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The Traveller

This sculpture made of wood and paper, it is mostly done, with the exception of its voice, the musical part. I try to give each late sculpture pieces their musical voice, as art is a theatre within the boundaries of life.   

Beethoven Loved his Mum.

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in C Minor, Op, 67. The first two bars, –” I love you mum – I love you mom”. I love you ma etc. etc. etc.

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony is my favorite symphony. It was my first LP, I bought it at record shop in Republic St, next to the band club in Valletta, Malta. After that I bought Bach’s, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ. Also, I love Wagner’s The Ring.

Then switched to Deep Purple, Black Sabbat and other British Bands. The most impressive was David Bowe, and then Rick Wakeman. Jethro Tull with their album Passion Play was the future.

Mass music, I find it very rewarding. Gioachino Rossini is special, because on certain recordings, I could (imaginatively) hear the fireworks going off. In Malta fireworks were a very big thing. So, the theatre of it all. The festivities, the mass and parishioners, the church buildings, the music and songs, the smell of the incense and the weather all together creates a very dynamic atmosphere.

The Requiems of Brahms, Mozart and Verdi’s. Also, Missa Solemnis by Beethoven and Schubert Mass in G Major and many others.

J. S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion, is well beyond. However, for me, most of Bach’s religious works don’t feel religious at all, but neither are they secular. They simply not this or that, just are a category on their own. There are different theories to this, but that’s for another time.

You hear these Masses not purely as religious works of art, rather something deeper and humane. Its more of something deep into the abyss of self, not out of despair but rather out of light of humanity that can reach to such heights. The reason why Gothic architecture works so well, looking from one depth to the heavens.

Portrait of Dad

No leafletting of Happy Australia Card for 2021

A mix of parts of Happy Australia Cards

Due to Covet 19 there will be no leafletting in 2021 until further notice.

The local version of Happy Australia Day, is well under way, and most of the 40 cards have been allocated to the participant.

New, and because of Covet, like other nationalities, many Australians will not be coming home this coming January 2021. Therefore, based on the local version of Happy Australia Day, there is now a overseas version. Only Australians overseas world wide can apply for one. The number of overseas Happy Australia Day cards available is also 40, just like the local version.

Seven years ago, I stared an art project call Winding Roads, in it there are nested other art projects that interconnect. One of them is call Happy Earth Day.

Happy Earth Day is about in my belief that every human being deserves at least one happy day a year, even if the are in prison. Every day should be a happy day, I am just being pragmatic. Inside nested in Happy Earth Day are all the countries of the world, simply all humanity. This happy day can be celebrate any time anywhere, irrespective of country or nationality.

So, if I am in China I celebrate Happy China Day, if in Russia I celebrate Happy Russia Day, in Britain, Happy Britain Day, in USA, Happy USA Day, and in Malta, Happy Malta Day, and so on, and no country is excluded.

I am going to keep this project small that I can manage, as I have other art projects to work on. In time hopefully, I cover as many countries as humanly possible. One can say its voluntary work to the word community.

Colour

Every year the colour changes, it reflects my musical notation colour system. For 2021 its C7 chord. The code is this. C Ultramarine, E Red ( not crimson which is bais towards the magenta), G Yellow , B magenta. The system is reflect in all my artwork. Black and white and the grayness of the black and white is neutral. The inhered natural surface is also neutral.

For example, wood painted with clear varnish, is neutral. The same wood surface painted with red paint, it will be come E major. To an extend, its what you see is what you get. At the end it is an artistic interpretation not an exact science. I could make precise, but then its not who I am. There has to be a conservation with the artwork for it to succeed, and each art work speaks differently.

How to apply for this year.

Simply , I need just your name and surname, and an address to sent it to, and sent to mail@samformosa.com . That’s it. Don’t forget only 40 I will sent these card. To those I sent these Happy Australia Card, they are totally free and not cost to them.

My responsibility duties is to only make these cards and post them as is. The applicant by applying for these cards agrees to respect the copyright laws, and does not hold me responsible or my ——– to any unforeseen mishaps beyond said responsible duties.

mail@samformosa.com

I am a sail writer, so keep it short please.

I Am — an art project.

I am a Father

“I am”, is an art project related to a diverse number of subjects that are of interested or related to me. Its not in academic form, rather in a simple every day conversation, that the general public might find of interest. Yet, I Am project is imbedded within Winding Road project.

I believe that fundamentally, humanity strive for two things above all else, health and happiness. Everything else is second. Power, money and glory adds for nothing if one has not achieve the foremost two. Money like power and glory does not buy you love , it simple dilutes the emotional pain, however its good to have if nothing else.

Irrespective where one lives, one aspires for peace, good neighbors who mind their own business, food and plenty of it and, freedom to make up your mind without some left or right gaslighted faction tell you what to think or do.

I don’t think one is a asking for much, as I think these gaslighted factions think that it is a sort of human weakness, and they feel that it is their birthright to impose their will on others and, we end up in a mess that the world is in.

Knock on wood, so far so good.

Knock on wood, so far so good.

I had this piece of wood since my days at WSU at Kingswood. It had followed me all this time as a mute piece. Sometimes it disappeared for months, hiding behind books and artworks. At times waiting in a dark wet silenced corner. Now and again a visitor or two, mice and other in dark shy creatures.

There is always that rare occasion of cleaning up.  This piece of wood would be the first, that is put up on the pile to be discarded, but somehow from within that piece of wood, a cry for a reprieve, for surely, its day that will surely come. That day, of all days, will make the day. The day when it will no longer be ignored and abandoned.

That day was the early 29 November 2020 morning. As the calligraphy brush primed itself on The Australian newspaper, a daily ritual, infusing the black paint onto well-versed minds. The first rush wave of brush strokes comes thick and fast. Carefully, and instinctively weaves around between text, the images, and the ads with a constant look for fine adjustment.

The paint, the messenger, cannot be too wet or too dry weaves across, and plough a trough of paint, that when it dries, the creases of the paper leave a fingerprint-like distortion which relates to the quality and the wetness of the paint, the speed of the brush travelled, and the quantity of paint in the brush.

The wood.

But today the 29th Nov 2020 is my day ( the wood). Before I know it, a quick face wash for the porous to open, and then left to just about to dry, Then, before I know it, as quick as an eye blink, it was done. My wet voice ( the paint ) proclaiming in quarter notes, CEFG a pause, and then in half-note D.

What a glorious moment, this wetness of the voice, it’s only a gift to its creator. For when in a short span of life, the wind will dry the paint, leaving just a remnant of this shot life. But my voice will echo and come again, alive to those eyes that read beyond the dried lines.

Brexit – This ship will not sink!

Inside this ensō the script reads, ‘ Brexit’.
The title of the work is . ‘ Brexit – this ship will not sink!
Acrylic paint on calligraphy paper.

There are two district voices that I hear when I see the above art work. That of Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill, and that of Margret Thatcher. It all dependents in context of what what else is linked too. So, sometimes its Churchill, other times, its Margret Thatcher.
The sandy beaches of Dunkirk, or the deep South Atlantic waters, of the Falkland Islands.
Brexit, is for now with Boris.

This entry was posted in Sam’s script. and tagged Politics; EU; Europe; UK; Britain; today;Enso;Enlightenment;power;universe;circle;wholeness;Calligraphy;Zen;Brush;human character; spiritual exercise; Winston Churchill; Margaret Thatcher; Boris Johnson; on December 22, 2019 by Sam Formosa. Edit