Below is my second submission for this project.
I finished painting on it for the most part two weeks ago and added some spirals the other night.
I've gotten so wrapped up in other endeavors that I almost forgot to keep true to my post. But nonetheless, in a fit of productivity and direction I stayed up too late and managed to resolve this piece.
I remember the night: I was tired but certain that I needed to work on this painting. I had started it a couple of nights before but it was in no way close to resolution. As I began to paint I made a couple of poor choices that made me feel that the night might be lost. But I kept on. An hour or two of small adjustments and lots of staring went on. As soon as I drew in the portraits I knew I had resolved the painting.
But then came the sense of loss after resolving.
A satisfaction of undefinable calm set-off with having said goodbye to a dear friend never to talk again. Left only to look at photographs and read old letters from now on.
I tired to revisit. I tried to tell myself that there was more to be done. I didn't want to let go. So one night after drinking with a friend and throwing darts I came home and stared and stared at the painting only to decide to paint five inconspicuous spirals towards the top and call it done.
Well, it is time to paint another one. Due in twenty days or so. It's my turn to pick the theme. I'll come up with something soon. This project is only beginning.
Goodnight,
Patrick
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
SPACETIMESWIVEL
Patrick - I am wondering what your opinion is on this. Should are subjects all have the word swivel in it? does this make it more focused in some way, give us a structure or boundary? So the first one was a self portrait, hence, selfswivel. What if the next one is about time, therefore, timeswivel. Or is using swivel in everything irrelevant or stupid? So for the next subject i propose "spacetimeswivel" with a deadline of jan 31.
I chose time because our postings had a number of references to time. i chose space because the first subject was about self, so now we add space and time to the equation of self, and we get to address our experience within artswivel. I read this today "Stop experiencing and you die"
I think i have discovered a potential definition for artswivel. it would refer to what you were saying about swivel reflecting your process and my experience of art making. So artswivel would be the active space in which our individual experience and process of art making occurs and swivels. So back to spacetimeswivel...our experience within artswivel.
Sound Good?
Enjoy
J
Swivel is a form of creation discovered i have.
I chose time because our postings had a number of references to time. i chose space because the first subject was about self, so now we add space and time to the equation of self, and we get to address our experience within artswivel. I read this today "Stop experiencing and you die"
I think i have discovered a potential definition for artswivel. it would refer to what you were saying about swivel reflecting your process and my experience of art making. So artswivel would be the active space in which our individual experience and process of art making occurs and swivels. So back to spacetimeswivel...our experience within artswivel.
Sound Good?
Enjoy
J
Swivel is a form of creation discovered i have.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Brief Thought
Dear Jonathan,
As strange as it once felt I am enjoying more and more the idea of only corresponding over the internet during the course of this project. What if this went on for years?
You talked of time, time, time
everything is in real time on the internet
just like outside
or in the kitchen making dinner
you still have to wait for someone to respond
servers fail or freeze
viruses eat not only humans but computers as well
virtual cancers with virtual cures!
but can you be real on the internet?
can something exist?
is it art?
are we so scared of the obvious that we shouldn't just make ourselves digital somehow?
we have
millions and billions of dollars galore from the comfort of our office chairs spent buying, arguing, loving, listening, learning, misinforming...
so much it is too good to be true
but some of it is true
most is trash
but it is undoubtedly real
best,
Patrick
As strange as it once felt I am enjoying more and more the idea of only corresponding over the internet during the course of this project. What if this went on for years?
You talked of time, time, time
everything is in real time on the internet
just like outside
or in the kitchen making dinner
you still have to wait for someone to respond
servers fail or freeze
viruses eat not only humans but computers as well
virtual cancers with virtual cures!
but can you be real on the internet?
can something exist?
is it art?
are we so scared of the obvious that we shouldn't just make ourselves digital somehow?
we have
millions and billions of dollars galore from the comfort of our office chairs spent buying, arguing, loving, listening, learning, misinforming...
so much it is too good to be true
but some of it is true
most is trash
but it is undoubtedly real
best,
Patrick
Monday, January 7, 2008
Bon Voyage
Our voyage has begun Jonathan.
There's something about this word swivel that I am finding to pertain more and more to my own art. In my first painting I eventually decided to use two of my imaginary subjects paired with a self portrait and a picture of my house. Furthermore, it turned out that I separated them right down the middle. The entire painting is unified by an abstract field.
For this painting I progressed without much of an idea except that it was to be a self portrait. As this painting resolved it became a story about how I make art. By drawing both from life and imagination I add my own lens to the world. A prehistoric photoshop program. Mixed media painting.
Before this project I would have said that I migrate the abstract and real. But having now been employed to think about the word swivel I've come to think of it as another possible explanation. When making art, I am swiveling round a circle with one point abstract and one point real, deciding as needed to select for the painting as the spiral continues, coming to whatever end needed to be served by each independent work.
So who knows what other fun things I'll learn. Speaking of which, what are the next:
subject and deadline.
your call Jonathan,
Patrick
There's something about this word swivel that I am finding to pertain more and more to my own art. In my first painting I eventually decided to use two of my imaginary subjects paired with a self portrait and a picture of my house. Furthermore, it turned out that I separated them right down the middle. The entire painting is unified by an abstract field.
For this painting I progressed without much of an idea except that it was to be a self portrait. As this painting resolved it became a story about how I make art. By drawing both from life and imagination I add my own lens to the world. A prehistoric photoshop program. Mixed media painting.
Before this project I would have said that I migrate the abstract and real. But having now been employed to think about the word swivel I've come to think of it as another possible explanation. When making art, I am swiveling round a circle with one point abstract and one point real, deciding as needed to select for the painting as the spiral continues, coming to whatever end needed to be served by each independent work.
So who knows what other fun things I'll learn. Speaking of which, what are the next:
subject and deadline.
your call Jonathan,
Patrick
Sunday, January 6, 2008
ABOUT THE PROJECT
What do you think the project is about? Well for Patrick and I it began as way to collaborate 2000 miles apart. We wanted to avoid the costs of mailing pieces back and forth...as if we were living in the 80's, shcya right.... internet is here baby and we are exploiting its free opportunities. So the idea of using the internet became more and more attractive, for financial reasons, as well it universality, its ease of use and its function as a new medium for artists. We are interested in how paintings can be created, discussed, destroyed, etc using the internet/ blogosphere. Since leaving Muncie Patrick and i have not spoken in real time, all of our communication has been over the internet. How does this effect dialog between two people? especially in the realm off artistic collaboration? Our plan is too make paintings, post them discuss them, and make new paintings. Sounds like fun huh? You are also encouraged to participate and tell us your opinions of our work and project. This is why we are using the internet... for you.
What do you think we can do with this project? Do u have any input or ideas? reflections, observations? This blog is just beginning, however in the near future will grow and grow, we will frequently be posting new ideas and new paintings, so save us in your bookmarks/favorites and check back often for your daily dose of swivel!
What do you think we can do with this project? Do u have any input or ideas? reflections, observations? This blog is just beginning, however in the near future will grow and grow, we will frequently be posting new ideas and new paintings, so save us in your bookmarks/favorites and check back often for your daily dose of swivel!
Jonathan as a swivel
Well if a swivel is a circle drawn through time then i am always on time, precisely when time swivels. however does a swivel have patience? I dont know, probably doesn't need patience, because it is 360 degrees, experiencing in all directions, so how can you be on time if you are time? I dont know... how do you lose something you have found or already have and still have and always have? I dont know...Swivel!
So in the spirit of consistency... a lil about me. As the historical record stands patrick and i met at bsu. Since relocating to missoula mt life has grew and become much richer. perhaps the mountains do that, perhaps life does that, perhaps swivels do it? perhaps perhaps perhaps. 1.)Graduated with a painting and drawing degree...2.)work full time at a truck dealership and manufacturing shop-Good stuff, a lot of work and no swivels. Most things are too specific, no room for swivels.
As far as art is concerned after graduating, i have been working mostly on installations, performances, or some combination of the two. Although much of my installation includes painting i have not really just painted the rectangle or the square (2d picture plane) seriously in a little while. I mean i have always been drawing and sketching in the sketchbook and randomly drawing and painting, but i have not completed a series or group of 2d works in a bit. So getting started with this project has been great and has thrown me back into the studio with different goals and tasks. For example working in a 8.5in x 11in format rather then a 30ft x 10ft is quite the difference. So it seems like there is so little to be done in comparison, however making something interesting in such a small format is challenging. So really i have been working on about 10 pieces at once. I have been doing a lot of acrylic transfers, and i my cold ass studio means that drying time is exponentially increased. So there is always time to work on another piece/start a new one or suffer the fate of bordem in the studio.
The benefit of all this is that i have been in the studio about everyday working on things. however i am still not posting on time, mainly because as far as i am concerned as long as i am working on the next 10 posts which should get me to about october i am happy and swiveling. Plus i am trying to avoid the office on the weekends and my scanner is there, if we are lucky i will stop by there today and scan and post.
So my departure point for this theme of swivel...which is infinite... has been rooted in self awareness and how i try to experience the world and how i try to live the world...which is mush like a swivel. I am the center and my awareness swivels 360 degrees around at all times. This idea is rooted in Buddhism, however i really have no attachment to Buddhism, i find Buddhist idea/ philosophy to be universal and does not need a specific religion or belief to understand. All u need is your self and the moment(a paint brush is also nice). Although this 360 degree swivel is very subtle to perceive and experience it is there, you just have to open your eyes a lil, which might mean close them, either way. Art making has introduced me to this concept. Late night in the studio in front of your canvas, your self, you learn and experience things that in the 8-5 world are suppressed, made illigitimate, and considered unnecessary(which i find bogus). So after experiencing these feelings and then reading about how a religion who has been talking about it for 2000 plus years is pretty eye opening...like all this art making actually has truth in it and isnt just some silly past time. So my initial images for selfswivel will probably refer to this 360 degree swivel in some way and also my way back into my self and my studio.
Keep an i eye out and keep swiveling in time... that way you cant be late!
So in the spirit of consistency... a lil about me. As the historical record stands patrick and i met at bsu. Since relocating to missoula mt life has grew and become much richer. perhaps the mountains do that, perhaps life does that, perhaps swivels do it? perhaps perhaps perhaps. 1.)Graduated with a painting and drawing degree...2.)work full time at a truck dealership and manufacturing shop-Good stuff, a lot of work and no swivels. Most things are too specific, no room for swivels.
As far as art is concerned after graduating, i have been working mostly on installations, performances, or some combination of the two. Although much of my installation includes painting i have not really just painted the rectangle or the square (2d picture plane) seriously in a little while. I mean i have always been drawing and sketching in the sketchbook and randomly drawing and painting, but i have not completed a series or group of 2d works in a bit. So getting started with this project has been great and has thrown me back into the studio with different goals and tasks. For example working in a 8.5in x 11in format rather then a 30ft x 10ft is quite the difference. So it seems like there is so little to be done in comparison, however making something interesting in such a small format is challenging. So really i have been working on about 10 pieces at once. I have been doing a lot of acrylic transfers, and i my cold ass studio means that drying time is exponentially increased. So there is always time to work on another piece/start a new one or suffer the fate of bordem in the studio.
The benefit of all this is that i have been in the studio about everyday working on things. however i am still not posting on time, mainly because as far as i am concerned as long as i am working on the next 10 posts which should get me to about october i am happy and swiveling. Plus i am trying to avoid the office on the weekends and my scanner is there, if we are lucky i will stop by there today and scan and post.
So my departure point for this theme of swivel...which is infinite... has been rooted in self awareness and how i try to experience the world and how i try to live the world...which is mush like a swivel. I am the center and my awareness swivels 360 degrees around at all times. This idea is rooted in Buddhism, however i really have no attachment to Buddhism, i find Buddhist idea/ philosophy to be universal and does not need a specific religion or belief to understand. All u need is your self and the moment(a paint brush is also nice). Although this 360 degree swivel is very subtle to perceive and experience it is there, you just have to open your eyes a lil, which might mean close them, either way. Art making has introduced me to this concept. Late night in the studio in front of your canvas, your self, you learn and experience things that in the 8-5 world are suppressed, made illigitimate, and considered unnecessary(which i find bogus). So after experiencing these feelings and then reading about how a religion who has been talking about it for 2000 plus years is pretty eye opening...like all this art making actually has truth in it and isnt just some silly past time. So my initial images for selfswivel will probably refer to this 360 degree swivel in some way and also my way back into my self and my studio.
Keep an i eye out and keep swiveling in time... that way you cant be late!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
About Me - as a blog post?!
Patrick:
I met Jon at Ball State University in a little town called Muncie, IN.
We were both studying art, and both crafty enough to have jobs at the art museum. Over the short time before I graduated and Jon went on to Montana, we worked collaboratively on some paintings.
Then things went dark.
Over my years of wanton sleeping in abandoned farmhouses and waiting at deserted restaurants I never really checked my email much.
Apparently, Jon had tried to email one or twice and whether or not received I did not reply.
But then he tried again.
This time his email found me working at an art center in a little town called Indianapolis, IN, actively seeking to disseminate his art in any way possible.
Then he mentioned collaboration.
Here we are again...
(Is a swivel a circle drawn through time?)
...this time online. Here is the idea as I understand it.
Jon and I are going to post new paintings every 20 days or so. Loosely based on a theme incorporating the use of the word swivel - we chose this word to represent the collaborative element. It was a word we used a lot in college.
I have no idea or expectations as to how this will work out. That is the purpose I suppose. But painting is our departure and someday a real time exhibition of this work will show just what all happened and maybe just what a swivel is.
I encourage you all to comment however you like. Your participation is an essential part of this collaboration.
welcome to Indiana - Montana/\anatnoM - anaidnI
artswivel
I met Jon at Ball State University in a little town called Muncie, IN.
We were both studying art, and both crafty enough to have jobs at the art museum. Over the short time before I graduated and Jon went on to Montana, we worked collaboratively on some paintings.
Then things went dark.
Over my years of wanton sleeping in abandoned farmhouses and waiting at deserted restaurants I never really checked my email much.
Apparently, Jon had tried to email one or twice and whether or not received I did not reply.
But then he tried again.
This time his email found me working at an art center in a little town called Indianapolis, IN, actively seeking to disseminate his art in any way possible.
Then he mentioned collaboration.
Here we are again...
(Is a swivel a circle drawn through time?)
...this time online. Here is the idea as I understand it.
Jon and I are going to post new paintings every 20 days or so. Loosely based on a theme incorporating the use of the word swivel - we chose this word to represent the collaborative element. It was a word we used a lot in college.
I have no idea or expectations as to how this will work out. That is the purpose I suppose. But painting is our departure and someday a real time exhibition of this work will show just what all happened and maybe just what a swivel is.
I encourage you all to comment however you like. Your participation is an essential part of this collaboration.
welcome to Indiana - Montana/\anatnoM - anaidnI
artswivel
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