by Tim Girvin | Sep 8, 2008 | Diary
Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer Above the Mist” [1818] I’ve often thought about the concept of wandering — as a meditation on learning, exploring, finding answers. But in a way, as well, it’s a path of deepening experience, because...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 31, 2007 | Diary
Hello. 2008. Goodbye. 2007. I believe, in a way, that numbers symbolize something beneath the quickly seen calculation. Personally — I love the 8. Â And I love drawing the 8. Collecting 8s. Last year, the outward spiral of the 9 spoke to the movement of that...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 27, 2007 | Diary
Dzong | The Fearful Symmetry of Bhutanese Architecture | 10.27 In a way, for me, there’s something long-reaching, far-running, back into my mind and memory for the spirit and personal connectedness that I’ve got with the nature and spirit of Bhutanese, and...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 27, 2007 | Diary
Transparencies (10.27) Mist, layered — messages diaphanous. I think about things in layers. And I keep referring to that. I think about something on one layer, and then another on another, and another — beneath that. I think that I like to design in that...
by Tim Girvin | Oct 25, 2007 | Diary
Bhutan Journal THE WORD | 35 YEARS AGO… I supported myself teaching drawing, bookbinding and calligraphy — it was a way to add something to the cost of the college tuition and living expenses. But what I explored, as usual, was the idea of writing —...
