Comments on: New Art: Wheels Within Wheels http://darteboard.com/2009/06/20/new-art-wheels-within-wheels/ Art, Criticism, Snark and More Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:38:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: andrew http://darteboard.com/2009/06/20/new-art-wheels-within-wheels/#comment-3879 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:38:58 +0000 http://darteboard.com/?p=3717#comment-3879 Driving the south coast was the only place we’ve ever been stopped because Nissan was making a car commercial on the highway. The filming company was using the bridge over an alluvial floe in the middle of a vast volcanic ash field. They had a helicopter in the air. Otherwise is wasn’t very crowded. There weren’t even fences on either side of the highway.

I guess it’s being in the presence of to elemental opposites, fire and ice.

I wouldn’t mind living there for a while. Just have to learn Viking…er, the Icelandic language.

]]> By: ssstephg http://darteboard.com/2009/06/20/new-art-wheels-within-wheels/#comment-3878 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:38:02 +0000 http://darteboard.com/?p=3717#comment-3878 thanks for the link, Andrew. some gorgeous photos there. must be incredible to actually be right in it!

]]> By: ssstephg http://darteboard.com/2009/06/20/new-art-wheels-within-wheels/#comment-3877 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:36:27 +0000 http://darteboard.com/?p=3717#comment-3877 nope, i’ve never seen an active volcano, but it’s true that landscape has actually had a major influence on my work. i realized its impact back in ’97 after i’d moved back to the Adirondacks (where i’d done most of my growing up) for a while. i’d been away for a couple of years and it wasn’t until i was back in the midst of a long frozen wintry hell that it hit me how the often bleak and severe imagery of that area had crept into my work without me even noticing.

]]> By: andrew http://darteboard.com/2009/06/20/new-art-wheels-within-wheels/#comment-3682 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:28:31 +0000 http://darteboard.com/?p=3717#comment-3682 A nature photography blog that includes Iceland

]]> By: andrew http://darteboard.com/2009/06/20/new-art-wheels-within-wheels/#comment-3678 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:06:11 +0000 http://darteboard.com/?p=3717#comment-3678 There’s usually a translation loss with gold in photographing it, but I think this set did well. I wonder if you’ve ever seen an active volcano, Steph. I just get the impression you’d be giddy a long time afterward. This sort of work grabs onto my imagination of what it would be like hiking around one. Just driving around Iceland I got to see some really, really “otherworldy” landscape; extreme earth. My hosts wanted to zoom us clear across the south coast road to get to a tourist spot, but all this moss was everywhere covering vast lava fields. I just wanted to stop and check it out instead. Well, anyway, this is what some of your paintings conjure up for me…extreme process, earth skin with the sudden pure construct hovering or penetrating, transcending.

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