From: Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Date: 02/08/01-12:25:08 AM Z
Sarah wrote:
>> Judy
>
>'Try to want what you get' ranks with the Crosby Stills & Nash line 'Love
>the one you're with'. We humans are not masters of the universe. Anyone
>working with physical materials has to learn how to get along with them -
>while remaining alert to improvements.
>
>Sometimes a medium's characteristics can lead us into a mindset that we
>might not have come to using other materials. Mosaics seem to prefigure the
>pixilated image. Watercolor on paper precedes inkjet. Printing in layers of
>gum that accrete to form an image flows into the Photoshop Layers. Since I
>have committed to the gum process, I am being lead by the materials to see
>gum printing metaphorically. It has something to do with transparent
>memories stacked in our brains, of insects trapped and preserved in amber.
>
>
>Sarah
Thanks Sarah,
A very interesting and timely observation about the medium's
characteristics. However, you lost me with the statement about
"transparent memories stacked in our brains, of insects trapped and
preserved in amber." Does this have anything to do with DNA? Help!!
Sandy King
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