New Work: The Mechanism of Language

I just finished this commissioned piece for a friend.

The Mechanism of Language. Jacob Rowan. Ink, graphite, and flashe paint on watercolor paper. 2018. 24″x12″

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Saturday Studio Shot

WIP. Ink on watercolor paper

Working on a commission for a friend today.

Thursday Thoughts: Circles

“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary picture is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay “Circles”

Circuit. Ink, acrylic, flashe, and mylar on watercolor paper. 24″x18″ © Jacob Rowan

Saturday Studio Shot

Sumi ink and salt on watercolor paper

Thursday Thoughts: White and Red

“Red is the most joyful and dreadful thing in the physical universe; it is the fiercest note, it is the highest light, it is the place where the walls of this world of ours wear thinnest and something beyond burns through.

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”

~G.K. Chesterton

Choruses

 

Does anybody have any good quotes about black as a color?

Saturday Studio Shot

Gaffer’s tape, string, ink, and colored pencil on watercolor paper

Thursday Thoughts:

Art exists adjacent to the artist’s performed persona.