by Tim Girvin | Jan 7, 2011 | Diary
Photo by Tim Girvin EXAMINATIONS OF FOCUS AND PRECISION | SLOW TIME, SLOW OBSERVATION — the art of looking slow. I spent some time, working in, and exploring, Florida. I will have to confess that — of all the places that I experienced — even while...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 5, 2011 | Diary
Photo by Tim Girvin EARLY MORNING I was out walking, just dawn, the southern shoreline — at the southernmost reach of the United States. Out there, the birds were extraordinarily friendly — it was like being there, at the southern border, nearly 200 miles...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 4, 2011 | Diary
THE WAYFINDER’S ART. THE DESIGN OF SIGNS. Where to? The art of being lost and finding your way. I WAS LOST, NOW I AM FOUND. What of the emotionality of that experience — I’m lost? I’m found. I’m finding my way? Pleas of positioning and...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 31, 2010 | Diary
Photo by Tim Girvin Over time, I’ve been thinking about the idea of a construction being — a place made — built as a allegory of something bigger — a larger symbolic idea. The idea relates to ancient symbolism for architecture —...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 30, 2010 | Diary
Photo by Tim Girvin My Mother, in her ineffable gathering and gifting, passed along this small piece of glass, worn and earthen, one side, polished and melted, another — like the beached glass of old bottles, white glass, blue and softened hints of pastel...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 29, 2010 | Diary
Photo by Tim Girvin Some time back, I’d gathered a grouping of enormous leaves — maple leaves, from hight into a mixed and old forest group, pushing into the inward channel side of the Olympic Mountains range — from there, leaves fell — forming...
