And gratitude in being.
I was talking to a theatrical advertising designer at Paramount Studios about making.
And, as creatives, “how do we make?”
Imagination, mind, fist, fingers, lips—mouth and tongue, eyes and ears.
What we absorb, as humans, and what we express is holistic—
a spherical array of impression and experientiality—
result. My legacy of making, comes from the mind—and the hand that is connected to it.
[Centrum Arts Festival, Port Townsend, WA]
As we all know, imaginings create a neural expression that
suggests an outreach in voice, message, text, sound
And motion.
[Bill Evans Dance, Seattle WA]
There is song, literature and poetry, the framing of words—and how they look;
there is sound, and whole movement in dance.
And more, in each, their interplay—
song and dance, voice and poetry, text and literature.
Speaking to this storyteller at Paramount Studios, a generational designer—his Dad too, a maker of theatrical advertising art—reminded me of my own legacy in learning—and living sensorially. The mind, the imagination, and the making. My mother, Lila Shaw Girvin was an exemplar of making creativity happen, as a painter, pianist and humanitarian activist. My father too, George William Girvin, a renowned vascular surgeon—he was too, an imaginer of potential in new surgical techniques and research—and fabulously skilled with his hands.
With Mom, I drew on the floor,, while she painted in her studio at the South Hill, on Perry Street in Spokane. And Dad, helping him build—though my side was mostly to removing nails from timber—there was still a character of craft, care and connection to quality and certainty in measured completion.
For this, these times, I reflect on the marvel of engagement in the work, and two, thankfulness as in gratitude—scratched out, a steel pen on Italian handmade paper—as a sensate scribe, the work is a Contemplation on the word;
An imagining of expressive interpretation.
And the articulation in line and ink that plays out to the individual characters—the letters and their fluency of movement and interaction—interpreted on the roughened surface as a dance of meaning and the steel tool with which they are rendered.
And for this journey,
the pathway to the now, I am grateful.
Thank you.
Tim
Collaborate. Co-create. Connect.
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Theatrical Branding
digital: girvin.com
built environments: oseanstudios.com
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