https://ceceliachapman.com/line-painting...Difficult to see online but most of these works are overdrawn with fine lines that make them shimmer or glow. I am interested in the limits of perception, how, what we think we see... 2023. Acrylic, watercolor pencil. Series of 6. 30.2 x 30.2 cm., 11.8 x 11.8 inches
Archive mail collaboration work 2020, selected images from Record from the Skull.
...usually Rafael sends me drawings over a few months period and I use them eventually in a video or book or some collaboration....
Outlaw Seals, glyphs and talismans 2023. Series of 10. 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 21.6 x 29.7 cm. Watercolor, collage, gouache, personal stamps, ink, graphite. Asemic writing is an experiment breaking laws of grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraph, sentence structure.
OUTLAW SEALS
An outlaw who practiced ritual writing was resting under a tree by the springs and eating her lunch when demons gathered to party. She watched the demons do their demonic, perverted things and throw garbage in the waters. Their wicked energy was disturbing everyone. So she walked over with a burning stick, and writing in smoke in the air, stunned the demons. The outlaw gathered them all and put them in a jar sealed with her seals where they were helpless until the jar was opened.
After thousands of years the place of the jar was known as The Hall of the Jar. It was a place of star watching and a pure springs with a code of conduct:
1. Value all life
2. Pollution of streams and rivers is prohibited
3. Do not contend
A Guardian of the Hall welcomed a guest from a foreign land who asked about the jar. The visitor laughed when he heard the jar was full of demons. In the dark of the moon the guest sneaked into the Hall and opened the jar. The demons flew out. They laughed at the visitor and threw him into the sea. But the sea felt polluted by him and waves threw him out.
The escaped demons had watched the outlaw’s good deeds and remembered them for thousands of years. They decided to follow her example and do good. After a while the locals got used to the ragged demons in their country wandering around trying to help people, doing good, and studying how to write. The people made the demons heroes of a thousand skills and disguises. That is another story.
...pleased to be in this book...which you can pre-order here
Original drawings to frame, 20 pages each group. 15x21 cm. collage, watercolour, drawing, in folio…and black coil bound 60 page book, print on demand.
Unspeakable &Unbound: absurdist unsemantic book trilogy. Unspeakable, Unrest, Sick Smoke. No synopsis, no plot or storyline, no feudal tech lords attacking terrorist disinformation greenies or AI holding beluga whales captive to ransom for sentience chips...you, dear reader and art patron, supply your own narrative. Original drawings to frame, 20 pages each group. 15x21 cm. collage, watercolour, drawing, in folio...soon in coil bound book form, print on demand.
