‘Associativity in Diagram’ pencil on paper, 20 x 28 cm, 2026
From The Joy of Abstraction’ by Eugenia Cheng ‘An Exploration of Math(s), Category Theory, and Life.’ I am slowly making my way through this book. I’ve already had to stop and go back and reread a few chapters. Maybe it’s sinking in. I love the diagrams and charts.
I’ve accumulated a number of books of logic and mathematics over the years. Usually inspired by Lewis Carroll – and also patterns, I collect medieval patterns
(this came from the collection of my other half – at their recommendation)
If I keep working on it maybe something’ll shake loose and I’ll be able to speak sensibly on the subject
– or it’ll help put some more forms on the jumble of ideas kicking around the back of my head.
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I’ve been interested in counterpoint for some time. How a drawing might make use of it in three dimensions. What values make up shading – diverse from ‘light’ and ‘shade’. Whether these are things worth speaking about isolated from their use in drawing / painting.
smoked flower, 50 x 42 cm, pencil on paper, 2026
This is a sketch – I’ll work out another later – cross hatching and lots of it. The flower is the last painting left on a wall in Cambridge – the rest of the wall smoke damaged (perhaps by the attempt to eradicate church paintings under Cromwell?). I walk past the church every day & finally popped in to see some weird and wonderful traces of medieval England.
The pattern underlying it I find fascinating
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