Before reading this blog entry, I suggest the viewer read the one previously posted to be able to more accurately understand all ideas presented here.
Today Jeremy and I started the framework on our collaborative piece. We met up and talked about this idea of working in sigils that I've been experimenting with, discussed the basics of it, and then the more elaborate history and thoughts contained in them. We found a connecting thread and followed it through other inspirations that we both draw from, such as eastern/western religion, spiritual imagery and human consciousness.
We then discussed ideas we've both been thinking about such as conflict/contrast in life and images, duality, cycle, and invocation/summoning of meaning through subconscious thought rather than direct representation. We brought up the artist Hiroshi Sugimoto that we saw at the JMOCA and looked up some pictures of his landscapes. We really liked this idea of an almost abstracted landscape where the horizon fades, or where you question the surfaces you're viewing. They could be water, fields, deserts or ice.
After discussing all these ideas, Jeremy and I took turns writing sentences down, and responding to each other's sentences for the framework of sigil creation, we wound up with these four phrases-
BLACK SAND STILL WAVES
SNAKING PATTERNS SEPARATE WAYS
CONTRAST PATH SUN IN SHADE
ANGELS MIGHT BAPHOMET'S GAZE
Then, working at the same time, Jeremy created an ink wash that would be the foundation of our drawing, and I created sigils based on the writing we did together.
Jeremy's ink wash
My sigils, and ideas of a layout for the drawing.
We decided that we'd continue this process in turns, letting each other respond only from what was on the paper at each step. We felt it best to leave the idea and discussion where it was, push that into the back of our brains, and let our own personal processes take over, just having what was on the paper to respond to.
The next immediate step is for me to sketch out these sigil symbols in larger and more intricate forms over the ink wash. Then, responding to what I put down on the paper, Jeremy will continue the process of building onto what I have already there. We will do this until we feel the piece is complete.
