Journey to the falls

We went to the falls the other day. 

At the end of the tram line one could technically take a mile or two walk up the winding road there, if one doesn't mind being killed by cars, or one could take the bus instead.

So we piled on the bus to go to the falls, and just like that we were in the beautiful countryside!

Weird.

What falls? You ask.

That's right, we have two here, the impressive falls in the sky, and the one we went to, which is at a sort of chalet and marks the end of a canal system built in the late 1800's. It is very pretty, and also, and I say this to emphasize its greatness, not to degrade it, it is a bit of Disney, with fake grottoes and scenic cave walkthroughs.

It is an awesome place.

Or at least, very charming. A real tourist hotspot circa 1910, but still charming people.

The falls were turned OFF when we were there, but I turned them on in this picture for you:

For a first set of pictures of this trip, I have just the pictures featuring the whole gang, headed out on a clerkmanifesto field trip. It was a lovely outing and I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time, although I worried a lot, and you can never tell with the fox.

Assembling a team

You may have noticed that I have been assembling a sort of team around here.

Why?

I don't know.

Maybe to go to clerkmanifesto?

I have been here for thirteen years and I am still looking...

Layer upon layers upon layers

Yesterday you opted for, in your checkbox of exciting clerkmanifesto options, pictures of me working on my vast suite of photographic drawings of Genoa, Italy.

Today you are opting for pictures of the work in progress.

Well, I mean, you aren't opting for it. It's all that's left.

But, you're still here. So that's a kind of opting for it.

Right?

Hello?

No, no, I still see you there. It's just, some of the other readers, the "not as good ones", left. 

These are just a sample of the layers I am using to construct our final images. And I could have come up with many more samples, because I get kind of excited about it all, but I think these will do today. You have a busy schedule...

probably.

 

Work in progress

 

Maybe my magnum opus here at clerkmanifesto isn't the things I finish, but all my work in progress. It's all a work in progress at clerkmanifesto.

I have mentioned, and shown examples of, a series of layered ai and hand drawn pictures of Genoa. This is a faintly ridiculous project of about 80 pictures, which are made from probably more like 500 pictures. And as I create the layers to complete the actual final drawings, which is a project that has now gone on for a couple of weeks, I am sometimes struck by how nice some of the layers are by themselves.

So we are talking about process today!

Yes, I am keen to show you my 80 picture suite of Genoa photo paintings. But I still have a ways to go to do that.

And in the mean time I not only have a few pieces of work I am keen to show you, though I will try to keep it to a minimum, but I also get sidetracked by occasional bizarre ventures into mythologizing my very work on this series.

Yes, it does slow down the overall project, but I am ever a victim of my muse.

So, what do you want to see first?

The mythologizing of creating the work, or the work along the way (which actually appears in the mythologizing)?

Okay. Mythologizing series it is! Tomorrow we will show some of the work along the way.

And yes, before you ask, I am a cat now.

And yes, in my mind my studio is very large and not a computer cubby in a small dormer window.

And most amazingly, though you really wouldn't be able to know this part, the images of drawings and paintings in these photograph ARE actually the ones I am working on (easiest to see in the commonality of the drawing here in image one and image two).