Robert Paterson's Weblog

Hugh McLeod - My Daily Ah Ha

5 days a week I get my Daily Cartoon from Hugh - Gapingvoid - McLeod

He has become THE email I long for - funny, sad and evocative - talking about philosophers - I think that Hugh has become mine.

His message - live and be true to who you really are. Don't be a sheep. Watch our for your wanker side. Listen to your real self. Act!

He has become a primary source too for gifts. What do you give to people that you care about? I like the idea of sending them something that reinforces their life. There are many messages like this on his site and he has set up a very easy to use and clear site to buy from. 

I have met Hugh only once briefly at a reboot in Copenhagen and we don't know each other. I am a fan because he is a good and brave man who has won my deep respect.

 

Music & Drawing Integrate - 3D for you too!

Now you can draw music! You can also draw in 3d - enabling you to draw the new context - 3d networks - our new perspective. 

Robin's Robin

 

Dahlias by Robin

 Isn't she great!

Robin - Painting after 40 years - In her Blood?

Are some talents in our "genes"? 

Robin's Great Grandfather was a painter. Our son James is an artist. As a small girl Robin loved to paint but had no confidence - even though her art teacher encouraged her. No one else did - so she stopped.

In the last 3 months, she has gone back, aged nearly 60, after a 40 year hiatus. Mr Wolf above is not bad for someone after a few months. I have a sneaky feeling that I am married to an artist who will go from strength to strength. 

Art 2.0 Inside the artist's mind

Here is a link to James'

Squeeze the "pustule" and you will release the "thing" - explore the universe. Follow the arrows back. Return the rear end of the pustule - be reborn as a new figure - go out and explore again.

Art 2.0. James has created a world that you inhabit. You participate inside the mind and palette of James.

Surely art would also change? If Art 1.0 shows you only one perspective - that of the artist - Art 2.0 will enable you to explore inside the art?

And who is James?

My dear son and also genius

Trusted Space in Art

Sue Rose, my trusted designer, has her own Trusted Space and has a gallery showing the work of her friends and herself as they create a Sacred Space from bowls. Here are the details:

February 5 - 28, 2007
Georges Goguen Gallery
CBC Building, 250 University Ave.
Moncton, New Brunswick

In the spring of 2006 I started daydreaming about creating immersive environments as artwork. My work had progressed from painting to sculpture and then to installations. I then wanted to move inside the art removing the barrier between object and observer. The Georges Goguen Gallery gave me the opportunity to create this immersive environment.

Through the course of the year I decided to create a meditative garden filled with shallow bowls made of sand-molded concrete. Each bowl would be an enclosed environment of its own supported by birch or cherry wood tripods. I showed these to several friends and once I felt their interest and wish to dive in and create their own enclosed environments I invited them to take a bowl and do just that. This transformed space is now alive with the imaginative efforts of 15 people, each with a unique expression.

I found that the friends I invited to participate were those that I felt were very creative but who didn’t often have an opportunity to participate in a show in a gallery. Many come from different disciplines; writers, musicians, painters, sculptors, woodworkers, jewelry designers, inventors. I found myself delighted, moved and enriched by their inspiration.

I transformed my bowl into a fountain adding the sound of falling water to the ambiance of the space. I also designed a suspended wooden screen at the doorway to provide a transition into the garden. My husband John and I created some small seating to encourage visitors to stay and enjoy the surroundings.

To learn more about transforming spaces I volunteered at Windsor Theatre on the Mount Allison campus in Sackville and worked on two productions helping with costume design. Decima Mitchell, the resident designer, graciously shared her knowledge of set design and opened this world to me. I hope I have succeeded in creating a space that is healing to the spirit and stimulating for the mind.

I am a member of the Bahá’í Faith and have always found its teachings an inspiration for my work. In those Writings it says, “The Great Being saith: Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value.” I think the works we see here give testimony to that ideal, that we all have beauty and stories and spark within that, in the sharing, enrich us all.