Left Hand Work Book One.
2014-01-31: This 2014-lhbookproto1

Foreward

1. Q: Who is the author?

A: A.D. Vander Vliet

2. Q:What is the Purpose of this Work?

A: At the time I started my left hand work, 1991-10, its purpose was to lend expression using crayons and construction paper of what ever came to me as an inspiration. I drew when I felt the urge to do so. At the time that I started this work, many images and also text came into expression. Later on, the need to express became less accute, but it has remained over the years.

Preamble:

The drawing of these images and other work had its start when I was shopping for the family groceries in the former local Safeway store near 17th street and 34th avenue sw, in South Calgary. The time was the fall of 1991 when I was using up accumalated holiday time from my work in the previous years with my employer, Sait as it was called at the time.

All the drawings are dated making it possible to note the fluctuation in the expression process. One of my last drawings is from around 2004, however the five books that are posted here represent my 'Left_hand_Work as I have come to call it, from the very beginning up until the end of Book_5. There are many more such drawings that followed this last one. These remain to be organised even at this date, 2010-07-10.

Introduction

1. Q. When this first book assembled?

A:This book put together over days 94-12-08 to 29. (First Christmas in the Apartment condo at 408, Wellington Place, 903 19th ave, sw, Calgary).

2. Q. How do I enlarge the image?

A: Hover over the image with the mouse, if the hand shows click on it. An enlarged image will pop up in a sepearte browser window. Close this window when you are ready to return to the entry it self.

3. Q. How to zoom the image in the browser's enlargment?

A:Select -view- in the browser window menu bar. In its pulldown select -zoom- and zoom-in and zoom-out options are presented for you to select. Try using the ctrl+ and the ctrl- simultaneous key combinations to bypass the menu pulldowns. These are very handy shortcut keys to deploy (use)!

4. Q. How do the entries differ?

A: Some are a single image page, some a text page, others entries have several image and text pages, such as entry three in this book.

5. Q. What about the hard to see images and text?

A: The use of different colours was a part of the inspiration process at composition time of the image in question. Such processes must not be critically judged by saying for example 'this is not a colour of sufficient contrast'! This would interrupt the creative process and make it dry up.
In order to address the resulting viewing problem, I am in the process of making overlays that match and enhance the originals. In addition I intend to add image comments where needed as I work with this web presentation.

6. Q. How many added items will there be for a single page?

A: Each page will have the original and this may be all. If the original is difficult to make out, look for the 'overlay image' or the 'enhancement'. In addition to these two images there may also be a commentary available, when I judge the entry to be unclear.
There are some entries that have only written text and no images. As a standard, I expect to have three items per page: the original, the enhancement and the commentary.

7. Q. How is this collection organised?

A: Each image has a date written as a part of the art work it self. So the overall order is sequential in time, but there are many dates that have no entry when no artwork was procuced, while there are a few with several entries for the same date.
The collection starts with book one and preceeds from there in time. In this web presentation catalogue I aim to present the first five books. These are made up of about one hundred (100) images all together. The books themselves have no theme of their own, but simply act as containers of images.
In addition to the images in these five (5) books there are at least as many in the 'loose leaf' collection, all awaiting mounting and maybe posting. First comes book one at the time of this writing, 2010-07-11, the Sunday of the 2010 FIFA world cup; sad to say that my old country lost.
[However, they did so with honour and will be back an other day. Canada stands at rank 70 or so, but the plans are in the works for three training centres.]

8. Q. Why is the work called Left_Hand_Work?

A: This is because I drew the images using my left hand. At the start I used colour crayons, later on colour pencils. See the preamble in the introduction, where I narate the events leading up to me starting this 'Left_Hand_Work'.