My Work | A Planetary Collage – Timothy C. Ely

SCORE: New Work Delivered to the Lilly Library at Indiana University

January 25, 2019 by telyhardware

SCORE Graphic Notation and composition: Timothy Ely Music and production: Larry Ellingson In February of 2018, fellow artist Larry Ellingson and I engaged in a non-stop conversation in a car, hurtling through space from the east side to the west side of Washington State, and back. Conversing wildly and led by shared interests topics ranged across brain/mind science, astronomy, history, materials, construction, and art and science in general. At the end of the road trip a collaboration had taken shape: […]

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Rhizomes, Knives and Thread: Books by a Thousand Cuts (Sketchbooks, Part 3)

December 7, 2018 by telyhardware

Rhizomes are plant stalks which spread underground. Rhizomes mimic artistic growth — we must continuously create space for processes to expand within us until a new stalk pushes up somewhere, surprising us with new growth. This can occur with startling regularity. In my first post about sketchbooks, I briefly addressed the WHY of keeping a sketchbook. In Part 2, I offered some thinking about ink and what the sketchbook has taught me about working with related materials. I am saving […]

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Evolution, Creativity, and Metaphysics

August 27, 2018 by telyhardware

“Creativity involves not only years of conscious preparation and training but unconscious preparation as well,” wrote Oliver Sacks in outlining the three essential elements of creativity, adding: “This incubation period is essential to allow the subconscious assimilation and incorporation of one’s influences and sources, to reorganize and synthesize them into something of one’s own.” In essence creativity is not a thing. It has no mass or weight, meaning it must be a metaphysical discharge. It can be seen as the […]

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OF SCRIPTS AND STARS The Cipheric Aesthetics of Timothy C. Ely’s Cribriform Script by Ian Boyden

August 15, 2018 by telyhardware

It is possible to interpret this confrontation of script and stars. Just as now and then a star emerges from the host—as a moving planet, as a comet—so also does a cipher, whose ideogram becomes intelligible to us, rise up now and then from the heap of incomprehensibility. One could draw the conclusion that the limits of vision correspond to the limits of understanding. —Werner Spies[i] Everything we hear is an echo. Anyone can see that echoes move forward and […]

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Throwback Friday: Photo’s of work from the Line of Sight show

July 13, 2018 by telyhardware

In 2010-2011, I was honored to have my work shown at The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington at a show I titled “Line of Sight”. These photos of works in the exhibit taken from Doug and Judith Garnett’s collection. In this show, I was also able to document some of my process – including inspirations I keep in my studio which appear in two of the photo’s. And, stay tuned for updates next week from the first […]

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