Holding You
Your soft breathing
and beating heart
caresses my sadness
and brings peace to my longing
– There is a moment when the reality of life, in all its complexity, is simplified by one gesture … holding you.
The Sunrise From Inside (A New Inner Vibrancy Remix)
At the start of a new day, the world inside … alive with promise.
Remembering You
the beauty in you
can now only move us to tears
in the lost we deeply feel
This work and poem of remembrance is dedicated to my sister-in-law who passed away yesterday. We love you Zina … deeply.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | We Can’t Sleep in Complete Darkness all the Time | With Mark Rothko
If there is something to be discovered, it is here in the waking. Seeing things as they really are. Leaving the objects of reality behind. And realizing we can’t sleep in complete darkness all the time.
“I think of my pictures as dramas, the shapes in the pictures are the performers. They have been created from the need for a group of actors who are to move dramatically without embarrassment and execute gestures without shame.” ~ Mark Rothko
This is definitely my last post of 2012 🙂
Peace and Light my friends.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | When Fainting with Mark Rothko
A searing moment. Trying to define what has occurred. You saw the painting and felt something awaken. Now it fades as you faint into the light. And only a dream awaits.
“The most important tool for the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider. The picture must be for him, as for anyone experiencing it later, a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.” ~ Mark Rothko
This will be my last posting of 2012 (US Eastern time zone). See you … in your thoughts, in 2013.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Simple Place To Rest
here on this sacred ground
bathed in the light of life
a simple place to rest
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections | A Lake Forged In Digital Reflection
An image that is part of my “Post Canvas and Paint” series. A surreal reflection of a lake in a place unknown. A reflective dream of ambiguity.
Post Canvas And Paint: Another Gray World
Outside my window I sometimes wondered, if I could understand the world I was seeing…
Another Gray World
A world divided can sometimes find its meaning and solace
- in the space
in-between white and black ...
Images For HD Video: An Unfolding Night Next To You (A Scattered Storm Remix)
The night holds many mysteries when time stands still….
she remains transfixed trapped in summer's night contemplating the approaching storm
Searching for chance in the process of creating art.
Within the context of my digital and video work, the objective is to find visual ambient experiences. The process at times, is a stationary camera. Post-production: Unedited film, or with very minimal post editing and digital effects. With this piece, I altered the color tonality. The difficulty in the piece was balancing the black sky, now slightly colorized, while maintaining a brightness/contrast without compromising the visibility of the lightning strikes.
Art can be discovered by random chance.
An Unfolding Night Next To You is the first in a series of new HD experimental video work-in-progress. Some years ago, my first exploration of the still camera and chance recording was an hour-long piece entitled Oceans of Art. This 2012 video was filmed during a late night drive on HWY 221 in South Carolina through a scattered rain storm. Darkness, lightning strikes, pressing rain, and the headlights of passing cars all merge with the music of sound design artist, and master of glitch Alva Noto, creating an eerie journey into meditative abstraction. Rain drops falling on the window shield create a mosaic of pixel forms. These forms are constantly moving and manipulating the video. While sporadic lightning strikes fill the night sky. Patience is in order to gather the full ambient feeling of the piece. Things are there.
Recommended viewing: In a very dark room by single candle light.
http://youtu.be/-KKafg4qoaQÂ Â –Â Copyright 2012 – Walter Smith
Images For Android Phones: Flow Goes The Night (A Being There Remix)
A late night drive. Alone. Afraid. One last stop. The next to last exit. The very next turn. Into the dark of yesterday. Leaving the light of knowing behind. Only to find the last stop had no answers to sell.
Images For Android Phones: Pop-Art In Motion
Revisiting the past and spinning brakes. A life without a caution. Pop goes the art. Over the cliff. Off the road. And Crash. Red meets blue and yellow finds green. Andy Warhol’s last thoughts. Wheels turning effortlessly as the years mount up. There’s a story here … And a Pontiac Bonnerville circa 1967.
Images For Android Phones: We’re At A Gallery With Another Distinct World In A Frame
rushing to make
a first friday night
someone’s art
– and
someone’s poem
in a distinct
world
all their own
Images For Android Phones: Post Canvas and Paint (A Pop-Art Remix)
An abstract form of art becomes a pop-art form of art becomes a post canvas and paint form of art becomes a digital form of art….
What’s next?
A Spark Of Life Revealing Itself
The patterned floor of my imagination led me to the light…
Moving towards the light from places unknown
like a maze
 – it felt
when i walked
toward myself
and
into the light
Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – Who Are We
how strange a question
the film provides
a search for who we are
beyond the stars
– prometheus
Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – 06.07.12
it’s raining outside
– like colors
and things
with shapes
i haven’t seen
A Post Written With Random Thoughts
Sometimes a post is worth less than a thousand words….
A random image for random thoughts
It is a struggle sometimes to keep up with the pace of life. Better to find a moment of peace. I often think about things too much. For too long. Finding only temporary distraction when I am far too busy. Doing almost nothing of any true importance. Like discovering an insignificant place in time. Is it me, I seek to know? Or a vision of something that holds me captive? It is, perhaps (on a good day) all about waking to the dream that belongs to someone else. Feeling something. Something amiss in my own interpretation. Somewhere in the lost-not-found.
And then…
Feeling a strong sense of delight. In awe. The things inescapable. Like the beauty of a rising sun, an intrepid step, or a moon-filled night.
Then there is of course the consequence of not following the plan. Any plan. Failing to listen to destiny. My destiny.
And now…
It feels like I’ve just begun to say something….
The Waking Dream That Brings Such Beautiful Light
Sometimes it only takes a moment to feel a dream has something to say….
The waking dream in the morning light
a soft moment …
of transition
– sleeping in slumber
– waking in peace
an ethereal awareness
here
now
– in the present moment
centered
in an intuitive way
 – to life
 – to meaning
a very dreaming day …
The Dream Struggling To Complete Itself (A Waking Dream Remix)
Sometimes a dream no longer has words to say….
The darkest of dreams shed some light
It only takes a moment
– to know
a dream has nothing more to say….
When A Waking Dream Can No Longer Speak In Words
The moment I awoke I knew the dream would end in silence…
Sometimes in the waking a dream can no longer speak
the dream awoke …
with a stutter and a stir
it tried to find
in my mind
words to complete
a story unfolding
– boldly
in slumber
in death
a sleep with an end
n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s 