My latest attempt to reassess priorities has led me to commit to sticking to two projects for the next month or so: create a pictures-only chapbook/zine (I’ve realized they’re short enough that I should call them zines) associated with the month of June in my Evernostian year and get through CS50x, Harvard’s free online introduction to computer science. It’s a great course, and I tried to complete it a couple years ago but failed because I got distracted.
So far I have a lady sitting under a cross between a tree and a waterfall:
and hand made of the night sky touching and causing to erupt in glory a human hand against the backdrop of the sky (not done yet):
Here are some images I might want to include as elements of the pieces in the zine:
- rich skies, day and night
- the sun, possibly anthropomorphic, like so:
- “green world” images like the waterfall-tree, that is, images of the natural world, many inhabited by a pair of lovers
- the Tree of Life, but in more impressionistic (or expressionistic) versions like the one above as opposed to this:
- a storm of blossoms
- rain
- mist
- mist lit by sun
- rainbow
- chains and hearts
- a bird caged in cloud or light
- styles contrasting Blake’s and Burke’s ideas of the sublime: clarity and obscurity
- Images associated with my response to some Debussy
- a lover sometimes made of darkness, sometimes of light, sometimes pure gold, sometimes nonexistent
- eyes
- wings
- a monstrously beautiful or beautifully monstrous angelic being
- a vast and intricate wheel
- that wheel fallen in fragments on the grass
It’s a delight to get back into art, and I hope I can create enough images I find satisfying to make the zine.
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