Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 June 2026

Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype/Spheres of Activity

Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.

Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype


The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen.

The Drowned World, JG Ballard.

blueprints, cyanotype, alternative printing processes, light drawings, 

precision and indeterminacy, human form, ecology, 

environments, contemporary art practice

















ARCHITECTURAL Body

An ORGANISM that PERSONS

Gins and Arakawa 2002



Although the human condition is a crisis condition if ever there was one, few individuals and societies act with the dispatch a state of emergency requires. The fact that the human condition is a crises condition gets routinely covered up, with culture invariably functioning to obscure how dire the condition is and to float it as bearable


If organisms form themselves as persons by uptaking the environment, then they involve not only bodies but domains, spheres of activity and influence


Start by thinking of architecture as a tentative constructing toward a holding in place. Architecture's holding in place occurs within and as part of a prevailing atmospheric condition that others routinely call biosphere but which we, feeling the need to stress its dynamic nature, have renamed bioscleave

Procedural Architecture/Architectural Body

Gins and Arakawa


The role of architecture as a tool for researching the body-environment towards the implementation of these considerations is paramount

The goal of an experimental teaching and learning space based on architectural procedures would be that the process of design and construction would allow students/staff to rethink, re-imagine and enact the curriculum

An Arakawa and Gins Experimental Teaching Space/A Feasibility Study 2013

Jondi Keane


Contexts:

Practice-based research , Research , Studio practice

Artforms:

Painting , Mixed media , Drawing

Tags:

Bioscleave, Architectural Research, Arakawa and Gins, 

cyanotype, diagram, collage, texts, current concerns, contemporary practice




Cyanotype from a site drawing, Space for Peace, Winchester Cathedral


Shroud

Richard Stillman

Yard and Metre Event, Winchester


As the marks resonated, did they sound true?

Could we tolerate margins of error or latitude?

Is there strength in that built by blue ink?

It is hard to see without certainty.


Why have they flown, gathered, shrouded?

Is the date significant? A memorial?

Or is it white noise reverberating,

striking parallels, refusing focus, insisting?


The shape of the cross is still distinct

but opening out, refusing definition,

never quite caught as an intention,

pinned on dimensions it wants to refuse.


When objects or atmospheres collide energy is transferred, a new force may be created. And, as forensic scientists can attest, when objects touch they exchange traces, each leaves something of itself with the other.

This is why artists enjoy collaborating. Working with another artist can give a jolt of inspiration, a spark of creative thinking, a surge of new skill, the stimulus for a new work. And the experience will leave its mark in some way on each individual’s practice.

The specific ‘collision’ may also result in a work which has its own integrity, which does not belong’ to either party and where their particular contributions merge indistinguishably - in effect fusion takes place.

This is the thinking behind 10 days | Creative Collisions and for The Yard artists and Hyde Writers it was the ideal excuse to come together, to let the shockwaves flow and see what new possibilities emerged. As with all the best creative practice, in science or in art, this has been an experiment, it involved risk, trust and open minds. Whether or not the outcomes are fully resolved they will be filled with potential - and with potency.

Stephen Boyce


Contexts:

Arts in health , Community , Publication , Socially Engaged , Writing

Artforms:

Painting , Performance , Photography , Printmaking , Text

Tags:

Space for Peace, 10 Days, Creative Collisions, Winchester Yard Artists, 

Hyde Writers, collaborations. visual art, poetry

Monday, 5 June 2023

Transformative Drawing and Cyanotype Processes : The Drowned World, JG Ballard/Humanity an Emotional History, Stuart Walton.



Biosphere (Ecology and Entropy) 2012. by Russell Moreton
Biosphere (Ecology and Entropy) 2012., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Transformative Drawing Processes
Sun Printed Cyanotype
The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen.

The Drowned World, JG Ballard.



The Custodians, Richard Cowper 1976.
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Humanity : An Emotional History
Stuart Walton. 2004

Fear
Anger
Disgust
Sadness
Jealousy
Contempt
Shame
Embarrassment
Surprise
Happiness

Thursday, 9 March 2017

Fake Fish : Hidden Curriculum (Life-Sensation)

In Defence of Sensuality :  John Cowper Powys 1930.

               
                  Foreword.


The author feels that perhaps some explanation is due to the reader for the rather unusual employment of the word "Sensuality" which serves as the title of this work. The advantage given to the author by the use of this particular expression is that it enables him to proceed from rock-bottom upwards as far as he likes. A more refined title would have cut him off, in his method of developing his idea, from the physical roots of existence; for while it is easy to indicate the overtones and undertones of Sensuality it would be hard to bring a gentle, vague word, like the word "sensuousness" down to the bare, stark, stoically-stripped Life-Sensation which is the subject of this book.


                                                            J.C.P.

                 Dedicated to the memory of that great
                  and much-abused man

                Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Tim Ingold

MAKING 2013
Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture.

Practical Geometry

The Architect and The Carpenter

The Cathedral and The Laboratory

Templates and Geometry

The Return to Alchemy























Sunday, 19 February 2017

Pastoral Space: Material, Inquiry, Art and Craft


Material Agency : Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris
Visualising Environmental Agency

"Agents are defined as persons or things, which have the ability and intention to "cause" something "in the vicinity" or "in the mileau" to happen ( Gell 1998)"

"These latter artefacts are described with the term "index", to remove the appellation "art" and to imply that they are indexes of agency."

Some Stimulating Solutions, Andrew Cochrane.
















Transformative Drawing Processes
Sun Printed Cyanotype
The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen.

The Drowned World, JG Ballard.


Thursday, 20 December 2012

Biosphere 2012. Russell Moreton

Oxford Dictionary of Geography: spatiality
The effect that space has on actions, interactions, entities, concepts, and theories. Physical spatiality can also be metaphorical. It is used to show social power—thrones are higher than the seats of commoners, and ‘high tables’ for university teachers in most Oxbridge colleges physically elevate the teachers over the taught. People use proximity to show how intimate they want to be with others (See personal space), or orientation; we may face someone or turn away from them. Institutions and governments have used large architectural spaces to invoke awe, while restaurateurs may create ‘cosiness’ in small spaces.
Read more: www.answers.com/topic/spatiality-1#ixzz2FaLnBp9p