tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5435145394728632179..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Writing in the Sand - Dianne HofmeyrUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-90945303201603122882011-08-03T11:08:54.222+01:002011-08-03T11:08:54.222+01:00love that one Paeony!love that one Paeony!Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-45970037238579912382011-08-03T01:07:50.425+01:002011-08-03T01:07:50.425+01:00Glorious, evocative images, and the written insigh...Glorious, evocative images, and the written insight and artist comments add even more. I must admit the idea of inscribing ancient curses appeals (especially if it involves a certain man with dubious hair).Paeony Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13129555451791248798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-72754036347604181192011-08-01T18:20:54.332+01:002011-08-01T18:20:54.332+01:00Sometimes it is a kind of meditation for me - espe...Sometimes it is a kind of meditation for me - especially when I carve someone's name. I think about that person. If it is someone who has died, it is a way of coming to terms with the loss. My asemic pieces are less profound. I do them to relax, to just play with the forms. The logic required to invent/contrive an imaginary writing system is like a game. It can also be like music: I ply with a basic form the way a musician might play with a theme, inverting it, breaking and rejoining it, etc.Beachscriberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13408475140314709056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-41249311821133546952011-08-01T17:37:42.704+01:002011-08-01T17:37:42.704+01:00I didn't expect to like this so much, but the ...I didn't expect to like this so much, but the photos and art are breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you Di and Andrew.<br />Australian Aborigines, too, have a tradition of creating beautiful, complex sand paintings which disappear in a short time. It's a meditation, a religious act, rather than the creation of a possession.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-45296044538957376822011-08-01T16:37:30.970+01:002011-08-01T16:37:30.970+01:00Dianne, I have to tell you that one of my favourit...Dianne, I have to tell you that one of my favourite things when working on the beach is the interaction O get with kids. And I often let them play with some of my instruments. Dogs are another story.Beachscriberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13408475140314709056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80015948881111635812011-08-01T16:34:02.520+01:002011-08-01T16:34:02.520+01:00Lynda, don't get me started about developers a...Lynda, don't get me started about developers and their golf estates. I have been known to carve ancient curses in their sand pits. If I could command the tide in a selective way ...Beachscriberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13408475140314709056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-9528283047927393742011-08-01T15:38:43.762+01:002011-08-01T15:38:43.762+01:00Levitating... sounds like a good option or fairy w...Levitating... sounds like a good option or fairy wings??? These are children's authors after all! I forgot to mention that in another life Andrew did the calligraphy on the cover of one of my picture books.<br />Vivien your description of the Tibetan monks tapping the sand horns to create something and then tossing it back 'into the world again'is amazingly evocative... I love what you said on your profile - tracking down the echoes of the past.Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-79741489572531045002011-08-01T15:31:44.223+01:002011-08-01T15:31:44.223+01:00Andrew you work is breathtakingly beautiful and my...Andrew you work is breathtakingly beautiful and mysterious. Since creating my Sand Dancers stories I have come to love sand dunes and I know the sand sprites approve of you as opposed to a certain other human who is currently building a golf course and hotel complex on the dunes. As it says in the Sands of Time 'Draw a line in the sand and then go out and have fun.'(www.thesanddancers.com)Lynda Waterhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04880769618542325268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-36323054011794767552011-08-01T14:24:57.652+01:002011-08-01T14:24:57.652+01:00Thanks for the compliments!
Yes, its temporal qua...Thanks for the compliments!<br /><br />Yes, its temporal quality is half the attraction for me too. I so often get people asking me while I'm working if I know that the tide is coming in. They just don't "get it". Explaining the asemic nature of some of my work can also be a challenge.<br /><br />Footprints? It's so basic that it would spoil it for you if I gave you a straight answer. My stock answer is that I levitate but that that is the easy part. Getting the calligraphy right remains the real challenge. If you look closely at a higher resolution image you will see evidence of disturbance, that is unless the wind has had a chance to work on it.<br /><br />&rew<br /><br />Andrew van der Merwe,<br />Calligrapher<br />100 Stella Road, Plumstead, 7800,<br />Cape Town, South Africa<br />Tel: +27 (0)21 761 4400<br />Cell: +27 (0)83 652 1569<br />Fax: +27 (0)86 503 9731<br />Skype: writtenword1<br />www.writtenword.co.za<br />www.beachscriber.artfire.com<br />www.behance.net/beachscriber/frame<br />www.facebook.com/beachscriberBeachscriberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13408475140314709056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-44742039819038873352011-08-01T13:19:24.203+01:002011-08-01T13:19:24.203+01:00Beautiful sand pictures but how does he do it with...Beautiful sand pictures but how does he do it without even leaving a footprint? And as for the water writing, how strange that we all have such different perspectives on art.Rosalind Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363027308436257933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-54336269370185388872011-08-01T11:58:29.491+01:002011-08-01T11:58:29.491+01:00These images are really beautiful and your words t...These images are really beautiful and your words take me back to a time, probably around twenty year ago now, when there was a Tibetan exhibition at the British Museum. Part of it involved a group of Tibetan monks creating a huge picture from coloured sand. Each colour was tapped out almost grain by grain from metal horns and the rhythm of that tapping was itself like a mantra. When they had finished, they took the picture and tipped it into the Thames so that the river could take it away and back into the world again. That idea has stayed with me ever since.Vivienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586304661514939175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-25139842461813754612011-08-01T10:22:54.426+01:002011-08-01T10:22:54.426+01:00These photos have made my day!
Thanks, DianneThese photos have made my day!<br />Thanks, Dianneadelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-90818719962930294452011-08-01T09:21:31.586+01:002011-08-01T09:21:31.586+01:00Wow! Beautiful!Wow! Beautiful!Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-73005303546314442782011-08-01T09:15:26.976+01:002011-08-01T09:15:26.976+01:00Just beautiful!Just beautiful!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-45843598385883722972011-08-01T08:17:43.107+01:002011-08-01T08:17:43.107+01:00Thank you for such amazing images!Thank you for such amazing images!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.com