Raw Vision#86 

Greetings, folks. Things have gotten significant in the last week so I’m bringing you the news. My favourite quarterly magazine, Raw Vision, has just published a 6 page feature article on my work, written by David Maclagan. One of my drawings was used to illustrate his book Line Let Loose: Scribbling, Doodling and Automatic Drawing almost a couple of years ago now. He also included the same image as part of a great article he wrote for Raw Vision #82. Raw Vision can be bought in its physical form as has been consistently the way since the late 1980s, or now you also have the option to purchase issues as digital (PDF) files.

You can get the current issue with the feature length article about me and my work here: Raw Vision #86, but let me fill you in on some details first.. The printed edition has beautiful professional quality/resolution images but there were two images that were imperative to include and due to a mix up they were replaced by an additional two spiral-based images, on top of already having two spiral-based images accompanying the article. In the version I proof-read, the correct images were present. The article refers to text-based drawings/paintings and diary drawings, but there are none now accompanying the article, and to confuse matters more the titles of the intended diary drawings (‘Diary, April 2011– November 2013′ and ‘Diary, October 2010– March 2011′) have remained in the description and accompany the spiral-based images. This has all been corrected on the digital version of the magazine and the diary drawing images are now included there, but the image compression used in order to keep the file size manageable compromises the quality of the image to a degree that you cannot quite see what the detail in the diary images depict due to pixelation. Ideally there should be a correction in the next physical issue with a page containing a paragraph explaining the diary images should have been included and rectifying the matter of the wrong titles/sizes attributed to the spiral-based images that were used to replace the diary-based images, along with the necessary high resolution images of the diaries so that those buying the physical magazine will understand what the article was addressing. I am not sure if they are considering doing this, I think I would if I was publishing a magazine and something like this happened, but then I don’t know what goes on and what limitations and challenges they have, so will have to wait and see.. I will provide the images here in any case, so if you buy the magazine you can reference the blog entry for the additional imagery that is necessary in achieving the full potential of harmonious realisation! Just click on these below, and then zoom in when they appear in the new window..

Diary, April 2011 – November 2013, ink on card, 11.7 x 8.3 ins., 29.7 x 21 cm

Diary, October 2010 – March 2011, ink on card, 11.7 x 8.3 ins., 29.7 x 21 cm

Right, that’s all for now folks! I’ll keep you posted on any more developments soon.. Peace out for now..

Carlo.