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Figures Fillière 1(b)

This is page 35 from Figures Fillière 1, available at amazon.com / books / Scott Fillier

It is one of a number of faces shown in the book and drawn in many different media, to demonstrate in this instance, that a mechanical drafting pen can be used to produce a landmark and powerfully expressive image one doesn’t usually associate with the output of that pen. All the more reason to investigate its off-beat potential.

The left-hand page of this two-page spread is of US President Jimmy Carter as the perfect opposite in personality type, and, in drawing tool effect.

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Figures Fillière 1

This is page 29 from my recently published Figures Fillière 1.

It explains the processes, thought and sculptural, whereby this sculpture in wire, plaster, and plasticine of E. B. Fillier now exists. The black and white photo, since it lacks colour cues, is especially intriguing as its presentation of reality challenges the perceptions of many viewers, who knew and were pupils of this teacher, to ask whether this isn’t a photo of the subject rather than of the sculpture itself.

Book is available at amazon.com /books / Scott Fillier.

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Shoreline Form

This is a sculpture made using basketry reeds as armature to sketch out its form. It was made without pre-planning as I wanted a form that would freely evolve, and one which would work visually from all positions around it. The armature was covered with many layers of plaster, paint, and paper towels all bound together by the wetness of the paint, until it became this curious fish / skull-form with a dangling, floating, paradox of an eye that can be both pendulum and rotational.

The surface of the materials dried out to a firm bone-like density that can be worked in many ways. So I considered it all-in-all a satisfactory artistic experiment.

The drawing followed after the sculpture—a record of the project as an illusion of a 3-D form on a flat paper surface; which is in fact what the photo also does to the skull: both presenting and denying at the same instant, its existence as a form in real space but eliminating the dimension of time. It’s for the eyes only: only in your imagination can you now move around the object or set its eye in motion.

Fillière © March 22 2019

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Winter Figure

Winter Figure

Draw. Erase.

Draw. Erase.

Draw a symbol of renewal

: crocus, baseball, robin. No. Rub it out

: too romantic, too sentimental, and much too soon.

Draft instead the black-plumed preacher

in the back woods—be-sooted raven, riled fundamentalist,

that besotted Cassandra high in the black back woods, 

who frets over winter’s excesses and counts/curses/condemns

every person, dog, cat that comes and goes below it

on the road to hell in a freeze-dried world.

Sketch cats agoraphobic that slink/crouch/slide

with flattened ears from barn to bush to shed

, schizoid from nightmares of being fed

to a fanged and hackled open space.

Draw euphoric people multi-hued and mechanoid.

Scatter them helter-skelter on wheels/tracks/skis,

ecstatic hearts pacing the harangue of oriental pistons.

Trace the stubble and tattered stems of Queen Anne’s Lace

where it decays and smudges the drifts of the paper white back lot slope

: charcoal remnants / trace reminders of seasons long erased. 

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