Soul Prints Arnold Shives Title Page and Introduction
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Title
Soul Prints Arnold Shives Title Page and Introduction
Description
Title page and introduction page for Soul Prints by Arnold Shives.
Title page reads: "Soul Prints Arnold Shives"
Introduction page reads: "Under the forest canopy, Arnold Shives discovers a silent beauty. The forest is a sanctuary where life exists in its many steps, forms, variations. A simple tree branch, part of what is there or here, is an etched line now. No gap exists. Present in the subject and object we are nature and nature surrounds us. Sound and silence. At daybreak a cacophony of sound in the forest and other times nothing. The rhythms like these etched lines, rise and fall. The lines make their tracks, exploring the plate. The layers of interaction between art and life freeze these many moments of experience. Time's energy suffuses the forest imperceptibly, changing all the time. Life's perpetually changing...birth, growth, death, decay, entropy.
A near invisibility suffuses these British Columbia's coast mountain forest scenes. The scenes are calm, and they are eternal like David Milne's sketches. Some of that sane economy of line, sense of depth and surrounding space but taken further, as a mountaineer does walking on unknown terrain. As if in a mountain stream these words, these etchings, flow amid the intricate layers of bio-culture. Everything is interchangeable. These spaces, those hidden volumes, sculptural and changing, complex and on the edge. You can see more trees just at the periphery of your vision. The savage edges are so familiar, so foreign. Wild is there, somewhere at the edge of civility.
Fragile compressions of many moments, Arnold Shives' etchings are processional and in time, our place and time...Light in this cathedral grove filters amid bracken and branches. A psychic landscape where light bridges gaps, distances. A landscape that appears, disappears, surfaces, in and out of view. The leap is not between the idea and the audience. This forest interior is a sacred and endless performance. We are the unrecorded participants who merge with the cathedral grove. Our eyes walk into this forest of images this text describes. These spontaneous etched visuals are in life - nature's eternal environment.
The forest is breathing... beat traces of the transcendental still there in Arnold Shives' sensibility... Simply being we are there -or here-breathing. Words become a path we enter into and follow to discover these rhythms, lines and forms. Essence and presence. Experience and memory. Each branch of a tree leads to another, and between the depths of space is neither complex nor simple. Just there. minutiae of the moment. Sacred is the world we are witness to. A sanctuary. Eternal and hidden beauty. This world we are a part of is ever evolving. Resolving too, informally, as forms can... breathe again now."
This introduction is written by John K. Grande
Title page reads: "Soul Prints Arnold Shives"
Introduction page reads: "Under the forest canopy, Arnold Shives discovers a silent beauty. The forest is a sanctuary where life exists in its many steps, forms, variations. A simple tree branch, part of what is there or here, is an etched line now. No gap exists. Present in the subject and object we are nature and nature surrounds us. Sound and silence. At daybreak a cacophony of sound in the forest and other times nothing. The rhythms like these etched lines, rise and fall. The lines make their tracks, exploring the plate. The layers of interaction between art and life freeze these many moments of experience. Time's energy suffuses the forest imperceptibly, changing all the time. Life's perpetually changing...birth, growth, death, decay, entropy.
A near invisibility suffuses these British Columbia's coast mountain forest scenes. The scenes are calm, and they are eternal like David Milne's sketches. Some of that sane economy of line, sense of depth and surrounding space but taken further, as a mountaineer does walking on unknown terrain. As if in a mountain stream these words, these etchings, flow amid the intricate layers of bio-culture. Everything is interchangeable. These spaces, those hidden volumes, sculptural and changing, complex and on the edge. You can see more trees just at the periphery of your vision. The savage edges are so familiar, so foreign. Wild is there, somewhere at the edge of civility.
Fragile compressions of many moments, Arnold Shives' etchings are processional and in time, our place and time...Light in this cathedral grove filters amid bracken and branches. A psychic landscape where light bridges gaps, distances. A landscape that appears, disappears, surfaces, in and out of view. The leap is not between the idea and the audience. This forest interior is a sacred and endless performance. We are the unrecorded participants who merge with the cathedral grove. Our eyes walk into this forest of images this text describes. These spontaneous etched visuals are in life - nature's eternal environment.
The forest is breathing... beat traces of the transcendental still there in Arnold Shives' sensibility... Simply being we are there -or here-breathing. Words become a path we enter into and follow to discover these rhythms, lines and forms. Essence and presence. Experience and memory. Each branch of a tree leads to another, and between the depths of space is neither complex nor simple. Just there. minutiae of the moment. Sacred is the world we are witness to. A sanctuary. Eternal and hidden beauty. This world we are a part of is ever evolving. Resolving too, informally, as forms can... breathe again now."
This introduction is written by John K. Grande
Creator
Date Created
2016
Type
Print - text
Location
Cabinet 4 Drawer Tool & Utility