tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43957985281962111152024-02-21T05:50:22.731-08:00james thatcher artsSometimes funny, sometimes kinda erudite; it's the current projects, influences and opinions of contemporary artist, James Thatcher, Pacific Northwest. James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-90676939142822506952022-08-30T19:02:00.000-07:002022-08-30T19:02:39.398-07:00"The Aesthetic Persist"<p> <span style="font-size: large;">Art is a long strange trip.
Pay attention because sometimes it doubles back on itself.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Art leapt forward after nearly 50 drawings in the surrealist “Emergent
Image” series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Number 48 had potential to go further....</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSOZHSVQEA-SwExhXPJMOqXHC0snDsrud4ZGUzoRBrNmjqpIKqla-IEMznlWCvsXkXlf0Xn-4WzfvHmlKwGKovxubkXeWiRnRx2XfRLZZGSGlnp6kf_mjIcFXmzUTzLjyc3gh6U1ykWg/s2048/email+Emergent+Image+open+vessel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1609" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSOZHSVQEA-SwExhXPJMOqXHC0snDsrud4ZGUzoRBrNmjqpIKqla-IEMznlWCvsXkXlf0Xn-4WzfvHmlKwGKovxubkXeWiRnRx2XfRLZZGSGlnp6kf_mjIcFXmzUTzLjyc3gh6U1ykWg/w502-h640/email+Emergent+Image+open+vessel.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Investigation was required</span><span>.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> A r</span><span>endering of the
original image streamlined its edges and accentuated the lovely central black
shape.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span>The new drawing looked like a
lovely mid-century ceramic sculpture.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxGk25fjneggjby6y84FyrZI30qlp1OVx8YbO0KFjbYNBK-mh4LMvP0U_mCGQ2V5aq9RbqJsH0a0K-ujIzYFl8CJDQFYU0w6Sr3x16-ljjdJpHeZEDlaNebaXtqEJ36tFvhzFvi2n8dW4/s2048/email+Open+Vessel+drawing+1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1609" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxGk25fjneggjby6y84FyrZI30qlp1OVx8YbO0KFjbYNBK-mh4LMvP0U_mCGQ2V5aq9RbqJsH0a0K-ujIzYFl8CJDQFYU0w6Sr3x16-ljjdJpHeZEDlaNebaXtqEJ36tFvhzFvi2n8dW4/w502-h640/email+Open+Vessel+drawing+1.jpg" width="502" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Check out those edges!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span 107="" line-height:="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
idea ran its course after a few iterations and it was time to return to the series work with so-so results. But the potential of the "Open Vessel" drawing...time to return for another
rendering. </span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"></span><p></p><div><span style="font-size: large;">(bean emergent image)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Flushing out those curves a little and working out the shading…but so
what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Hmm...</span>What if the edges changed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another rendering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">But then that wrinkle pattern itself was more interesting
than the original shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if the
veins were included?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Oh YES.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvMAJ8Nzl53MutX3obTMr0hephPk1_i2B2aQqrlhCis455T4xST_KuCXM5v8KS3w6M1oJAcPmL6takBAyvE89wEJdOnviv_EDTvq1BUxGsWIspU_VsisHZn_Gn5dkeR_M3zZG2NxgLXE/s2048/Blog+Comp+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvMAJ8Nzl53MutX3obTMr0hephPk1_i2B2aQqrlhCis455T4xST_KuCXM5v8KS3w6M1oJAcPmL6takBAyvE89wEJdOnviv_EDTvq1BUxGsWIspU_VsisHZn_Gn5dkeR_M3zZG2NxgLXE/w662-h440/Blog+Comp+2.jpg" width="662" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">What if the image were mirrored like a Rorschach print? </span><span style="text-align: left;">Aha.</span><span style="text-align: left;">
</span><span style="text-align: left;">From nearly 4 dozen random automatic styled drawings into meticulously
rendered, highly ordered, intentional imagery.</span><span style="text-align: left;">
</span><span style="text-align: left;">Some with veins.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Ooh, surprise! Relates to artwork from the early 1980’s, who would suspect?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfkjqScIE84IK1VMp6l4_StikTG-xrp4CWsZF0ZEEs9FMKCMISF_NNf_OtpJpTlOWLYlOTltG7E5oXehe7omIf1R0ZFWDDwY4UzUPK743d3S5IEjnq26u2w_xtUY1NIyvmThh8ytO6X8/s2048/Blog+Comp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1311" data-original-width="2048" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfkjqScIE84IK1VMp6l4_StikTG-xrp4CWsZF0ZEEs9FMKCMISF_NNf_OtpJpTlOWLYlOTltG7E5oXehe7omIf1R0ZFWDDwY4UzUPK743d3S5IEjnq26u2w_xtUY1NIyvmThh8ytO6X8/w660-h422/Blog+Comp.jpg" width="660" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Persistent aesthetic!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://jtnwdc.wixsite.com/jamesthatcherarts">https://jtnwdc.wixsite.com/jamesthatcherarts</a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p></div><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><br table="" /> James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-60208205292267331332021-01-12T15:05:00.001-08:002021-01-12T15:05:19.138-08:00New Year, New Drawing<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/zmISq0EZji8" frameborder="0"></iframe>James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-72068427549308109732020-06-04T23:15:00.000-07:002020-06-04T23:15:49.766-07:00One Heart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-15657966713236891382020-03-30T14:51:00.001-07:002021-02-06T13:27:29.212-08:00"Emergent Images"<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Dream Girl," 2019 Enamel wash and gesso on canvas, 7" x 10"<br />James Thatcher 2019 copyright<br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Emergent Image #3" 2020 Enamel wash and pencil on paper, 7" x 10"<br />James Thatcher 2020 copyright</span></td></tr>
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James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-75005932557546664912020-03-24T13:24:00.001-07:002020-03-24T13:24:13.030-07:00Emergent Image #30<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vcyzpkae26w?clip=&clipt=EAAYAA%3D%3D" width="480"></iframe>James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-19814843987067484762019-03-19T23:01:00.000-07:002019-03-19T23:02:29.608-07:00Letter to SeymourPowell<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm an artist with an idea that happened with the combination of a couple of images in Photoshop. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe there is an opportunity to partner with industry/tech to create </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">shaped</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> flat screen displays that could be fastened to structures, conformed to structures, or to joined to each other to create sculptural forms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Could triangular flat screens be fabricated to display video or images? In the structure illustrated, the bottom could be open for installing electronics, ventilation, and access. It could be either large or small. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I work with octahedrons regularly (eight equilateral triangles). This would create a fascinating screen/object. At this time I'm interested in making a few sculptures that feature this technology. I believe that funding and exhibits are available for such objects and applications. We can conquer the world from there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Does this technology already exist? Is this brilliant? I am looking for a partner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I got your name from this article: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you for your generosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creating the free desert museum in Joshua
Tree, California provided my family with the honor of experiencing your
immersive art in the expanse, rather than in typical white rooms, although the sculptures
would be striking there too.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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entrance creates a heart-breaking context for the entire collection. Have the fountains ever had running
water? Providing drinking water at the site would cause disturbing interactions with those works.</span></div>
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wandered through the rest of the artworks.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Feelings of personal and cultural devastation hung over me throughout
your acreage. These are amplified by the
years of entropy, wind, and gravity that pull and twist the works to the earth in
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gradual effects of time to continue to fashion the works? They work with your assemblage techniques,
pushing the feeling of a life endured under institutionalized degradation; not
from an overt system like prison, but our culture. My culture.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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rush as artworks come together, and how they can change by adding a new part. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I appreciate the gratification of being
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abstractions they are dystopian; but in context with the house-like installations they
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<br />James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0Joshua Tree, CA 92252, USA34.134728 -116.3130661000000134.082150500000004 -116.39374710000001 34.1873055 -116.23238510000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-52436328810378490362018-12-17T12:23:00.001-08:002018-12-17T12:23:54.216-08:00"Disarray"<br />
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because they’re so awful. They are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stained,
crumpled, and gross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They reflect the
nastiness with which we serve the poor and are symbolic of the way we care for people in need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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which dis</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">torted</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> the child’s face. </span></div>
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creating. Disintegrated, unstable, disorderly,
chaotic…what was I thinking by lining up those panels so fastidiously in the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Disarray", 2018, 84" x 60", Black & white gesso on banana box liners.<br />James Thatcher Copyright 2018</span></td></tr>
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<br />James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0Sutherlin, OR, USA43.3901177 -123.3125762999999943.3439592 -123.39325729999999 43.436276199999995 -123.23189529999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-43797659445267759562018-11-22T20:10:00.000-08:002019-01-17T10:30:40.699-08:00A Pacific Northwest Portfolio <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I volunteer at a regional food bank in southern Oregon, which supplies local agencies rather than
individuals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve had difficulty
recruiting volunteers because of this. Part of the problem is that
we do not communicate who we really serve in our facilities, hence to prospective
volunteers. </span></span><br />
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nineteen food pantries and community kitchens served by the United Community
Action Network (UCAN) food bank in Douglas and Josephine Counties, Oregon. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Hunger", proposed as a billboard poster, 7' x 14', digital file<br />James Thatcher copyright 2018</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The idea behind this project is to
communicate who we really serve, those in need, speaking their untold stories in the facilities where we serve them.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let’s humanize our facilities in order to more effectively engage those
who are considering volunteering with us.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Installation proposal, 24 units, each 20" x 16" x 10".<br /><br />What if it were presented with a pallet of Campbell's Soup, <br />to be donated to the food bank after the exhibit?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Banana boxes are the ubiquitous
containers used to ship, transfer, and distribute food in Oregon, and are an organic choice to support this imagery</span>. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The nature of “boxness” comes into play constantly: what goes inside the box?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">T</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">his portrait featuring Campbell’s soup draws a clear art historical reference, as well as a social reference to soup kitchens from the Great Depression, and a regional reference to the Campbell's Soup production facility just south of Portland, Oregon. </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Shelf Stable", 2018, 19" x 35", Black and white gesso, latex paint <br />on reconstructed banana boxes, Campbell's Soup, rope light.<br />James Thatcher copyright 2018</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While conceptually astute, I maintain
a studio for my practice. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a practice
that is hands on, technical, and sometimes messy. I draw, paint, build, sculpt,
and install, exploring materials and processes, often eschewing archival
stability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the hungry. It’s urgent work with individuals who are sometimes
emotional, sometimes desperate, sometimes unwashed. The need is now,
forget tomorrow and its worries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the midst of serving this population…. </span></div>
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shows up at 9am and stands, waiting for hours until the doors of the food
pantry open at 1pm, so that she can obtain produce. </span></span></div>
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who accessed their local pantry in Reedsport for years, who have now begun
volunteering there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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in Myrtle Creek’s food pantry who was a long-distance trucker, and through it
became disabled with sciatica. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This project began as a critique of UCAN’s lack of communication, while
providing a solution for it. This portfolio expands the discussion about food
insecurity in our region, it promotes the Oregon Food Bank (located in
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That includes mine, swept up and renewed in the service to others. The
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<br />James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0Sutherlin, OR, USA43.3901177 -123.3125762999999943.3439592 -123.39325729999999 43.436276199999995 -123.23189529999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-46906056124216791512018-11-18T21:27:00.000-08:002019-01-17T10:22:00.957-08:00Biography as Art Practice<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1982,
one of my professors at the Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington,
DC (yes, <i>that </i>Corcoran) said that you could sweep the studio floor and
put it into the artwork I was making. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Spirit of Myth", 2004, 88" x 66", Latex Enamel, dirt, kitty litter, & wood chips on canvas<br />
James Thatcher copyright 2018</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was 15
years before I actually did that, but the essence of the comment was about making
artwork that <i>used the stuff of life</i> as
a medium. This concept has led me to embed tree branches, bark, and
leaves, or hay in paint, and employ parts and processes from a 24-year career
as a cabinet maker into decades of artwork. </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Chiaroscuro", 2015-18, 48" x 72", Latex enamel, hay, bulrushes, kitty litter <br />
on plywood panel. James Thatcher copyright 2018</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail, "Chiaroscuro", 2018, latex enamel, hay, bulrushes, kitty litter on plywood panel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installation view, 2014-18, acrylic on canvas.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the 2008 financial crisis forced a retirement from cabinet making and changed
everything. I joined the staff of a missions-based ministry that I’d been
volunteering with in southern Appalachia.
We did mission day trips every week, where I experienced the necessity,
the power, and the joy of serving “the least of these.”</span><br />
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years later, I have reconnected with that passion as a volunteer for the United
Community Action Network (UCAN) food bank in Roseburg, Oregon. This portfolio is based on that volunteer
work, both emotionally and by “using the stuff of it” as a medium.</span></span></div>
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food pantries and recipients in Douglas County, relies on banana boxes as
carriers. As such, banana boxes are the natural choice for a substrate, along with loading pallets, to depict issues of food insecurity.</span></div>
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portfolio speaks of my personal history in exploring art materials, of hands-on
ministry, of experience in food distribution, and passion for confronting food
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<br />James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0Sutherlin, OR, USA43.3901177 -123.3125762999999943.3439592 -123.39325729999999 43.436276199999995 -123.23189529999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-11457828441713056002017-12-05T09:31:00.003-08:002017-12-05T09:31:53.821-08:00Meme<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-38960740005470152872017-12-03T14:05:00.000-08:002017-12-03T14:05:08.385-08:00Portfolio Spread<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lately I have had passionate conversations at art events about
feeding the hungry. My work as a
volunteer with a food bank has re-kindled my passion for the cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After working in a mission based ministry in North Carolina
I understand the spiritual drive to feed the hungry and serve the poor. By serving “the least of these” we are
serving the Most High God. By ignoring
the poor and hungry we ignore Him.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Homelessness, hunger, and generational poverty are pervasive in the Pacific Northwest. My artwork doesn't communicate anything about this. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What's up with that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hexagons, hyperbolic paraboloids and octahedrons that have
captivated my attention since 2013 are technical works with clean finishes. Geometry is an idealized imagery that alludes
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paraboloid after creating 30-8” models in bamboo last winter. </span></div>
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continuing to render it by drawing or painting the image. I settled on using drywall tape to create a
piece. It costs about a penny a foot and
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many possibilities but presentation was still an issue. The 1/3 scale seems best as it yields a finished
piece of 16” x 8” which can be effective as an individual unit. Combining pieces still maintains a manageable
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<br />James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0Roseburg, OR, USA43.216505 -123.3417380999999943.1239365 -123.50309959999998 43.3090735 -123.18037659999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-91988889574801272982016-03-03T10:45:00.000-08:002017-04-06T12:06:43.627-07:00DC 1980's<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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and fabulous; pale, cold and tough: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the hair, the shoes, the style and fashion,
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A painful marriage that broke all chains of communication and the 80’s
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died quickly, having grown too big for its britches and ironically
usurped by the menial and anonymous “Neo Geo”…</span></div>
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it: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bad choices, the heat of the
moment, the broad laughters and sweat on the club’s dance floor. We were using
and abusing with deep passion and regrets, walking home in the frozen night straight into the next onslaught.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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it was gone, and for what?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shaved heads, goatees, and Metallica (which we all took as a joke), and junkies from Seattle?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It had to die. It was
a brilliant flash and we who survived re-emerged Born Again. We looked away, not to some new thing but to the common; as if it were a new
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a “focus project” to concentrate on a single successful image from those labors. Produce 30 identical versions with no
variation in size, process or subject matter. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This will stabilize studio output and
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James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0Berlin, MD, USA38.362480077114064 -75.14854431152343838.312697577114065 -75.229225311523436 38.412262577114063 -75.067863311523439tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-48649763536585512352015-10-01T10:56:00.005-07:002015-12-29T13:57:37.915-08:00Same Mind, Different Focus<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I enjoy seeing one thing lead to another and have</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> become involved with ocean imagery after our recent move to the beach: </span><a href="http://jamesthatcherarts.blogspot.com/2015/08/on-moving.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">The sand fleas, the flounder, the shells...</a><br />
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many years ago declared that the United States was so large that it effectively
contained nine separate countries. Consider
regional accents and colloquialism, attitudes and even recipes…I fully believe
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fish that was so curious that I had to (<i>had to!</i>) render it. My
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on. I create, but not continuing with
work from another region, time and influence.
This isn’t what I thought I’d be doing.
It isn’t market savvy. It isn’t
clever or charming. I find it compelling though; the stuff if not the art. And I’m about exploring it.</span></span><br />
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James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0Ocean Pines, MD, USA38.372751180977417 -75.1523212368164238.366527180977414 -75.162406236816423 38.37897518097742 -75.142236236816416tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-40816589545924735592015-03-21T19:40:00.002-07:002018-04-26T15:30:57.390-07:00The Decision and the End of Artist's Block"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Block” is rooted in fear. Fear of
mistakes. Fear of messing up. Fear of failure. All of these will impede beginning. Beginning is the end of Artist’s Block.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the result of this fear. Making “The Decision”
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create something to respond to. The
Decision is probably going to be wrong anyway but it will prompt a reaction. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the key to unlocking creativity. It doesn't even matter if the idea and execution are awful. But get the ball rolling and believe that you
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as you can determine a problem and consider a solution. Problem solving is creative. Trust your instincts. Don’t quit until it works.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this hesitation in my studio these days with each new piece. When I was in the midst of a </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://jamesthatcherarts.blogspot.com/2015/02/focus-project.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">focus proje</a><a href="http://jamesthatcherarts.blogspot.com/2015/02/focus-project.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">ct</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>I knew what the next step was at the end of the day and what to do when I got back
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artwork is a whole different process in the wake of the focus project. Each piece requires fresh inspiration,
new insight and solutions. OUCH! </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Each piece relates to different equations, parabolas or geometry--eventually.</span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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say, “Make a decision. It doesn’t matter
if it works right now. It will work.” Each painting has required
response after response to those initial decisions. Each painting resolves itself into a fine
and unusual artwork—WINNING!</span></div>
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your studio I want to encourage you. Make a decision on that painting that has you stuck. If it’s the empty canvas (or page) that has you
stuck then just slam it. Make something
to paint out and see what that looks like.
Then paint it out again. And then paint
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sweetgrass Parabola", 8" x 10", Acrylic & gesso, chalk & pencil on primed mat board; © 2015 <br />
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emerges. Let it tell you what’s
happening, what it is and where it’s going.
All you need to do is push it and follow it. Do it. Make it.
It’s only art, right?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more fun than fear. You will not fail if you do not quit. Let me know how it
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James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com1Cobleskill, NY, USA42.682803457845125 -74.48726177215576242.676966957845124 -74.497346772155765 42.688639957845126 -74.477176772155758tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-57628215590956553062015-03-16T12:30:00.001-07:002016-07-16T11:59:33.520-07:00Mathematics as Abstract Text<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Grids,
octagons, X-Y-Z axes, coordinates, parabolas…mathematics are increasing these days in the studio.
Equations, formulas, letters and numbers have become part of the expression. They accompany geometric shapes and represent an aesthetic relief.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Let <i>f = </i>F", Gesso on Roofing Felt, 72" x 36", © 2015</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1982 the third year faculty at the Corcoran College of Art + Design (Washington, DC) became aware of
my job experience as a sign maker. Since then there has been a push to incorporate text into
my artwork. I became very self-conscious
about it…what to say? In those days I
took the sign influence into the direction of graffiti.</span><br />
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retrospective exhibit in the early 2000’s I painted individual words in a frieze
section of the gallery. The selection of words was rife with meaning
and hanging my large scale abstract paintings below them created interesting
contexts. </span></span></div>
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was with words themselves. They’re so descriptive that they guide viewers thinking, perception and meaning. I've had no problem with this as far as titles go. But actually using them </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">in the artwork has continued to make me feel </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">self-conscious.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve tried to use text as texture by burying them under layers of paint but without success.</span></div>
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that the use of geometric shapes demands these equations to emphasize the depth of the subject. The
math is specific without being literal.
It’s an abstract language. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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such, I enjoy incorporating it freely into these recent artworks. Many formulas are too long to
use but sections are fun to place into these
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for me. Algebra was incomprehensible when I was a high school freshman. The basic
concept of letters equaling “any number” was beyond me. My dad taught math and science and worked
with me to get a handle on it. In spite
of his tutoring it didn’t connect and was very frustrating!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0Cobleskill, NY, USA42.682487980986878 -74.48687553405761742.679569980986876 -74.491918034057619 42.685405980986879 -74.481833034057615tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-9938982635782316382015-02-01T12:24:00.000-08:002015-12-29T13:57:07.584-08:00Focus Project <div class="MsoNormal">
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thirty identical paintings. They're each 8” x 10” and modeled after a study of a blue gradient <a href="http://jamesthatcherarts.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-tree-of-life.html" target="_blank">Tree of Life</a>
hexagon. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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most controversial assignment given by our faculty at the Corcoran College of
Art + Design (Washington, DC, 1980’s). However, it was given after 2 months of
free range creativity. Nobody
mentioned it, but the piles of artwork generated during that first stage were about
discovering our <i>modus operandi</i> and ONE image. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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summed up the range of our unfettered production; our free association, lateral
thinking, uninhibited choices in art making that sidestepped our fault-finding,
self-filtering, uptight, judgmental fearful selves.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discipline and an example of what to do when you found that idea worth
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produce drawings and sketches, and ideas that take over our imaginations.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">We rush on to generate more ideas, sketches,
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discard it in the search for another? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">They're worth holding onto.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">When you
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the process of re-iteration controlled progress reveals itself. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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coherence is evident.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Clarity becomes a
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Hammer out thirty! You might like
it. If nothing else, you’ll find a few
that really sing! You’ll internalize the
image, as well as the focus processes and the multiples aesthetic. You’ll have that ability and insight as a
permanent part of your creative options. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were upon us and my wife and I went away for a week or so. No art production, just vacation, visiting,
watching football—a great break. We come
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And you’re clueless! That’s one
of the best parts! Then you find out
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James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com2Cobleskill, NY, USA42.682414386899559 -74.48713302612304742.679496386899558 -74.492175526123049 42.68533238689956 -74.482090526123045tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-388406025109710182014-11-22T13:52:00.000-08:002017-12-13T14:50:03.162-08:00Rebellion Became an Embrace<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">For
about 25 years I was a cabinet maker. It’s a world of minute detail: blueprints, trim, and tight spaces. Add to that delicate finishes, matching color
samples, and pristine installations in expensive homes.</span><br />
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large scale abstract art was a way of taking a break from the fastidiousness of
the trade. Throwing, splashing,
thrashing, and dripping fields of paint became a refuge from the demands of the industry. </span></span></div>
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several seasons remodeling and finishing my parent’s home in Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula. </span></span></span><br />
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higher education took us to the mountains of North Carolina. I found
myself back in the field of high end interior woodworking.</span> </span> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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several years of carpentry and drywall, I found myself poorly suited to the
demands of cabinet making. I’d lost my
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marked with frustration and dissatisfaction and eventually with the real estate
collapse of 2008 I was laid off. I’ve
kept my tools but haven’t returned to cabinet making.</span></span></div>
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has gone forward and the opportunity to pursue my art career is in full
flight. I make this preamble to say that
I don’t have much to rebel against any more:
times are good.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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such, the thrashing and running paint techniques of my large scale abstract art
had become more of a habit than a reality.
Interestingly, now that the requirements of the field are removed I have discovered
that the skills <i>and orientation</i> of my
woodworking experience persist.</span></div>
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away for five years the clean lines and processes re-emerge. I am not back in the shop polishing fine
hardwoods, but I am drafting, laying down clean edges, building structures and
enjoying the technical facility that decades of shop experience has instilled
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days have passed. These are quieter
thoughtful times. The means have
changed, and the ends necessarily so. What
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James Thatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246015344393871422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4395798528196211115.post-27496723048732676442014-10-27T05:51:00.000-07:002015-12-29T14:02:57.336-08:00The Curious Vision <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Artwork
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dictum is well illustrated by a very unusual piece on display at the Hirshhorn
Museum (Washington, DC) exhibition, “At the Hub of Things”. The work by Hanne Darboven, entitled “27K-No8-No26”
consists of nearly 150 typewritten sheets which are framed in classic skinny black
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fine, although the arrangement is asymmetrical:
7 rows of 19, and a bottom row of 16.
The bottom row is perhaps 4 feet below eye level so it isn’t immediately
evident, but the arrangement is very curious.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the typing on each page is also vastly curious:
mathematic formulas, groupings that add one character per sheet, hand
written notes delineating every ten marks; enigmatic formulas that follow the
arrangement of numerals, characters, punctuation marks…funky, bizarre,
compulsive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dozens
of typewritten pages are not a single sequence.
Several different ideas make the collection all the more interesting. I’ve never heard of this artist, but the
piece got me to search a little, check it out, and learn some— pretty cool,
pretty fun. </span></span></div>
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Google Images reveals page after page as her modus operandi: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">whether scribbles, numbers (numerals actually),
or equations, the incessant nature of her artwork/installations is a hallmark.</span></span></div>
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Darboven’s artwork at the Hirshhorn exhibition is quite unusual.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">The ubiquitous 70’s grid got filled with Darboven’s
personal formulas and mathematical progressions.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">All that empty space, every bit of it is
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as its title might suggest, is different from the other pieces displayed at the Hirshhorn, even though it
shared some basic formal elements of grid, repetition, and text. Really different; it’s the result of an
artwork which is entirely idea based, rather than aesthetically based.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Darboven’s artwork made me realize that I knew how to look at abstract
paintings, but that viewing conceptual art was a different experience. It was fun to have disorientation again
when confronted by artwork--from the 70's!</span></span><br />
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the phrase, “Receive my Peace” in Susan Young’s daily devotional <i>Jesus Calling </i>I knew I had the bones of
a nice inspirational image for the Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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throes of my new grid based artworks, the idea had morphed into arrays of
individual panels. I’d just completed a
couple dozen small white boxes. Moving the piles around had gotten
interesting as I began stacking them artfully.
I’d taken 62 photos as each box added to the stack made for a new
arrangement.</span></span><br />
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be plenty to choose from to illustrate the “Receive My Peace” concept.</span></span><br />
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this was not the case. Looking with the
guiding principle of “Peace” I found these images—every one of them—very
busy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was disturbing. I thought that these little white boxes were
undeniably quiet works. No.</span></span><br />
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abundance of the heart the mouth speaks,” (Matthew 12:34) in his artist’s statement, I had some
thinking to do.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cube Drawing, Graphite and Acrylic on Prepared Paper 1993 © James Thatcher</td></tr>
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peace and how is it expressed?</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Layout Template for <a href="http://jamesthatcherarts.blogspot.com/2013/04/discovering-broken-obelisk_28.html" target="_blank">"Discovering the Broken Obelisk"</a> , Artist's Book, The Art Library, Brooklyn, NY</td></tr>
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of “stillness” came forward: the square is
a practical expression of equilibrium and balance because it is equal on all sides. It can be an effective symbol of stillness. </span></span><br />
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well. Is my signature heavy texture indicative of
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then, in a
conversation with a friend about “The Stillness Project” the idea of the color of peace came up. What is the color of
peace? </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Peace is
alert with conscious choices occurring. It isn’t sleep, right? It’s a state of being. Going back to the original idea, we are to
“Receive His Peace”. Being in the world, but not
of the world; it is a gift from The Prince of Peace which we either accept or
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