I really like this diagram because even though I have only a passing understanding of the maths, the fact that science proves the existence of such a form makes me smile wryly at the enormity of non proof about how I see stars and even more feel them to be important in my life.
This is what drew me to this particular course really, the thought that I would be able to spend some serious time exploring this simple motif and at the same time exploring my response to it by creating 'new' stars through lines and colour on paper to 3D objects.
Looking around my home I realised just how many stars are here made from a wide range of materials. i also realised that though i was educated and grew up in the Christian tradition it has always been the star that has excited me not the cross, even the wonderful Celtic stone crosses we have here don't do it for me as much as looking up into the roof struts and seeing the star shapes formed there and I am not just talking about Ely Cathedral like roofs here.
Gathering all the bits of paper, pictures, line drawings of stars together has been a process of discovery and remembering, always a gift for me. Finding so many books on my shelves with stars in them has been a little overwhelming but kind of thrilling too.
The colour wheel has thrown up as many questions as answers which would be understandable to anyone who has sat in my kitchen, green, orange, yellow and mauve being the colour scheme. It's always interesting to watch people come in for the first time as it is almost the first room they enter barring the tiny hallway which is orange and pink so they get some inkling:0) Anyone who isn't quite in love with colour as I am usually gazes around and then looks puzzled and say something along the lines of, but it should all clash which does make me laugh out loud as they probably would if they weren't all on the same intensity level as each other and the light wasn't so good in that room to just make the colours speak quietly to each other rather than scream. the other thing that people say is, I couldn't live with an orange wall in my kitchen but I love it. Which puzzles me, if they love it why not try it.
That's why the colour wheel puzzles me on some levels. It reminded me of a training session I was once involved with when a colleague was talking about helping people whose perception might not ease them in to the mainstream to fit in with 'norms'. She gave an example of someone dressing in pink and orange which really would be a little outlandish, I burst out laughing, which was a bit surprising to my colleague but she didn't tell me she was going to use such an example and I was going to stand up and present part of the day, at that moment i was sitting there with crepe soled orange shoes with pink socks, green trousers made out of Sanderson's print curtains and matching Nero jacket and I knew when I took the jacket off the long sleeved pink and orange T-shirt might be noticed. When I stood up and she actually took in what i was wearing she quipped, oh you would wear orange shoes with pink socks but went to carry on with the need to guide others to a more 'acceptable' way of presenting. I of course had to use my magic BUT word and asked as I took off my jacket , but what if their shoes match their shirt. She stood there for quite a while looking at me before saying... but they are not supposed to go together. It was actually a great in road for discussion into what the group we were training were actually doing if they tried the no orange and pink rule way of interaction with their clients. It ended with one person asking if they could say something about the suit, when I said of course they hesitated and then blurted out i think I have that material hanging in her home. I laughed and said I wasn't surprised as the suit had been curtains before I cut them up.
So as I looked at the colour wheel I did wonder and worry a bit really. Okay orange and blue are good together and they match the colour wheel theory I think but pink orange and green seemed better somehow:0)
Got away from colour and starting to 'play' with black pen and white paper plus computer screen printer and scanner.
I have a few sheets of A3 size with stars I've drawn, found and created using black pen which I still have to work out how to get on here, the light hasn't been good enough with just one lamp so will need to set up table with two lamps plus tripod to take photos.
Then there are the notes answering the questions set and the questions that these answers gave me.
I have decided to try for posting here both on Sundays and Wednesdays so I can keep track of the work and not find I can't see trying to do it all in one go. Maybe it will eventually be a matching post to each portion of the work I manage to approach but at present I am not up to that or anywhere near feeling I could attempt it whatever the state of play.
As to collage, oh the joys of glue, paper and inquisitive noses... but the Rhys, Banon and Flo are all stars:0)
A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman
