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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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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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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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Lunar Equipment (version 3)

Lunar Equipment (version 3)

At long last I relieve you with my promise to post this image. While it is different than the background to my Twitter profile, it still is essentially the same graphics, just with different colors.

A day after I made this image, I went to a cafe to do some writing. While I was writing, several people started gathering around an area in the outside section of the cafe and looking up at something. I could see them through the large windows, but I couldn’t see what they were looking at.

My curiosity got the best of me, and I said “I’ve got to see what everyone’s looking at” while getting up and going outside to see what was so eventful. A woman I walked up next to said to me that “it’s a big moth–about five inches big” as she pointed up towards the ceiling in the moth’s direction.

I didn’t realize that I had just made an image with some moths in it the night before, but after observing the strange all-black moth and sitting back down at my seat, I recalled what I had created. I felt those exciting subtle pangs of recognizing this synchronistic event as I made the association.

Upon a little more association, I connect the meaning of moths to the moon, and how the moon associates with lunacy. Moths wildly flying around sources of light in the night behave like lunatics as humans might define it. And there have been some studies that reinforce superstitions with respect to full moons and rises in strange behaviors in people.

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August 13, 2013 · 4:52 am
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Future Bell-Tops (version 2)

Future Bell-Tops (version 2)

Version one of this series of images is posted on my art page on Facebook. I decided to post the second version here as a starter for my new blog here on WordPress.

Future Bell-Tops pertains to the bell-bottoms that the legs you see running in the picture have on as pants. I thought of how dreams have a tendency to be so hybridized with so many different times and places that it turns you on your head, and, if you wear bell-bottoms as pants, dreams turn your bell-bottoms into bell-tops.

Alas! What else can I say? I suppose that I have an intent to create more images along this line of hybridizing generic imagery I find online, and the imagery I’ve created by traditional means on my own.

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July 29, 2013 · 4:01 am