studio index: Sergej Jensen

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Sergej Jensen

Are these good? I keep going back and forth.

3 comments:

Garima said...: i looked up sergei jensen just now and saw that some of his pieces are quite large... 6-8 feet or more... I am guessing the images you posted are enormous as well. I do like them. Initially they felt tiny... like little embroidered handkerchiefs-- nostalgic, sad, and bubbly. With the change in scale they become eerier for me... I guess that is one major drawback of digital... it is hard to picture scale. Have you seen his work in person?
I think this snow tiger piece is his as well! The tiger is holding a book with the word 'Fear' scribbled on it... http://brask-art-blog.blogspot.com/2008/09/sergei-jensen.html; October 20, 2011 at 5:30 AM
Garima said...: Actually "Fear and Trembling" (I magnified).; October 20, 2011 at 5:31 AM
annamaria potamiti said...: Hi Barbara, I discovered your blog last night and read and read and read...and looked (of course). I love your thoughts and your work- it just moves me and delights me- and it was about this thing called serendipity- I have had a very 'confused'painting year,actually a few years, and your words suddenly untangled some 'knots' in my thinking- thank you-; October 22, 2011 at 12:20 PM

Notes

Within an ephemeral present, we return through memory to things, places, and events in the past in order to find purpose and direction in our lives. Meaningful time is elliptical time.
Vigen Guroian

I have concluded that the whole misfortune of men comes from a single thing, and that is their inability to remain at rest in a room.

Blaise Pascal

May your imagination know the grace of perfect danger.

John O'Donohue

The amount of life I can put through my eyes is the amount I can see.

Ivan Albright

When I painted a chair recently, I noticed that I put the paint on indifferently, smoothly but without particular attention. The results were satisfactory but not in any sense beautiful. Does the attention in itself with which paint is applied in art actually change the effect of the paint? Does the kind of consciousness with which we act determine the quality of our actions? It would follow, if this were true that the higher the degree of consciousness, the higher the quality of art. I think it likely. Training in art is, then, a demand that students increase the consciousness with which they employ techniques that are, in themselves, ordinary.

Anne Truitt, Daybook

It was suggested to me that I would want to preface this reading tonight with a short statement about my philosophy of writing. Of course I don't want to do anything of the kind. My approach to literary problems is very much like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea for him. She put her finger inside the cup.

Flannery O'Connor