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Svart Höna Portraits

Monday, October 05, 2020

Yesterday's spray-painting exercise was to see if I could do stencil prints from photos of my Svart Höna, solid black melanistic chickens, a heritage breed from Sweden. The trick was to see if I could get their facial features to read even though they are pure black. (Even their bones and the insides of their mouths are black.)

A rooster:

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And a hen:

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Posted on Monday, October 05, 2020 at 11:10 AM in Art, Front Page, Spray Paint, Stencil Art |

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Warning Signs from the Future No. 1: No Drones, Glass Ceiling

Saturday, October 03, 2020

Spraypaint on pizza box.

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Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2020 at 12:23 PM in Art, Design, Design by Kathryn Cramer, Design Fiction, Design Fiction boy Kathryn Cramer, Diegetic Prototype, Foresight, Front Page, Political Satire, Political Surrealism, Retrofuturism, Science Fiction, Spray Paint, Stencil Art, Systems Thinking |

Tags: diegetic prototype, foresight, glass ceiling, scenario, sign fiction, signs of thefuture, spray paint art, stencil art

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Playing with Peter Stoyko's SystemViz Iconography

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

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I have been playing with Peter Stoyko's SystemViz iconography.

SystemViz is a research project by Peter Stoyko exploring how visuals can enhance systems thinking, especially as it relates to inter-disciplinary, collaborative design. Findings are expressed as visual codexes and other applied tools.

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Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 07:14 AM in Abstraction, Art, Cricut Maker, Design, Front Page, Quiltmaking, Spray Paint, Stencil Art, Symmathesy, Systems Thinking |

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Collage: Goldfish Memoir, April 6, 2015

Monday, April 06, 2015

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This collage was created following the instructions for exercise number 5 in Nick Bantock's book The Trickster' Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity. The goldfish was copied from one of the color plates in State of New York Forest, Fish & Game Commission Annual Reports 1904-1905-1906.

Posted on Monday, April 06, 2015 at 06:28 PM in Art, Collage |

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Asking the Wrong Question

Sunday, January 11, 2015
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Oppressive governments often lock up writers, artists, intellectuals. They lock them up because such people are dangerous to those in power. In the United States, we mostly don't have that problem. This is partly because of the first amendment, but also because American writers, artist, and intellectuals are mostly tame.
 
The lack of politics in art and literature is seen as a virtue as though there were a pure aesthetics that could only be tainted by the addition of politics. In the US, this is partly the legacy of McCarthism. While our arts are sometime offensive, they do little to change the structure of power.
 
And so it comes to me as a shock that in Paris there is a terror attack on cartoonists. Cartoonists? Really? Cartoonists.
 
Many of my friends and many people I admire seem to feel that is this is a good moment to engage their critical skills, to evaluate the worth of the long and successful careers of the recently deceased cartoonists. In other words, what did these artists do wrong that made people want to kill them? I don't think that's the right question.
 

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Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 05:34 PM in Art, Politics |

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