“An art that’s not based on looking inevitably becomes repetitious, whereas one that is based on looking finds the world infinitely interesting, and always finds new ways of looking at ourselves.”
Images: JesseJames. Words: David Hockney
JesseJames in conversation with Art Historian Aodhán Rilke. Transcript of the Q&A to follow.
A summer’s day Inis Oírr, long ago.
The artist JesseJames used to cycle out into the villages of Inis Oírr to practise art.
Inisheer Waltz was composed by Tommy Walsh.
“Perhaps movies or television are closer to most people’s perception of the world. Life is a moving picture that comes through a tube courtesy of somebody else.”
Image: JesseJames. Words: David Hockney
JesseJames in conversation with Art Historian Aodhán Rilke. Transcript of the Q&A to follow.
Landscape may be said to exist in the eye of the beholder, a beholder who perceives not so much the objective scene as the look of it, the looking at it.
Words: Louis le Brocquy. Image: JesseJames
the fort
aristocracies long gone
but for the stones
Image: James Francis Moore. Words: Contemporary Haiku by Anton Kinsella, County Cork.
I described how the dolphins had danced on an evening of silken calm, leaping clear of the water in graceful arcs that crossed in pairs; as I had sat in a little field above the bay to watch, their plunges had been the only sound in the world. He listened to me expressionlessly, then turned his eyes to the dingy window and the dingy sky beyond. “That’s right” he said, and on Sunday morning they were all kneeling on the beach!”
Words: Tim Robinson, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage. Image: detail from Inisheer Zibaldone by JesseJames.
The Zibaldone Project 