Tag: William Blake
Scans from Prints 17
Banyan Tree. Temple. Junagadh, Gujerat,India. 1995. Platinum-palladium print on (Wyndstone) vellum from 8×10 inch negative. [see full scan] It is like seeing a ghost. Everything in this print is almost there, fully there and not at all what I remember. I remember setting up tripod and 8×10 camera, my driver preparing to halt all traffic […]
Blake: The Dragon Series
Split. Dragon Forming (from The Dragon Series) Gold print on Fabriano 5 from 11×14 negative This set of work came from Rainer Maria Rilke’s and William Blake’s symbolization of the dragon: a creature that guards great treasures, and if befriended, reveals them. (Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet and Blake: The Great Red Dragon Paintings)
Blake: Love and Harmony
Desert Plant (from ‘A Sequence for Dave Williams’). 1987 Platinum-palladium print on Fabriano 5 from 8×10 inch negative
Blake and the question of ‘from-ness’
Magic: Where do babies come from? 1989 (from the series Memory, Balance, Love Platinum-palladium print on Fabriano 5 from 8×10 inch negative
Blake, Hafiz and Magic
Magic: Floating (from the series, ‘Magic’). 1989 Platinum-palladium print on Fabriano 5 from 8×10 inch negative I had a long conversation today about magic, and that the experience of magic (spectacle, awe, wonder, questioning without wanting to fully understand the answer, an encounter with something that encapsulates all that one knows and comprehends and then […]
Blake and Brodsky
Wire Ball, Burray, Orkney. Platinum-palladium print on Van Gelder Simili Japon from 8×10 negative referring to the previous post about Sontag and boredom, and adding this: “You are insignificant because you are finite. Yet the more finite a thing is, the more it is charged with life, emotions, joy, fears, compassion. For infinity is not […]