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The Feather-Swept Sky (version 5)

The Feather-Swept Sky (version 5)

I made this image back in June, 2013. It started out with using magic marker on paper. There was some bleed through from some rubbing alcohol I applied to drawings on previous pages. I incorporated the designs into the stains.

What you see here is a digital manipulation of the original drawing. It’s basically the drawing times four. I use mirroring techniques to accomplish what you see here, as well as in other images.

I realized that the process that I take in many of my creations is the process of unfoldment. Unfoldment is different than development in the sense that unfolding is organic, and flower like, whereas development is more machine like, and each machine developed can’t develop more without a designer making a new model.

Unfoldment is a process that takes place from within a living organism or being. So growth, life, and will come from within a living being, not a “lifeless” machine.

I titled this piece The Feather Swept Sky. I imagined all the feathers of birds sweeping the skies of earth and magically sweeping away all the pollution. This image reminds me of some Native American art and jewelry. It also reminds me of ancient Egyptian art work and jewelry.

I suppose it’s a religious and mystical image bringing us all back a reminder of ancient religions, tribes, and civilizations. It’s the wisdom from our past, and the magical beliefs people had. Especially the belief of respecting and honoring the earth as a living, breathing being, not a dead rock to be used up by the never-ending greed of one percent moguls.

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November 21, 2013 · 4:38 am
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Yellow Tide (version 1)

Yellow Tide (version 1)

It looks like a lot of people liked Purple Tide, the last image I uploaded here last night. Well, this is Yellow Tide. It’s actually the predecessor to Purple Tide. It’s the same design, but the colors are inverted.

To be sure, this is part of a drawing I created with mixed media on paper, including magic marker and rubbing alcohol. Thinking of rubbing alcohol gives one a cool feeling, as this is how it feels when you rub it on your skin.

I used to live in southern California, and would visit the beaches there on the West coast every once in a while. The colors in Yellow tide remind me some of the memories I have of going to New Port, Dana Point, San Clemente, or Laguna.

Yet, this image is abstract enough to merely suggest a beach scene. In fact, if you get a totally different impression, then, by all means, let yourself explore that line of thought into your own imagination, and use this image as a doorway to help you get there.

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November 21, 2013 · 4:32 am
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Purple Tide (version 1)

Purple Tide (version 1)

This image here is a fragment chosen from Ploidy the Diploid, which is another image in this album. As I often do when I get a chance, I pull out previous works I’ve done and see new things in them that intuitively look like they could be independent art works in themselves.

Creation has a tendency to morph and grow out of what came before, even when it seems completely unrelated. The subconscious mind is a lot less discriminative, and categorical in the sense of conscious classification systems. In fact, chief editors of newspapers and magazines know that the positioning of supposedly unrelated ads actually contribute to an article you may be reading. It actually gets digested in your subconscious mind as one interrelated kilobyte of information.

So this image here looks to me like an ocean wave under a purple and red sky. My fascination with alien planets makes me think of an ocean somewhere else in the universe. Though it is independent of earth, the properties of this imaginary place are connected and related in the sense of liquid, and high & low tides.

It’s just a very liquid picture composed of relatively basic abstract shapes, another one of my approaches to creation. That’s the thing, I really like to embroil my audience with intricacies and complexities in my art, but I try to point out the basic and simple shapes that are used to construct such elaborate labyrinths.

It’s the idea of perfection versus imperfection, and all of the intuitive visual equations that I subconsciously work out in the water of my mind.

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November 20, 2013 · 7:37 am
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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
October 28, 2013 · 8:00 am

Goddess KRING Painted Nymph by Monty Knowles

A wonderful combination of body, art, and photography…

shannonkringen's avatar Artist Shannon Kringen

sideuntitled shoot-4344Model: Shannon KRINGEN
Photographer and Body Painter: Monty Knowles.
More of his work: https://www.facebook.com/montyknowlesphotography
More of Shannon Modeling: http://shannonkringen.com/figuremodel.htm

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Hydrogen (version 1)

Hydrogen (version 1)

While in the process of preparing the different versions of A Synthesis of Matter and Mind, my eye was attracted to the idea of making one of the smaller circles into a work of its own. Luckily, with the software I have on my computer, I can do that.

So I selected this circle from the lower left hand corner of A Synthesis of Matter and Mind, flipped it around, and altered some of the colors so as to create more of the effects I wanted to bring out.

It’s another simple idea with some complexity added to it from the distortions, textures, and amorphous clouds of color. I’ve been attracted to an idea, as of late, that expresses non-physical vibrational fields, anchored to more physical, dense fields.

So the little black mosaic pieces composing the definite designs and compositions anchor the more amorphous and cloudy fields of color.

While it isn’t expressed in this particular image, I’ve also been imagining the lighter, nonphysical states as like cubes or translucent boxes, and inside those boxes are the more hard physical objects.

Another way this idea can be imagined is like the flesh, ligaments, and tendons that are ligated to bones in the body. Or perhaps like dense physical objects, like a tree twig, surrounded by a jello cube.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this one as well. Thanks for viewing, and also thank you for sharing.

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October 21, 2013 · 8:25 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