New T-shirt design - hopefully wont mess up the printing this time...
Tuesday 13 December 2011
FRESH OFF THE BLOCK
Well, lookey lookey... just finished some lino block printing.
Just finished my Christmas cards... later than I wanted (had to order art supplies you see)... but look! I'm rather chuffed with this lot. They're metallic, complete with glitter n all!
Friends etc. email me your addresses so I can send you a nice belated letter.MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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| Getting started... |
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| taa -daaah! |
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| Metallic red with glitter |
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| Metallic blue with glitter |
Wednesday 7 December 2011
The never ending dichotomy...
It was whilst wandering through the woodlands of central Quebec that I found myself thinking about a book called Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack Forbes (which was recommended to me by a certain Miss. Percival). The book discusses the 'disease' of violence against our fellow human brothers and sisters as well as our mother, Earth. The never ending dichotomy of nature/culture is something that constantly cropped up when studying Anthropology... indeed, the artificial divide we have created between ourselves as 'civilised' beings and the savage, untamed and 'natural' could be argued to be the very crux of civilization itself....
Anyway, mulling this over in my head alongside the anti-civilization arguments of radical environmentalist Derrick Jensen, I started to think about how little difference there was between humans and the world in which we live. We, like so much that we call 'nature' (or more accurately 'natural resources' - to be used and managed) are, when it comes down to it, 100% reliant upon the earth on which we stand, the air which we breathe and the water which drink. Our destruction of this planet is not just the destruction of 'the environment' but it is the cannibalisation of ourselves.
So having come to this conclusion, I looked at a fern and realised that its leaves were a similar shape to my fingers... what a perfect way to illustrate our oneness:
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| Line drawing using indian ink |
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| Lino block print with watercolour |
Friday 2 December 2011
Oh Walmart! Oh people!
Cool infographic on the reality of the corporate giant Walmart here, by Frugal Dad.
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