‘I may wait for fractures to open’
Portsmouth 20th July
Today will work out what I am to read – well I may well do my best too – if I repeat and repeat I can eventually learn what I am looking at but thank god for the ‘diagram’
That is what I hang any learning upon as a dyslexic – words are important but if I can ‘see it’ its clearer – its probably why after a long love affair with the diagram since a child thats what I did as an illustrator of books.
I relish illustration
I relish their contained story and the ease of telling
I have a pile of geology books sat next me – with illustration – liftable – awaiting opening – read between the layers just to get me in the mood for the next 5 months – mapping – palaeontology – sedimentology – stratigraphy etc
But after all is done I have to create through recognizable ‘geological principal and rule’ my own 3 year ‘Autobiostratigraphy’
Before I illustrated I was a geologist – well I still am – I can never go anywhere without questioning – but is that not also the role of an artist? to question – to illustrate inner feeling?
Art + Geology = joy (possibly)
a list of often asked questions – never out-loud
1. What’s under here if i dig?
2. What’s the rock in the cliff over there?
3. How old are they?
4. I wonder what was here millions of years ago?
5. I wonder if there are fossils here?
6. How did this landscape form?
7. Are we just transitory?
—————-hiatus——————
then
despite the heat
a choice before sorting
I may rest later
I may rest now
I may read
I may rest
I may
I may
I
I
wait for
Fractures
to open
and see
what is
released
