tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post1648377140479433724..comments2024-03-28T03:17:28.911-04:00Comments on Art With a Needle: Cyanotype on paradeKathleen Loomishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930922068379938756noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-115162860174506102018-10-10T10:47:14.449-04:002018-10-10T10:47:14.449-04:00For me, yes, it is art! I co-curated this exhibiti...For me, yes, it is art! I co-curated this exhibition, Lay of the Land, with Brian Pera, so perhaps I am biased. It is a curious question what we all expect or want from art. I ask many things of art. Sometimes for me it is enough if a work sparks my curiosity, charms me, or befuddles me. John Pearson's large cyanotypes have an exuberant energy that transport me emotionally to a exciting and yet peaceful place. To stand closely in front of one of the larger pieces, I feel a spectacular vibration from the intense blue color combined with the pale ghost of the now absent palm frond. It is a similar feeling I have when standing in front of a Mark Rothko painting, a sense that all of my questions are answered and I am being given a healing. Rather than demanding answers and satisfaction of some kind, I feel as though I am being given something strong and meaningful that has to do with experience rather than language. Coupled with the smaller black and white photographs that deal with light and materials and also the intriguing videos (Sunset Circuit accompanied with a sound piece by artist Gabie Strong), the exhibition works together on many levels to show a diversity and range of experimentation and process. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573545232164318689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-7466449981216347942018-10-10T08:17:24.263-04:002018-10-10T08:17:24.263-04:00I m always amazed at the effect these techniques c...I m always amazed at the effect these techniques create and wonder how the technique was even created. I imagine the artist think of the fabrics they create the same way we do of the favorite fabrics we buy and don't want to snip into.<br />xx, CarolCarol- Beads and Birdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11062821517519300477noreply@blogger.com