notes from the drifting spaces
Blair’s art notes…
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Autumnal haiku poems
Autumn-Twilight The hills cast shadows, And pampas grass is swaying In sunlit meadows. Buson Autumn Moon Is there anyone Who will not take up his brush With this moon tonight! Onitsura three noisy mallards zipping through a shattered zone strewn detritus of torn ochre and golden pinks mashed into shards, blown hither and thither
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Developing new pieces into washes and fields of colour
I’ve been continuing recent works with water based materials and brushes as well as drawing tools, the new pieces are moving forward I think and I will probably take these ones with the suffused and roaming atmospheres into a more sustained series…
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Drawing, poetry and camping at mountain altitude
MOUNTAIN SPECTRE WHITE WING BLACK CAIRN Loafing around up on the Cairngorm plateau Has many advantages – You can loiter in peace with the deep blue sky, Surrounded by tiny dots of stone after stone Fading into the ten directions, Eat some homemade granola and bathe in fresh mountain streams – After contemplating two deer
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Recent drawing and painting outdoors: Tectonics fragmented
shards of light, seeping darks, vectorslooking down; looking in ten directions
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Off Balance – recent land art installation
Many thanks to Jan for his excellent photograph (third image down from top). This piece was a very temporary work, a collaboration with Alan Wilson and Hamilton College, and developed overnight into a completely new combination of shapes. In the vein of the Mountains and Rivers outdoor installation pieces, the images become the artwork in
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Exhibiting Drawings at Factory Hanbunko gallery, Takaoka, Japan
I’m really looking forward to exhibiting some drawings at the Factory Hanbunko Gallery in Takaoka, Japan, in November this year. The city is near the Japan Sea in a beautiful area of northern Japan. Looks like a interesting gallery space in a fantastic refurbished old building with contrasting interior whites and blacks and dark wooden
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Working on Tenzo Zen Cooking Notes…
In the last couple of weeks, with the kitchen work still fresh in my mind since being up at Ardfern with the Zen Group, I started getting some notes jotted down to help others on the practice of Tenzo, and particularly in terms of the preparation, timing, various kitchen duties and roles, that sort of
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