for having a good team to race with.
