notes from the drifting spaces
Blair’s art notes…
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Best wishes to Glasgow School of Art after the recent fire in the Mackintosh
Hope the school and the students, especially those in their final fourth year who were busy working on their degree shows and so were most affected by the fire in the Mackintosh building, can recover their creative momentum once more and find new working space. Ashame for them and to see the damage to the
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Music Collaboration with Stuart Corkindale
I had been thinking about sound explorations to work into a new film and friend, and very talented and versatile musician Stuart, kindly offered to record some sound with me. We worked on a few soundscapes on Stuart’s piano and also synthesiser, aiming to make some fragmented compositions with non conventional scales. It was really
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Studio preparation for new artworks…
Working with liquidy acrylics and Japanese Sumi inks with knives and big brushes, have been in the studio grounding some surfaces as well as drawing out some ideas and playing around with sketches…
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Full Dynamic – Kusen collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen When we do zazen, we may imagine that we are sitting quietly. But our weight is dropping down into the earth. We are pushing the earth with all our strength. And the earth is pushing back. We can feel this push up our spine, up through the top of our head. There is
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Back and forward through Gifu and Toyama Ken
Infrastructure out of the urbanscape.. From dinosaurs in Shiragawa to a Tanuki greeting customers in a Masunozushi shop on Route 41 in Toyama…
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Space, Earth and Sky – Kusen collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen We can talk of our practice and life in terms of form and emptiness, or delusion and enlightenment. We can also talk of both in terms of ground and space, earth and sky, heaven and earth. In Inmo, Dogen comments on the phrase “Those that fall to the ground get up relying on
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Mountain Still Still – Kusen collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen We are told that we should sit like a mountain. Zazen is described as the still-still state, the mountain – still state. The mountain is the ground made visible. Just because the mountain endures and accepts everything, we cannot say it has no feeling. Because it is the ground made visible, it is