Albin Brunovsky

Sod’s Law – got flu on 22/09 so I lost a few days … joy, anyway – back to work now and trying to catch up. I think the case study is going ok so far – just need an approval for the questionnaires so I can give them to people to complete.

I need to start working on the artist’s statement – something I’ve never really enjoyed but wahey – has to be done. That’s the plan for today.

Also, can’t make up my mind about my illustration – book brief. I’ve looked at similes and came across Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases (New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1917) by Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953) "Section VIII: Striking Similes" Many images are popping into my mind when I’m reading through them. They sound so poetic and I think that’s the way I want to go with this book….

Just how beautiful are these???:

“He began to laugh with that sibilant laugh which resembles the hiss of a serpent.”

“Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts and heaps, like bodies fallen there in vain assault.”

“Eyes half veiled by slumberous tears, like bluest water seen through mists of rain.”

“Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.”

However I also looked at contradictions – crossed it with paradoxes and it’s sooo amazingly interesting as well. I’ve like a quantum mechanics “Schrödinger's cat paradox: Is the cat alive or dead before we look?” for some time now and of course there are so many more…

And today I’m looking at signs – again – just an amazing topic…. We could see signs in anything really. Even thinking of going eastern – japanese way… but also signs in their poetry….

Or classical antiquity on the other hand?

“High on the stern Aeneas his stand,

And held a branch of olive in his hand,

While thus he spoke: "The Phrygians' arms you see,

Expelled from Troy, provoked in Italy

By Latian foes, with war unjustly made;

At first affianced, and at last betrayed.

This message bear: The Trojans and their chief

Bring holy peace, and beg the king's relief."

What to choose, what to choose… I guess a bit more research needs to be done, some ideas sketched out and decisions to be made soon – have to get on with the actuall art work soon. I think I’ll do some perpex etching for this. I love work of Albin Brunovsky… may ‘try’to approach it in a simmilar way – try very,very hard is the right way to put it as he is a genius and my work will never be that standard of quality, but hey, we need to try at least, don’t we? ;)