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Concomitant Comets (version 4)

Concomitant Comets (version 4)

I uploaded the first series of this image several months ago, and it had a bunch of text I incorporated in that previous version that I had obtained from tweets I tweeted out at the time on Twitter. Well, I became annoyed with the text after a while, and really wanted to have this image portrayed without the text detracting so much attention from the image itself.

I decided to attempt to obnubilate the text by using various methods learned from earlier digital art training. You can still see some of the text a little bit, but that’s okay with me. It 1) creates a sort of subliminal effect and 2) allows for more ease on the eye enabling it to explore the textures of color and shape.

The word concomitant really means something that accompanies another thing. Like when a patient takes a certain medicine for a certain illness, sometimes another drug will be prescribed along with the primary drug for treatment. This is termed as taking a drug concomitantly with another drug.

In this picture, I determined that the circular shapes with tails on them looked like comets, and there are several of them, so I titled it Concomitant Comets. It is odd, however, that the comets are arising from what appears to me to be an ocean. Perhaps they are U.S.O.s (unidentified submersible objects) springing forth from a secret alien facility deeply submerged under an unnoteworthy part of the deep ocean far from land so as to remain surreptitious to the sea voyaging human mind.

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December 2, 2013 · 9:05 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
August 14, 2013 · 7:59 pm

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