tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657928177628992532024-02-24T05:01:24.526-05:00Every Page of Moby-Dick and more...Matt Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00146374807705850842noreply@blogger.comBlogger722125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-63601191203491521882015-03-01T11:11:00.000-05:002016-09-06T10:54:41.357-04:00New HomeThe only constant in life is change. I've moved to tumblr permanently, so below is where you can find me and my ongoing creative endeavors.<br />
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MY TUMBLR: <a href="http://www.matt-kish.tumblr.com/">www.matt-kish.tumblr.com</a><br />
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MY WEB SITE (a curated collection of my art and illustration): <a href="http://www.matt-kish.com/">http://www.matt-kish.com/</a><br />
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I hope you'll drop in.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-43073903688020665322015-02-10T08:08:00.000-05:002015-02-10T09:31:32.304-05:00INVISIBLE CITIES: LaudomiaThe 46th of Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities</i> and my sixteenth overall, Laudomia, the city of the living, the dead, and the unborn. You can see the entire series of illustrations so far, which includes work from my friends Joe Kuth and Leighton Connor, at our tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a> which is updated every Wednesday.<br />
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<b>"...the Laudomia of the dead and that of the unborn are like the two bulbs of an hourglass which is not turned over; each passage between birth and death is a grain of sand that passes the neck, and there will be a last inhabitant of Laudomia born, a last grain to fall, which is now at the top of the pile, waiting."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
ink and marker on watercolor paper<br />
January 18, 2015<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-34377145665846208612015-01-21T09:15:00.001-05:002015-01-21T09:15:26.632-05:00INVISIBLE CITIES: TheklaThe 43rd of Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities </i>and my fifteenth overall, Thekla, the city forever under construction. You can see the entire series of illustrations so far, which includes work from my friends Leighton Connor and Joe Kuth, at our tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a>, which is updated every Wednesday.<br />
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<b>"If, dissatisfied with the answers, someone puts his eye to a crack in a fence, he sees cranes pulling up other cranes, scaffoldings that embrace other scaffoldings, beams that prop up other beams. ‘What meaning does your construction have?’ he asks. ‘What is the aim of a city under construction unless it is a city? Where is the plan you are following, the blueprint?’</b><br />
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<b>“‘We will show it to you as soon as the working day is over; we cannot interrupt our work now,’ they answer. </b><br />
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<b>"Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. ‘There is the blueprint,’ they say."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
January 13, 2015<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-71116716777803363192014-12-31T10:20:00.004-05:002014-12-31T10:20:45.872-05:00INVISIBLE CITIES: LeoniaThe 40th of Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities </i>and my fourteenth overall, Leonia. You can see the entire series of illustrations so far, which includes work from my collaborators Leighton Connor and Joe Kuth, at our tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a>.<br />
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<b>"Nobody wonders where, each day, they carry their load of refuse. Outside the city, surely; but each year the city expands, and the street cleaners have to fall farther back. The bulk of the outflow increases and the piles rise higher, become stratified, extend over a wider perimeter. Besides, the more Leonia’s talent for making new materials excels, the more the rubbish improves in quality, resists time, the elements, fermentations, combustions. A fortress of indestructible leftovers surrounds Leonia, dominating it on every side, like a chain of mountains."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper<br />
December 29, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-47022413976747028192014-12-15T14:37:00.002-05:002014-12-15T14:37:22.786-05:00INVISIBLE CITIES: Clarice(I have been so extraordinarily busy that forgot to post this here, even though it was posted on our <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino tumblr</a> almost a week ago. Apologies.)<br />
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The 37th of Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities </i>and my thirteenth overall, Clarice. You can see the entire series of 37 illustrations so far, which includes work from fellow artists Leighton Connor and Joe Kuth, at our group art tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a> which is updated every Wednesday.<br />
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<b>"And yet, almost nothing was lost of Clarice’s former splendor; it was all there, merely arranged in a different order, no less appropriate to the inhabitants’ needs than it had been before."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
ink and marker on watercolor paper<br />
December 9, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-23055812987274039302014-11-19T08:52:00.001-05:002014-11-19T10:06:26.389-05:00INVISIBLE CITIES: AdelmaThe 34th of Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities</i> and my twelfth overall, Adelma, the city of the dead. You can see the entire series of 34 cities so far, which includes work from my peers Leighton Connor and Joe Kuth, at our tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a>, which is updated every Wednesday.<br />
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<b>"I thought: 'If Adelma is a city I am seeing in a dream, where you encounter only the dead, the dream frightens me. If Adelma is a real city, inhabited by living people, I need only continue looking at them and the resemblances will dissolve, alien faces appear, bearing anguish. In either case, it is best for me not to insist on staring at them.'"</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on watercolor paper<br />
November 18, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-52675303677223713122014-10-29T09:12:00.002-04:002014-10-29T09:12:37.526-04:00INVISIBLE CITIES: EsmeraldaThe 31st of Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities</i> and my eleventh overall, Esmeralda, the city of many ways. You can see the entire series so far, which includes work from my friends Joe Kuth and Leighton Connor, at our <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino tumblr</a> which is updated every Wednesday.<br />
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<b>"In Esmeralda, city of water, a network of canals and a network of streets span and intersect each other. To go from one place to another you have always the choice between land and boat: and since the shortest distance between two points in Esmeralda is not a straight line but a zigzag that ramifies in tortuous optional routes, the ways that open to each passerby are never two, but many, and they increase further for those who alternate a stretch by boat with one on dry land."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper<br />
October 21, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-78764136329111870052014-10-08T09:14:00.002-04:002014-10-08T09:14:15.192-04:00INVISIBLE CITIES: BaucisThe 28th of Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities </i>and my tenth overall, Baucis, the city in the clouds. You can see the entire series so far, which includes work from my fine friends Leighton Connor and Joe Kuth, at our <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino tumblr</a> which is updated every Wednesday.<br />
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<b>"After a seven days’ march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foliage."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper<br />
October 7, 2014<br />
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<b><br /></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-90641547811287783192014-09-29T11:11:00.000-04:002014-09-29T11:11:00.041-04:00A BESTIARY: Leviathan14 inches by 11 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
September 28, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-59220125254445891022014-09-29T11:10:00.000-04:002014-09-29T11:10:00.318-04:00A BESTIARY: Karasu14 inches by 11 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
September 23, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-34645884175351947752014-09-29T11:09:00.000-04:002014-09-29T11:09:00.324-04:00A BESTIARY: Judex14 inches by 11 inches<br />
ink and marker on watercolor paper<br />
September 23, 2014<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-35122875525357736272014-09-17T09:03:00.001-04:002014-09-17T09:03:11.743-04:00INVISIBLE CITIES: AglauraThe 25th of Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities</i> and my ninth overall, the colorless city Aglaura. You can see the entire series so far, along with work by my fellow artists Joe Kuth and Leighton Connor, at our group art tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a> which is updated every Wednesday with new art.<br />
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<b>"So if I wished to describe Aglaura to you, sticking to what I personally saw and experienced, I should have to tell you that it is a colorless city, without character, planted there at random. But this would not be true, either: at certain hours, in certain places along the street, you see opening before you the hint of something unmistakable, rare, perhaps magnificent; you would like to say what it is, but everything previously said of Aglaura imprisons your words and obliges you to repeat rather than say."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper<br />
September 16, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-47165174183636612702014-08-27T09:47:00.002-04:002014-08-27T09:47:28.784-04:00INVISIBLE CITIES: SophroniaThe 22nd of Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities </i>and my eighth illustration for the project, the dual city known as Sophronia. You can see the entire series so far, along with amazing work from my fellow travelers Leighton Connor and Joe Kuth, at our group art tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a>, which is updated every Wednesday with new art.<br />
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<b>"The city of Sophronia is made up of two half-cities. In one there is the great roller coaster with its steep humps, the carousel with its chain spokes, the Ferris wheel of spinning cages, the death-ride with crouching motorcyclists, the big top with the clump of trapezes hanging in the middle. The other half-city is of stone and marble and cement, with the bank, the factories, the palaces, the slaughterhouse, the school, and all the rest. One of the half-cities is permanent, the other is temporary, and when the period of its sojourn is over, they uproot it, dismantle it, and take it off, transplanting it to the vacant lots of another half city."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
August 27, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-55396732477725028972014-08-06T09:16:00.002-04:002014-08-06T13:32:05.174-04:00INVISIBLE CITIES: ChloeThe nineteenth of Italo Calvino's <i>Invisible Cities</i> and my seventh illustration for the project, the city named Chloe. This was by far the most difficult piece to complete so far, but I am pleased with the final image. You can see the entire series so far, which includes works from my fellow travelers Leighton Connor and Joe Kuth, at our shared tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a> which is updated every Wednesday with a new City.<br />
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<b>"A voluptuous vibration constantly stirs Chloe, the most chaste of cities. If men and women began to live their ephemeral dreams, every phantom would become a person with whom to begin a story of pursuits, pretenses, misunderstandings, clashes, oppressions, and the carousel of fantasies would stop."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
August 5, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-35043284407641724262014-07-10T12:05:00.000-04:002014-07-10T12:05:47.380-04:00A BESTIARY: Ironclad11 inches by 14 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
July 5, 2014<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-21277376498090557052014-07-01T11:11:00.000-04:002014-07-01T11:11:00.371-04:00A BESTIARY: Hydra14 inches by 11 inches<br />
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 26, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-46490626368730384252014-06-30T23:11:00.000-04:002014-06-30T23:11:00.276-04:00THE PEQUOD: Nemesis14 inches by 11 inches<br />
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 30, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-26467744348171929172014-06-25T11:11:00.000-04:002014-06-25T11:11:00.519-04:00INVISIBLE CITIES: ZoeThe thirteenth of Calvino's 55 <i>Invisible Cities</i> and my fifth illustration for the project, Zoe. You can see the entire series so far, which includes work from my partners in the project Joe Kuth and Leighton Connor at our tumblr <a href="http://seeingcalvino.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Seeing Calvino</a>, updated every Wednesday.<br />
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<b>"In every point of this city you can, in turn, sleep, make tools, cook, accumulate gold, disrobe, reign, sell, question oracles. Any one of its pyramid roofs could cover the leprosarium or the odalisques' baths. The traveler roams all around and has nothing but doubts: he is unable to distinguish the features of the city, the features he keeps distinct in his mind also mingle."</b><br />
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10 inches by 8 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 22, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-71163154287504039562014-06-24T11:11:00.000-04:002014-06-27T07:11:56.318-04:00THE PEQUOD: Ishmael8 inches by 10 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 19, 2014<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-89682162423828727922014-06-23T11:11:00.000-04:002014-06-23T11:11:00.475-04:00THE PEQUOD: Fedallah10 inches by 8 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 19, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-31032256930168293352014-06-22T11:12:00.000-04:002014-06-22T11:12:00.130-04:00THE PEQUOD: Ahab Maddened8 inches by 10 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 18, 2014<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-69572835421049242812014-06-22T11:10:00.000-04:002014-06-22T11:10:00.363-04:00THE PEQUOD: Ahab I8 inches by 10 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 16, 2014<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-28477403941022965412014-06-21T11:11:00.000-04:002014-06-21T11:11:00.691-04:00THE PEQUOD: Fleece10 inches by 8 inches<br />
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 12, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-71825864682235587972014-06-20T11:11:00.000-04:002014-06-20T11:11:00.116-04:00THE PEQUOD: Pip10 inches by 8 inches<br />
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 12, 2014<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-35051727119360056632014-06-19T11:11:00.000-04:002014-06-19T11:11:00.829-04:00THE PEQUOD: Flask8 inches by 10 inches<br />
ink on watercolor paper<br />
June 8, 2014<br />
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