White Crow Papermill and art processes

We went to the White Crow Papermill in Fleetwood, Pa today with some of the people in my department. Making paper has always interested me. It was definitely refreshing to see some of the alternative ways that they made paper. One of the professors in the art department owns this place so that's why we visited them. Sometimes in art, there are specific processes that are needed to be done in order to get the right outcome and until you've mastered the original process, only then you can start experimenting. But paper making isn't that rigid. I mean, you have a basic process, but you don't necessarily have to use the same tools to recreate the end product.

He did these really cool artworks where he embedded different pieces of paper and then 'casted' them so the pieces blended into the surface so its' smooth.

Camp Chronicles Series

58" x 40" handcast and mixed media paper

The Shining Ones and Angels

Chapters of Coming Forth By Day: "Behold, oh ye shining ones, ye men and gods..."

One of the missing "keys" in this fabricated divided illusion, is the shining ones. Throughout ancient history, there has been a global phenomenon of beings called the shining ones. They have literally been described as people of light and that they were seen as gods. The most prominent culture who speaks of the shining ones, is of course Egypt. But some scholars believe they are the Sumerian Annunaki. In the Sumerian legends, Humanity was created by the Sky Gods who descended from heaven. I believe the angel archetype is actually a description of the shining ones. While the video below is not of actual human form, it still portrays the angel archetype. As seen in the video below, we could never accept the appearance of an angel because we would associate them with "UFO"s. That's right. Some of the UFO footage is indeed "legit" but they are not like the image we have of aliens: a flying saucer with little green men inside.

In order to study Ufology a good understanding of light needs to be achieved. How it affects us, how it affects material, the acceptance that outside this physical world time and space do not exist. According to Hermetic thought, time and space is not in motion, but is perceived within thee. That means our brains are a big tool in perceiving the physical world. All our senses create the physical world. Without them, time and space do not exist.



Angels are described as white winged, beings, generally dressed in white and carry a message.

Well this description could be an archetypal description. These paintings that we know now, also were painted by the Humanists of the Renaissance who have a connection to the Order of the Rosae Croix, Rosicrucianism, a mystery (oral) school that was started by egyptian Pharaoh Tuthmosis. Therefore one of the many ways that mystics encrypted information was through paintings and symbols. As learned in art school, artists' paint what the see. The act of seeing could mean different things to different people. The most obvious and narrow meaning to see is seeing something with your eyes. To the Humanists as well with any philosopher one of the many lines of wisdom that is passed around is, "Those who know, see." This simply means, those who are 'in the know' see. See through the illusion.

Here are some quotes regarding the Shining Ones:

The Sumerian EL means simply bright or shining
the Old Irish Aillil means shining
Old Cornish EL means shining
Elf means shining - hence Elves as tall/mysterious angelic beings
Inca Illa is bright or to shine
Babylonian Ellu is to shine

Eliphas Levi (19th century magician and mystic) speaks of these egregors on numerous occasions and even links them to the giants or Watchers spoken of in the Book of Enoch saying that they:

“take shape and have appeared in the guise of giants: these are the egregors of the Book of Enoch…. Termed the celestial watchers or egregors, by the ancients.”

“The egregore is a group spirit that serves to remind the initiate of his or her goals. It informs and guides the individual and it protects the living chain of brotherhood. The living chain of brotherhood is entered into when a Setian performs a rite of their own creation intended to protect and enhance the Temple of Set. The egregore protects the brotherhood by letting them know their enemies are there. A symbolic representation of the egregore is used to maintain a link to the Prince of Darkness.”
Sir Ormsond IV°,
from Saturnian Principles.

History of Photo Processes work

So I'm sharing what I've been slaving my way through these past two weeks trying to get work done for this class.

I *do* have a working pinhole camera, but my b/w photo skills are absolute crap because I've only had one photo class and it was in senior year of high school, and even then, i didn't learn much. I need to practice, I love photography, but I just don't have the equipment...

So here is what I did instead of pinhole negatives. I used digital negatives, basically printed out an inverted b/w photo on regular paper w/ a regular inkjet printer and waxed the back. I used some of my best digital photography, some personal shots, and family photos. You know how when you spill oil on paper and it becomes transparent? Well beeswax does that and it allows you to make the back of paper transparent so you can make a negative.

I really enjoy doing this, I need to find some emulsion that is easy to reproduce and do more...

But really with this class you need to get your coating skills set and I think that's what he's looking for more than anything..


Cyanotype Print 01


Cyanotype Print 02


Cyanotype Print 03


Cyanotype Print 04


Cyanotype Print 05


Salt Print 01


Salt Print 02


Salt Print 03


Salt Print 04


Salt Print 05


Van Dyke Brown 01


Van Dyke Brown 02


Van Dyke Brown 03 - I really like this one.


Van Dyke Brown 04


Van Dyke Brown 05


Van Dyke Brown 06

Now off to get something to eat, and go to sleep cause I'm making myself wake up at 7:30 am in the morning to be right at the lab at 9 am so I can stay on top of shit. If I don't the earliest would be Saturday, and that's actually kinda late.

So while in this class today, there was a tour group that came in and observed the class and a random man looked over my work and said, "I like what I'm seeing." He doesn't know it, and maybe he knows something about photography, but just hearing those words come out of a complete stranger made my freaking day. My professor hasn't seen a lot of my work so I have no idea what he thinks...!

Dogon Art resembling PHI

Piece of Dogon art resembles PHI symbol. Phi interpreted as light.

Monsters from the WHITE Sea Biological Station

Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Another-World/863938

Makeup - Ancient Makeup?

I'm a HUGE fan of makeup and its a big inspiration for me. I love playing with color and makeup is a way for me to do that. Mixing and matching shades I normally wouldn't wear into a wearable look. Makeup can be extremely artistic when done right.






Did you know makeup is extremely ancient too? The idea of the black eyeliner came from the ancient Egyptians.




Ancient Egyptian makeup tools


Ancient makeup pots!



All ancient Egyptians wore makeup even children.

Feathered Serpent = Out of Body?

Some people don't really understand who the Feathered Serpent is. He goes by three names Viracocha of the Inca, Quetzalcoatl of the Aztec and Kukulkan of the Maya.

Some people think its an archetype for a comet:



To the logical that would make sense.

To the more abstract minded, the Feathered Serpent could be describing an experience, such at the Out of Body Experience:



Shedding my serpentine skin. And becoming light as feather, but still maintaining my serpentine form.

In the Mayan legends, it is a person, furnishing mankind wisdom. He rose into the sky and became like the morning star, Venus; and is also associated by the 8 pointed star. According to the Mayan prophecy Kukulkan is expected to return at the beginning of the next Golden Age (2012)...

The Federation of Damanhur

I've been meaning to post about this for awhile.

The Federation of Damanhur sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but in reality is is a small country/spiritual community in Northern Italy. They are a social example of bringing back the sciences from the Atlantian period. They built a huge underground temple called the Temple of Mankind. It has been nicknamed the "eighth wonder of the world".

This Temple acknowledges ALL 'mainstream religions' and the beauty and spiritual significance of art.

About: But the 'Temples of Damanhur' are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.

It all began in the early Sixties when Oberto Airaudi was aged ten. From an early age, he claims to have experienced visions of what he believed to be a past life, in which there were amazing temples.

Around these he dreamed there lived a highly evolved community who enjoyed an idyllic existence in which all the people worked for the common good.

More bizarrely still, Oberto appeared to have had a supernatural ability: the gift of "remote viewing" - the ability to travel in his mind's eye to describe in detail the contents of any building.

"My goal was to recreate the temples from my visions," he says.

Oberto - who prefers to use the name 'Falco' - began by digging a trial hole under his parent's home to more fully understand the principals of excavation.

But it was only as he began a successful career as an insurance broker that he began to search for his perfect site.

In 1977, he selected a remote hillside where he felt the hard rock would sustain the structures he had in mind.

A house was built on the hillside and Falco moved in with several friends who shared his vision. Using hammers and picks, they began their dig to create the temples of Damanhur - named after the ancient subterranean Egyptian temple meaning City of Light - in August 1978.

As no planning permission had been granted, they decided to share their scheme only with like-minded people.

Volunteers, who flocked from around the world, worked in four-hour shifts for the next 16 years with no formal plans other than Falco's sketches and visions, funding their scheme by setting up small businesses to serve the local community.

By 1991, several of the nine chambers were almost complete with stunning murals, mosaics, statues, secret doors and stained glass windows. But time was running out on the secret.

'They are to remind people that we are all capable of much more than we realise and that hidden treasures can be found within every one of us once you know how to access them,' says Falco.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-495538/Eighth-wonder-world-The-stunning-temples-secretly-carved-ground-paranormal-eccentric.html#ixzz1GLTfH226




Ceiling of the Temple. YES that is a CEILING.



What is known as the Earth Hall.



Hall of Mirrors

Butterfly Craft

Made this tonight for relaxation... haha

Had a busy week.
Wednesday my family and I went off to the MFA to see the new wing, which featured Art of the Americas (ancient to modern times). Visual overload we decided. In the modern section I saw a cool exhibit on history of photo processes. Wednesday evening my family and I went to the Noodle house and I had Wonton Soup, so good. I ate it all.


Today my mom and I went to the ICA to see their newest exhibit. Wasn't terribly exciting, unfortunately. Its stuff I've seen. They still had Shepard Fairey's stuff up. As much as everyone hates the scandal with Fairey I really enjoy his work, because he uses a really unique process to make his graphics. Afterwards we got our addiction, which is Dunkin Donut's Ice Caramel lattes <3 love 'em. At 3 pm I had my first business meeting with my first real client. :) And by real I mean, like no mutal or family friends kinda thing. He wants a website comp by Sunday, so that means I'm working Friday and Saturday!! Besides getting a hair cut on Friday and packing on Saturday, I'll probably be working on and off. I also want to try that cold porcelain recipe.


As an artist, I'm a big advocate for biodegradable and environmentally friendly processes and materials. May be unexpected, but I'm seriously thinking about getting my masters in Materials Science. The subject has been fascinating me since, I started my research. It would be really cool to learn how to make polymers, fabrics, metals and alloys stuff our stuff is made of... ;)

So I found this material on OpenMaterials (new favorite site) and it's sheets of material made of green tea. SO COOL.

Treehugger recently reported on BioCouture, a fashion research project based at Central Saint Martin’s College in London and led by Suzanna Lee, which seeks to grow textiles from a vat of liquid:

The process uses a sugary green tea recipe, to which, a bacterial culture is added. It takes about 2-4 weeks to grow a sheet that is thick enough to use. Sheets are then dried down; either shaped over a wooden dress form–like the ghost dress and ruff jacket –or sewn together conventionally. Depending on the recipe the material can either feel like paper or–more desirably–like a vegetable leather.

In testing with dyes we found no need for mordant [a substance used for dyeing fabrics] and an incredibly small amount of dye goes a long way so it’s eco-credentials go through the entire process. We also recycle a percentage of the fermentation liquid.

So I found new work music, sleep, meditation, whatever music. Its Aquaristica, by Adult Only. Its lounge, chillout, relaxing, background and ambient kind of music. Very futuristic, at least in my mind.

Natural Pigments

Here is an awesome essay/paper on natural pigments:

http://naturalpigments.com/education/article.asp?ArticleID=116

http://naturalpigments.com/education/article.asp?ArticleID=116

http://naturalpigments.com/education/article.asp?ArticleID=116

http://naturalpigments.com/education/article.asp?ArticleID=116

http://naturalpigments.com/education/article.asp?ArticleID=116

http://naturalpigments.com/education/article.asp?ArticleID=116


Trying to figure out how to smash these sea stones into pigment.....

The Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction (or BZ reaction)

More Design inspiration the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction (or BZ reaction)!


The Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction (or BZ reaction) is performed using a mixture of sodium bromate, malonic acid, sulphuric acid, and ferroin. This creates a complex oxidising reaction that changes colour periodically. The oscillations start with the formation in a red solution of small blue dots that expand into ever-widening concentric blue rings. Sometimes these will become expanding Archimedean spirals; the patterns intermix and become increasingly complex towards the end of the reaction. These waves are not mechanical in the same sense a ripple can be considered; instead these waves show information traveling. from: http://www.antonyhall.net/bz_reaction.html



So pretty!!!!



yum

Hele-shaw cell experiments of form generation

Figure above : Pattern formation in the Hele-Shaw cell (two flat plates -- one transparent -- between which is enclosed a layer of viscous liquid), in which a liquid (here the clear liquid) is injected into a more dense liquid (colored) under pressure. Depending on the injection pressure and other factors, different bubble shapes can be observed that are reminiscent of those seen in electrodeposition ( = the deposition of metal clusters by applying a voltage to an electrode dipped in a solution of metal ions).
Shown here are (1) DLA-like (top-left) -- "DLA" means diffusion-limited aggregation, (2) dense-branching (top-right) and (3) dendritic (bottom) growth. For the latter, some directional preference must be introduced, for example by scoring the face of one of the two plates with a lattice of grooves. The square lattice in this example generates a "snowflake" with fourfold symmetry.

I've been looking into hele-shaw cell experiments of form generation.

I want to experiment with this.

Shadows and Symmetries

So I found this article on shadows, symmetries and the use of quasicrystals and how it relates to art and stuff..


"If you want to be creative, it's essential for an artist to know about geometries and space," Robbin says.

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Link to article