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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Rook Lane Arts : Event Details – Exhibitions, Entertainment, Community Events and a Wedding Venue in Frome, Somerset
Draw Me/Jonathan Polkest/David Partner at Rook Lane Chapel Frome
The Photographer David Partner invites you to experience the Tedna Ve Camera Obscura and to sense the essential physical and phenomenal aspects of capturing visual imagery with this basic device. David is showing his photographic portraits at Rook Lane Chapel in Frome Somerset, come and draw portraits with the aid of a camera obscura – all materials are free.
Draw Me/Camera obscura portraits Jonathan Polkest/ David Partner Rook Lane Chapel Frome
David Partner Draw Me Camera Obscura portraits at Rook Lane Chapel Arts Frome
Jonathan Polkest / Draw Me Camera Obscura Portraits Rook Lane Chapel Arts
Draw Me at Rooks Lane Chapel Frome with David Partner and Jonathan Polkest
Draw Me at Frome Rooks Lane Chapel Arts
Draw Me in Frome Rooks Lane Chapel Arts Jonathan Polkest/ David Partner Paris,London Frome
Draw Me at Rooks Lane Chapel Arts with David Partner/Jonathan Polklest
Draw Me in Rooks Lane Chapel Arts, Frome with David Partner and Jonathan Polkest
Draw Me in Rooks Lane Chapel Arts centre with David Partner/Jonathan Polkest
Draw Me portraits David Partner Paris London Frome
Catherine by Flora-Draw Me portraits Rooks Lane Chapel Frome / David Partner / Jonathan Polkest
Er....Jonathan by Catherine, Draw Me at Rooks Lane Chapel Arts/Paris London Frome
Flora by Catherine, Draw Me at Rooks Lane Arts Centre Jonathan Polkest/ Davi
eDraw Me in Frome, Portrait making at Rooks Lane Chapel Arts Centre
Catherine by Perdi, Draw Me in David Partners Exhibition London. Paris, Frome
Creative Licence whilst drawing portraits in David Partners Exhibition London Paris From
Draw Me in Rook Lane Chapel Arts Centre, Frome
Draw Me at Rooks Lane Chapel Frome, David Partners Photography Exhibition
Draw Me in Frome @ David Partners Photographic exhibition
Draw Me in Frome - David Partners exhibition of Photography
Theresa Draw Me in the Rooks Lane Arts Centre Frome - photographic exhibition
Draw Me in Frome, Rook Lane Chapel Art Centre
Draw Me in Frome, David Partners exhibition
Draw Me in Frome. London Paris
Tedna Ve/ Draw Me in David Partners exhibition at Rook Lane Chapel Arts Centre
Jonathan by Catherine, Draw Me at David Partners Photographic exhibition in Frome Rook Lane Art Centre
A Great drawing of Jonny M by Leonie - Draw Me at Rook Lane Chapel Arts Centre
Draw Me at Rooks Lane Chapel Arts Centre in David Partners Exhibition Paris London Frome
Draw Me at David Partners Photographic Exhibition in Rooks Lane Arts Centre Frome
portrait making at David Partners photography exhibition in Frome
Portrait Making in David Partners Photographic exhibition in Frome
Portrait ,Making in David Partners Exhibition at Rook Lane Art Centre
David Partners photographic exhibition in Frome/ Draw Me/Jonathan Polkest
Beautiful Portraiture in Frome at David Partners Exhibition of Photography
A great Drawing of Sid by Dave at Rooks Lane Art Centre Frome
Portrait Making in Rooks Lane Chapel Frome
Portrait making at Rooks Lane Chapel Art Centre
Portraiture at david partners photographic exhibition at rooks lane art centre
Curating underway during portraiture workshops at David Partners Photographic exhibition
Portrait making in Frome
Portrait making in Frome at David Partners Photographic exhibition
Portrait making in the Tedna Ve Drawing Installation at David Partners Photography
Portraits made in Rook Lane Chapel Arts Centre at David Partners Exhibition
ChapPortraits made in David Partners Photographic exhibition at Rooks Lane Arts
Portraiture at Rook Lane Chapel Arts during David Partners Paris London Frome Exhibition
Portraits made in Rooks Lane Chapel Arts
portraits in Rook Lane Chapel at David Partners Exhibition Paris London Frome..
Portraits made at Rook Lane Chapel Arts during David Partners exhibition Tedna Ve by Jonathan Polkest
Portraits made at Rook Lane Chapel Arts Centre
Portrait making in Rook Lane Chapel during David Partners photographic exhibition
Portrait Making in Rook Lane Chapel Tedna Ve/Draw Me
Portrait Making at Rook Lane Chapel Arts at David Partners photographic exhibition
Portrait Making at Rook Lane Chapel Arts with Tedna Ve/Draw Me camera obscura
Portraits made in Rook Lane Chapel Arts with David Partners Exhibition Paris London Frome
Portraits from Frome - Rook Lane Chapel Arts David Partners Exhibition
Portrait making in Rook Lane Chapel Arts
Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic 100 Draw Me
Draw Me/Tedna Ve at Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic Artfair 100 
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| Some additional festivities and activities at Arnold Circus – none of these are neccessarily optical but suffice to say “sensational” in that they exist for the stimulation of which ever senses the author/audience/auter/voyeur cares to apply, eyes and ears are probably the hot favourites, fingers and other bodily bits are best used when stationary. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic 100, 18th July, 1pm-5pm Arnold Circus, E2, The Sharing Picnic 100, produced by home live art in collaboration with The Friends of Arnold Circus, invites you to join in and celebrate the renovation and centenary of The Arnold Circus bandstand with: a grand community picnic, artists’ fair, music on the bandstand and 100 lap cycle ride & alternative vehicle parade. The Sharing Picnic 100 Alternative Vehicle Parade, created by artists Francis Thorburn and Richard Elliott features a new vehicle, ‘Intransit’ created from a customised Ford Transit van powered by a spectacular hand-crafted wheel, which will be pushed round Arnold Circus by sixteen performers. Inspired by Henry Ford’s evangelical idealism and Werner Herzog’s ‘Fitzcarraldo’ the new vehicle comes close to Herzog’s characterisation of his struggle to drag a 320 steamer ship over a hill during the film as a ‘Conquistadour of the useless’. The parade will lead into the 100 Lap Cycle Challenge, where you are invited to register during the afternoon and ride your own bike, tricycle or rickshaw around Arnold Circus 100 times. The cycle challenge is organised by Tower Hamlets Wheelers,  Read more |
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Several decades after Ibn al-Haytham’s death, the Chinese Song Dynasty scientist Shen Kuo (1031 – 1095) is known to have experimented with camera obscura and was the first documented to apply geometric and quantative attributes to it in his book of 1088 AD the DREAM POOL ESSAY’S making references to an image of a pagoda projected onto a wall of a darkened chambre, he quotes from the MISCELLANEOUS MORSELS FROM YOUYANG by Duan Chengshi and posits the idea that the Pagoda image is invertred as being entirely due to the close proximity to the sea. Imaginative. In Britain in the 13th century Roger Bacon is recorded as being able to see the eclipse of the Sun with the aid of a Camera Obscura, describing the device as a safe method of viewing solar eclipses. Most people including me – had no notion of this “secret knowledge” being traded upon by civilizations and regions that are not famed or given due for such discoveries, Leonardo Da Vinci on the other hand is probably the most likely name to be commonly connected with Camera Obscuras as well as an experimental nod to artwork generally. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519 AD) describes the Camera Obscura in his CODEX ATLANTICUS. A title I knobbled for a poster at Redruth College of Art without having the faintest idea about the meaning thereof. OCULUS ARTIFIALIS TELEDIOPTRICUS SIVE TELESCOPIUM by Johaa Zahn in 1685 contains diagrams and discriptions of both camera obscura and projectors using artificial light as the title implies several times over.
 Fabien Nico at the Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic 100 Artists FairNico drew a portrait of Fabien at the Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic 100 Artists Fair  A Very special portrait by Nasrat ; thankyou for participating with such a beautiful portrait ![Martina's drawing of Oliver deserves a caption "Whats he doing in there?"](https://pagettypow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/p1Martina's drawing of Oliver deserves a caption "Whats he doing in there?"030343.jpg "Martina's drawing of Oliver deserves a caption \"Whats he doing in there?\"") Martina's drawing of Oliver deserves a caption "Whats he doing in there?"  Oliver drew Martina at the Friends of Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic july 18th  Thaniza's drawing made during the artists 100 fair and sharing picnic at Arnold Circus The likes of Johannes Vermeer are speculated to have generated their detail in skillfully produced paintings via camera obscura’s, the term Camera Obscura was initially coined by German astronomer Johannes Kepler in 1604.  Tedna Ve/Draw Me at the end of another Ley Line by Jonathan Polkest  Line's portrait of Santil made at the Friends of Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic and Artists Fair  Tedna Ve / Draw Me with a cluster of curious potential portraitists Sir Thomas Browne in his 1658 Discourse The Garden of Cyprus. For at the eye the Pyramidal rayes from the object, receive a decussation, and so strike a second base upon the Retina or hinder coat, the proper organ of Vision; wherein the pictures from objects are represented, answerable to the paper, or wall in the dark chamber; after the decussation of the rayes at the hole of the hornycoat, and their refraction upon the Christalline humour, answering the foramen of the window, and the convex or burning-glasses, which refract the rayes that enter it. One might be forgiven for misunderstanding but the prosaics inform.  Half a Dozen drawings on the wall of Marlow House Arnolds Circus  A Portrait of Fox at the Arnold Circus sharing picnic and artists fair  The Velodrome Genius drawn at Arnold CircusJo's double portrait made at Arnold Circus  Being whilst being drawn in the Tedna Ve drawing camera obscura temporarily erected in Arnold Circus London  On the occasion of the Friends of Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic and Artist Fair David Hockney’s use of photography, particularly in his early portraits of friends and associates during the seventies helped him to recognize the difference between the traced line – what he terms “confident” – I would call insensitive or desensitized, publicly he identifies Warhol as the chief exponent of the “confident” line but I’m sure his own expertise in this is adequate even if his denial is a little shrill, I’ve no argument with Hockney, he’s taught me more than two Art Colleges without any contact whatsoever. Hockney says that after deliberating on certain portraits by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, he noticed this confident line- “One morning, studying and thinking – where have I seen that line before? And suddenly I realized, Thats Andy Warhols line” Hockney went on to talk about his supposition about Ingres use of the Camera Lucida, a prism on a stick, Hockneys idea’s caused quite a stir but the impact on the value of Art both the aquisitional and the cultural aspect is yet to be realized.  Paul draws Marie at the Arnold Circus Artists Fair - Picnic Share - Musical Extravaganza - Bike Race  Hang on! I dont remember seeing such a worried man - oh its Paul by Marie!  The alpha dominant in the social role subverted by the Tedna Ve Draw Me people drawing machine  Gather, be drawn!  Paul the dashing Master of Ceremonies at Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic and Artists Fair  Paul being etched into the annals of historic moments at the Arnold Circus Artists Fair The Gaze has cultural meaning which is impossible to separate from the circumstance – Navaho People are taught not to look directly at another person during conversation. 
 The celebrated Arnold Circus still gorgeous at 100 years old  Drawn by Bill The eyes are probably the most openly romanticized part of the anatomy in art and literature, mythologized and eulogized but impossibly complex as a phenomena and a dynamic focus point, the term The Gaze is often referred to the work of portraits both photographic and drawn, the process of drawing is a time consuming process requiring a stillness in both the subject and the artist, unlike a glance or a peek, the Gaze is destined to haunt beyond the fripperies of flirtations or sound bites.  The portrait from Alishas attic by Jonathan  Janet by Charlotte at the Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic  Marlow House Wonder Wall at Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic Artists Fair 100 birthday bike race and alternative vehicle parade  The inflection upon the controlling photographer now in the hands of the people! The eyes are possibly the defining visual characteristic of our relationship to each other, the importance of looking into the eyes of another, both a search for meaning and a surrendering or displaying, as in the “windows of the soul”, the contrast between the surface and luminosity of the eye and the sorrounding facial characteristics through identities of human recognition and personal cognizant markers, verifying and understanding ourselves and our relationships. |
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Draw Me at Home Live-art’s Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic Artist Fair 100
image;Julia Artists Stall
Home LiveArt Draw Me at Arnold Circus
The world famous setting of the Arnolds Circus, in the Boundary Estate is the location for Artists 100 Artfair with the A Foundation, Bill Leslie, The Albion, Arnold & Henderson, The Arts Council of England, Awards For All, Bishopsgate Foundation, Calvert 22,Canary Wharf Group, Cowling & Wilcox, Foodcycle, Friends of Arnold Circus, Garfield Weston, The Heritage Lottery Fund, Joule, The Live Art Development Agency, London Borough of Tower Hamlets Arts and Events, Spitalfields Music and a part of Create 10 * The Big Lunch
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- made in Arnold Circus Artists 100 centenary sharing picnic
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- A Growng archive documented by Carlos who also participated in the portrait making
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- A lovely drawing by Lara
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- Alisha’s portrait of Hannah – a great drawing
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- And here…..
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- Andrew drew Sarah in Arnold Circus
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- Another Brick in a Wall
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- Arias drawing in the Tedna Ve
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- Arnold Circus Portraitists
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- Bill Leslies drawing of Tom
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- Boundary Estate Arnold Circus
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- Caro drew Isabel with her face paint too!
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- Carolina and Jessicas portraits in Arnold Circus Draw Me
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- Charlotte and Jolie double portraits
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- Daniel drew Katie at The Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic 100 centenary artists Fair
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- Dee by Carlos at Arnold Circus
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- Dee casts a magic spell of portrait genius
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- Draw Me at Arnold Circus Menbi
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- Draw Me in Arnold Circus
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- Draw Me in Arnold Circus on Sunday 18th
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- Draw Me Isabella in Arnold CIRCUS
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- dRAW Me Tedna Ve Jonny by Vanessa
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- Draw Me Tedna Ve Portraitist at Arnold Circus
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- Drawings made in The Tedna Ve by visiting artists and Jonathan Polkest
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- Draw Me/Tedna Ve in Arnold Circus
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- Et Nos non inventimus ita – Ibn al-Haytham 965 – 1039 AD) We didnt invent this
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- Ettiene is safe in Sara’s hands as we can see…
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- Hannah’s portrait of Alisha in Arnold Circus Draw Me
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- Tedna Ve portrait installation in Londons Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic
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- Home LiveArt Draw Me at Arnold Circus
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- Ian draws an astonished Cisse at Arnold Circus on the end of a Ley Line
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- Isabel’s drawing in Arnold Circus
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- Jessica draws Carolina in the Tedna Ve Arnolds Circus
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- Jolie’s drawing of Charlotte in the Arnolds Circus Draw Me
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- Julien draws Sofia or vica versa, great drawing!
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- Kate drew Daniel after patiently waiting in Arnold Circus Tedna Ve
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- Lill by Kate at Arnold Circus Draw Me
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- Linda’s great drawing of Lucy at Arnold Circus Home Live Art Sharing Picnic
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- Lucy’s fabulous drawing of Linda
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- Natalie by Lara not Sara….sorry
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- Natalies drawing of Sara in Arnold Circus
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- Porraits made in the Tedna Ve Draw Me installation
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- Portrait made in Arnold Circus Sharing Pic
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- Portrait of Helen Davis made on July 18th at the Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic
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- Portraits of the great participating artists in Arnold Circus
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- Rebecca by Clova at Tedna Ve Draw me in Arnold Circus
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- Rebecca’s drawing of Clova
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- Richard draws Sara at the Draw Me in Arnold Circus portrait making event
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- Rimon Draw Me in Arnold Circus
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- Sadie’s portrait of Katie in the Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic
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- Sara by Ettiene drawn in the Draw Me/Tedna Ve in Arnold Circus
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- Sara’s rendition of Richard at the Arnold Circus 100 Art Fair
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- Sharing Picnic 100:Artists Fair, Janet
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- sign here…at The Arnold Circus Draw Me http://www.homeliveart.com
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- Sign up
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- Skye by Stella in the Tedna Ve/ Draw Me Booth in Arnolds Circus
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- Stella by Skye in Arnold Circus Draw Me
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- Tedna Ve – Draw Me in Arnold Circus
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- Thanks to Cowling and Wilcox for Papier D’Orange
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- The Youngsters Set Too! Drawing in the camera obscura installation with Jonathan Polkest
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- Theresa’s double portrait made in the Tedna Ve draw Me booth
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- Tiffany Charringtons drawing of Charlotte and her facepaint
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- Time to leave the capsule if you dare
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- Tom
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- Two of the many Draw Me at Arnold Circus Portraitists who collaborated with us
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- Vanessa – Draw Me/Tedna Ve in Arnold Circus
The Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic is a great opportunity to visit one of the most historically fascinating locations in contemporary London, take a look around at some unique and creative artforms, performative and environmental, witness the thrilling 100 lap Art Vehicle rally around the circus with artists Francis Thorburn and Richard Elliot, check out Rock-ahula, Tatty Divine, search party and Society of Wonders, do these things and draw a portrait in the revolutionary sorroundings of the worlds first social housing.
Porraits made in the Tedna Ve Draw Me installation
Events run all afternoon 19th 07 2010
Charlotte and Jolie double portraits
Thank-you Arnold Circus, Home-Live-Art, Bill Leslie and all the friends we made on the 18th of July 2010.
Two of the many Draw Me at Arnold Circus Portraitists who collaborated with us
Sunday 18th was a very sunny and busy day in Londons Arnold Circus where the beautiful – and as far as I’m aware – unique raised “birthday cake’ wedding cake” or elevated bandstand creates a totally central feature, the scenographic idea that ascention, (walking up a hill) is a significant sacred influence, from the top of a Tor, a man-made-contrivance, the Tatlin Tower or a pyramid they all imbue the visitor with particular stimulus that infers or creates spiritual dimensions. Scenographically the top of the Arnolds Circus Bandstand acquires a peculiar form of light, one that reminds me of the light around the Penwith Peninsular as the sun and clouds conspire over the sea to fetch up the extraordinary set of changeable nuance.
Alfred Watkins, a key exponent in the science of Ley Lines and Geomantic Power wrote a most fascinating study on the subject of dragon lines or ley lines and includes the Arnold Circus in his reckoning of the network of geotropic magnetics running from Londons Strand Ley and another he terms as The Coronation Ley.
The fact that this raised oasis is sorrounded by the red brick mansion block housing of the boundary road estate increases the specificity of the location, the effect like all ascents is uplifting and the various streets become more plan like and unfolded and therefore more legible to the viewer, the structure of the bandstand itself feels post colonial in its rural Englishness, like a church lytch gate beneath which the widest global influences mingle and confer, music from many cultures and periods, foods and domestic comestables, games and conversations all conspire with this beautiful seaside light to create a most memorable experience. The fact that the mound is a construct formed of the rubble from the pre housing scheme slum gives further specifity to the consciousness of this place. Uplifting.
Sharing Picnic 100:Artists Fair, Janet
The Boundary Estate was opened in 1900 in Londons’s East End right on the boundary of Shoreditch, Hackney and the Borough of Tower Hamlets, the Estate was constructed from 1890 and as one of the earliest social housing schemes deserves recognition as one of the most significant elements in the heritage of Britain, you could say that the implications for the Boundary Estate, architecturally and socially far outstrip those of the many lauded stately homes that are deemed exemplars of creativity and social development.
Boundary Estate Arnold Circus
Draw Me Tedna Ve Portraitist at Arnold Circus
Tedna Ve - Draw Me in Arnold Circus
Tom
Bill Leslies drawing of Tom
Draw Me at Arnold Circus Menbi
Draw Me in Arnold Circus
Draw Me/Tedna Ve in Arnold Circus
Draw Me Isabella in Arnold CIRCUS
Vanessa - Draw Me/Tedna Ve in Arnold Circus
Rimon Draw Me in Arnold Circus
Natalies drawing of Sara in Arnold Circus
Natalie by Lara not Sara....sorry
Sara by Ettiene drawn in the Draw Me/Tedna Ve in Arnold Circus
Ettiene is safe in Sara's hands as we can see...
Jessica draws Carolina in the Tedna Ve Arnolds Circus
Carolina and Jessicas portraits in Arnold Circus Draw Me
Jolie's drawing of Charlotte in the Arnolds Circus Draw Me
sign here...at The Arnold Circus Draw Me http://www.homeliveart.com
And here.....
A Growng archive documented by Carlos who also participated in the portrait making
Dee by Carlos at Arnold Circus
Dee casts a magic spell of portrait genius
Another Brick in a Wall
Rebecca's drawing of Clova
Rebecca by Clova at Tedna Ve Draw me in Arnold Circus
Stella by Skye in Arnold Circus Draw Me
Skye by Stella in the Tedna Ve/ Draw Me Booth in Arnolds Circus
Sign up
Time to leave the capsule if you dare
Thanks to Cowling and Wilcox for Papier D'Orange
Richard draws Sara at the Draw Me in Arnold Circus portrait making event
Sara's rendition of Richard at the Arnold Circus 100 Art Fair
Portraits of the great participating artists in Arnold Circus
Julien draws Sofia or vica versa, great drawing!
Ian draws an astonished Cisse at Arnold Circus on the end of a Ley Line
Daniel drew Katie at The Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic 100 centenary artists Fair
Kate drew Daniel after patiently waiting in Arnold Circus Tedna Ve
Andrew drew Sarah in Arnold Circus
Isabel's drawing in Arnold Circus
Caro drew Isabel with her face paint too!
A lovely drawing by Lara
Lucy's fabulous drawing of Linda
Linda's great drawing of Lucy at Arnold Circus Home Live Art Sharing Picnic
Theresa's double portrait made in the Tedna Ve draw Me booth
Arias drawing in the Tedna Ve
made in Arnold Circus Artists 100 centenary sharing picnic
Alisha's portrait of Hannah - a great drawing
Hannah's portrait of Alisha in Arnold Circus Draw Me
Portrait of Helen Davis made on July 18th at the Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic
Tedna Ve portrait installation in Londons Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic
Tiffany Charringtons drawing of Charlotte and her facepaint
Sadie's portrait of Katie in the Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic
Portrait made in Arnold Circus Sharing Pic
Lill by Kate at Arnold Circus Draw Me
The Tedna Ve – Draw Me Installation is simply a big box camera, one that the person who is being sketched and the person making the sketch can walk into. The correct term is a Camera Obscura (chamber of darkness), usually employed as Landscape viewing device, the Tedna Ve is specifically employed for Portrature. Camera Obscuras are optical devices that project an image of the sorrounding scenographic terrain and projects this image onto an interior wall, It is used for drawing and for entertainment and for teaching since it was one of the precursors to photography. Of course the Tedna Ve is fitted with a lens but the original design used a pinhole reproducing an upside down image but retaining the perspective and colour, the image – once projected onto paper, can be drawn into or traced to produce a highly accurate representation, I don’t encourage artists to fuss during the use of the Tedna Ve as the upside down drawing process encourages the pen to wander off alone from the projected image, putting a bit more of the artist into the portrait.
As a pinhole is made smaller so it produces a sharper image but this takes a while for normal eyesight to adjust to the low light image. The earliest mention beyond Cornwalls frontiers about camera obscuras is attributed to Mo-Ti (470BC – 390BC) a Chinese philosopher and founder of Mohism, Mo-Ti referred to the camera obscura as a “collecting plate” or “Locked treasure room” The Mohist tradition is unusual in Chinese attitudes because it followed principles of total logic.
Aristotle (384BC – 322BC) demonstrated a good understanding of optical principles in pinhole occlusion – an account of him viewing the crescent shaped light pattern made from the partially eclipsed Sun as it projected a beam of light through domestic utensils onto the floor – such accounts humanise the historical dimension whilst questioning the vale of obfuscation that sorrounds contemporary science and medicine.
In the 6th C. Byzantine mathematician and architect Anthemius of Tralles ( celebrated designer of the Hagia Sophia) is acknowledged for his familiarity and use of the camera obscura in a range of unspecified experiments. Certainly one of the first recorded makers of camera obscura’s was Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham, born in Basra (965 – 1039 AD) He was known in the west as Alhacen or Alhazen, and known to experiment in his book about optical science.
The Youngsters Set Too! Drawing in the camera obscura installation with Jonathan Polkest
Although credited to Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen 965 – 1039, the analogy of the camera obscura was known to early scholars, accidental artists at various moments in history including Mozi or Aristotle.
Euclid describes the effect of the camera obscura in his demonstrations featuring the nature of light travelling in straight lines. Ibn al-Haytham was bestowed with modesty as well as intelligence in his statement :’Et nos non inventimus ita” lat ‘We did not invent this” my translation simply realizes the mans sense of discovery in that it is a natural phenomenon rather than a mechanical device or some adapted contraption, so rare to find a humanist approach among those who love the credit for the work of others.
Drawings made in The Tedna Ve by visiting artists and Jonathan Polkest
I’ve a half a mind to write Ibn al-Haytham’s wise words on the side of the Tedna Ve box as a tribute to a modest genius.
Et Nos non inventimus ita - Ibn al-Haytham 965 - 1039 AD) We didnt invent this
Paris: London: Frome and exhibition by photographer David Partner
The Tedna Ve Draw Me will be installed on St Christophers Day at http://www.rooklanearts.org.uk/about.html Rook Lane Arts, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, Somerset BA11 1DN Telephone 01373 468040 Sunday 25th July 2010 is St Christophers Day is best celebrated by making a portrait as Samuel Rudder (1779) was at pains to point out in his new history of gloucestershire;
Saint Christophers fair figure who shall view
Faintness nor feebleness that day shall rue. reference to the large portraits of St Christopher painted opposite the entrance of many churchs, most of which did.nt survive the Reformation.
Tedna Ve/Draw Me in Paris, London, Frome or Penzance
Melioramentum by Jonathan Polkest 
