Synchronisity of Claire

[Rebecca Guyver]

Received beautiful post from Claire Dinsmore yesterday.  I was really careful not to damage it, as I slit the horizon with a scissor blade. It is grey in Suffolk today and the muted colours are in absolute synchronicity with my view. Can you see that my painted desktop even matches. I have some cabbages growing through the gate and from where I sit I can see their little green heads poking up, mimicking the wonderful repetition Claire uses so well.

Here's a close up of the envelope.  Does Claire make the tape?  I want to make tape. Can you buy transparent pages to print on? I love the translucence.  Are those coffee beans or coffee bean stamps.  Oh give me my carving tools, NOW.

And inside, cardboard, those delicious natural  browns... My figurative mind sees characters, perhaps a mink in leaves? Why does it remind me of a Rhinoceros? Or maybe a landscape.  Oh it doesn't matter.  I love it and the fragments. DIURNAL! The numerical barcode was loose in the envelope, but there was a trace of glue in the place where I have (re) adhered it.  Line, shape, volume, colour, content!

Claire calls this piece October No. 4.  So glad it belongs to me! Thanks Claire.

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[Claire (aka Cleo)]

ha ha - you're on a roll riot-man!

[De Villo Sloan]

I do D-Klaire it is.

[Rebecca Guyver]

It's just so wacky the way these things get Claire-ified.

[De Villo Sloan]

Are you Claire-voyant?

That's it Miss Becca! I remember vaguely from some graduate course in literary theory the "diachronous" and "synchronous" but couldn't for the life of me place it. I reckon it was somewhere around structuralism or some psycho-analytic thing. Yeah, 1976, structuralism would have been the hot thing. Claude Levi-Strauss. Damn, those were the days, weren't thy? they? It's like parataxis or metataxis (spg?) or something. Taxi?

But when I Googled diachronous all I got was rock formations, which worked just as well with Claire's art.

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

@dvs: har har har %_^

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

lol, now this is synchronicity!: I am, literally/at this very moment, writing about my thought re: Camus!

[Rebecca Guyver]

Ok so I'm not as wordy as DVS.  Geologically speaking...

diachronism [daɪˈækrəˌnɪzəm]
n
(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) Geology the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
diachronous  adj

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

@dvs: nice - (tee hee...=^_^=)

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

Wow, you're a great blogger Rebecca! (I just got a reply to one of my long-winded emails I signed with 'Yes yes, I talk too much...' The reply echoed the sentiment w/ a larf. I.e., I LOVE words, so wordy away with me all you want chere!)  Aaanyway, glad you like it! ^_^ I love muted/earthy colors...(Love grey days too, the contemplative atmosphere they invoke... Imagine I would be right at home in the UK...)

The tape is Japanese washi tape ("washi" means "paper" in Japanese). Wondrous stuff indeed! I've been collecting it for years...I get it from various sellers on etsy. My favorite seller is a woman named Karen Sato (http://www.etsy.com/shop/washimatta) She makes some of her own stickers that she prints on washi sticker stock. I imagine one could make tape on it also, but I've never seen it sold. It has the same transparency as the tape, but it is very fragile unlike the tape. (be forewarned, most other/non-Japanese tapes are not all all the same quality!)

Coffee bean stamp. Glad you were quick on noting the residue - important element to me - thanks for taking care of it! %_^ No figurative insinuations - almost always an abstract lass here. Generally, figurative/mimetic always seems a little too easy to me...This (subjective) self prefers suggestion, possibility...creating a space/plane/object upon/within which one can, may...The genius of abstract art imnsho...(yea yea, romantic & dreamy...)

[De Villo Sloan]

She would be diachronous, She rocks!