Unbound Art

This painting was originally called The Family Tree,  now I am renaming it The Tree of Life.  It is the same, isn't it?

I have a show coming up in October in Ithaca at Mockingbird Paperie. The work includes paintings created in 2015-16 from two series -  The Emergence of Form and The Observer is the Observed. Time meets Thought The Observer is the Observed A Receptacle for Reality Oblivious to the Universal Mind

Uprooted The World Upside Down Taking Our Sorrow to the Street Many Worlds, One Species The Unknowable 

These are the drawings that I made this summer.  They are all 22x30" graphite drawings on Stonehenge paper.  Creating Reality Writing the Story Cosmic Beings Double Falls, The Past and the Future The House of Knowledge Overwhelmed Breakthrough Moving with Snakes The Empty Vessel, The Flow of Life To see more drawings in this series, go to www.kimschrag.com

The Dragon and the Butterfly Fernando is having a show of assemblages at Gimme Coffee in Trumansburg, through August. The five assemblages in this show are  an experimental collaboration with MARK OROS,  lapidary artist at HASHNU STONES in Trumansburg. Journey Beyond Separation Fancy Mom

Fernando has been designing a notebook.  The shapes are selected from Taughannock Creek stones. These are the chosen stones in their final arrangement.  The stone shapes are carved into the cover board. The book cover is prepared. The book block and the cover are ready to be glued together. The stone shapes are also added to the back cover in low relief. The front and back boards have been covered in blue linen fabric. The stones are glued onto the cover. The beautiful front cover of the book.  The back cover. Finished! This lovely wedding guest book or personal journal is 6x9". Fernando - f@unboundart.com

One of my favorite design exercises starts by drawing a simple design (you can see the trials above) and then after one is chosen, I divide the composition into sections. In the examples below, the design gets increasingly complex as the composition is divided in half and then in half again, and so on. It's always a gamble as to how far to go. Sometimes the original design is the best, but if you choose a composition as I did, that you don't like very much, then it opens up new possibilities and new relationships between line and shapes. This design incorporates the grid in the horizontal and vertical divisions. You can also see that leaving space between the sections adds another element of line. the first ink drawing divided in half and rearranged divided into 4 sections divided into 8 sections By the time you get this many pieces, 16 shapes, you have quite a design puzzle. What's next?   I could keep arranging, looki...