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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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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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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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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