Please check out the beautiful work of Karina Puente on her website - prints are available to buy on her shop. Besides being an architect and illustrator, she is a self-taught ceramicist and there is also a selection of her works in clay which look like objects discovered in an archeological dig on Contemporary Vestiges. Also on my list for Santa.
A friend said one of my drawings had 'an Italo Calvino vibe', and never having heard of Calvino, I Googled. The pitfalls of casual googling were evident when I assumed the drawings I saw on my search results were by Calvino. Then I noticed there were a few different styles of drawing, clearly not all by the same person. I looked into it and discovered Calvino is in fact an author. His book Invisible Cities has inspired several artists to make work based on each city's story; the ones shown here are by Peruvian architect Karina Puente (first to come up on a Google search on Italo Calvino) - my favourites by a mile. Whether my friend, as I did, thought the drawings were by Italo Calvino, or whether she was referring to the spirit of the book in relation to my work, I don't know. She may even have been referring to some of the book jacket designs on Calvino's books. I haven't read Invisible Cities but took a 'look inside' on Amazon and I love what it is, not quite a novel as such, but a collection of descriptions of experiences in imaginary cities. Each city has a personality which is explored, I assume it's no coincidence that many have been given human names. The poetry of Calvino's writing displays a clarity of vision, obviously the reason so many artists have been inspired by it. The book is on my list for Santa this year.
Please check out the beautiful work of Karina Puente on her website - prints are available to buy on her shop. Besides being an architect and illustrator, she is a self-taught ceramicist and there is also a selection of her works in clay which look like objects discovered in an archeological dig on Contemporary Vestiges. Also on my list for Santa. I came across this drawing when I was looking for something else a few weeks ago. I was quite taken with it, put it on my iPad and flipped it vertically because it looked like some peculiar landscape. I liked the mysterious letters, all the more so for being flipped. It has stayed on my iPad ever since, waiting to be explained. After flipping it back the right way the other day, I saw it reads "Neurons in the cat brain illustrated by Cajal" and my curiosity was aroused; I felt I must know more about this Cajal.
I found there is a book of Cajal's drawings, The Beautiful Brain on Google Books: "These drawings are explored from multiple perspectives: Larry W. Swanson describes Cajal’s contributions to neuroscience; Lyndel King and Eric Himmel explore his artistic roots and achievement; Eric A. Newman provides commentary on the drawings; and Janet M. Dubinsky describes contemporary neuroscience imaging techniques." It's fascinating how different approaches reveal completely different aspects of a thing. The book is a little out of my price-range at the moment, but I'm happy with my own flipped perspective and how it seems to talk to my pizza stone, below. I'm taking this week off blogging to spend time with family staying with us, in the mean time here is our pizza stone with amazing markings. Inspirational in more ways than pizza alone! Isn't it wonderful?
I'll be back again next week. Here are some of those comet sketches I mentioned last week, mixed with little designs made from asemic lettering - I had forgotten all about this sheet. I often find little thoughts like this more intriguing than finished work.
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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