moon drawing

moon drawing, originally uploaded by aesop.

A drawing I did some time ago, posted now in honour of this afternoon's meeting at Spike Island to talk about integrating my book arts teaching into the taster class they are organising across-the-board in August. Also in honour of Howard Plotkin's The Imagined World Made Real, a marvellous book that attempts to "marry the biological and social sciences". Fiercely attentive to critics that would accuse him of reductive reasoning that would throw the study of centuries of socil science, he sets out the landscape of these relationships and explanatory models with great emphasis on the detail and strangeness of culture. He's equally attentive to the necessity of using the explanatory powers of science to understand culture. One would expect the usual criticisms to hold true: clumsy, reductive, overly rational. Not so.

Very provoking, opening avenues of inference and speculation deep into my own thought on artistic practice and media.