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Blog postThis is my new <business> card… if I begin to list the arts and crafts and things within, there would be no end …Such is the renaissance man’s burden!
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Blog postApologies for the machine gobbledygook – human lucidity to follow this interlude of machine madness!I thought it was 2021… so I could trust a new Word press theme to slot into place without a fuss. But no, the Hestia theme had ideas of being helpful beyond its machine intelligence, and helpfully plastered a whole bunch of sample filler text in posts it actually then posted to you…aghhh! So no, … Apologies for the machine gobbledygook – human lucidity to follow this interlude of machine madness! Read More »
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Blog postI’ve started posting an illustration a day on a new Facebook page @applesofaeden… as my broken heelbone heals I continue to practice focus – blinkering even – to finish a highly illustrated shorter version of Volume One of The Apples of Aeden, the Girl and the Guardian. I’ve migrated to Facebook mostly because there is where people mostly see a post and more importantly, easily comment, like, love and follow. I love blogs, but the action is seemingly on Facebook and other social media and ima
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Blog postI’ve started a Facebook page for apples of aeden…if you cant beat them, post to them! I’ll post here too… Here is the new page : https://www.facebook.com/applesofaeden/
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Blog postWhen in my twenties I belatedly came into real contact with the Punk movement and related underground anti bourgeois drug-taking communities and thought worlds, I immediately knew I wanted very little to do with this possible way of being, this psychic underbelly as I saw it… I aspired to the upper realms, in philosophy a … On Fairytales, Romantic Fantasy and the Bourgeois Read More »
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Blog postI’ve had a tiger by the tail, trying to get to the point of actually doing this Peter Pan sculpture. I agonised over the question whether it will be worth the space and time it takes up. Sculptures can’t be filed away in 2-D like a canvas. They are 3-D, in your face, have weight and breadth and depth. They are an expensive embarrassment if bad, a logistical problem and a sales problem even if good. And, as my own responses in Melbourne recently tell me only too clearly, even a ‘good’ sculptur
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Blog postHi friends who may still be following here! I’ve been away in http://www.dreamspace.nz the gallery and workshops in Gisborne…and http://www.dreamhaven.nz… and the Facebook colonisations of these… I’ve been doing some sculpture ..a commission for the Captain Cook memorial…giant ferrocement gourds..hue in Maori. Now inspired by a dream and my brother’s offer of a donation, I’m doing a statue of a Peter pan figure from our epic Apples of Aeden, Quickblade.
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Blog postThis week I painted the five sectors with subsectors to emphasize the fact that every primary phase of the whole seems like the whole to those who live in it… also it’s colourful and stimulating – fractal is like nature and more beautiful than uniform blocks. .
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Blog postThis is a big leap forward in the ergonomics of the 4phase process approach to meetings. Around this five-part table people can find their ‘home sector’ and really get how they fit with the other sectors in the process of creating new ideas, of coming to new mutual understandings and synergies.
Our grandsons shown here playing with the prototype sector ‘wands’… The sector tables may get imprinted with some graphics to represent four sub-phases within them – each phase is a process wor -
Blog postYes, you guessed it – I DIDN’T put this Big Rock in first… 18 years it’s been on my longtailed back burner agenda… and it should have been one of the first things I built, at Cafe Eutopia.. why? Because it is the symbol of synergy.. social, intellectual and spiritual. It’s actually love articulated – … Big rocks go in FIRST…The Long-delayed Round Table of the Five Elements Read More »
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Blog postThere’s a ‘long tail’ – or long tale – to the things we create, if we live (and believe) long enough and don’t forget too much but let it all simmer on a long-term ‘back burner’ – or perhaps call it an athanor, or alchemist’s oven, which would slowly heat ingredients to fuse them together.
An example from many in my life here at Dreamspace recently: the short epic love/sacred quest story set in ancient Cornwall and Aeden. I wrote this spinoff/sidetrack from the epic Apples of Aeden ab -
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Blog postWho said the road to hell, or at least dehumanisation, wasn’t fun? Late last night it coalesced in my mind as a coherent pattern, a syndrome. I christened it the Hedonomatrix. There may be other, better, names – I haven’t checked. By any name, it is now (to my mind) officially a Thing, as the millennial younglings say. A coming grand unification of unbridled consumerism, narcissism, online video entertainment, virtual reality, gaming…. Almost instant gratification of our hedonistic desi
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Blog postDear friends – (Pun alert…) Get off that treadmill! Become a misfit! (It’s a lot of fun having this position just to left field of the sport and fitness industry! There are so many puns…) We do coffee with wholecream milk…:) For that and so much more, run on down to 61 Carnarvon St, Gisborne, or pilates your mouse to http://www.lifegym.nz and vigorously explore strange new lands of the mind and spirit (under construction as I speak) – and the neglected realms of the creating h
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Blog postIn green ink, after going over all the letters with the Dremel… Getting there… ‘Without a vision the people perish’… may we all re-imagine what it can and should be like to be in the (True) West. .. Gondor, Numinor before the falling away… Advertisements
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Blog postJust a quick trial, a rapid prototype …but exciting to get to this stage. Now re-engraving and getting a better blanket to press the dampened card into the letters… So, just been reading Jim Rickards’ ‘Road to Ruin’ – this is a bit of an antidote to the bad prognosis for the financial system and … Continue reading An embossed print first proof of newly engraved Declaration of the True West
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Blog postDraft only…
I’ve been thinking what does represent the True West best, most unambiguously, without any reference to bad episodes in the actual western history? So a viking-looking ship isn’t a safe choice, though sailing to new lands is a very Western thing.
So, a Tree of Life perhaps? Grounded in the Earth and reaching for the sky. With a glowing crystal of knowledge and communication (borrowed from my True-Western fantasy Apples of Aeden, where each World Tree has a Heartsto -
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Blog postGoogling didn’t find me much on this at all – what are the images and icons that people who love the ideals of the West, as distinct from a western country or western religion, use? Is there such an icon? Could someone or some group invent one? Could we?
In that spirit, I will submit some images for your feedback. The one I put on the poster is one idea only – the ship sailing to new lands representing new understandings, knowledge, wisdom. Only trouble is, the Vikings, Columbus and h -
Blog postFriends of the True West! Do kindly read this and give me ANY feedback that occurs to you before it’s set in stone (or steel plate actually – for printing as an etched-embossed poster, version 1.0). Here is the digital poster of the draft, and the text below it in case you want to copy and paste and edit to repost or share – all I ask is add to the end ‘modified by’…. and your name and contact. Or if you love it as is, share freely! Comments welcomed too, for me to look at modifications. I wa
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Blog postI’ve had a project simmering for a while which the awful movie The Last Jedi has pushed onto the front burner: the making or co-creating of a kind of ‘Magna Carta’ declaration of the True West – what it is and why the current backsliding, self-sabotaging version of it we have today is still vastly worth defending, if necessary with our lives, and at the very LEAST with our pens and printing machines.
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Blog postWakeful, was angsting about impending opening of Dreamspace gallery, so many competing options values visions materials styles messages as an artist, now opening a WHAT??… Now just getting out of my own way and just DOING IT…
So for this blog, the invitation, should you be nearby:
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Blog postToday Britain apparently voted herself free of that most insidious, bureaucratic, statist, autocratic organisation: the EU. Wow! Fantastic! This is proof that the fatal tendency to bigger government is NOT irreversible. Maybe this market signal will get through to Brussells…. maybe!
Here’s to all those who love freedom and hate Big Brother. Thank you all you British who voted for freedom, despite the alleged economic risks. Any state or pseudo-state that legislates the size and s -
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Blog postHere’s my latest graphic in the alarmclock I got on special for about $12. I added hours around the purple circle in case the clock is also wanted for use as a chronometer!
It only takes unscrewing the legs of this model and you can replace the face with a printed one as I did… I printed it on 250 gsm plain card , colour inkjet. Here’s the jpeg I printed it from in photoshop, using the print to a custom size option. in this case 105 mm. I used a leather punch to make the central hole -
Blog postI’m planning a new book – always a complex project! I want to use all I know to do this one efficiently – all the phases every hour, so the work is balanced. A little phasetimer clock right beside me makes more sense than a big one on the wall or set into the desk. Introducing the phasetimer alarm clock! Prototype $13 from Briscoes on special – nice quiet one with sweep motion second hand. Printed to size, inkjet on 250 gsm card, the original clock face pulled off the contact tape, phasetimer
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Blog postAfter many twists and turns of fate and a huge amount of water under the burning Kaiwaka bridge, I sit me down at a new desk
to make the last of the edits for Apples of Aeden volume four, The Pillars of Aeden (only 56 pages to go out of 459) and upload the completed ebook as soon as that is done (an a week or so I trust). Apologies for the dreadfully long delay. We are now living in Gisborne (New Zealand), nine hours’ drive from anywhere, to be near our two delightful grandsons (2 3/4 -
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A Platonistic poetic homage to the foundations of the True West, and to The Second Coming by W.B.Yeats. Read The Second Coming here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172062 Or see a youtube video animation (a little disconcerting) of a photo of the aged Yeats dramatically reading his own poem:
I have been working on a painting of trip we made to Paris in 2015 (I’ll put an image up here when it’s ‘done’), and as is my custom now (see my www.altarsofar -
Blog postHe has a lovely face… a promising start!
Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving –by Maria Popova, syndicated from brainpickings.org, Jan 12, 2016
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love,” the great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hahn admonished in his terrific treatise on how to love — a sentiment profoundly discomfiting in the context of our cultural mythology, which continually casts love as something that happens to us passively and by chance, something we fall int -
Blog postIs love a feeling, or a relationship, or an action, or an energy, or even (as Christians claim) a Person?
If love is a feeling, then it is a feeling about someone, for some reason. Otherwise we could solve all the problems of the lack of it with some kind of feel-good drug. And no one (I hope!) would seriously suggest that that would do it. So, there’s a logic behind it – a reason.
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Blog postGreetings, my intrepid followers on the website formerly known as Loveqor! For simplicity and plainness I’ve changed the name to The Logic of Love. And now living in Gisborne, I am hoping to do more on the subject! Starting with some writing. This ebook was uploaded on the first of the first, 2016:
How to Love Everyone and Everything – Starting With a Stone By Peter Harris We assume we know what love is, and that we just ‘need more of it in the world’, but we have huge emotional and menta -
Blog postReally I jest not: this one is important, no matter how many others I have imposed on the long-suffering WordPress engine… Whether or not anyone listens to it, I have felt for a long time I must start a site specifically for the exploration and promotion of the idea of what I call the True West. If, as one could wish everyone in the world knew and loved Tolkien, I could have called it Numenor. But they don’t, and this is too real and important to hide under fictional allusions, however
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Blog postThese two trials of the embossed copper lettering got me thinking… about the beauty of truth and meaning and all that I explored in those years studying philosophy. (The roses are from our garden here at Appletree Haven; the vase is an English Doulton Willow pattern I got for 10c because it was cracked. Like me – cracked but still useful for something, and going for a song! The table is on the Art Deck, which I recently closed in with a big old window -free- from an old school.) I think i can –
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Blog postWhat is worse than mad art? Bad art I suppose? Or philosophical art with words? I feel ambivalent about this work in progress which I have returned to for a calm frenzy of activity this morning. Presuming to depict the evolution of the spirit – and its scariest undertaking : to deny what it once … Continue reading The church of mad art-in-progress – the Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit
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Blog postJust when I thought it was safe to say ‘done!’ I suddenly thought: the bands should be reversed so the smaller divisions go to the outside, like on a ‘normal’ clock… Like this: I also refined the wording around the perimeter – hopefully a clear quick reference for the meaning of each phase… Like it?? … Continue reading Phasetimer revised for beauty & clarity
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Blog postMy card as of today:
Last night we watched The Giver (see the trailer here: https://youtu.be/uxFJvlWqphM), about a society which had traded colour and true feelings for safety and sameness – and a boy and his mentor (the Giver) who gave them it all back. It’s the kind of movie that can give you an altered state and change your perceptions of the world, and therefore your conceptions. I thought, the world is a different place to the one who sees the colours of the creative process, whi -
Blog postThis is my latest (04 10 15 ) Phasetimer prototype (white frame because shop had no black), with an inner band for timing shorter cycles of four phases – fifteen minutes to go through a cycle, or 3.75 minutes per phase. This is for quick processing a question – also can be used to go through four cycles in an hour…iterations are of course all part of process and evolution.
For the ‘early adopters, should there be any here (you know who you are!) here is a free jpeg of the timer face, -
Blog postThis is the latest prototype of the phase clock or as it’s now mostly called, the phasetimer. the 4phase round table will have a recess for the timer – the rest of the time it could be on the wall…
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Blog postThis is a little photo story about a coveted bandsaw, a brother named Big John (currently making a FILM called Every Little Thing – see http://everylittlethingfilm.com/) who bought a painting sight unseen, thereby making it possible for me to buy it, and me and the doglets going to get it from Tolaga Bay. The pit stop for doglets at one of the lovely beaches, then them hemmed in by the bandsaw and some beachcombed wood on the way home; then cutting some driftwood of unknown species;
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Blog postWell the storm in Gisborne washed up a huge lot of wooden treasure onto the downtown beach:
spot the doglet in mid jump:
so we got beachcombing and picked up wood for compost bins, hunks of firewood, and pieces like this:
So, the hollow needed cleaning out and exposing the heart rimu. I needed a gouging adze! Looked online and found some forging fanatics who did a great job hammering redhot car springs etc on anvils then tempering etc, and I thought – too long, b -
Blog postThis is the $4 prototype of the 4phase clock, as i contemplated it in bed with doglets this morning. ..
The idea is that process is time-related and directional so why not practice that flow with a clock…? Over one hour you get a balance of activities. Later i think an individualised clock will have a different spread – though it is highly directional, process is different for different people in the relative amounts of each phase.
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Blog postI THINK I have a great new way to simply apply the living logic of process (which has been a major obsession for the twenty-odd (very odd, some would say!) years since I was writing my MA thesis ‘Process and Inquiry’ at Auckland University): live, 3D meetings! Shock, amazement, cries of ‘You, Peter? – no way!’
Yes way! (Well, small and intimate meetings, for a start…)
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Blog postThis is a medium-resolution photo of the large (4 by 3 foot) third painting I did in Gisborne, not entirely done but at present I’m calling it finished, through practical exhaustion and general awareness of mortality…
It is a personal/mystical/dream view of Kaiwaka, the scene of so much of my struggle for so long to realize Eutopia, a Good Place of more than ordinary Love, Beauty, Truth and Freedom. The Seagull/white dove wall I built last year for the visionary dressmaker Jenny Lynn -
Blog postSo, this is my brand new blog – yet another! But this art is what I’m mainly doing now, when not planning or building hobbit havens… This is a new painting framed in the new style which I call ‘Altars of Art’. Hence the blog name. I hope you like it.
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Enthorned They Dream Peter Harris, August 2015 24″ by 36″ Original $5,550, limited edition signed prints full size stretched canvas unframed $333, framed with the silver lettering in ‘altar’ style $5
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