tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547316294063297137.post1178625657733802736..comments2024-01-12T00:39:09.411-05:00Comments on Medieval Meets World: Natural Beauty/AcheiropoietaAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02067391488336878220noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547316294063297137.post-7441133576440298212013-02-25T22:26:21.790-05:002013-02-25T22:26:21.790-05:00Ben! I already can't wait. Working with the po...Ben! I already can't wait. Working with the portable altars, and other moments of metalwork, and thinking about the repetitive gestures of making those (and now carpet pages and cross labs), I do wonder about ritual aspects of art making, especially in terms of how ritual frames (invites?) non-human agency. This would not be a formal ritual (like, say, Irene Winter's work on the Gudea statues that I just taught and adore), but rather the idea of setting and repetition as ritual. i LOVE your phrase "eventual emergence" - the patience of your pattern makers, "human ardor" indeed. Thanks so much!Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02067391488336878220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547316294063297137.post-68819709870531151432013-02-25T11:54:55.399-05:002013-02-25T11:54:55.399-05:00Oh, so much to contemplate in this one, Anne, and ...Oh, so much to contemplate in this one, Anne, and it particularly resonated with some thinking I'm doing right now about Insular ornament, particularly carpet pages and cross slabs. The makers of those patterns produced them by following a rather limited set of rules, and I've been wondering if they didn't perceive the eventual emergence of the bewildering, otherworldly results as something like an acheiropoietos. The incorporation of the natural world into the patterns (in flora and fauna) would bring it right in line with what you're saying here: the human ardor for the agency of "some other." I need to kick this all around in my head a bit more... expect to hear from me!Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10734718558908036508noreply@blogger.com