{"id":1533,"date":"2013-11-17T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2014-01-22T19:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T03:18:22","slug":"wondering-at-the-eastside-culture-crawl-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wondering-at-the-eastside-culture-crawl-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wondering at The Eastside Culture Crawl 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

The Eastside Culture Crawl is East Vancouver’s own open studio tour. I don’t go every year, but have gone for many years. It feels good to wander through studio space, smelling paint, sawdust, and sometimes coffee, tea, and cookies.<\/p>\n

Wandering through a painting studio always gives me a sense of wonder, like I’m exploring a mysterious territory. It’s so refreshing to not know what you’ll see next.<\/p>\n

Back in the 80s, as an art student, I studied some drawing and a lot of computer graphics, which was just starting to evolve into a useful medium through relatively inexpensive home computer systems. With the exception of a little ink or graphite, my hands stayed relatively clean while I drew using a mouse.<\/p>\n

So occasionally, my curiosity would lead me to the painting studios at my art college, where I could experience colour as it was embedded in thick pigment. I could see the physicality of its application, smell the oil and acrylics, and see the splatters and splashes of physical action. Computer graphics had – and have – none of that physicality or real-space depth and reality. <\/p>\n

It still evokes wonder in me today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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