First day of ROCK 2.
I bring lots of stuff and start a new sketchbook.
I write a list of ways forward: research into floor mosaics, floor patterns, tiles which were made usually of local earths. The ground beneath our feet, again, the ground of our being.
Take photos of local shop entrances, the library floor mosaic, church floors. Check out the symbolism.
More time and space to think and look, experiment and expand.
CHARLES LAMB: Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
Floor designs: bringing down the stars, filling the void, holding on, making certain, pushing away doubt to make way for certainty, solidity.
I looked on my shelves for books to bring with me and found:
‘APPLIED ART’ by Pedro J Lemos, an American book bought by my father who signed it in 14 9 38. He taught art in the 1940s
“Originality and personal inventiveness are important factors in the progress of art study, and should be encouraged.”
DESIGN p. 143 “…decorate their public buildings and churches with many wonderful and exquisite designs worked out from interlacing of circles, square and other mechanical forms.”
