The Duck is the most metaphysical of animals. He inhabits the Trinity; all three worlds, Land, Air and Water. [size=200]▿◃▵▷[/size]
[size=75]Duck- the character[/size] sȝ
[size=75]Two Ducks[/size]
[size=75]Duck Pond[/size]
All the cryptic pages in the book of your life have turned,
the rope has come off its axis, and the bomb swung into the sun.
Your life and death amount to a nuclear blast on the surface of the sun.
Ships sent course’d long since past/
find not the ports for which they cast/
but others than had been there last.
is this just to showcase your work? either way i reckon your drawings would improve is you weren’t aiming for precision so much, scrap the grids and maths
Thank-you for your comment and criticism. I do not think that I will be getting any better, as for the time being this project is finished; but you are astute in seeing that I was learning how to draw.
Sometime ago, it began to occur to me that symbols made more useful margin notes than did words; and gradually these “letters” increased in complexity until I decided to put aside the keyboard and the ballpoint pen and “write pictures.” Pardon the crudity of my technique, but the whole project is defined in the OP, the duck glyph is a sort of a letter; in fact, the Egyptians had such a letter. The letter has so many strokes, and the strokes have such and such a form; in fact, a Chinese dictionary is organized in just this way, by strokes and radicals. The combination of these strokes makes up characters, words and entire stories. The first image, Swastika, is (sadly) one of the only “letters” I did learn to write well. Other glyphs I was able to write include the hand in certain poses (and just like the Mudras, each of these are words), leaves, some trees and flowers…
And inversely, as I began to read the “letters” and the words I had written, I was drawn deeper and deeper into a mysterious esoteric language, the same one written on cave walls and also by pre-literate children, and which Faust was meditating on when he made out Mephistopheles. I conjured my own monster late one quite night, it is “written” above: Monster. A monkey sitting at a typewriter is not likely to produce many sentences even, and this is the reason for the lack of theme in Room or Plain. I am none the the less quite bemused and scared by the secret cipher I found; like a dog discovering he can read.
[size=75]Late night visitors[/size]
[size=75]Late night visitor[/size]
[size=75]Dancer[/size]
[size=75]A reading throught the black wreath[/size]
sounds like an interesting concept from what i can interpret. it reminds me of dream language, in how the images represent feelings are thoughts etc. through free association (is the term?)
