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The Figuration of a Possible


Outskirts of Things

Dragon Swallows Moon
Meditation Stone
Thistles and Glyphs
Foreground Notes
Lobster Flats
Reed Field

Zazi




TIM TROMPETER

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Outskirts of Things




Looking for a Landscape   (2023)

40.717479, -74.003014

large scale pigment prints



 



Morning Spent  (2019) 

42°42'50.3"N   2°05'59.7"E

  
pigment prints, dimensions variable






Low Country (2019)

32°25'38.7"N  80°46'51.5"W


pigment prints, dimensions variable




Garden of Recollection    Folio A:  (2020)

26°19'35.7"N   80°08'43.2"W

 
pigment prints, dimensions variable





Garden of Recollection     Folio B  (2005 - 2015)

26°19'35.7"N   80°08'43.2"W


pigment prints, dimensions variable   



Garden of Recollection  Folio C - 32 Drawings (2016)
sumi pen and ink wash on Indian rag paper,  each 8.5 x 11 inches


sumi pen and ink wash on Indian rag paper,  each 8.5 x 11 inches



© 2024 Tim Trompeter

Dragon Swallows Moon


Mixing information streams and blending worlds - and all is as is.



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Revised and republished in January 2024, this 124 page  work of reorientation is a parallel narrative of image and text with uncounted branching meanings. The who, when, and where of the images are not as significant as what an image represents—specific person, chronology and place become secondary to the proximity of one thing to the other. 



© 2024 Tim Trompeter

Meditation Stone

analog and digital photographs of a singular place gathered over many contemplative visits





pigment prints on paper



© 2024 Tim Trompeter

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)


Breaking The Swing (2017) 14 x 50 in


Bather  (2018)




There Should Be An Inner Clock   (2017)


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



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

Foreground Notes


Foreground Notes is a long-term research in the comprehension of nature through appearances: drawing, film and digital photography, video and digital imaging.

Culvert (Winter and Spring) 2008






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.




Lineset: 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.



Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper


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.



Cascade 2014

pigment print 17 x 52 inches 




Not Your Mother’s Rococo 

pigment prints, dimensions variable

 


Drawingwall Splits 2007

pigment prints, dimensions variable

pigment printe, dimensions variable



Rockneedle 2003


Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper

 



Drawingwall scroll 03   2014

pigment print 15 x 48 inches




Scree Walk 2008

15 sumi pen drawings on paper + video loop




At Rest: Balbonne

sumi pen, brush and ink on paper 8 x 10 inches




The Endless Loop of Positive and Negative (2021)


Drawingwall scroll 01 - cut and stacked, horizontal to vertical 

pigment print 15 x 60 inches







© 2024 Tim Trompeter