Entry 591 — A Work by Carlyle Baker
I don’t know much about Carlyle Baker–only that I see his work every 0nce in a while and always like it. The piece by Baker below, untitled, is from the bleed 0.1.
I have a lot of trouble saying why I like this–extremely like this. I do know that I am automatically attracted to anything with the word, “ur,” in it. Beginnings, origins, the number one. The work seems to me simultaneously some sort of alchemical diagram, a map of a section of an archaeological dig, a frame from a film of a dream, a “careworn and coffee-stained map” of a lost country (as bleed editor John Moore Williams muses in the text accompanying the full set of four pieces this one is the first of), maybe even a piece of square currency from some mystical secret nation . . . Baker says of the set that “most of these pieces begin hand-drawn in ink, pencil crayon, watercolor, etc., and later are altered in a paint program”–much as the graphics in my work are. My only gripe: he apparently doesn’t title his works–if he does, the titles have been omitted here.
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Sunday, 11 December 2011, 5 P.M. I played around with an image at Paint Shop for less than half-an-hour, and posted the result as my blog entry for the day. Tennis in the morning, dinner with Linda in the late afternoon, futzing around in between. Almost nothing accomplished.
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