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The Coincide-Dance (version 2)

The Coincide-Dance (version 2)

The idea I was attempting to express on a first try with some markers here was the idea of so-called solid objects passing through different mediums, such as water, or air. The supposedly non-solid mediums are drawn in rectangular, cuboidal, and triangular objects and planes.

I was also trying to express an artistically expressed dimension of Plato’s idea of “shadows on a cave wall.” Some 20th century physicists sometimes compared the third dimension of reality as a sort of shadow of the fourth, which is time. Time is described as a continuum, and when it’s viewed as a sort of separate state from one’s self after participating in it, it can be seen as a sort of medium, or state, or condition.

I was also attempting to express another abstract way of depicting flesh and bones. Bones are solid, and flesh is more malleable. Objects passing through different mediums in time are like the bones, and their surroundings are like the flesh. This supports the notion that we are really not separate beings from our environments, but our environments are really extensions of ourselves.

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December 2, 2013 · 7:40 am
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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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Leaning Towers on Clay Moons (version 1)

Leaning Towers on Clay Skies (version 1)

I pulled out the Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) T series while actually looking for some entirely different pictures I’d created previously several months ago, and saw some interesting things I felt drawn to manipulate and reconfigure. I was actually looking for The Structure of Passion for which I just posted here tonight as well.

The circular shapes were actually punched out pieces of different colored paper from a hole-puncher. I bought a package of them at one of those cheap party-ware stores you see in town every so often.

With this particular series–which was just newly created this evening–I selected one of the circles and enlarged it. I changed its color so that it would attract more attention as well. Then I copied it and put it in other places as well, and, again, I changed their colors as well.

I put a cap on one of those building looking structures lining the bottom half of the picture plane, and fancied that it looked like a child’s depiction of a city. I was also thinking of Paul Klee, and how he often made images in an analogous style such as this.

First, I thought of titling the image Klee’s Buildings on the Moon, or something like that. But then I thought this would be too un-original. Then I thought of how Klee’s name can be associated with the earth’s clay.

In a rudimentary and primitive way of thinking, planets can be seen as balls of clay floating in space, so I imagined playful childlike structures on unknown moons in other solar systems drawn by an alien child while looking at a nighttime sky.

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October 28, 2013 · 8:14 am
August 14, 2013 · 6:16 am

The Back-Stabbed Cesspool (version 7)

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Here is The Back-Stabbed Cesspool. It’s derived from a pencil drawing I created back in 2008. I was working at Convergys, a call center at that time, and was creating works such as this, and developing a couple other styles.

The title comes from this idea that the world, as I often see it, is one big cesspool of souls seeking vengeance on others, either consciously or unconsciously; but mostly unconsciously, as the factor of needing social acceptance and saving face is a core trait to human beings.

The above explanation was derived from the fact that I would see drama both on the phones and off the phones every day at work. From bureaucracy in management, to petty emotional power struggles between romances and workers. It all just seemed like I was back in middle school.

Working for an outsourced AT&T public duping operation really gave me an eye-opener as to the real state of humanity. I say this realizing that it sounds like a statement of scientific absolutism, but every work place I have worked in has rendered some kind of drama or power struggle or another.

Another facet to my notion of vengeance and backstabbing was obtained from a book called A Course In Miracles. In it, the book describes how this world is merely a form of vengeance. When I read that, it didn’t make sense to me at the time, but experience after experience left me with more of a conviction of that abstraction.

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