Comments on: A journler of mythic proportions http://dougist.com/2008/07/a-journler-of-mythic-propotions/ Douglas Barone Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:39:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Doug http://dougist.com/2008/07/a-journler-of-mythic-propotions/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Doug Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:56:14 +0000 http://dougist.com/?p=11#comment-324 <p>Hey Alicia,</p> <p>Thanks so much for your comment. It took me a while to appreciate the craft of journaling. I mean I’ve been taking notes all my life - random jottings, interesting ideas, facts I was sure I’d forget, and as I noted in my post, I was an inveterate note taker at work. But it was only recently that I realized what a great tool it was for my writing, that my journaling didn’t have to be the great American novel in miniature, that it could be just the notes on the worlds around me. It sounds like you have gone that great step farther and made it into your art. Having looked at a few pages of Bucky’s work I think he did the same thing you did (and that I am not) - turing your journals into their own art work.</p> <p>Doug</p> Hey Alicia,

Thanks so much for your comment. It took me a while to appreciate the craft of journaling. I mean I’ve been taking notes all my life – random jottings, interesting ideas, facts I was sure I’d forget, and as I noted in my post, I was an inveterate note taker at work. But it was only recently that I realized what a great tool it was for my writing, that my journaling didn’t have to be the great American novel in miniature, that it could be just the notes on the worlds around me. It sounds like you have gone that great step farther and made it into your art. Having looked at a few pages of Bucky’s work I think he did the same thing you did (and that I am not) – turing your journals into their own art work.

Doug

]]> By: Alicia Eaton Lewis http://dougist.com/2008/07/a-journler-of-mythic-propotions/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Alicia Eaton Lewis Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:48:40 +0000 http://dougist.com/?p=11#comment-323 <p>Doug, Thanks for a great Saturday afternoon yesterday, in which we got a chance to get acquainted with you and your neighborhood's Art Galleries! Stewart emailed me your site and I've been reading for a while now...I love it! What got me to the point of writing this now though...I've never blogged in my life...is the above bit about the "journler of mythic proportions". Long story short, I started journaling in my freshman year of High School ( a lot of insufferable notations about "fashion" as opposed to women and drinking), continued the habit by choosing a college that promoted Conceptual Art, where we did more writing of our "ideas" than actually realizing them. Then I moved on to a well known Design Schools in Manhattan to study Environmental Design, where upon I encountered non other than Bucky! With all of that aside, the reason this is most interesting to me, at this moment, is because I just finished compiling a series of 12; 30'X40" pieces that I did over the course of a year (2005) as a way of getting back into the habit of thinking about AND making art. The concept was to do a journal entry a day on a 4"x6" piece of drawing paper and carve an image on a small eraser and stamp it over the writing to support as well as obscure the more private musings (and bad spelling). I've never thought of myself as having a huge ego or anything very earth shattering to say (so I can't compare my tendency to do this entirely to Fuller's) it's just that, like him, I'm really interested in "the iconography of our day" - I just didn't know the term. To me, it was just a personal yearning to preserve everyday "hand written stuff" as more and more of our everyday writing is done on line as opposed to on paper. I have also had grandiose "ideas" of learning the craft of bookbinding to preserve all my journals and our family letters sent and collected from around the world, etc. And yes, I too learned a long time ago to record all kinds of things in little 4"x6" hard bound artists' "black books". Of course they get labeled, by the year, and lined up on the shelf and pulled out for reference every once in a while just like you know who. I guess, maybe I learned more from Bucky than I thought (thanks for the insight)!!! If you're so inclined, I'd love to show you and Shannon my piece: "ON BECOMING 5O; a year of words encoded with images carved from eraser cuts". Until next time, Alicia</p> Doug, Thanks for a great Saturday afternoon yesterday, in which we got a chance to get acquainted with you and your neighborhood’s Art Galleries! Stewart emailed me your site and I’ve been reading for a while now…I love it! What got me to the point of writing this now though…I’ve never blogged in my life…is the above bit about the “journler of mythic proportions”. Long story short, I started journaling in my freshman year of High School ( a lot of insufferable notations about “fashion” as opposed to women and drinking), continued the habit by choosing a college that promoted Conceptual Art, where we did more writing of our “ideas” than actually realizing them. Then I moved on to a well known Design Schools in Manhattan to study Environmental Design, where upon I encountered non other than Bucky! With all of that aside, the reason this is most interesting to me, at this moment, is because I just finished compiling a series of 12; 30′X40″ pieces that I did over the course of a year (2005) as a way of getting back into the habit of thinking about AND making art. The concept was to do a journal entry a day on a 4″x6″ piece of drawing paper and carve an image on a small eraser and stamp it over the writing to support as well as obscure the more private musings (and bad spelling). I’ve never thought of myself as having a huge ego or anything very earth shattering to say (so I can’t compare my tendency to do this entirely to Fuller’s) it’s just that, like him, I’m really interested in “the iconography of our day” – I just didn’t know the term. To me, it was just a personal yearning to preserve everyday “hand written stuff” as more and more of our everyday writing is done on line as opposed to on paper. I have also had grandiose “ideas” of learning the craft of bookbinding to preserve all my journals and our family letters sent and collected from around the world, etc. And yes, I too learned a long time ago to record all kinds of things in little 4″x6″ hard bound artists’ “black books”. Of course they get labeled, by the year, and lined up on the shelf and pulled out for reference every once in a while just like you know who. I guess, maybe I learned more from Bucky than I thought (thanks for the insight)!!! If you’re so inclined, I’d love to show you and Shannon my piece: “ON BECOMING 5O; a year of words encoded with images carved from eraser cuts”. Until next time, Alicia

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