So…. spring is here!
Beautiful colors indeed! To consider time as not relative for a moment I welcome you to embrace the recent arrival of this year’s season of blooming where inspiration thrives its highest. Focusing on the Northern Hemisphere we are now to enjoy the benevolent nature of the Vernal Equinox, which started on March 20, 2016 at 4:30 AM UTC.
Its funny to think how we are made mortal by living under the influence of time when time itself is immortal. Is it? Is it ever going to die? To fade away perhaps is not in its stars. Stars? Most of what we consider stars are just fragments of their once current presence. That must say something.
How old is time really? How old is the art of loom?
You might be wondering why should we care if Surrealism, an element of our genre, is going to be reflected in our film through the absence of time as we’ve established? Exactly. Surrealism is an element of the genre, part of a whole. We ought to consider and establish why the other elements are part of the whole as well. Justly, we will at the same time give credit to—in its surface—the inspiration engraved in this project: the literal art of loom. The literal art of loom is practiced world wide. The loom itself is an apparatus that weaves threads to make fabrics. The art comes when one leaves one's heart into it to make it colorful, and that's an ancient practice.
A couple of summers ago, I was blessed with a family trip to Oaxaca, México. There, everything is surrounded by colors and their embrace draws you in to the heart of the people. One of their traditions and economic sustenance is the literal art of loom. I've search everywhere but can't seem to find the pictures I took on my trip. But here are some I found on Internet (all rights reserved to the photographer, of course. You are more than welcome to check out the site I'm attaching this pictures from; see Bibliography at the bottom section for further information) that are very similar to what I experienced that time:
La Casa Encantada is where I had the opportunity to converse with mother and son about their art. They explained to us the process. Magnificent I thought of it when they shared with us how all their colors are nature-based; absolutely nothing is artificial, let alone source of pollution. A beautiful hue of red is for example, made out of Cochineals. I was continuously amazed by their demonstration as they then moved us to the space where they have one of their looms, and what a big loom that one was! Beautiful. Majestic. It’s a very peculiar instrument and it just seems to me that when they weave they are playing music. Colors and scales, notes and strings… Beautiful.
And here we are…weaving our Film Opening…playing our music…under the water. Water? then the colors we are to choose must definitely cause no harm to Nature either!
—Do you feel the water currents drawing us nearer? We’re closer and closer to open waters!—
This turns out to be really relevant in our process, for it is an inspiration, very much like a reflection.
You see, the Nature we are to take care of is that of our own mind, of our own heart for our art of loom to remain genuine. The colors we are to choose then ought to reflect a genuine purpose; that of light that of heart, always relevant to our film's genre.
In the next post we'll consider a film and its colors... it might serve us well to establish some type of reference, or perhaps the opposite production-wise.
See you then!
Bibliography:
Spring Equinox - Vernal Equinox: Time and Date.com. 2016. March 19. "Northern Hemisphere Vernal Equinox". Retrieved on March 23, 2016, from http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/spring-equinox.html
School Arts Room: Art Education Blog for K-12 Art Teachers. 2016. March 19. "Visiting Oaxacan Master Weaver Nelson Perez Mendoza in Mexico". Retrieved on March 23, 2016, from: http://www.schoolartsroom.com/2015/03/visiting-oaxacan-master-weaver-nelson.html?view=classic
