THE SYMBOLISM OF THE GATES: PORTALS OF TRANSITION
While the wind storms, the days are darkening, there's a crossing between the sensing of light - and the paths of darkness. I walk, I move, to the light side from the dark, and from the light, back into the darkness -- carrying that light, even the dark side has points of exploration that one must travel to: carry the light. There are doors, mysterious and ancient gates. And you go through them to the center of the earth, that labyrinth that lies as the patterning of everything that is known....
THE LONG WALK BACK
THE LONG WALK BACK I was thinking about the ancient way of the forest, back -- 800 years ago, when the seedlings were new; and the roads, that made their way there, they simply can't survive -- much as they try, they slowly disappear. The roots ruffle their borders, the mycelia of the fungi granulate their asphalt and the needles that fall dissolve the distinguishment between the idea of path and the meandering clearing. Walking back there, further and further, nestled into the mountains, the...
BEING LOST
Picture by Dawn (of, and treated by, Tim Girvin) BEING LOST ....................... WORKING + BEING IN A CERTAIN PLACE There's one thing, to the idea of working in other places in the world -- learning to be there: work there, explore there, BE OUT THERE; but invariably that means that you are working IN A DIFFERENT PLACE, a place that is distinguished from the place that you were. AND THAT CAN BE GOOD - it can be better, that change. And as you dig INTO that place, exploring the ideas that...
a sphere of light
A sphere of light Photo by Tim Girvin The most extraordinary mist crept in, unfurling clouds and glowing rolls of fog, that spun and turned in, one on another, until you couldn't see anywhere. The patterning, only molecules of water, tints of grey, and the deepening blue of the night or morning sky -- just beyond. Except, in the dark, points of light that blasted beamed rules of light, filtered by the patterning of leaves, like an arced and scintillant mass, a star in the forest, captured and...
The road
The road When I go out there. I'm looking for the long road -- what's out there, the long running. Like any road, really, can you see to the end of it? Photo by Tim Girvin Out on the prairie -- the long reach of the emerging fields, some just beginning, others fully flush with green, or grain, or gold; the slick black of the long run, road, heading into the mist. And even beyond that -- out there, I know where I'm going. Into the next step. Being here, and out there, at the same time. Stride...
Brief, into the forest: wanderings
Brief, into the forest: wanderings Working with the team, Friday, downtown Seattle, then I went to The Evergreen State College that night, to connect, meeting with some staff and colleagues, then linked up with Paul Stamets out in the Olympic forests for an early, pre-dawn run on Saturday. Photo by Dawn Clark: Deep, into the deep. A kind of mycological discovery out there, that brief foray -- I shot this, http://www.youtube.com/paulstamets#p/u/0/LjJk9LsBdA0 the following morning, in the rain...
A Raven Story
A Raven Story Ravens, the stories that are woven, myth like, their legacy. This is a beautiful story. nothing better, they are. school, too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/new-caledonian-crows-teac_n_773984.html Two, plus one, slipping and drifting, black calligraphers of the air, Bhutan. Photo by Tim Girvin Tim | Old Queen Anne The love of the raven https://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=ravens Twitter: https://twitter.com/tgirvin
T H E L A D D E R | L I F E
T H E L A D D E R | L I F E WALKING an ancient road, a street, past sundown, the early evening ringing the most extraordinary blue, the light of the streets was a kind of gaseous yellow vapor-light. And that light created a kind of multiple shadow -- and there, scratched on the wall -- V i V E. I was thinking about that -- something to the nature of life, that upward movement (or down) -- and the climb to a vista more luminous. Being higher, you can see farther. But that graphic, the graffiti...
PHOTOGRAPHIC AGENDA: DRIVE-BY SHOOTING
DRIVING, AND SHOOTING, IN A JOURNEY OF 4 HOURS. SPONTANEITY AND IMAGERY. I SPEND A LOT OF TIME LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHY -- AND I WRITE ABOUT IT, DESIGN AROUND IT, SHOOT IT. AND I PACKAGE AND DESIGN OTHER PHOTOGRAPHER'S WORK. DOING THAT, GIVES ONE A RESPECT FOR THE REAL ASPIRATIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHERS. What are they really shooting for, what's being documented, why -- the effort? What's the point of it? I BELIEVE THAT PHOTO-GRAPHY -- THE MARKINGS OF LIGHT -- EVINCE: • light impressions -- what...
An assemblage | calligraphy: the stroke, the word, the world.
Presentation wall, with calligraphic drawings and educational references, photographic brand boards, working tools, broadsides and flow examples. Yesterday, exploring the hand drawing of letterforms, with a team from Girvin, Inc., and it was about finding motion, gesture, the curve, the light and the dark, what is seen and stroked, and what is left blank -- untouched. I've been teaching calligraphy, once again. For now, it's a cadre of Girvin designers. During that same day, I had a...