Drawings from last night (world's first flying buttress sneaked its way into that medieval castle.) Today I take the map to Long Island City to be scanned! * kirk being church in Scottish– or, if you're in Amsterdam– de Oude Kerk (specifically old).
The top two images were things found via Google image whilst searching for the Two Knights upon One Horse Masonic Seal (in addition to finding several examples of the seal in question, not represented here at all, in fact). The drawing of the knight falling off the horse is fantastic, and I wish I'd noted… Continue reading inspiring imagery
I sent them my Block Island maps; they are numbers 152 and 153. It's a wonderful site I came upon during research for the calendar-map.
Here is a detail of a three-shilling note (facsimile); one of several found in the "Interpretive Center" building of the Minisink Battleground on the banks of the Delaware River, near Narrowsburg, NY. We were up that way over the weekend to visit Ben's family for the weekend, and a bunch of us hiked up the… Continue reading Three Shillings. To counterfeit is Death
stags, lion, lobster and rook I haven't put an entry here in awhile, and I wanted to put some sort of visual, so here are a few thin *slivers* of some bits and bobs I've been working on since last I wrote. In other news: mostly been working– on projects for clients and on 2010… Continue reading The swampy days of August have come early
Details from "Map of Lynn and Saugus: Settled in 1629" (Boston: Pendleton's Lithography, 1829) [Published in Surveying the Shore– Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts 1600-1930 bt Joseph G. Garver] The bounty of texture and details in these old maps makes me wish I'd chosen to make of the year a state or province; even a… Continue reading Rocks dry at half tide
Dark and rain. I awoke to find a puddle had formed on the window ledge during the night; another day of gloom in this wettest of Springtimes! A couple of things had to be thrown away. I've been listening to Harry & the Potters– laugh, but they're actually quite good. Fun listening, some of it… Continue reading flooded window well
That is to say: I can't resist putting up some more teases. An archipelago off the coast of the Kingdom of March (mechanical pencil; cold pressed paper) A cartouche in progress... (mechanical pencil; cold pressed paper) A compass rose comprising multiple locational systems: (digital; hot-pressed recycled paper) 90º meridians for points of the compass; 30º… Continue reading A world in progress: macro
It's June. June 13th, to be specific. That's 06/13/09 (for us Americans) or 13.06.09 (a more sensible approach; day-week-month, or: specific-to-broad, in terms of increments). Here's what I'm talking about: I feel (for my part) that over the past few weeks (well, maybe six or seven) I've finally gotten a handle on things– on how… Continue reading always this is how the year progresses
Today's essay from Mr Keillor was a good'n. An excerpt: It was so much more than what we deserved to hear, which is true of art, a lavish gift of the heart that shames pretense by its outrageous generosity.
e daggar art: THE MUSEUM 