Element – Air Direction – East Theme – Joy Season – Spring Life Stage – Youth Time of day – Sunrise Location – Mind Energy – High Impact – Positive Aristotle, 4 sources of happiness – Hedone (sensuous pleasure) Hippocrates’ 4 humours – Blood Galen’s 4 temperaments – Sanguine Paracelsus’ 4 totem spirits – Curious sylphs Adike’s 4 world views …
Element – Fire Direction – South Theme – Rage Season – Summer Life Stage – Prime of Life Time of day – Noon Location – Spirit Energy – High Impact – Negative Aristotle, 4 sources of happiness – Ethikos (moral virtue) Hippocrates 4 humours – Yellow Bile Galen’s 4 temperaments – Chloretic Paracelsus’ 4 totem spirits – Changeable salamander Adike’s …
Element – Water Direction – West Theme – Broken Season – Winter Life Stage – Childhood Time of day – Sunset Location – Heart Energy – Low Impact – Negative Aristotle, 4 sources of happiness – Dialogike (Logical investigation) Hippocrates 4 humours – Mucus Galen’s 4 temperaments – Melancholic Paracelsus’ 4 totem spirits – Inspired undines Adike’s 4 world views …
Element – Earth Direction – North Theme – Grounded Season – Autumn Life Stage – Old Age Time of day – Midnight Location – Home Energy – Low Impact – Positive Aristotle, 4 sources of happiness – Propraitairi (acquiring assets) Hippocrates 4 humours – Black Bile Galen’s 4 temperaments – Phelgmatic Paracelsus’ 4 totem spirits – Industrious gnomes Adike’s 4 …
I went a bit loopy during the first lockdown. When the blackbirds started to whistle back boundaries became kind of fuzzy and I started to read things into the drawings the birds were making. Even reading that sentence back sounds nuts! Experimenting with bird and wind drawing made me feel very connected to nature though, so there was a big …
I’ve spent the summer throwing pots in my tiny studio. While I throw I listen to audiobooks and I had a binge of Dimension X (Adventures in time and space told in future tense). The shape came from the sounds, it seemed right to create forward looking retro space age shapes and it was a challenge to my throwing skills. …
Limited edition of 24 drawings by birds and wind, each drawing represents 12 hours or day or night. I get ear-worms of poetry sometimes. Recently I’ve been plagued by this quote from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. ”How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d …
White stoneware thrown mugs with cobalt and slip decoration. Mugs of happiness. The textures are reminiscent of denim and embroidery and the three dimensional properties of the decoration provides interest for fingers and palm when held. This results in a feeling of greater connection with the object when held. Functional prototypes for the Visible and Tactile Sound series. The mugs …
Visualising Sound often provides inspiration within art and design practice, however the potential of recording sound from a tactile as well as an aesthetic perspective is rarely investigated. The Visible and Tactile Sound project turns sounds into patterns and objects which can be felt or held. Lisa Cole has invented and developed a machine as a tool to translate sound …
Over Easter in 1300 Dante traveled through hell. Over Easter 2019 I took sourdough starter on Dante’s journey, punished it according to the cantos and relayed the results back to clay forms based on electron microscope pictures of my sourdough. I wrote about how art, science and philosophy are interlinked and co-dependent and you can read Interdisciplinary collaboration as a …