Comments on: Philip Hall’s doubles http://www.rondowd.com/2009/03/philip-halls-doubles/ Reflections on visual art, place, psychotherapy and nonduality Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ron dowd http://www.rondowd.com/2009/03/philip-halls-doubles/comment-page-1/#comment-153 ron dowd Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:37:38 +0000 http://www.rondowd.com/?p=1013#comment-153 I received a nice response from Philip Hall on this post: "Thanks for the kind words. I think they reproduce well, and yes, the plaster is a very beautiful material. It seems to reflect and absorb light–and color–in equal measure. Melville has a lovely chapter in Moby Dick on 'whiteness', which I was happy to come upon, and gave me a chill of recognition. Very interesting.... Yes, your words make sense, in that they're wrestling with a column of smoke. The association between title and form is more insistent for me, but I would never try to delineate it verbally. The title lays over the work once the form is made real. But for reasons I can't explain. I received a nice response from Philip Hall on this post:
“Thanks for the kind words. I think they reproduce well, and yes, the plaster is a very beautiful material. It seems to reflect and absorb light–and color–in equal measure. Melville has a lovely chapter in Moby Dick on ‘whiteness’, which I was happy to come upon, and gave me a chill of recognition. Very interesting….

Yes, your words make sense, in that they’re wrestling with a column of smoke. The association between title and form is more insistent for me, but I would never try to delineate it verbally. The title lays over the work once the form is made real. But for reasons I can’t explain.

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