Thistles and Glyphs

reconstruction of a fragmented pastoral

pigment prints, dimensions variable

After Memling: A Jug of Flowers (2016)

monoprint: pigment print and oil stick, 30 x 48 inches

Up Needs Down Like Down Needs Up (2017)

Monoprint in two connected sections with an inlaid white gold leaf central line and wooden dowel "hitch" with wrapped embroidery floss. 34 x 52 inches framed

Aquinas (2017)

pigment print dimensions variable

Yoni (2018)

pigment print 26 x 40 inches

SCROLLS pigment prints, each approximately 15 x 48 inches

Breaking Fragonard’s Swing (2017)

Bather (2018)

There Should Be An Inner Clock (2017)

There Should Be An Inner Clock (2016) 14 x 48 in

Avoid Disappointment and Future Regret (2024) pigment print on paper 125 x 75cm

THISTLES AND GLYPHS reconstruction of a fragmented pastoral

Source Materials

1) randomized Biblical text fragment:

SEEM TO BE NOT HEAR THEREFORE RESTORE THE TOKEN OF THE CHILDREN AND FROM THEE OF THE LAND IN SILVER AND HE SOUGHT THY SEED I HAVE NOTHING TO PASS ON TO OUR FATHER'S HOUSE REPLENISH THE DROVES SAYING ALL FLESH WHEREIN IS STUBBORN AND HE MADE OBEISENCE TO HIS DREAMS AND FOR ME HE GIVETH GOODLY WORDS A DREAM BEHOLD HITHERTO THOU SHALT NOT AND THE HAND THE DOOR AND IT WAS CLOSED A FAIR WOMAN TO THEE BUT IF HE SAID I MAY BLESS THEE IN A POSSESSION OF MOURNING BOUND UP EARLY IN THE LAND WHERE ART MY SOUL AND HE KNELT AT THE GATE OF THE MOUNTAIN

2) random integers generated by atmospheric noise:

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

3) bitmap image fragments of moss, stone, water and flora

4) vector reconstruction of lost information through heuristic image tracing

© 2024 Tim Trompeter

Dans la Nature, l’Écriture

Each drawing sequence traces the linear contours and calligraphic markings of details routinely overlooked.

Consecutive drawings record a syntax in seeing and marking.

Linesets: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper

The natural world is noisy and chaotic, systematic yet open-ended, patterned, complex and indifferent. There is an oscillation between structure and chaos, between ordering and disordering, between melody and static. The entire process plays out right in front of our noses

The Foreground Notes project includes more than 900 ink and wash drawings, scores of archival pigment prints of various dimensions, video/animation loops and an archive of thousands of film and digital photographs.

Dragon Swallows Moon