#abstractions

[notnights]

I only know how to present my fan theories through memes.

[philosophybits]

A man is so prone to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared to distort the truth on purpose, prepared to deny the visible and the audible just so he can justify his own logic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

[nobrashfestivity]

Georgia O'Keeffe Untitled (Abstractions Green Line and Red Circle) 1970s watercolor on paper 22 1/4 x 30 1/2 in Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

[sometimesloud]

swim in your own mind Follow me on: http://instagram.com/styblova.art △ http://twitter.com/styblova for more behind the scenes.

[fieriframes]

[Think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.]

[cyrusthemagician]

Well you don't know me.. but I know *you.*

[russellmoreton]

Drawing around the body, 2010 Pencil,cyanotype and ink on paper with astronomical data. by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.co.uk/ independent.academia.edu/RussellMoreton Practitioner using the creative receptiveness of material together with the inclusion of drawing to harbour transits and passages of human presence, vulnerabilities centred around the human condition. My work adopts strategies which articulate a sense of absence and anonymity within the abandonment of the work to its location. I feel drawn to this registering of passage, encounter together with its farewell. The choice of materials gathered together implies a personal geography, with both an emotional and aesthetic sense of locality and place. The performative recording by physical means which renders itself as a trace of human presence, now becomes a vacant territory open for the consideration of others. My work continues to investigate this sense of material response with the performative trace of a human absences. The place-ment of these acts attempts to promote thresholds from which to reflect upon spatial, sociological and psychological conditions and perceptions. Currently working in clay, low fired to produce and promote a fragile vessel. This vessel is installed to act as a dwelling presence reverberating in a resting place. from which work is drawn into the human form to register a surface of absences resulting from past gestures and solitudes. Order and randomness, meticulousness and impulsiveness, drawing excess and graphic reduction are just some of the vibrant, tension-loaded poles that characterize the large-format drawings of the German artist Jorinde Voigt (b. 1977). Her works condense various elements of the cultural environment in the dynamic sequences of strokes, turbulently curving lines, diagrammatic structures, numbers, word fragments and collaged color areas of her drawings – which the passionate cello player refers to as “scores” or “notations”. She systematically analyses pop songs or pieces of classical music, kisses, temperature profiles, an eagle’s flight-path, horizon lines or the color values of individual plants and the contents of philosophical texts. Voigt uses measureable parameters like place, time, or sound volume, and self-defined rules or selected algorithms, and combines these fragments and impressions of reality to produce dynamic relational structures, thus creating a polyphony of different ways of perceiving the world. Jorinde Voigt’s largest solo exhibition to date – which builds a bridge from her early notations, reminiscent of classical conceptual art, to her most recent works that reflect the human desire to fly – traces the development of the specific system of symbols the artist uses to document and orchestrate processes of perception, imagination and thought. Curator: Stephanie Damianitsch Russell Moreton a visual artist uses simple gestures of drawn Human traces gathered and presented amongst natural materials. Exploring themes around the Human condition, vulnerability and abandonment. Materials are employed to further underpin our sense of place and time. The act and gesture of drawing adds a ephemeral mark amongst the materiality and locality of place. Currently using clay to register these themes, installing work Augury Vessel 2010 into Chapel Arts as part of their research residency programme.

[mesonoxian-maxx]

(abstractions)

[nando161mando]

Nature doesn't care about capitalist abstractions

[the-fae-folk]

A Taste of Tuesday

“Have you ever considered the taste of a Tuesday?” Asked the little elfling as it swung its legs back and forth and gazed down at you from the tree limb where it was sitting so serenely. You had not considered any such thing, though you weren’t really sure you should be humoring questions from this person. After all, everyone had always warned you never to talk to fairies, they were tricky. “Or what about the sound of Monday? It’s not as nice as how Saturday smells, but it’s pleasant enough you know.” Frowning, you found you were already answering before you could stop yourself. “I didn’t think days had any of those qualities.” The elfling laughed. “Of course they do. They can have any qualities you want them to. After all, they’re abstractions. Interpretations. Imaginary.” “Imaginary?” "Entirely fictitious. Not real at all. So if they’re not real except in our heads, then we can decide whatever we like about them. For example, Tuesday tastes very faintly of cherries but also a lot like marzipan. And Saturday just smells like someone mixed cinnamon, thyme, and cloves. And Monday sounds like someone is ringing a bell in an echoing cave.” Giggling the elfling dropped from the branch onto the ground and plucked a sprig of bluebells and shook them at you. For a moment you were certain you heard a tinkling sound, but then you shook your head. This was all just nonsense. “I don’t think that’s how it works. You can’t just go deciding on new rules whenever you want.” “I can’t?” Asked the elfling in surprise. “Why not?” For a moment you almost couldn’t think of a reason, so you sternly gazed down at him until your brain caught up with you. “Because then people would get confused, and nobody would know what was what.” The elfling just laughed. “Nobody knows what’s what anyway. And can you think of any reason that Tuesdays shouldn’t taste of cherries and marzipan?” “Well,” you said, hesitating. “No, but it’s just silly. Next you’ll be telling me that Time can be picked off trees like fruit.” “Funny you should mention that...”

[goldenfrogstudio]

Untitled

Photographer: J Kenny

Taken with an iPhone Xs

Portimão, Portugal

2023

[jaspersmithers]

From Sundays walk.

[philosophybits]

He who divides the world into two parts moves in the sphere of abstractions... The world as it is, and not as people dream it to be, is not divided into two camps: it is infinitely more complex and diverse.

Nikolai Berdyaev, "Political Testament"

[huntermania]

[sometimesloud]

turn the dials down a bit Follow me on: http://instagram.com/styblova.art △ http://twitter.com/styblova for more behind the scenes.

[michaelmathewsart]

“Windy May 01"

[Open Color series]

by michael mathews

acrylic, inks & oil on yupo paper

12x18 inches

2023

www.transientcolors.com