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Always (a Wrecked Tangles 3D sculpture project)

Always (a Wrecked Tangles 3D sculpture project)

Here is a picture of the the completed project of the Wrecked Tangle 3D Hyper-Cube. I officially titled it “Always.” It should be apparent that it is pointing in all six directions on a three dimensional axes, therefore it really is all ways. It’s also a symbolic expression of so-called zero-point energy interpenetrating all points in the universe. As I said in some tweets on Twitter when I first posted this work in February, 2012, this work has layers of text, graphics and pastel composed on each plane. This is to symbolically represent the lies, suppression, and illusions that the corporate/state owned media manufactures for the masses to digest and prevent critical thought about one’s surrounding commercialized environment.

Thank you all for your interest in this now finally completed project. Someone suggested making a three dimensional helicopter in this style, so you just might see that as an upcoming project. In the meanwhile, I will probably make another painting for the Paranormal Portrait Project, or I might embark on finishing an already prepared semi-three-dimensional work to hang on a wall. We’ll see!

Sincerely,

eVan—February 27th, 2012, and November 19th, 2013

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November 20, 2013 · 4:09 am
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Leaning Towers on Clay Moons (version 1)

Leaning Towers on Clay Skies (version 1)

I pulled out the Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) T series while actually looking for some entirely different pictures I’d created previously several months ago, and saw some interesting things I felt drawn to manipulate and reconfigure. I was actually looking for The Structure of Passion for which I just posted here tonight as well.

The circular shapes were actually punched out pieces of different colored paper from a hole-puncher. I bought a package of them at one of those cheap party-ware stores you see in town every so often.

With this particular series–which was just newly created this evening–I selected one of the circles and enlarged it. I changed its color so that it would attract more attention as well. Then I copied it and put it in other places as well, and, again, I changed their colors as well.

I put a cap on one of those building looking structures lining the bottom half of the picture plane, and fancied that it looked like a child’s depiction of a city. I was also thinking of Paul Klee, and how he often made images in an analogous style such as this.

First, I thought of titling the image Klee’s Buildings on the Moon, or something like that. But then I thought this would be too un-original. Then I thought of how Klee’s name can be associated with the earth’s clay.

In a rudimentary and primitive way of thinking, planets can be seen as balls of clay floating in space, so I imagined playful childlike structures on unknown moons in other solar systems drawn by an alien child while looking at a nighttime sky.

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October 28, 2013 · 8:14 am
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The Structure of Passion (version 4)

The Structure of Passion (version 4)

I created this image back in April, 2013, but this variation of the series hasn’t been seen yet. The previous version you see in this album is version 2. I was playing around with flipping the image around so that the image would appear in the lower left quadrant of the picture plane, but I decided against doing that for now, as it would alter the series enough that it could be rendered as a new series. I didn’t want to make a new series, so I kept its situation as I had originally arrived at with it.

The obtaining of structures and engine diagrams off of the internet was involved in the process of making it. Engine power is merely symbolic of what many people understand as power. Organic powers, and psychic powers, on the other toenail, aren’t as readily understood as power.

Yet, at the essence of everything that moves is power. What really is power? Well, we understand at least that power is movement so far.

There is some depth to this picture as dimensional qualities were expressed pretty well in the structures and diagrams. The fact that they were superimposed on top of the rectangular structures–which form the base layer consisting of the drawing for my Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) U series, lying in the background with splashes of color–gives them another dimension of depth.

Layering is a fun process of creation, as it challenges an artist to allow the initially unrelated images to come together in one picture plane. One way to describe this is how one color, such as red for example, needs to be distributed–mostly unevenly, yet proportionally–throughout a picture in order to help give the picture a sense of harmony or unity.

Contrasts are another thing to play with, say, for example, sharp angles or smooth curves, or contrasting colors. The spaces in between, however, function as the subtle and unnoticed unifiers. As my high school art teacher used to tell me “space is magic.”

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October 28, 2013 · 8:10 am
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Biopsy of Cuboidal Definitions (version 1)

Biopsy of Cuboidal Definitions (version 1)

I decided to pull out the W series for my Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) project and work on a few things I saw that I could take further with it. The lower left quadrant of Wrecked Tangles W1 looked like it could be represented as an image in itself, so I selected it, and flipped it around a couple times to get the situation you see here.

A biopsy is a sample from someone’s body that is selected by a physician in order to send it to the laboratory for studying and analyzing. When fluids or selections of flesh are put under the microscope, one usually sees living cells, and other matter.

Well, in the Wrecked Tangles art project, I predominantly use the rectangle and square as the basic structure for the compositions throughout. This is to relay to the viewer that the square and rectangle can be infinitely expressed in infinite combinations and variations. Such a simple structure as a rectangle can be renewed into new ways of seeing.

The rectangles and squares in this picture can be seen as cells, and the words that transcribe them are like literary definitions in the sense that words and letters are used to define anything.

Boundaries on maps are also used to create definitions of property, land ownership, states, and countries as well. The fact that the borders between the cells or rectangles are crude is supposed to communicate the idea that human definitions and boundaries are indeed crude, and they fluctuate and change throughout time, and by the weathering nature of earth’s seasons.

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October 28, 2013 · 8:06 am
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Medium Penetration (version 1)

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Here is the hybridized picture combining elements from A Synthesis of Matter and Mind, and also from Ophthalmoscope. It just looks like a radio tower with an eyeball on it emitting radio waves from its pupil as you are driving down the road in your car and notice it off to your left in an imaginary daze.

The wheels in the lower right seem like they could be a steering wheel and a speedometer in a car. This was just more of a fun experimental project, and I didn’t feel any deep significance with making this series.

Nevertheless, as I said for Ophthalmoscope, I wanted to see what the reaction on Facebook and other sites might be if I posted it. One of my relatives already said this whole project looked cheap, but I didn’t quite agree with him.

I actually quite enjoyed making these particular images tonight. Anyway, I hope you enjoy them too.

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October 21, 2013 · 8:23 am
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Ophthalmoscope (version 5)

Ophthalmoscope (version 5)

I recently bought a new package of colored pens, and took them for a ride on a couple of simple, random drawings. This drawing is an example of that. The picture isn’t really much to speak of, but I wanted to see what the feedback might be on this avenue of expression.

A relative of mine already said it looked cheesy, but I actually enjoyed drawing this drawing and the other drawings I did recently with my new markers. I’d also made another hybrid off of this drawing for which I’ll post as well.

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October 21, 2013 · 8:22 am
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A Synthesis of Matter and Mind (version 14)

A Synthesis of Matter and Mind (version 14)

I just completed this new piece for my Micro-Chimerism series. This is the fourteenth version of this particular design. There isn’t any significance to that number that I consciously intended. It’s just that it took quite a few stages of metamorphosis to get to this satisfying version.

It reminds me of a painting on a cave wall, or like a design a Native American might paint on an animal’s hide. When I was drawing the design, I thought of how Buddhism teaches what is called the Eightfold Path. The paths Buddhism describes are supposed to lead to enlightenment.

Some of the square shapes surrounding the main ring in the design remind me of hammers. And the four circles on the outside of the main ring remind me of gears. This piece leads me in my associations into an abstraction of work and labor in society. Everything works like clockwork, and everyone is like a gear, and the hammer-like structures could symbolize the manual labor for which all modern cultures are founded on.

The philosopher Spinoza wrote about reason, and how to develop one’s reasoning abilities. He likened this process to starting real simple and basic, and advised one to build one’s reasoning from the most basic blocks of understanding into more complex structures.

Hammers and gears were developed from a more basic form of society and work, but they still are foundations that got humanity as a whole to where it’s at now.

This image has some associations with the idea of a big bang, and how scientists theorize how our known universe was born. I’m not sure if I totally agree with that simplistic understanding of our universe, but it still is a simple foundation from which more complex understandings can develop.

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October 18, 2013 · 9:23 am
October 7, 2013 · 8:53 pm

Spirits and Particles

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I thought I’d post this painting now since it’s getting near to Halloween 2013. I finished this painting back in 2004. I figured it would be a good painting to show online with my online galleries because it’s sort of a darker theme that has owls flying around in it.

Back in 2004, I had been imagining an idea I liked to call the “mud-ball planet.” I had been having some dreams of exploring the surfaces of other planets like a satellite, and watching the landscapes and oceans move over time. It almost sort of seemed like a complex computer program or something.

I wanted to give life to this idea of a mud-ball planet, or a planet constructed on living mud. It has associations with potters and sculptors, and how they work with the earth’s clay. And of course the western Bible depicts humans as being creatures constructed from the earth by God.

I put a lot of mixed media into this painting. I integrated some sticks and pebbles from the dirt road next to our farm, and I also pasted some of my old torn up underwear as texture to add to the primed canvas. It’s mostly an oil painting, but I was starting to experiment with layers of different media underneath the final structuring and painting of the idea.

While in the process of creation, I found many situations of synchronicity where the randomness of all the layers of texture sometimes coincided with the design I would superimpose onto the prepared picture plane thereafter. There’s also some burlap from an old sack that I incorporated into this painting.

This idea reemphasizes the reality that our world is not, nor is any world, really flat. We go about our days living in a flat world, hardly ever looking up into the sky. The fact that I said “looking up” is a relative frame in itself. Why can’t it be that you are actually looking down into the sky? After all, the world is round, and constantly revolving.

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October 6, 2013 · 6:12 am

Ketu (version 2)

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Repetition is a technique that is used often in the arts. Pop artists, such as Andy Warhol, used the repetition technique in his silk-screen paintings. It also indicates realities of continuation as demonstrated throughout nature.

Ketu is a demon in Vedic mythology, along with his brother Rahu. They both represent the North and South nodes of the moon. In my light research of Ketu, I have found images of him represented as headless, and has having a body being consumed by a fish. There are other images of Ketu in which the area where his head would be is surrounded by a sort of hood of snakes heads.

In this image, I saw this characterization of Ketu over off to the right side, and partially on the left side. I had repeated a certain selection from another image in this picture, and therefore put together, piece by piece, what you see here.

I also wanted to explore the notion of probable realities, and how our decisions are selected from a repetitious, but also changing, spectrum of choices. Hindu gods are sometimes represented as having many arms extending from their bodies. This associates the idea of having a hand in many different probabilities as one’s awareness grows in knowledge and maturity.

This image only depicts a fraction of this growth of awareness of probabilities, and the mastery of control of them. Anyway, it was another fun exploration of creation, and amalgamation with a collage/pastel drawing I had made originally for the Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) series.

 

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Worked Organic Fire (version 7)

Worked Organic Fire (version 7)

A hybrid vernissage…

This piece is titled “Worked Organic Fire” because I thought about how the bright colors of autumn leaves are mostly warm or hot colors. Colors such as yellow, orange and red are considered “warm” colors because of their associations with heat, fire, and the sun.

The warm colors in leaves, however, are organic, instead of emanating from basic, and elemental physical properties. So, hence the terms “organic” and “fire” in the title. Heat also can be used to perform work in so many different ways in our world simultaneously.

The fact that we are now at the end of Summer in this part of the world indicates the evidence that nature has been “worked” for the season, and is preparing to go into hibernation now.

I used some patterns from some Islamic mosaic designs in this piece, a picture of some autumn leaves, and nature pictures of branches and trees. Superimposed over these layers are a few of my own designs that I originally painted on my oil painting “The Fabric of Life.” Here’s a link of that painting for a comparison: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=646064855418813&set=a.216695921689044.60872.171452642880039&type=3&theater. You can also see The Fabric of Life here on this blog a few previous posts to this one.

There are many coincidences that came together in this image, and much of it was accomplished through experimentation and play. A lot of thoughts like “I wonder what would happen if I did this, instead of that”, and so forth went through my head in the process of creating this work of art.

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September 29, 2013 · 6:36 am