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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
October 6, 2013 · 6:12 am

Ketu (version 2)

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Repetition is a technique that is used often in the arts. Pop artists, such as Andy Warhol, used the repetition technique in his silk-screen paintings. It also indicates realities of continuation as demonstrated throughout nature.

Ketu is a demon in Vedic mythology, along with his brother Rahu. They both represent the North and South nodes of the moon. In my light research of Ketu, I have found images of him represented as headless, and has having a body being consumed by a fish. There are other images of Ketu in which the area where his head would be is surrounded by a sort of hood of snakes heads.

In this image, I saw this characterization of Ketu over off to the right side, and partially on the left side. I had repeated a certain selection from another image in this picture, and therefore put together, piece by piece, what you see here.

I also wanted to explore the notion of probable realities, and how our decisions are selected from a repetitious, but also changing, spectrum of choices. Hindu gods are sometimes represented as having many arms extending from their bodies. This associates the idea of having a hand in many different probabilities as one’s awareness grows in knowledge and maturity.

This image only depicts a fraction of this growth of awareness of probabilities, and the mastery of control of them. Anyway, it was another fun exploration of creation, and amalgamation with a collage/pastel drawing I had made originally for the Wrecked Tangles (After the Crash) series.

 

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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