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Showing posts with label Coffee cups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coffee cups. Show all posts
Friday, October 5, 2012
64 and Counting
Actually at 65 coffee cups but only 64 fit in the grid. Think I'll go for a hundred. This is fun, makes me bug eyed, but fun. Don't forget you can click on the image to make it bigger.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Coffee Cantata Continues
Spent time cutting more skirts out of cardboard and pinning them to sheets of paper in the wall. The lines have become paths. The delicacy of the line that I first fell for, in the bottom of the coffee cups, is lost, but I like the strength of the paths, Also love the cardboard. Now; do I use the out lines.... the cardboard.....cut the lines out of left over plywood. Or, none of the above.
About the Coffee Cantata, here is what Wikipedia says" (BWV 211) is a secular cantata written by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1732 and 1734. Although classified as a cantata, it is essentially a miniature comic opera. In a satirical commentary, the cantata amusingly tells of an addiction to coffee, a pressing social problem in eighteenth century Leipzig, where this work was premiered. The cantata's libretto (written by Christian Friedrich Henrici) features lines such as "If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment, I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat"—a sentiment that would likely have been appreciated by the patrons of Zimmermann's Coffee House in Leipzig, where Bach's Collegium Musicum, founded by Georg Philipp Telemann in 1702, would have originally performed the work."
About the Coffee Cantata, here is what Wikipedia says" (BWV 211) is a secular cantata written by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1732 and 1734. Although classified as a cantata, it is essentially a miniature comic opera. In a satirical commentary, the cantata amusingly tells of an addiction to coffee, a pressing social problem in eighteenth century Leipzig, where this work was premiered. The cantata's libretto (written by Christian Friedrich Henrici) features lines such as "If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment, I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat"—a sentiment that would likely have been appreciated by the patrons of Zimmermann's Coffee House in Leipzig, where Bach's Collegium Musicum, founded by Georg Philipp Telemann in 1702, would have originally performed the work."
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| Coffe skirt 1 |
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| Coffe skirt 2 |
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| Coffe skirt 3 |
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| Panel 1 |
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| Panel 2 |
Friday, August 31, 2012
The Latest Love Affair
Coffee cups.... I now rummage through garbage pails looking for coffee cups. I ask J. to do the same. I find myself drawing circles in the studio, hunting down charcoal and my favourite pencils, powdered graphite. I love the circles at the bottom of the cups, Then I notice the ellipse made by the light and shadow. The seam line offsets the curves of the circle. Such simple things to explore and how utterly satisfying.
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| I hope the drawings are going in this direction, but I fear they are going to be very dark |
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| Photos of the cups, or as they say source material. |
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