Here it is then

Here's the first Weakend that we did. Because I am somewhat inept, the pages are displayed in reverse order. I'm off to the pub.

We're all back round BadgerTowers with our scissors and our glue stick putting the second Weakend together. Quite the hive of creativity. So, while Dza & Mza toil away, I'm looking at some of Jean Debuffet's work, and a couple of quotes of words that I likes.

Laters
Nza

Jean Dubuffet, (1901-1985) On art brut: “Is work made by people without any formal artistic culture, work in which mimeticism, unlike what happens with intellectuals, plays little or no part. So the creators of this work derive everything (subjects, choice of materials employed, means of transposition, rhythms, ways of writing, etc.) from within themselves and not from the conventions of classical art or fashionable contemporary art. So what we see is totally pure artistic activity, raw, reinvented throughout every entire phase by its author just according to his own impulses and nothing else. In other words art in which invention alone is in operation, and not, as always in mainstream art, the modes of the chameleon and the monkey.”

On art produced by children: “Children are beyond society, beyond the law, asocial, alienated: in fact what an artist should be. This is why their drawings are so piquant, inventive and bold, and so carefree in line and form. And above all - and this is the essence of painting - a child has the power to see deep within the painted image (even if it’s something trivial) without a critical reflex immediately blocking it off, as happens with adults. At all times a child is equally happy to see or to envision, and moves easily from the real to the imaginary, from the physical to the conceptual (and vice versa).”

Oh yeah, if `anyone wants to buy me this: http://www.art.co.uk/products/p13471005-sa-i2700231/jean-dubuffet-festival-dautomne-a-paris.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5001009&ui=fda3e91fe10641a8ad50c2dc8624fe42 that would be really nice.

Our first weakEnd

Well Well Well.

We're just round Badger Towers with cutting implements and needle & thread putting the finishing touches to our first nice weakEnd.

Look out for it soon you fine people\\