Comments for Design - Realized

Comment on Potters and academia, and related reflections by pcNielsen

pcNielsen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:37:28 +0000

Agree that choices in medium should not be immune from criticism!

I’m at a spot now where I’m considering switching from the use of clay for one of my few chosen concepts to paint). I love clay and I love the irony that clay brings to the subject (clouds), but after working on this concept with clay for years (even if not as a full-time artist — insert frowny-face here) I haven’t really seen the desire effect. And having [somewhat] recently discovered the traditional painting of Japan, nihonga, I think it has the potential to be very well suited for portraying what I want.

On making art for ourselves, I’m not so sure about that language. I’m not disagreeing with the idea, but it sounds so self-serving that I want to find another way to say that . . .

Comment on A bit on New Harmony, IN by Julie

Julie — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:37:15 +0000

Compared with my understanding of present day construction, I was FLOORED by the mortise-and-tenon performance. If you want to nerd out, I’ll try and get a scan of the article I was reading… it had drawings of details. Similar performance with the New Harmony houses; if you wanted to take it down, you had to disassemble it in opposite order. It wouldn’t just come apart. AND they pegged the tenons in: they oven-dried wood, shaved it to fit as a peg… you can guess the rest. Makes me sad that a perfectly good house would be taken down. Many cheers for such high craft.

Comment on A bit on New Harmony, IN by pcNielsen

pcNielsen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:41:44 +0000

My great-great-[great?] grandfather mortise-and-tenoned his house here in central Nebraska I learned recently. When they went to pull it down (\It was old,\ my grandmother said when I asked why they were tearing it down), they couldn’t! They removed the siding, the plaster and lath and IIRC still couldn’t pull it down with a tractor.

I have his jointer plane that was apparently used in the construction of the house. I’m using it to plane salvaged oak for a dining room table.

Comment on Bleeding Piece I and Bleeding Piece II by C. Schwalbe

C. Schwalbe — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:31:44 +0000

Julie,
I think I gotta go shave my legs now….
make woman. make.
C

Comment on Artist: Barbara Kasten by pcNielsen

pcNielsen — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:25:59 +0000

Heh, Moholy-Nagy is one of a few artist names I used to give to restaurant hosts when there was a wait. Don’t hear that name very often!

Comment on Movie: The Window by pcNielsen

pcNielsen — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:31:46 +0000

Ooooh, must watch.

Comment on The codified language of academia by Julie

Julie — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:50:04 +0000

Addendum above…

Comment on The codified language of academia by pcNielsen

pcNielsen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:55:57 +0000

Hmmm, now I really don’t want an MFA. Course, any thoughts I’d ever had of pursuing one in the first place were directly tied to teaching at the college level . . .

Comment on Book: Holy the Firm by pcNielsen

pcNielsen — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:47:10 +0000

Need to read some of hers some day. I know my wife has a few of her books laying around . . .

Comment on Daily Photo Project Summer 2011: The Picturesque View by Julie

Julie — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:46:26 +0000

Comment by Corinne Peterson via Facebook:

Because several elements are so obvious in this “picturesque” view, it is quite exciting and revealing to see how much the light and atmosphere changes it, and if you spend time looking at the different aspects, some of these changes are very subtle. Because of the differences, I find myself entering the picture plane at different places and moving through the picture in different ways.