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

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I have been working on small works on paper with seemingly formal compositions, or at least more specific formal relationships. I will shoot as soon as they are done and post.

This weekend needing to get open studio cards sent out and website updated. I would like to do now but it is already 12:18.

Go to here to view and/or download Open Studio Invitation. Select this link to print.

I am making a bolg of my exhibition responses, film responses, hiking etc.

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-FLKwtqs6erJ3H4avq8O40b9YLxn9x1w-?cq=1

I completed the 4 8' x 8' works in my studio on paper. As soon as I can shoot them, I will. I feel they are fitting with my concept:

Proposals:

Kathryn Arnold

I see the interior walls filled with fields of color and am interested in ideas of passages connected with color selections signifying sunsets/sunrise. I also visualize a horizontal extension that functions between the two 8' x 8' pieces as a horizon line. This would create an environment, with colors and passageways “connecting with innate human sensibilities, that show preference for grasslands, water, winding paths that embody mystery”. (from Papanek)

#1:

On each wall, 2 8' x 8 ‘ oils on canvas, color palette extends from earthly greens and blues upwards to yellows and pinks. (landscapes/seascapes at sunrise/sunset)

#2

Alternative idea: 2 8 ‘ x 8' oils on canvas on each wall that maintain continuous color palette of blues and earthly greens combined with yellows and oranges. (passages within earth and sky)

#3

Alternative idea: 2 8' x 8 ‘ works on each wall with an additional horizontal piece of 4' or 5' x 8' that functions as a horizon line. The 8' x 8' sections could relate to sunrise and sunset as idea number one or could be a continuous palette/color field.

Idea of passages and landscapes

Idea of horizontal that functions as a horizon line

Idea of colors like sunrise and sunset along coast on each wall, suspension upwards by light and airy hues

Idea of similar color palette on each wall, blues and aquas, greens, yellows

From Victor Papanek

“...humans may have an imprinted preference for winding paths that provide “mystery” and “give the impression that one could acquire new information if one were to travel deeper into the scene.” This liking for winding paths, mystery, wishing to “travel deeper into a scene” has been used successfully in Japanese gardens...An argument could be made that it also informs haptic satisfaction we derive from viewing a painting......In the case of mystery, the new information is not present; it is only suggested or implied. ...there is a strong element of continuity. The bend in the road, the brightly lighted field seen through a screen of foliage – these settings imply that the new information will be continuous with and related to what has gone before.”