qualia

my qualia of turquoise

“Uses of the Term ‘Qualia’
(1) Qualia as phenomenal character. Consider your visual experience as you stare at a bright turquoise color patch in a paint store. There is something it is like for you subjectively to undergo that experience.”

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5 canvases
4 @ 100 cm x 80cm
1 @ 100 cm x 120cm
A diptych and a triptych
Or possibly a quintych

A strange starting point today,  prompted to look up the word ‘qualia’ by a friends post on facebook, an investigation in paint followed!

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/#Uses

stripey

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this one might be done, 80cm sq

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this one just started, 80cm sq

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2 this morning in my studio

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the one with the red stripes now, yesterday still with blue stripes from underpainting

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the 2 prep pieces on paper, tape still on

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piece on paper,  finished

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finished piece on panel 60cm sq

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balcony shadow 2 weeks ago

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studio balcony shadow 2 weeks ago

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view through bedroom balcony railings 2 weeks ago

3 of the 6 day 2

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These 3 small works on watercolour paper c. 9 x 12″ are the more successful of the 6 I started yesterday.
This morning I rolled them first. Then scratched some fresh marks and printed over a new layer of paler blue using greaseproof paper. Then a scrape smooth again with a squeegee and a few marks with a knife to suggest the birds

paintings update

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‘Gold Hills’ 31.5″ x 63″ at home

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‘October 1& 2’ each 31.5″ sq at the Doorway Gallery, Dublin

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‘Darker yet and deeper still’ 3 x 24″ sq
At An Grianan Theatre, Letterkenny until 18th November

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‘Skylight 1&2’ Each 34″ sq
At the Doorway Gallery, Dublin

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‘Big Stone,  Ceide Fields’ c. 40″ x 30″
At An Grianan Theatre, Letterkenny until 18th November