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www.leegass.com [by Lee Gass] For the past few weeks I’ve been following the development of a granite sculpture, Three Surfaces, which is the latest in my Anima series. First I showed you how it...
by Lee Gass I hope you won’t think I’m just teasing you by showing part of a sculpture, part of a stool, and part of the immediate environment of my studio on Quadra Island, but I’m not. Besides, I...
www.leegass.com [by Lee Gass] Vinay watched me work for a while the other day in my studio. Though I knew he was coming, I didn’t notice him when he came in. I didn’t notice anything but what I was...
by Lee Gass In making a wooden crate for Looking Up a couple of weeks ago, I couldn’t help notice the strong contrast between the two sets of growth rings in this piece of wood. The hemlock tree took...
The following passage is taken from the gallery page on my website for a new sculpture, Looking Up. It seems perfectly relevant to the primary theme of this column over the last couple of months;...
The collaboration: unusual. The outcome: unpredictable. The experiment: still seeking a hypothesis. Experiments is an unusual collaboration, a project between dancers and scientists to discover...
In this series of articles, I’ve been suggesting that the only way for us to make new ideas happen, the only method, is to “go into our studios and make stuff”. If I am right, and that seems pretty...
A few days ago, as part of a series on creativity in this space, I suggested that to hope for methods of creation may be futile. I’ve wondered about this since early childhood. Where new ideas come...
