Some beautiful writing here Tamsin. When I am back in Edinburgh I now also want to introduce you to one of my friends, who is also an artist and thinking about starting a Substack. what a great way to weave together all your adventures - through lines and stories.
I'd love to meet them. I've been working in isolation in terms of finding other artists for many years and am now finding some beautiful souls on substack, I'm feeding the algorithm so it will show me more!
Yes it is helpful to connect and explore through others also developing their craft. I find the same thing. I dont understand the algorithm at all though 😂
Glorious and fascinating …. and that line? Still there it is … I love that, in your telling, I feel more well travelled
I have never seen such things …
I remember an art teacher ( not my art teacher - he just let me use his dark room when I was dogging double Chemistry) saying to me that his art seemed to come from responding to what felt like the pull of a thread or line that he could never quite place but that he felt in some way compelled to pull back. I was always intrigued by the line and the unknown source and what was birthed in reciprocation.
Thanks so much for reading and commenting! That's fascinating about the art teacher's thread. I can't imagine what he meant but am enjoying trying... I was recently thinking about this guy Stephen Harrod Buhner who has written a book called 'Plant intelligence and the imaginal world; into the dreaming of earth'. He talks about finding golden threads in the world, an idea from the poet William Stafford, who says he found it in Blake:
'I give you the end of a golden string
Only to wind it into a ball,
It will lead you to heaven's gate
Built in Jerusalem's wall
What Blake is describing is movement *through* the doors of perception *into* the metaphysical background of the world...'
Some beautiful writing here Tamsin. When I am back in Edinburgh I now also want to introduce you to one of my friends, who is also an artist and thinking about starting a Substack. what a great way to weave together all your adventures - through lines and stories.
I'd love to meet them. I've been working in isolation in terms of finding other artists for many years and am now finding some beautiful souls on substack, I'm feeding the algorithm so it will show me more!
Yes it is helpful to connect and explore through others also developing their craft. I find the same thing. I dont understand the algorithm at all though 😂
Neither do I, I just hope as I share on notes about art that it will send me more art!
Glorious and fascinating …. and that line? Still there it is … I love that, in your telling, I feel more well travelled
I have never seen such things …
I remember an art teacher ( not my art teacher - he just let me use his dark room when I was dogging double Chemistry) saying to me that his art seemed to come from responding to what felt like the pull of a thread or line that he could never quite place but that he felt in some way compelled to pull back. I was always intrigued by the line and the unknown source and what was birthed in reciprocation.
Thanks so much for reading and commenting! That's fascinating about the art teacher's thread. I can't imagine what he meant but am enjoying trying... I was recently thinking about this guy Stephen Harrod Buhner who has written a book called 'Plant intelligence and the imaginal world; into the dreaming of earth'. He talks about finding golden threads in the world, an idea from the poet William Stafford, who says he found it in Blake:
'I give you the end of a golden string
Only to wind it into a ball,
It will lead you to heaven's gate
Built in Jerusalem's wall
What Blake is describing is movement *through* the doors of perception *into* the metaphysical background of the world...'
Perhaps I'll explore this here another day....
This is beautiful!