KATHRYNARNOLD

8th Street Studio

My 8th Street Studio and its day to day, or maybe it will be week to week digression on my studio issues, art thoughts, and the duality experience between conceptual/rational and nonconceptual/intuitive. Grid and ground contained all within.

Studio Log

9-23-04 (continue to 10-15-04)

Studio is fantastic. I will take my camera in today to get some new photos. Keep posted. Images of the pieces in the shows, all of them are small.

Diable Valley College, October 2004

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understand how subtly...to keepyour wing in my hand" (Mallarme)
H 24" x 36"
oil on canvas

Evergreen Valley College, October 2004
Probably this piece:

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finding corporeity (Tolkein Group)
H 36" x W 29"
Oil on Canvas

SoMarts Open Studio Exhibition, Ocotber 2004:

20" x 20"
Larger image soon

9-19-04

Three shows to deliver work to this week and next. I will try to post the images soon but have found myself fairly swamped. Today I completed three pieces of about 3'x3' that I have been working on for awhile. The studio is clean, just waiting for the screens to create separate entrances.

My photos came in from my journey to LA and in a few weeks NYC. Delightful! Hopefully perfect weather and all of that.

9-7-04

Well whaz up? Yes, I was painting but never posted images. Soon. I have been reorganizing my studio space, somehow it happens once a year. And now I can physically walk into space that has been redesigned. Classes are beginning and have been beginning, with the last three beginning this week. That makes for some adventure as i realize I need to still create handouts, takehomes and the like. I also have been placing the Art History images online and that takes time also. But they will always be available!

Over the weekend I traveled to the Southern Sierras again and took this trail up from the Belknap Campground. Each section more beautiful than the last with the ending point (my ending point not the trail) in this beautiful fern garden with Giant Sequoias. Film photos taken and I will soon have them developed. A truly nice experience and cannot wait/am anticipating the development of these images.

Too hot to be in studio! SF reaching 94 degrees a couple of days ago and today to reach 85. I will be back there on Thursday.

8-27-04

Hard to believe it is the end of August. I just lost one of my classes yesterday to one of the new FT faculty. Disappointing but I had felt it might happen. I am in the process of rearranging my studio. Making it better for both myself and Tami. I am almost there. In the studio I have been working on a large 7'x7' painting and also 3 small pieces. I will try to post some photos tonight or tomorrow. Yerba Buena Revisted works with idea of chaos in empty space or questions if that empty space develops the shape that one loses sense of random chaos - if there is such a thing- as shape begins to define something. Interesting play between ideas of full and empty, defined and non-defined.

The cards are ready for open studios. I have posted them at:

www.8thstreetstudio.org/info.html

8-18-04

Studio fairies caught in actions!!

Here are two shots of one of the pieces I am working on. So much for idea of subtlety, maybe next time.

Tomorrow again. Would write more write now. But truly brain is dead. And it is just now 12:AM, the beginning of a new day. Good night.

8-16-04

Couldn't get in, traffic moving 0-15 mph. Pain!

8-15-04

A couple of days in the studio and back again tomorrow. It does seem like I am missing important deadlines. I have invested in some advertising. We'll see what happens.

As far as I know, I am finished working on this set of 9 pieces. Here are a few.

I described my process and thinking with them on the previous page. They are my "sacred conversaziones" pieces. Some of the reproductions do not fit within that genre precisely as described by art historians, but I feel each portrays a similarity in terms of the experience that is being shown, conversations with the spirit-world, however not sure what that would be. :-)

They kind of remind me of an art history slideshow. Maybe they are about teaching art history with reproductions! Just kidding! But maybe not.

Have been doing "spirit" paintings, a regeneration of my roots, my birthplace in painting and perhaps myself also. The question comes up about the relationship of chaos and intuition. It seems like intuition has order to it, nonlinear. Not sure anymore what chaos is, perhaps that is a good sign. Or maybe it is just for today.

Here are some others. All of these are done on paper with water-type media.

There is this team of game designers in my building. They work all night. They work all day. Puts me to shame. It is most cool to see their animated figure in 3D space. Sometimes I can see it as I walk by their studio. But it must take forever. I am just discoursing, but am very interested in animation as a medium in the fine arts. Soon I will try my hand.

Another element of interest is that now completed is the learning the basic structure of the short form of tai chi. In the process, I have forgotten many of my kenpo forms. Even though not ever a master with these and no ambition to be a master, these martial arts forms are integrated in who I am. Tai Chi teacher, speaking about one section of the form, stated Thursday that he wanted to see intention, not a state of indefinition, but the part to be defined. Then together with a Korean painter film, shown at Sundance festival, I review the elements of painting that form my work. No self- affectation...oh no, it's gone. Something also about a painting is never finished. This Korean painter who lived in the late 1800s was a master at subtlety, yet his paintings had strong life and energy. I am interested in this quality. I will have to retrieve the film again and write down some of the dialogue. How does this precisely fit with art theory if it does? I tie it together with modernist thought but not sure it fits 100%. The idea of unity and integrity and authenticity - I only am not sure about state of unity but think it can be experienced. My other Tai Chi teacher, Vicki, mentioned at the end of beginning class the book tao teh ching by Lao Tzu. I did not think I had read it, but discovered it lying in my studio by my computer, opened to where I was. I had read half-way through it without knowing the name of the book. These aspects mentioned in this paragraph form a base or are influences within my work.

My teacher, Bob Price, is always a part of me it seems. I bow.

I began some 5 pieces of oil on paper today, trying to work with subtlety. Don't know however if it is part of me. I will discover. Maybe tomorrow I will post some in-process images.