Rules of the Game #ouxpo #geomancy

Several years ago, I was working with “procedures” to make art, and it feels like a good time to do that again. It provided a fascinating rule-based activity that helped me deal with the chaos of life. Found this revision of a geomancy site I had previously consulted. One can use divination procedures to initiate art.

Here is an older piece on mixed-media paper based on a found word in the dictionary, “gross.” The word and the rules determined the media and the content in each section.

WordPress Reader

“Ai, Lady,” as the characters swear in Kate Elliott’s Crown of Stars series: How many years have I been a WordPress user, and I only now figured out that the eyeglass icon leads me to the WordPress reader?!!! Sigh. And thanks to all three of my followers!

I’m once again trying to decide whether or not to upgrade this site and implement my domain. If you have any thoughts on that, let me know. Are the ads on this site irritating? Let me know.

Anyway, here is an older asemic:

:#asemics #analogart #wordpress

Asemic ink painting features a painted blue square with blotchy red lines around it, and asemic writing inside the square in scribbly black ink.
Asemic painting. Ink on paper. Jean Vengua.

California Fires

Fire Season 2016: Soberanes 2. Acrylics on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1 in. (sold).

I’ve been thinking of the “Fire Season” series of paintings I did in 2016. Perhaps I’ll take that up again. I have a different attitude towards wildfires, now, and want to explore that.

2025 Asemic Experiments

I decided to make and post art every day, of any size and quality, and whether I liked them or not. I also want to use up my cache of paper. Of course, straight off, I skipped several days (rolls eyes). Below are two “make-up” pieces:

Two untitled asemic experiments using Derwent Inktense pencils and (in the first one below, only) watercolor:

Failure of Pastels

“Failure of Pastels”. Asemic. India ink and acrylics on Shizen paper, 10 x 10 in., 1/9/2025. This started out as a mild-mannered #asemic on pastel background, but gradually morphed into something completely opposite that. This is what I get for watching the gruesome, gothic video series adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “The ABC Murders”, starring John Malkovich as Poirot.