Again with the Endless Metropolis, Already

You know, I don't talk much, except to myself. 

There are edges to the Endless Metropolis. They are not readily discernible, however.

Five Denizens of  the Endless Metropolis

You and I, We are Satellites

Thinking in Silence in the Endless Metropolis

Living in a Nation of Princesses

Documentation of the Apprently Infinite Metropolis

I recently started following a group called Urban Sketchers. http://www.urbansketchers.org/

I suppose you could stay that I joined them because I now get e-mail from them. I need to explore their website a little more to find out what exactly goes on. When I signed up, they wanted me to share my blog URL but they said that it could only be a blog whose content was urban sketching. Well, that's not possible. Urban sketching is only part of my preoccupations. At any rate, Urban Sketchers seems to be an interesting resource. 

Seeing this drawing in digital form has made me aware of its potential for development. I missed that when I looked at in the journal. 

Transparent Forms in a Small yet Paradoxically Infinite

World.

Apparently Endless City in all Directions.

The Universe of Time and Space is a serpent made of alternately constricting and relaxing coils and scales. I didn't make this up. I learned it from reading about the cosmogony of the Shipibo people of Peru. 

Practice Your Spanish on Me

My copy of an Indian painting of elephant combat. 

A painting of elephant combat from the Wonder of the Age. 

Blind Orion in  Search of the Sun by Nicolas Poussin. See the resemblance to my drawing? 

When I work in my journals, I draw with pens, markers and sometimes pencils. I go back to the studio and rework drawings with watery materials, sometimes ink, sometimes watercolor, sometimes gouache and sometimes all of them. Sometimes, because I use water soluble ink, I work only with water. Stuff always bleeds through and creates new drawings for me to work on. This one makes me think of Poussin's Blind Orion in Search of the Sun.

The day I started the journal was December 9, 2011.

There was this remarkable exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called The Wonder of the Age. It was all about painting in India between the the 1100's and 1900's. As is my practice, I spent a lot of time drawing there. And then of course, I took lots of notes on things that interested me.

http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/listings/2011/wonder-of-the-age--master-painters-of-india-11001900

This is the cover of a journal that I began in December 2011. It normally takes me about a year to fully finish a journal. And then, because I'm  easily distracted, it takes a while longer to photograph and share what I've done.

I was reading an article the other day that suggested  artists share something on the Interweave everyday. It seems like a good idea. Goodness knows I have plenty of art lying around and I also spend plenty of time on the Interweave. So I'll be sharing things daily now.