Baren Digest             Thursday, 20 February 2003     Volume 22 : Number 2135


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From: "Bill H. Ritchie, Jr." <ritchie#seanet.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:02:10 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20786] Congress in Bulgaria  

Dimitris, thanks for starting this thread. I hope we can "loop" it back to
printmaking, and this is my two cents worth.

I agree with Marilyn Smith that participation in creative mathematics and
the arts should be
interesting. To what she already said, based on her own true story about her
daughter's experience, I would add that the element of TIME can figure into
this matter.

And the only TIME based visual art, in my humble opinion, is printmaking. We
design and craft our blocks as though they are musical instruments to be
"played" out in the printing. We design and craft blocks, stones, stencils
and metal plates (and, yes, we even bring luminous energy into the processes
sometimes) as one-of-a-kind, solo instruments, or we create whole
orchestras.

Then, we print. And we print. We practice, we try and try, we fine-tune both
the craft and the printing. And it doesn't stop there! Numerous owners then
take possession and care of the prints. Some even come to the maker and
purchase the blocks!

So TIME gets into this art form the way time gets into calculus, I think.
I'm one of those unfortunates who didn't fit the way math was taught in
schools, and I am still recovering.

The interest in math shown throughout the history of art is a signal that
better math and science education is just around the corner.

Let's help, as artists, get the US Education system more aware of this
through our ability to entertain the idea, and make the idea entertaining.

- - bill

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From: FurryPressII#aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:57:24 EST
Subject: [Baren 20787] finished blocks 

Maria i finished you block and it will be in the mail shortly and the key 
block for exchange 16 is done as well.

looking forward to seeing the hanga prints      

john center

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