COAST of LIGHT

Tag: The Turning Ground

  • Over The Earth

    Diary entry from Clarence Greenway on his recent trip to La Serranía de Ronda:

    Sculptures moving in different shades of identity; portraits in landscape. Some of them the comfort of tomato soup, others the bark of lonely dogs. The clouds lower with the sun, shadows lean disconnected in a landslide of ritual.

    Isolated villages wait like fallen cherry blossom on hard times. Things are sugar coated from a distance. Who am I? I am brittle. My breakable thoughts built in pale light catch fire in the wood burner. Ideas glow and grow in line and space over the earth. I gather strength in personal structure.

    Out in the darkness that falls slow across the landscape, I see puddles of jewels and smiling stars. My heart transforms, ready for some kind of voyage.

    Headfirst down the tree trunk and leap! Sings the nuthatch. Build you wings on the way down! Hoots the owl. Deep breath. And begin. Deep breath. And begin.

    By Clarence Greenway for Heronbam Books.
    Featured drawing by Coast of Light

  • The (Turning Ground) Process

    versión en español abajo

    This week, a look behind The Turning Ground series I have been working on.

    It all begins simply: markers, yellow paper, a few words that catch a feeling. From there, everything shifts, is scanned, layered, and reworked digitally until the energy of those first lines finds its rhythm again in light and texture.

    Once on the computer, the scan is blended with photographs, in this instance, photographs of two walls in the neighbourhood, bringing traces of place, surface, and time into the work.

    For me, this part of the process is all about transformation and the balance between hand and software, intuition and refinement, seeing how an everyday act of writing can become something reflective, visual, alive.

    From pen to pixel. The Turning Ground continues to grow.

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    Esta semana, una mirada detrás de la serie The Turning Ground.

    Todo empieza de forma sencilla: rotuladores, papel amarillo y unas palabras que atrapan una emoción. A partir de ahí, todo cambia, se escanea, se superpone y se transforma digitalmente hasta que la energía de esas primeras líneas vuelve a encontrar su ritmo en la luz y la textura.

    Ya en el ordenador, la imagen escaneada se mezcla con fotografías, en este caso, fotografías de dos muros del barrio, aportando huellas de lugar, superficie y tiempo a la obra.

    Para mí, esta parte del proceso trata de la transformación, el equilibrio entre la mano y el software, la intuición y el refinamiento, viendo cómo un simple acto de escribir puede convertirse en algo visual, reflexivo y lleno de vida.

    Del bolígrafo al píxel. The Turning Ground sigue creciendo.

  • Shadows of Doubt

    I cannot fully appreciate the light without walking beneath the shadows of doubt / No puedo apreciar completamente la luz sin caminar bajo las sombras de la duda.

    The Turning Ground: Wisdom for the kitchen, the everyday and the light within / Sabiduría para la cocina, lo cotidiano y la luz que llevamos dentro.

  • Survival

    Art as a way of survival / El arte como forma de supervivencia

    The Turning Ground: Wisdom for the kitchen, the everyday and the light within / Sabiduría para la cocina, lo cotidiano y la luz que llevamos dentro.

  • Silence

    Silence is also a response.
    Black ink drawing, scanned, background added on computer.
    The Turning Ground: Wisdom for the kitchen, the everyday and the light within.

    El silencio también es una respuesta.
    Dibujo en tinta negra, escaneado, con fondo añadido en el ordenador.
    The Turning Ground: Sabiduría para la cocina, lo cotidiano y la luz interior.