Researching fluted, or finned, forms
 Thinking in ridges and fins, how the shadows cast lines which follow the surface of the form.
  From time to time I read photography magazines and blogs in the vague hope I can pick up a few tips to improve my photography for my website and other publicity tools. It's my least favourite job because my photographs never come out as brilliantly as I think they will (I have never so much appreciated the skill of professional photographers!)
 Oh well, this just makes my efforts look feeble! by Wenzel Jamnitzer, from his book Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of Regular Solids) 1568, which is full of amazing images like this. WJ was a German goldsmith and artist - not a geometrician or mathematician as I would have imagined. Working in the Northern Mannerist style, he was a court goldsmith, clearly extremely skilled, and must have been very important.   A few years ago I dreamed up a work to be titled Objects of the Earth Celebrate the Birth of the Sky. It was to comprise 80 - 100 smallish ceramic objects arranged on a low table or plinth on the floor, or even just on the floor. These objects were to have earth-related shapes and the fact they were ceramic and made of earth was important.
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Candle-light shadows. I set up little 'night theatres' in my bedroom. As darkness falls, I light strategically placed candles and watch the plays begin. A perfect activity for the darkest days of winter.
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January 2021
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A 2013 work book, still very much in use 
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