Birgit Zipser » imagination

verisimilitude

Birgit — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:09:46 +0000

For artwork to hold significance or persuasion, according to the ancient Greeks, it must have grounding in reality.

How about a rock and its watery reflection falling into outer space,

a toppled lighthouse

and reeds in a lost lake?

What more puzzling, reality turned upside down or abstract art?

Stone People

Birgit — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:09:33 +0000

Stone People at Old Mission Peninsula, fully submerged in the Great Lake a decade or so ago, are now exposed,

surrounded by flora,

singing to flora

and on almost dry land, viewed from different angles.

How soon will they be submerged again? The water has risen slightly since last year.

Inexhaustible motifs for Great Lake photography with slow rhythms of changing water levels and malleable sand dunes, newly sculpted each winter.

In your work, do you follow any changes, indoors or outdoors?

A composite in my mind’s eye

Birgit — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:58:20 +0000

David’s Self-Portrait with Raven reminded me of this picture of a black bird that I carried in my mind:

I thought that it was a painting by Georgia O’Keefe but I could not find it in my art books. What I found instead were these two paintings by Georgia O’Keefe:

A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills + It was Blue and Green.

Have you ever unknowingly invented a picture in your mind that is based on other people’s artwork? In my mid, the artwork of others appears a life of its own.

Does your mind also usurp artwork of others and then plays with it? If yes, does it diminish as you focus more on your own art?

children’s art

Birgit — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:58:58 +0000

What do you see in this painting?