April 26,2020 – there is always time to remember

DEATHS 54,573

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two twenty six April 26, 2020

wall clock at 2:26 April 26,2020

hand wash April 26,2020

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April 26,2020 “There is always time – for love”

hope your day is filled with lots of love

My wife Carolyn was recently teaching our  grandson Dominic  how to tell time  on a non digital clock and  as part of this project Dominic made  a clock out of a paper plate with cut black paper for hands . Our granddaughter Claire made the sign about about love.
I’m thankful that for now I’m healthy and my children and grandchildren are healthy. I hope everyone who sees this post is also healthy and filled with love.
John Foster Dyess  April 26, 2020

New Normal – virtual reality

photo of TV screen 4 13 20

I took this digital photograph of my television screen this morning that told how many cases and deaths from the Coronavirus in the United States. This is the virtual reality of my life at home . Below are photographs of my real life.

Raylan our cat 4 13 2020

Raylan has no concerns about the world outside of our house. He lives inside of our house and never goes outside. He eats and sleeps and lays on our laps, which is the way it should be for cats.

My granddaughter’s drawing of a cat that is taped to our studio wall.

So far myself and family members are well. I’m am sorry for all the suffering and loss for some many families in the world.
Staying at home.
John Dyess

High Noon – clocks

clock scenes in the movie High Noon

I have returned to one of my favorite movies,which is High Noon, released in 1951. I have captured some of the scenes of clocks,which were important to the story.

“Finally,a few technical comments which may perhaps be of interest.In developing the visual style I used three separate elements:

One :the threat-hanging over the entire movie,the motionless railroad tracts,always static.

Two: the victim-looking for help,in constant movement,black againts the white sky. The tension is enhanced by:

Three: the urgency-time perceived as an enemy,shown by obsessive use of clocks (as indicated in the script); clocks looming larger as as time slips by,pendulums moving more and more slowly until time finally stands still,gradually creating an unreal,dreamlike,almost hypnotic effect of suspended animation.”  Fred Zinnemann from the book Fred Zinnemann an Autobiography

M.C. Escher – an artist whose work I admire and why I admire his work

Other World 1947 by M.C. Escher

M.C. Escher (1898-1972 ) The following is a paragraph from an article M.C. Escher wrote titled Approaches to Infinity. This paragraphs speaks about creating a universe on a two-dimensional surface.

No one can draw a line that is not a boundary line; every line spits a sinqularity into a plurality. Every closed contour,no matter what its shape ,whether a perfect circle or an irregular random form,evokes in addition the notions of “inside” and “outside” and the suggestion of “near” and “far away,” of “object” and “background.”  The dynamic,regular ticking of the clock each time we pass a boundary line on our journey through space is no longer heard,but we can replace it,in our static medium,by periodic repetition of similarly shaped figures on our paper surface,closed forms which border on each other,determine each other’s shape,and fill the surface in every direction as far as we wish.

Reptiles 1943 M.C. Escher

Sky and Water 1 1938 M.C. Escher

When I look at M.C. Eschers work I sense that I am looking at the world inside his mind, I feel I have taken a journey into a new world that has no time or boundaries.

FAMILY ALBUM – Zeake Dyess

Photos of Zeake Dyess

This is a montage of photographs of my father Zeake Dyess taken from the late 1940’s until 1980’s. My father was a handsome man, and he new it. He liked to perform in front of a camera. When he was a young man until he was in his middle age he liked to “dress up” in a suit, tie and hat. He could have been a model. When he was an older man he didn’t dress in the latest style.

 

FAMILY ALBUM – Zeake and Adele

Zeake and Adele Dyess 1932

This image is a collage I created during the 1970’s using photostat copies of photos of my parents.The  photos were taken in 1932 which was the year my parents were “dating”. My father would have been 21 years old and my mother 16. This is the statement on the collage.

Because I know that time is always time

And place is always and only place

And what is actual is actual only for one time

And only for one place

T.S. Eliot – Ash Wednesday

I wanted to represent time passing and youth passing by using paint with streaks and scratches.

SUNSET

Time, digital painting by John Dyess

Always Time by John Dyess 1962

Todays post includes my digital painting “Time”, I created in 2010 using photos I took and a poem I wrote in 1962, I thought they were a good fit. Thank you for viewing my blog in 2010 and I hope you return in 2011.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!