Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks

It will no doubt be recalled that this year marks another e-first (if I may so….) in that Google Doodles honored Virginia Woolf’s achievements on the occasion of her 136^th birthday. So in the context of new publishing technologies that achievement gets bigger.

And this new event is now followed by free online access to Brenda Silver’s great contribution to Woolf scholarship, Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks (Princeton UP, 1983). As Paula Maggio notes on Blogging Woolf, this new availability is “in multiple digital formats.”

Well worth a look for interested readers……. The link:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/publishing/books/silver-virginia-1983/

Industrial machinery

Views from photographs taken in Cardona--the Salt Mountain. Thinking of the robotic aspects of industry......

Of time and the river...

Lleida, 1 April 2018-- Seeking color

Buntings (2)

Later, thinking along the same lines as my text of 25 March, it occurred to me that effectively the graying brought about by the camera’s flash is like a broken color effect between two complementary colors. Then a comment by Helen Frankenthaler about her paintings came to mind, “I carry my landscape around with me.” Or words to that effect. I’m not sure I’ve put down her exact words. In any case, here are a few of my own chasings.

Buntings

Backgrounds or stand-alone abstracts? I’m still in the early planning stages as to painting but I was surprised by the gray that came out when I used the flash in one of these photos of concrete wall (interior).

Then also any painted version will obviously have to take into account the question of levels of realism and detail—just what amount of detail does one seek, how much conscious planning enters into the project, etc.

So..... I thought it might be a good moment to share these thoughts on the transfer process.

adhesive

adhesive

two agave varieties against the sky

bean green              blue green                    yellow

seasky out on the horizon line

skymud                  

beyond the book—a river

(reposted)

Stephen Hawking

Like many other people I've been saddened by Stephen Hawking’s death. Having expressed my feelings on social media like Twitter and Google Plus, I wanted to go somewhat further here and briefly note some places that address discourses relating the so called hard sciences—such as Hawking’s field of theoretical physics—and the artistic and literary disciplines. Because due to ethical concerns the divide between these different modes is too often stressed and creates unnecessary tensions.

You may recall that in taking his ideas into non-expert books Hawking was often criticised for excessive popularisation of complex ideas. I think it quite obvious that in fact he was engaged in attempts to clarify matters and do away with precisely the type of tension I’ve referred to. He might have added that he also wanted to clarify energies.

So what I’m trying to say is that I hope we can all continue in our own similar attempts to clarify, different as they may be. Some of the places I’ve found that lend themselves to continued activity along these lines are the following, all of them with presence on the internet:

British Society for Literature and Science

European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (U.S.A.)

Empyre Listserv

Virginia Woolf Listserv