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hand-made and heart-felt

28/4/2018

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A created kinetic vessel contains and expresses life, such a mysterious and beguiling object demands the empathy reserved for the living rather than to be analysed as an un-breathing object.

The puppet-making-artist renders enough of the essential within the body of the puppet.
​

So that it is 
not merely 
a mimicry,
a copy,
a replication, 
or 
a version 
of the subject, 
but an object which in some way blurs a line.

Eliciting delight, as a solid object shivers and vibrates with impossible breath.

(Perhaps reminding us that life is not individually possessed but what we are immersed within)​

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colour through water

18/4/2018

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Picture
finding colour and form through the flow of water
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drawing a dragonfly

16/4/2018

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Picture
at the outset
​there is such potential
drawing shapes
and colour
seeding an idea
slowly growing 
casting the net wide
what will become? 
Picture
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what do I mean by poetic

13/4/2018

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What do I mean by poetic

some part of what I do has poetic as its essence
some part of essence has poetic at and within its heart

a moving body has soft and hard
through movement each element alters in relative physical relationship
this change is placed within time
​
outside of time there is no change
all is fluid 
all is solid

within time
alteration is potential

shared time is coexistence along time’s passing
sensoral
empathetic
reflective

the alteration in physical relationship between each element of a body is observed through the passing of time shared

this gifts a union

I share time passing with 
what I observe
what I feel
what I see
what I hear

The essence surrounds this shifting
with
​change at its heart


the poetic 
takes all
and distills

offering a semblance

some iteration of each part
in relationship


if each 
  • definition
  • reason
  • rule
was solid

then the poetic would be soft

through reflection
  • time taken


allows change

to take

the solid

to place

the poetic is what can soften this solid definition towards the essential

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