Still Working

The work continues.  Getting close.  Here's the output from an image analysis application I wrote.  This simple still life of mangoes is segmented into regions of similar hue, a kind of mango topography I guess.

Still working

Some have kindly asked whether I was still developing my new work. The answer is yes, and I'm close to finishing.  I've written a prodigious quantity of code since August, doing almost nothing else.

The technical process is complete, now I have to solve some performance issues, which I expect to take another month or so.  Then new works should begin to appear.

I've also hardly participated on line at all, except to do research, but I expect to remedy that soon, too.

I've finished wandering in the desert.

For 26 years I have pursued a single idea concerning computational science and art, not only visual art but text and music as well. It's the reason I got a Masters in English and a PhD in computer science.

Within the last two weeks, after years of daily study and work, I've had a real breakthrough in understanding. At last.

I'll be taking a break from blogging sketches for a while in order to pursue that work. When it reaches a form I think worth notice, I'll begin again.

In the meantime I'll keep up with the many fine posts of others on Flickr, Blogger, and others.

This is a detail of the artwork, acrylic on a birch panel, that opened that door.

Thanks for your interest.

Tangle of a different sort

A rope tied to a poplar along the Red River.

Pen and ink 4” x 6”.

Some Trees

Pen and ink, 7” x 5”.

Trolley Night, South Main, Memphis

Remembering a landscape after walking along the bluffs, sun setting over blue water, Mississippi rolling past from Tom Lee Park to just north of Beale Street, then happening on a man with a monocle who shared wine and olives with us while telling us all about Jack Tucker in Tunisia.

Watercolor, 7" x 5.5"

Almost Seduced by the Objective Again, 1

 
I cut off a length of Japanese paper, made fan folds in it to use as a journal for an afternoon, then hiked along the Wolf River again to practice actually SEEING.

Drawn using only the reed pens I made from reeds along the river.

Reed pens

Found some reeds along the Wolf River. I'd walked past them dozens of times before without noticing.

Turns out they make even more serviceable pens than those at the beach.

Here I've cut a pencil box full of them for my next sketch hike.

It's better to take several with you so the ink can dry, while you use another, before needing to recut the points.

Outer Banks, 4

Sometime after 1:30 AM.

Ragged half moon rise, Spica, Antares, Saturn's rings, surf, fog, celestial stink: objective is a confusion.

Pen and ink, watercolor, 8” x 5”.

Outer Banks, 2

She is blue shirt running, straight before, dunescape littered with broken shells, yellow kite twirls, ship's hawser, stingray eggs, king of the mountain, we are saying Moses!, mOzisss! Making dramatic hand gestures.

There was a lot of pointing.

Pen and ink, watercolor, 8” x 5”.