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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
July 31, 2013 · 5:15 am

Fathers Who Never Sleep (version 1)

Fathers Who Never Sleep (version 1)

Note: I just decided to rename this piece the title of this post: Fathers Who Never Sleep (version 1), instead of the awkward: Our Lord Who Art in the National Insecurity Agency (version 1).

I’ve been reading some about the mass psychology of fascism, and the conditions that create the necessary atmospheres, and, ultimately, the destructive leaders of fascism. It is the de-powered, and indoctrinated masses who are the driving forces behind fascist governments and leaders.

Unfortunately, America is taking the route of fascism considering all of the freedom killing laws that Washington is burying the United States Constitution with. We now have a multi-billion dollar spy agency–the National Security Agency–collecting all data it possibly can from EVERYONE in the whole world. The data that they collect is unlimited. From medical records to all online activity to video recordings of you wherever you go if there is a camera near by. There are cameras on every street corner in the cities now.

This essentially is a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. And, furthermore, it has full liberal support, whereas the Patriot Act, signed by George W. Bush (warrantless wire-tapping [a less serious offense]) was completely opposed by those same liberals.

A general named Keith Alexander is the head of the NSA, and he gets whatever he wants when it comes to funding his digital spy agency that puts the KGB to shame. Because western cultures are founded on patriarchies, this leads to patriarchal religions as well as governments. The archetypal father figure is the symbol of security, safety, protection, leadership and head of the family traditionally found in western cultures.

What this leads into on a mass scale, psychologically speaking, is paranoia, sexual repression, and fear when the father figures in government get blinded by their own passions, fears, and needs for more power. I made this image as a symbolic representation of the insecure general who heads the NSA watching you and collecting information on everything you think, say, or do twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

It’s really a mockery of the fascist and pathetic paternal parodies composing the decomposing edifices of what used to be a semi-functioning government within a republic that tried to be a democracy.

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