grockwel takes note
grockwel says:
Chris Ashley: Look, See
sally mckay suggested this artist's blog, Look, See. What I like about Look, See (among other things) are the html art - simple works written with tables with coloured cells. (See his discussion of these at Visual Problems and Solutions.
So here is my experiment with html art. I used Dreamweaver to make a multi-cell table and then selected cells and chose colours. The dimensions don't work as expected ... time to play more.
See Geoffrey Rockwell's attempt at his weblog.
This is flattering, though also a little amusing. Over the past couple of years I occasionally notice- or it is brought to my attention- someone's attempt to make an HTML drawing. My drawings, though, don't stand alone. They exist within a context; anyone who has followed these for awhile will have a sense that:
- the drawings have or respond to a subject, and are somewhat representational, but not always of tangible things;
- the drawings also derive their meaning from the fact that they exist within a weblog where I have a daily deadline, one drawing (typically) is exhibited each day, and the weblog serves as a gallery and an archive, all public;
- meaning is also inherent in the fact that the drawings (almost always) are in series, so that drawings are part of a body; and
- I am really working up against the edge of the limitations of HTML tables, a very simple medium, so that even though I use the grid everday I am working against making an image that is just a set of blocks;
- I use color like a painter, which is my background- I mix, tint, shade, and use it for structure, space, and composition.
I'm not always successful. It's all a little bit more difficult than it looks and sounds.
Later today... Geoffrey responds. And I'll need to respond back.
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10:09 AM