variations | your heart has been here before

framed by time
expressed in love
your heart in mine

variations | art matters

Over the past few months I have been creating digital artwork within a series called “Variations”. It developed out of a soul-searching experience I had with an exhibit I saw by Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko on display late last year at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. Memories, dreams, aspirations, magic and loss have all found their way in different forms of expression throughout the series.

One of the developing constructs of the work is how do I relate to the thoughts that exist within the framework of my daily life? I think all of us, artists and non-artists alike, struggle with this and many other questions. One of the questions that has emerged for me is … does art matter? Has it changed anything of any significance in my life? Yes and no. Yes, I long to create. I am pleased with every waking moment that I find the impulse to create. For there has been many days, weeks, months, and even years when the drive to produce art could not be found. It is undoubtably a beautiful thing to shape your craft into self-expression. But to what end? Is there really any escaping the reality of lost things; loved ones who have passed away, beautiful times gone by, aspirations fallen short, collapsed dreams? What weighs more? Art or life? For me, in truth, I create art to either “escape” or find “answers”. No, art does not always save. No real answers here. And maybe that is the point. Perhaps the only meaning to life or purpose for living is to be blessed with the breath of a new day. Then take your pen, or brush, or camera, or whatever serves as your way of expression and try to find that which will give you peace. Even if it is, only for a moment.

variations | your heart in my picture frame

a heart framed
by love
your picture
next to my every waking moment

Na Yeon Choi, Brittany Lang, Suzann Pettersen, Jiyai Shin, Karrie Webb and Shanshan Feng 2013 Wegmans LPGA Championship Pre-Tourney Interviews

I am looking forward to seeing my favorite female athlete, World # 3 Na Yeon Choi (NYC) do her thing at this week’s Major, the 2013 Wegmans LPGA Championship. Here is an interview with her and other stars of the LPGA.

Fairways and Forehands

There’s been a lot of talk about how Stacy Lewis has played well for a regular LPGA tour member, but not up to her lofty former #1, currently #2, standards. That’s rightfully so. Stacy deserves the attention. She’s earned it. However, I’d like to look 1 spot down the Rolex Rankings to #3 and ask if this will be the tournament Na Yeon Choi, the reigning US Women’s Open champion, breaks out of her run decent, but not spectacular finishes. The 7-time LPGA winner was a runner up earlier this year at the HSBC Women’s Champions and she has 4 top 10s so far, but she’s capable of much more…certainly capable of putting a second Major championship trophy on her mantle. One thing is for sure, she won’t get DQ’ed again this year! Here’s an interview with her, along with Brittany Lang, Suzann Pettersen, Jiyai Shin, Karrie Webb and defending…

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experiment: data complex 3 | nostalgia | video art

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The day on the beach brought back memories of beautiful times gone by: She the choreographer and dancer, and he the artist and filmmaker. Together they drifted back to the beginning of their artistic dreams. Fused with the technology of the post-modern world and the collective mindset of a creative construct, they forged ahead into the unknown: History has a way of repeating itself. What is old is new. The same as it ever was. Forever and a day.

variations | to a safe place of maps and memories

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lost in subjectivity;
perception and safe places,
found only …
in the mind of maps and memories

variations | in your sleep with our dreams

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another moment
with your dreams
asleep and shipwrecked
a Titanic love
is all we have

variations | a night with your heart by my side

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Your hair caressed,
by the leaves of the trees
my voice in the night called,
and your heart fell from the sky ….

variations | for now and maybe forever

if you thought
that things could change
remember …
for now
and maybe tomorrow |
it’s always the same as today

music for backgrounds | sound artist chihei hatakeyama

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Chihei Hatakeyama is one of my favorite ambient sound designers. He weaves beautiful tonal soundscapes for enriching the creative process and for meditative reflection.