The first batch new pages are up. They are a new Printmaking page and a page called the Legend of Walking Man. You can find them under the title “Work” from the main menu above. The Walking Man page, I expect to be adding more information about Walking Man over time, so if you like that fellow please check back every once and a while. In celebration of the new pages, todays image is pulling from both, to wit, a print of Walking Man.
Walking Man in the Tallgrass Prairie
The Dove and the Rings, copper engraving, 2003
I have been rephotographing some of my work as I update the pages here at The School of the Transfer of Energy. I always forget about this engraving that I did back in 2003 for the wedding announcement of my greatest friend. There is nothing in my experience to compare with the quality of line that comes from engraving copper. My poor example here is nothing compared to the great masters of this art, both living and dead. All the same I breath a deep breath of satisfaction at seeing the beautiful lines brought about by such force and intensity as the cutting of the copper and the pressure of the press.
Glynn Young highlighted this blog in his on Saturday. Thank you, Glynn, for the honor and the encouragement.
Early Fronts-piece design for The School of the Transfer of Energy, featuring a drawing of a goatsucker.
Cover for the first handbook of The School of the Transfer of Energy.
Below is a revised and very pared down introduction to what the School of the Transfer of Energy represents:
The School of the Transfer of Energy
The Institute of Signs and Levers
The School of the Transfer of Energy was established as a tool to bring a simple order and understanding to a broad range of arts, crafts and agriculture based disciplines and the outputs of those disciplines. The Institute of Signs and Levers refers to a view of those disciplines as a deliberate and purposeful technology towards the receiving, cultivation and realization of relationship to God the Father, Son and Spirit.
Here is the main stage for the School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theater with some interesting shadows in the morning sun.
A slightly more complete picture of the same stage. Here you can see the main curtains, and the side screens. The shadow screen can be seen behind the trees of the scene in the stage. The scene, which is under construction, is John Beartrist Laceroot entering a grove of cedar trees.
Below is a peak at the mechanics of one of the rod puppets under the main stage floor.
This is the stage for the marionette narrator of the play which takes place on the stage in the preceding photos. The wooden container, which is actually used to transport part of the main stage, serves double duty as the platform for the narrator’s stage. There will be a curtain concealing the legs of the operator.
Here is a detail at the foot of the stage. The whale is the symbol for Jonah, who the narrator, Jonas, is named for.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 