Thursday, April 3, 2014

The Reason

I have finished the clay piece, The Reason, based upon the well know poem by an anonymous writer. The piece was partly inspired by seeing the play Beauty and the Beast and the opportunity to see the elaborate costumes up close in a back stage visit. Thanks Rebecca.

The piece is made up of three individual pieces each representing part of the poem, The Reason, The Season and the Lifetime. The sculptures create hearts at the openings at the top and all three intertwined also create heart shapes.

It will be exhibited May 5-16, 2014 at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery on the University of Saskatchewan Campus.








Born Twice

Just finished this today.  It is the lifecycle of the bee.  Reductive technique linocuts dipped in beeswax.  Some prints have 12 colours.

The text is a writing from 1572, La Masion Rustique by Charles Estienne.

 
Charles Estienne, La Maison Rustique (1572)

Trans. Richard Surflet (1600)



The householder shall make choice for the keeping of his bees of some fit and secret place in his Garden of Pleasure, in the bottome of some valley if it be possible, to the end they may the more easily rise on high to fly abroad to get their food, as also for that when they be laden, they descend more easily downward with their load. But let us see to it especially that the place be open to the South sun, and yet notwithstanding, neither exceeding in heat nor in cold, but temperate; and that the same by hill, wall or some other rampart be defended from windes and tempests, and so also as that they may flie their sundrie and severall waies for to get diversitie of pastures, and so again may returned to their little cottages laden with their composition of hony; and againe in such a place, as wherein there is great quantitie of thyme, organie, ivie, winter savorie, wild thyme, rosemary, sage, corneflag or gladdon, gilleflowres, violets, white lilies, roses, flowre-gentill, basil, saffron, beanes, poppie, melilot, milfoile and other sweet herbs.