#palipsest

[abluecoat]

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And there is a word for it! It's called a palimpsest!

Originally it means a very old manuscript that has been written on and then scraped clean and written on again, but its also a theory used to describe the way an object can have multiple meanings and contexts from different times written on top of one another, like the layers of an onion. Its one of my favourite cultural history words!

Some five thousand years ago, a 27-foot high granite standing stone was erected by the Neolithic people of future Dartmoor. In the 12th century, a monastery was built on the spot, incorporating the stone into its foundations. The monastery became a manor house in the 14th century, then an inn in the 15th, which it remains to this day as The Oxenham Arms.

The standing stone remains in its place, unceremoniously part of the sitting room wall next to the radiator.

[viz-a-visage]

Studio Visit: Max Ruf

German artist Max Ruf always starts with a spark. Working with the immediacy of primary colors, he translates a horizon, a beam of light, or an architectural detail into an abstraction. The result is layers of shapes and lines that form a palimpsest, in which the original reference to nature or urban space is overwritten by other interpretations—that of the artist and the viewer. With each layer of paint, the original reference to the “real world” becomes indecipherable, much like a game of visual “telephone.”  

Ruf also uses his painting practice to manipulate architectural space and perspective. In one instance, he turns a painting of a running horse upright, as if by defying gravity the animal could burst through the ceiling. Similarly, he paints what he calls a “male prototype” and then promptly turns it on its side, dethroning the figure and rendering it non-functional. In the same gallery, Ruf installed paintings across the columns holding up the space in order to divert and direct the movements of its visitors. In another gallery, Ruf broke the room in half entirely by installing another floor straight down the middle horizontally. He notes that many passersby mistook the work for a construction site, which was its intended effect: to play with the notion of urban space as fluid and ever-changing.

Ruf currently draws inspiration from New York City, where the skyline and street corners are always in flux, waiting to burst spontaneously into layers of colorful abstractions on his canvas.

[miscellanymedia]

Episode 19 of Miscellany Media Reviews - Podcast Medley #2

Today’s another podcast medley day!!! Okay, maybe that’s not exciting for you, but M loves talking about her favorite audio dramas. So she’s exciting. In this medley, she’ll talk about ghosts, Scottish men, and Within the Wires (again). Okay, this episode is really about our relationship with the past, present, and future (yes, she definitely planned that out and didn’t just realize that when typing up the summary for this episode. *wink*)

Transcript available at our website.

Topics of Today’s Episode: Palimpsest A Scottish Podcast Within the Wires [Find them wherever you listen to podcast]

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[creativeenquirylaurenbanks]

I began to explore colour on canvas and developing these into digital overlays to get the effects of Palipsest through the use of digital layering.

Fig. 11-15