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Robert Irwin

Painting was the not the medium that would come to define Irwin’s practice, but the same ideas, same themes, same grasps towards the unanswerable and unknowable are present here. Irwin was one of the leaders of the ‘Light and Space’ movement, alongside James Turrell, that shaped California’s post war art scene. In the late 60s, he moved away from works on canvas to create site-specific instillations and dynamic sculptures made with illuminated rods of neon and halogen bulbs. Yet we see, in this simple canvas, the architectural enquiry that existed in his practice across mediums. The square is broken up by simple, irregularly spaced lines – it is elegant and beautiful but we cannot quite understand why. “This world is not just somehow given to us whole.”, said Robert Irwin, ‘We perceive, we shape the world, and as artists we discover and give value to our human potential to ‘see’ the infinite richness in everything, creating an extended aesthetic reality.”

Thursday 16th July

The Moon moves through the constellation of Cancer before entering the fire sign of Leo in the early hours of the morning. Leo brings warmth and invites us to tend to our fruiting plants, which are abundant at this time of year. As we harvest, we might also set aside some of our finest fruiting vegetables for seed saving. Open-pollinated varieties allow us to collect seed that can be sown again the following year. Over time, these plants may gradually adapt to the particular conditions of our soil, climate, and garden. By saving seed from our healthiest and most productive plants, we can continue to propagate the qualities that we value most. When choosing seeds at the beginning of the year, it is important to check that they are open-pollinated rather than F1 hybrids, as seeds saved from F1 varieties will not reliably produce plants with the same characteristics.