"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
> The reductive spirit is there.  Banal subject, narrow color range, stark 
> setting.
> And you even kept the checkered grid.

     Is a checkered grid important?


> It does seem to have a comic side though, stemming for me anyway, from a 
> tendency to anthropomorphize.  It looks like "he" is ready to jump.

  Ah, "To ascribe human characteristics to" - or similar. Well, sorry Jim, 
but 'he' would be jumping into a wall, (and bounce back?)  ;)  Heh, it's 
actually not clear in this image that the 'blackness' is a wall and finishes 
at the end of those tiles... ;)


> I keep picturing another rubber band on a fire ladder trying to talk him 
> down.  Maybe I am just in a whimsical mood this morning.

     Well, I hope, (and I'm sure), you were in a whimsical mood. We need to 
laugh more in this world.

>
> To be absolutely honest Steve, I thought you first picture was more on 
> topic for minimalism.  It looked more abstract and was suggestive of the
> sort of "big steel" geometric sculpture that characterized the time.

  Thanks Jim, I 'love' that image, but I thought the rivets used were too 
unminimalistic, i.e., too complex to be minimalist. I'll have a play and see 
what happens.


>
> This one seems like it would have more potential if you pushed it towards 
> simulating macro photography like you do with you jewelry pieces.  Another 
> dodge might be to mess with the scale.  Make the grid fine so the rubber 
> band looks gigantic?  Or have a tiny figure looking up at it?

   Or both. Jim, seriously, you help me. Thanks, I sincerely appreciate it. 
(I've played with the gigantic rubber band, and it looks good, but I feel I 
might submit a few images this time - double loop to come though...)  ;)

    ~Steve~

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