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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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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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The Socratic Tree (preliminary pastel)

The Socratic Tree (preliminary pastel)

As you can tell, this tree makes an appearance through some of my art work. I made a drawing of this idea back in high school when I was sixteen. I posted that drawing here on my blog two posts previous to this one.

In the meantime, I’ll share this one which I made back in 2003. It was around the time that Bush and his gang were lying about WMDs in Iraq. At that point in time I didn’t know anything about foreign policy, but I intuited that what Bush was doing with our country was terribly wrong.

This tree has some other #symbolism behind it as well, as it associates with the Greek philosopher Socrates. He is famous for questioning everyone to try to get to the essence of what others professed and boasted as authorities. This activity culminated in authorities of his time condemning him to drink hemlock as a sentence for death.

As I said, back in 2003 I knew nothing about how the mass psychology worked, and how people, for the most part, obey their authority figures without making a fuss too much.

The tree in this image looks like the hands are prone towards the heavens as if to ask ‘why’ in a symbolic gesture. Branches have also been cut from the tree to show how the activities of man limit, cut, and stunt its growth for his own vision of fitting in with the rest of society, and imposing this vision upon the beautiful trees composing our planet in nature.

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September 22, 2013 · 6:39 am
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Pastel Dust of Pollen and Lepidoptera (version 6)

Pastel Dust of Pollen and Lepidoptera (version 6)

Digital material from one of my original oil paintings, some of my mixed media pastel drawings, ball-point pen drawings, and some real butterfly wings went into the creation of this piece.

I used some of the scanned material from my Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) A series project as the background. Also, the design from Industrial Mandala was used. Again, Industrial Mandala is a digital manipulation from my original oil painting: Of Which I Am a Part.

I incorporated some text on Wikipedia’s definition of a butterfly in the background. You can make out a little bit of it, but my intention was to add some filler to the background design, and I thought a scientific description of the butterfly was fitting. Lepidoptera is the Latin term for butterfly.

The butterfly wings were actually some remains of a butterfly that one of our cats dragged in after stalking it in our backyard garden. For some reason, I hung on to the wings and put them up on a shelf. Later on, I had this idea that I should scan the wings on to the computer so as to use them for a future project.

Well, here is that future project. I’ve been wanting to explore some more of my ideas using the mandala design format. This is another result of that. I feel that I’m getting a better feel of what I want to master. Eventually, I want to start experimenting with using diagrams and drawings of parts of plants, animals, people, and machines. This image I’m sharing with you here is where I’m at for now however.

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September 9, 2013 · 7:50 am
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Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) version B8

Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) version B8

A lot of different media went into the original drawing for this image. I manipulated the image further after scanning it into the computer. It doesn’t have as many mechanical diagrams integrated into it as I’ve done with some of the previous Wrecked Tangles series.

There really isn’t a profound meaning I was consciously trying to communicate here. I just like the shapes of letters and alphabetical symbols. I like the patterns that they create, and I take note of compositions found in magazines and newspapers.

I cut out pieces from magazines in order to integrate them into the imagery characterized by my Wrecked Tangles art project. It’s really an ad hoc adventure that is open ended, and I often stumble upon new designs in the process of manipulating the collaged drawings I create from traditional materials.

Some of you whom I’ve met before have given me some of those materials, such as the old books on foreign cars and so forth. I plan on exploring more in the area of alchemical and mathematical symbols, as well as Greek characters, and, perhaps Chinese characters in future projects.

For now, please enjoy exploring the structures and nuances maintaining themselves within this image. It is intended to be displayed as a print. It is 15 inches by 24 inches, or 38 cm by 61 cm. Un-matted on archival paper, it is $200, and that includes shipping. Framed with a glass cover and matting is $400 including shipping. Please contact me by my cell phone number provided here on my art page here and leave a message.

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September 1, 2013 · 4:49 am
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The Fabric of Life

The Fabric of Life

I made this painting back in 2006 when I was living on our family’s farm in Eastern Nebraska. It was painted towards the end of my life there. I was really getting into incorporating all kinds of material and media into my oil painting amalgamations.

In this particular painting, I thought of this idea of using some old towels that were no longer being used by my grandmother or the rest of our family. I decided to use them in this painting. Also, the branches you see composing the stems for the flora are actually real branches. I picked them up from branches laying around in the windbreaks.

I also used some cardboard box material for other textures. Different types of textures was really what I wanted to experiment with. I wanted to become a force of nature and use techniques nature uses to weather all things existing on earth.

The flowers themselves are composed of some of the sewing material my grandmother had stored away, and never used. The flower on the leftmost side of the picture has some thick material I cut out from an old bathroom rug.

I would still be creating things like this if I had the studio, and materials I once had when I lived in Nebraska.

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August 30, 2013 · 5:18 am
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Concomitant Comets (version 1)

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This piece gives you a better idea of my creations in combining mosaicism, chimerism, and hybridization. It’s a chimera because there are three different source images composing this aggregation, hence creating a new “beast.” It’s a mosaic because of all the little bits and pieces of shapes formed into the composition you see here. It’s a hybrid because it is a combination of traditional media with digital media.

The text you see incorporated into the design is my own words obtained from a tweet I tweeted out on Twitter yesterday. It says “How do you just know relationship dynamics between people you’ve never met in your life? Do you have other senses than just 5 senses?”

It’s sort of a generic meditation, but, surprisingly enough, it still is relevant. People are still taught idiocy in school with respect to relationships, power, intuition, spirituality, and so forth. I see school as beneficial overall, but there is a ridiculous amount of information that is intentionally suppressed in order to keep people unquestioning, disempowered, and disconnected.

It is with this image, and many of my other images, that I hope to spark that creative urge; that prime cause; that initial output in people. Inspiration can trigger; it can awaken others to their own purposes; to their own visions; to their own dreams rejected from long ago. I strive to imbue my art work with a quality that has the power to raise the dead dreams in peoples’ psychic, emotional, and spiritual graveyards.

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