Right on Abs!
October 9, 2019
Designed by Meredith Eliassen, 2019.
Heavy bear…
March 27, 2019
design by Meredith Eliassen, 2019.
Bugs with gilded wings… and such
March 25, 2019
The world’s torrent…
February 8, 2019
Nature’s counter-programming
February 3, 2019
Design by Meredith Eliassen, 2019.
Conversation:
Chirp! Emerson, chirp… chirp…
Chirp! Look! Chirp”
Chirp! Agreed!
Yep! The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Birds of a feather…
January 23, 2019
Eclipse time… a quote
January 5, 2019
A picture has come to thought… inspired by a quote from Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608-1674): “The sun… in dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations, and with fear of change perplexes monarch.”
I picture fish in an ocean oblivious to human concerns…
Ideas need light to grow…
December 11, 2018
Ideas need light to grow… design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Ideas need light to grow… a conversation
Bird: And air!
Oak leaf: parvis e glandibus quercus
Lil’ Wum: Bird-brains… Translation: Tall oaks from little acorns grow… whew!
Merry VIV: Posterity explores ancestors through printed leaves.
During the Women’s March in 2016, and image of an acorn on a poster showed that buried ideas can grow. An idea can take centuries to unfold, yet appear to turn on like a lightbulb. Parvis e glandibus quercus means that great things often have small beginnings. This is an early variant of ‘mighty oaks from little acorns grow’ found in Geoffrey Chaucer’s epic tragedy of two lovers Troilus and Criseyde (1374),”as an ook cometh of a litel spyr” [meaning sapling] that came from the ancient Greeks via Boccaccio.
Election night muse… for the elders
November 7, 2018
Preamble to the Constitution of the United States scribed on November 6, 2018 by Meredith Eliassen.
Inspired by a poster by an unknown artist produced during the 1968-1969 student-led strike for educational equity at San Francisco State College that featured the Preamble in blue with the word “justice” echoed in deep red, this version employs the dynamic of empty space with diverse information vectors produced by words found in Chinese design.
Zen design dos not seek to recreate reality, but creates with artificial space relations that point beyond visible reality to the essence of reality with chi. Chi is life, force, or essence, which in design is reliant upon obtaining connection between the observer and the observed… between design and recipient through empathy or aesthetic harmony. Zen design utilizes the vital movement (information vectors) produced through the circulation of chi… to say without saying. Lao Tzu (533 BC) asserted in Tao Te Ching XI that Zen design is conceived within an emptiness where “being and not being engender each other…” taking equal advantage of was is, “just as we recognize the usefulness of what is not.”
It’s ol’ ABW… still teaching the fish to swim
August 24, 2018
Design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
“Piscem nature doces,” Latin proverb attributed to Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (1466-1536) in his Adagia, meaning “you are teaching a fish to swim.”
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