BREAKING GROUND, WITH GHOSTS Saturday 5 November 1-4:30 PM Ghosts walk at noon, said the ancient Greeks, when the light sears all the colors to white: bleached and bleak, they are paler than pale. But in my present-day Istanbul, ghosts walk in the intense amber light of November. I feel them down in the marble bones of the old […]
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Drawing the Boukoleon Portals 10 & 11
Sunday 2 October 1:00-4:30 INVOKING THE CROSS Yesterday I put in the big lump of roundy brickwork at the top of the far right arch. It was not at all where it seemed it should be. I invoked the Cross: the method of lining up what I ‘m trying to draw with something I’ve already drawn. I do this by […]
Drawing the Boukoleon Portals 5
Sunday 25 September 2011 • 12:30-5:30 GABRIELLE Success! Down there and drawing by 12:30 and tackled that center portal. There are those times that it all just draws itself– you don’t hurt anywhere, you can see, you don’t need anything, the pen is right, the paper’s right, and blessed concentration. Spent five hours and got to this point: Well, I […]
Drawing the Boukoleon Portals 2
Friday 16 September 2011• 2:00-5:00 STARTING OVER Today we had no dogs at the Boukoleon and the bums’ tent was empty. It’s made of a blanket hung over a cord tied to the ancient wall and a little tree, with a teapot set up next to it, trash everywhere and wadded up against the fence. Away over in the corner […]