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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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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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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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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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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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