''There is no force however great Can stretch a cord however fine Into a horizontal line That shall be absolutely straight'' GSB
This photograph was taken on the first day at my local art studio. It represents me trying to grapple with art in the sense Herman von Helmholtz, a German aesthetician said ''art should have the appearance of being undesigned''. I have since re-formulated this to art should also be utterly designed but within the contexts of an undesigned nature. Hence George Spencer-Brown's song ''There is no force however great Can stretch a cord however fine Into a horizontal line That shall be absolutely straight''. This is where my aesthetics has taken me at the moment and can be summarised in the painting below:
Painting of a statue of the Buddha
As you can see in the above painting I have made it undesigned but utterly designed at the same time. This is in keeping, in my opinion with the approach modelled by Cezanne in his influential paintings which pre-dated some of the Cubist philosophies. See below.
In the above painting we see an almost mathematical reduction of the terms of ''undesigned'' and ''designed'' whereby the undesigned makes way for the designed never overriding it fully but instead complementing even if only to superimpose it. This is the idea my art has taken and can also be seen in the paintings of Turner too (see below) and symphony 45 in F sharp minor by Haydn and the music of Mozart (who was Haydyn's pupil) and the music of Paco de Lucia in his song ''Entre dos Aguas'' which means ''between the two waters'' where he supersedes the convention of undesigned art always within it's limitations.
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