K~nesis: go go go!

[helenic]

cuteevilpixie's and my exhibition is now on Facebook, which means it must be real. 21 confirmed guests so far! 27 might show up! I <3 Facebook. Thankyou so much to everyone who's planning to attend, and to dennyd for helping with the promotion. (This being the man who has just said to me, and I quote, "I wonder what the capacity of the venue is. Breaking that would be cool.")

Kilinrax is confirmed as being in charge of the music for the launch party on the 22nd (although due to licensing laws we can't advertise him as a DJ). This is EXCELLENT news, and he too deserves many thanks, for giving up his time to make our exhibition way cooler than it would have been otherwise. Also many drinks. He deserves to be bought lots of drinks.

I has been making FLYERS.


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Now, apart from the wanky-but-sadly-necessary art blurb, I'm pretty happy with this. It's based on a combination of images including the Perfect Storm nebula, the ant nebula, and The Dryad's Dream. I love the whole burnt gold summer colour palette: sunlight through leaves; forest; flame; sunburst; clouds boiling into space.

Denny, on the other hand, thought it was too brown. "You should do a more blue-toned one for the geeks among us," he said. "Based on Polarity or something." At which point I started FLAILING, because firstly, dude, it's not BROWN. And secondly, this image PERFECTLY ENCAPSULATES the synthesis of immediate and infinite natural environment which is present in the art we've done so far, and we're going to be focussing much more on that juxtaposition of microscopic and macroscopic (molecules, nebulae, fractals, extreme close-ups of foliage and elements) as we develop this exhibition. There'll be a lot of galaxies and stars and universes, but also rainforests, the northern lights, the human form. It's going to be lush and organic and the colours will be intense. And I don't know how I could express that juxtaposition using just the Polarity image (without mentioning the fact that painting is still unfinished, and therefore I'm not keen on using it in a flyer) or just a space-based image. A fractal image would be perfect, but we don't have any fractal paintings yet, and it's a bit daft to have a flyer that doesn't include any of our art.

Anyway, I don't want people to look at our flyer and go "ICK BROWN" so I made some differently coloured versions.


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The last one is pretty, but it's kind of wintry, you know? And what we're doing is definitely summer art.

So, tell me what you think? And I'll doubtless be making more flyers as we produce more artworks. (Which will hopefully start happening TODAY, as Kristen is in town!) I mean, the whole nature of this exhibition is that the artwork is improvised and it's sort of essential that we can't entirely predict what we'll end up with. We have inspiration, but that provides a starting-point rather than a goal-post. So it's sort of inevitable that the promotional materials are going to evolve with the collection. I mean, if we could describe the entire exhibition in advance, it wouldn't be very experimental, would it?

By the way, I'm probably not going to be posting collaborative artwork online from now on. We have to give you some incentive to come to the exhibition, after all. I shall restrict myself to blurry cameraphone photos and tantalising prose descriptions. BWA HA HA.

Comments

[chiller.livejournal.com]

I think your original flyer is absolutely stunning. I don't know whether it's my monitor or what, but it's not brown. It's fluid gold and gorgeous!

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Yep. Same here. It doesn't look like you're taking out brown, but yellow. And losing the warmth and life.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Well, the colour rebalancing was fairly complicated. Mostly I was taking out yellows and reds in the highlights and midrange, and adding reds and blues in the lowlights. I'm glad that others like the first version, though :)

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

BTW, I forgot to say, I like both. It's just that I preferred the first.

However, how much I like the second seems to depend on background - I prefer it on your background than on my own.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you agree! Gold is one of my favourite colours; I can see that some people might not think it exists except as somewhere between yellow and brown, but there's a quality of light which definitely makes something gold. Difficult to define in pixels, though.

[woodavens.livejournal.com]

I like both of them, and which one I picked up if i saw them both on a table would depend on my mood. Any mileage in two print runs, one of each?

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I would have said yes until I realised how much work re-doing the image at print sizes would involve. I think I'll stick at one :)

[aiwendel.livejournal.com]

I am a blue person BUT the flyer is firey and glowy in an utterly fabulous way, and I don't think it needs messing with. Definitely golden, not brown! (of course this IS viewed on computer and printowts can surrer, but it looks GOOD)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm pretty impressed by the professional printers I use - I used them for my wax-and-wane postcards - so hopefully the prints should be fairly accurate. And at the moment, the monitors viewing the image as gold definitely outnumber those viewing it as brown, which bodes well for gold prints :)

[numberland.livejournal.com]

I definitely prefer your original. As people have already said - gold not brown.

[sepheri.livejournal.com]

I think you should absolutely stick to your guns on this and go with the first one you made. YOU are the artist after all and while there is room for audience comment it is you that should dictate what you produce and not us. You understand what you are driving at more than any of the rest of us.
And I think It's very pretty.
Can we come along to the opening if we don't have a facebook account?

[sepheri.livejournal.com]

I just came back from a particularly intense yoga class and I while in my asana the image from your flyer popped into my head and I swam around in it for a while. It was utterly beautiful.
Just thought I would share.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Oooh, how lovely! And flattering ... I'm really glad my imagery contributed to your experience :) That's about as much as I can ever ask for, really!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Well yes, but this was more of a monitor settings question than anything else.

Of course you can come! I'm advertising it everywhere - LJ, facebook, to anyone who'll listen :)