Dreamtiid

Dawn over Queensland.
July 2011

Dreamtiid

Armstrong Beach QLD, August 2011.

Just a beachwalk and a random pattern. It looked like a Tolkien map of the Shire, and it looked like Aboriginal art. This moment has already become a slice of dreamtime to me.

When I was a student and we read Caedmon's Hymn and Beowulf I got fascinated by the cosmic notions of the Anglo Saxons and the world picture of the Dark Ages
Se Middangeard - under heofones hrof.

The middle of the earth is where you are. At the crossing of the cardinal directions. It is you, under the roof of heaven.

Maps have fascinated me ever since I was a child and became aware of travelling distances.

In Pushkin's words (Boris Godunov):

Excellent, my son! As if you were looking from the skies, you may thus oversee the entire realm. Its borders, rivers and towns.

Kak khorosho, moy syn! Kak s oblakov yedinym vzorom ti mozhesh' obozret' vsyo tsarstvo: granicy, reki, grady.

In my own language, Frisian:
Dit is it wurk jong! As wie it fanút e himel wei, sa kinsto yn ien eachopslach it hele ryk oersjen: grinzen, djippen, stêden.
[Boris Godûnov]

This is perhaps why I climbed the roof of the gym and sports hall next to my grandmothers house in Harns(Harlingen), at age eleven or twelve. Just to look at things from above, and to see the sea.

This past is present


A slice of Dreamtime

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.

[TS Eliot, Burnt Norton]

Autumn light

El-Rukh bird in the making.
The eyes were recently carved and coloured.






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Le rouge et le noir

A Liège

Les Demoiselles

Gotov

Did the lettering today and applied a glare finish.
One eye changed colour in the process.


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Dancing Tzitziot

Fringes of the tallit (prayer shawl).



Or are they peyos



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Povoloka

What happens if you wipe a wet face with a towel and then make a negative?
This is the cloth the iconboard is to be lined with, but since it is meant for the "Not Painted By Hands Icon" there is that association with the Turin Shroud so I had to do this little experiment. And I gessoed the edges of the icon board as well.



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HansK in GdansK

My encounter with Günter Grass' Flounder in the Ulica Mariacka (Mariengasse), Gdansk.












Meiner war und ist ein sogenannter Steinbutt ...
(Der Butt, S. 33-34)


More on the Steinbutt
The Psetta maxima or European Turbot (Steinbutt in German) has both eyes on the left side. The European Flounder (Platichthys flesus) however, has both eyes on its right side, as has Grass' etching on the book cover...
The stone relief in Gdansk is definitely a Turbot, not a flounder.








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Trip to Gdánsk-last preparations

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Dutch Cow

I scrapped my old bike today, as it was beyond repair.


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Meganeura completed today

L 53cm W118cm

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Future work?

This photo fragment could be the model for a bust.

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Man of the Woods

AKA Green Man
Uath
Woodwose

[Early version 1995]

Try-outs:

[Sketch 24-10-2008]

[Autumn leaves 2008]

Beech log - Cuckoo clock weights - pipe cuttings

Parovoz

STAR 1-5-2008

Moving sculpture

Houtwerk

Grendel's arm [detail]