Sarx

ORMALLY, Yer Host is bothered by the rather spooky and romantic style of late 19th Century Russian Icons. I have no theological issue, as do some: I just don’t like ‘em.
The Shrine of the Holy Whapping introduces us to the work of the Russian artist and iconographer, Viktor Vasnetsov. His style [...]

Normally I find visual art to be mute. Pictures are nice and all but that’s about it. I’m a word guy. Yes, I can be visually stimulated – I am male, after all – but usually I want words. Generally the sort of art that speaks to me has words woven in. Today, at the [...]

ATURALISMO Points us towards the online catalogue of Andy Goldsworthy work of swirling colours and arching stones. Very beautiful!

OT MEDIEVAL takes us on a tour of Text on the Margins and once again reminding us
Pretty deep for a bunch of illiterate clods waiting on the printing press to give them their humanity, eh?

INDA DRIVES THAT whole point home, eh? (Thanks to the The LION & the CARDINAL):
For more than five hundred years, the middle ages have been slandered as dark, stupid and barbaric. Art historians disdained mediaeval artists for not developing linear perspective. But there is a good reason why they did not develop linear [...]

Brooding Over the Waters

Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

ow, it’s done.
Cardboard, Ink, Tape and Detritus. Aprox .6 x .91 meters

Working Progress

Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

OT sure if I’m done yet… need to live with it a while. But this phase is surely over.
(Pen & Ink on cardboard, about 14″x14″)

Brodie and Partner and Partner and Brodie

Originally uploaded by Dan Zen.

This weekend, Brodie and I did a lot of things in Hamilton: two art events, a couple of bands – a lot of drinking. Here’s a pic of the two of us at a very cool show of large works in a HUGE space, [...]