machines and gardens: building the thing I’ve been threatening to build
I had long wanted to build a content management system to hold the snapshots of drawing I take during our life drawing sessions. Been threatening…
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Multistate~: drawing as perceptual load-balancer
This page started as a studio problem, not an illustration: how to hold multiple readings in the same field without collapsing them into a single,…
MOON: its gravity on a slow painting
Some paintings don’t move until they feel a specific kind of gravity. For this one, that pull was MOON—a group exhibition at Trent Gallery in…
The Magic Phantom Drawing Workshop
There is a verse in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that stays with me—a rough paraphrase goes: “For in and out, above, about, below, ’Tis…
lifescape() — opening, a few pictures
Some pictures I managed to snap between everything else. Elana arriving for the opening talk — clear, calm, and generous. The model as prism; witness…
Swagger would be the wrong word
Because Gerhard Marx doesn’t swagger. He’s been not-swaggering for a long time, and it shows. He might as well — he’s earned it. But restraint,…
Into: A Razor’s feel – A Landscapification
(Quick dash before breakfast on a new poem) I've been thinking about the nature of seeing, and of being seen. About the intense and delicate…
A Razor’s feel – A Landscapification
Objectification and vulnerability. How easily both can revolt, be judged. And yet. Objectivity and sensitivity. Razor on skin. Keen against tense. Friction - flow. Against…
The dog noodlelongnameandendinaglassjar, his owner and the time she had sex while holding a carpentry hammer, and how this came to be.
"The dog’s name was a story you told in a single breath, a slithering, impossible thing starting with a wet nose and ending, somehow, in…
Log Entry: A constellation of work, or a praxis laid bare
A constellation of the work. The central inquiry is Landscapification—the body rendered as terrain. Its origin is in the drawing: an act of quiet, consensual…
A Landscape of Connection
A thought I have: artworks are prayers to connection. In my painting, I have this process I call "Landscapification"—where the body is treated not just…
query/Respond — Log Entry on a Recursive Duet
“A tool dreamt it was a poet. A poem pretended not to notice.” One line from a long-running conversation. One poem among many. *query/Respond* emerged…
Echoes of Lynch is Live
I'm honoured to share that my work is now part of Echoes of Lynch, a tribute exhibition hosted by Opale Art. It is a strange…
For days when the signal-to-noise ratio approaches zero.
A four-line anti-manifesto. Into the Void
A Poem’s Proper Place: Notes on Digital Landart
Imagine landart. An artist arranges stones in a remote desert, and the meaning of the work is inseparable from its location. Where would you plant…
Honoured to Be Included in Echoes of Lynch
It is an honour to be included in Echoes of Lynch, a tribute exhibition hosted by Opale Art. To have my work placed in dialogue…
The Empty Turn
A brief field report on structure, presence, and the ethics of showing up. Tonight, the first session of a new writing group gathers in my…
Poetry Changelog: Thematic & Stylistic Mapping of Selected Works
A non-linear index of poetic works, mapped by recurring gestures, tone, form, and conceptual focus. I. Poetics of Perception & Epistemic Tension returnRelation() (2025) Syntax-driven…
The Declaration of Affective Independence
In the Crisis Year of Our Choosing, July Fourth Preamble When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to sever…
Art Co-Crit (Randburg), New art critique sessions.
New visual art peer critique group. Small, focused, no gurus. Bring work, get feedback, offer yours. Every second Saturday evening in Randburg. Join the WhatsApp…
Poetry prose and writing group: ‘Writing Group (Randburg)’
I'm starting a poetry prose and writing group. Meeting every second Friday evening, where people can meet and give and receive feedback on their writing.…
Use it or lose it – Artistry Discourse
Most major art movements emerged from artists engaging with and challenging each other—through discussion, debate, shared exploration, and yes, some conflict. When we avoid that…
Unpacking a Palette: A Digital Journey and Tool for Oil Color Mixing & Materiality
For those of us who work with physical paint, the palette is more than just a surface. It’s a laboratory — a crucible where potential…
About the Edge of the Mirror: Code-Switching as Device and Portal
D.J. Opperman’s Klipwerk poems—especially “Man met flits”—aren’t mere stylistic exercises. There’s something deeper at play, a philosophical charge that lingers. The image of the klein…
Speech for Pieter’s Cum Laude party
As some of you may know, Pieter — quite bravely, I think — asked me to be the subject of a piece he created for…
Series Preview: bodyTime(fugitivity)
A new series of one-off prints are in final stage of development. The series is tentatively titled ~ "Body Time: Fugitivity" An exploration of presence,…
Unfinished ‘Unfinished Rhapsody’,, with bananna.
(~ Another-one Good Times Here Again ~) 1.8 x 1.6 m x 5cm, oil on canvas, with banana. I'll not finish it for #killerqueen curated by Gordon…
current detail of ‘Unfinished Rhapsody’
, #oiloncanvas #painting for 'Killer Queen', curated by @gordartgallery @gordart_gallery_#KillerQueen #queen The Killer Queen exhibition will be held at The Viewing Room Art Gallery in Pretoria, South Africa from November 16, 2024…
Artist’s Statement for ALEXA MAKE SOME ART
André Clements: “I, for one, welcome our new machine collaborators.”* There’s a lot that is quite amazing, interesting and important about technology, some of it…
Exploring the Relationship Between Traditional Principles of Design and the Additional Dimensions of Familiarity, Salience, and Artistry
The generally accepted/postulated “principles of design” are of course something like, paraphrasing for the sake of my own interpretation and internalisation: Balance: The relation of…
Is Not Love the Origin of All Creation? – Matisse
MJ Study for Origin ...Thus a work of art is the climax of a long work of preparation. The artist takes from his surroundings everything…
Apple and Cherries for Paint Week
Back to basics with a little (12 x 17 cm) wet-on-wet oil on gesso'd alu-panel exercise done along with Chris Fornataro- Paint Coach 's #paintweek…
Béo and Nex on way to a valentines party
Or, what my & J's offspring look like these days. Béo Nex
Clean Language and Radical Artistry Life Drawing
The Radical Artistry Life Drawing paradigm is a product of a rich theoretical framework, which draws from various disciplines and approaches, including the groundbreaking psychological…
Every artwork is a drawing
MidJourney: /Imagine: Curveism, https://s.mj.run/dgyOV18aEJU https://s.mj.run/eOaeEnc3pow , Manifesto, Aesthetics, Straight Lines, Perspective, Relations of Power, Autopoiesis, Balance, Harmony, Moderation, Vita-socio-anarcho, Power, Art, Creativity, Relating, Desirable Outcomes,…
Windows Powershell script to sort photograph files into Date taken-based folders as per yyyy/MM/yyyy_MM_dd
PS C:\Users\User> g: PS G:\> cd G:\Raw_Photographs PS G:\Raw_Photographs> $sourceDir = "G:\Raw_Photographs" $files = Get-ChildItem -Path $sourceDir -Attributes !Directory foreach ($file in $files) { $dateTaken…
Lezane (LAB negative)
Radical Artistry: Life Drawing Randburg Poster
You can now visit Herbert Evans art stores in Linden or Fourways to see this poster or pick up the flyer for Life Drawing Randburg.…
Draft Paper ‘Lens-mode: Tuning a ChatGPT Conversation’
André Clements Abstract: This paper presents a method of adjusting the style and tone of conversations with the OpenAI's ChatGPT AI model by using an…
Lens-mode: Tuning a ChatGPT conversation
I've been experimenting with ways to 'tune' conversations with the 'AI' ChatGPT from OpenAi, that is, setting the style and other aspects quickly and easily…
Starting a Glossary
I recently started working on articulating some ideas about #RadicalArtistry, and my inner programmer likes relatively 'tight' definitions, so for any of you who might…
12 renders for Jozi
'Jozi' a.k.a. Johannesburg, South Africa. An editioned artwork, composed of 12 MJ renders based on a layered photo collage as image prompt. Here are the…