The Sunrise From Inside (A New Inner Vibrancy Remix)
At the start of a new day, the world inside … alive with promise.
For You
an evolving mystery
with piercing perspectives
and perplexed frailty
a continuum without end
now we are all dreaming
with the starlight in our eyes
on your final day
for you
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.
Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures | Art
This week’s photo challenge is coming to an end. I thought I would include a few more images I created in 2012.
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 | Emerging Colors with Mark Rothko
This piece is heavily influence by the work of Mark Rothko.
The imagination is found inside the events of the day; forming various associations and perspectives in which to see things in a new light. Emerging with experimentation and discovery, the viewer is free to find what is hidden.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Fading Light with Mark Rothko
Today I had the pleasure of attending a Mark Rothko exhibit at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. The exhibit was entitled The Decisive Decade | 1940’s. The work was an exploration of his association with myth, and dreams leading up to his more prominent work in abstraction. It was a very informative exhibit. I was fortunate to have seen, years ago, an exhibit of his more well-known work from the 1950’s and beyond at a Philadelphia Museum of Art retrospective. I really like his work, as I do most of the abstract artists of that period. While viewing the exhibit at its conclusion, I felt inspired to perhaps again, start doing some large-scale painting. Something I have neglected to do over the years. His work in abstract painting, as he described it, was to fill his sense of deprivation. Deprivation was the central motivation for his abstract work. Hard to explain, but only the abstract could fill the mystical union of the unconscious and the formality of the outer world. Forming an entity unto itself in abstract terms. As I sat there and pondered the use of this medium and style of painting, I suddenly wanted to find the simplicity to express with my hands–outside the box of the computer. Simplicity being the center of this revelation. Bold flat colors, simple geometric forms in which to speak directly to the viewer. A contrast to my digital work perhaps. Which leads me to this piece “Fading Light with Mark Rothko”. It is a combination of the two worlds. Digital and painting. I often find myself pursuing visually an image of multiple themes and layers; ideas built around my personal experiences. One thing I discovered in this exhibit, was Rothko’s desire. A desire, in his pursuit of the abstract, to leave his personal interpretation behind, allowing the viewer to incorporate their own consciousness into the work. Again in this piece, I am searching for a more direct expression.
As part of this Post Canvas and Paint: Variations series, I will periodically be attempting to post a piece that leans toward a simple form of visual composition. I also will be using these posts as a place to experiment with the various Adobe Photoshop tools. Remember … “Nothing is ever collected in one moment”.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Light and Dark
Well for the last several months, all of the art I’ve been posting has been created using a Samsung phone and the PicsArt app. In some instances, I combined older digital work, with newly created pieces. It was a challenge to work in such a small environment. But I must say, it did feel like I was walking around with a sophisticated notepad and colored pencils. Now I am happy to say that I am now sitting in front of my new Windows 8 desktop. Big screen. More processing power. And although I am now using the pre-installed Adobe Photo Elements instead of my more familiar Corel Photo Paint Pro, I am happy to have considerably more freedom to create art and the capability to write with more depth and length. I have always used Corel over Adobe, so this will be a learning curve. Here is my first entry using the Adobe software. I will be experimenting and posting the results.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Circular Response
all too often
life brings us full circle
with a response too late
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
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Echoes Without Canyons
an endless echo of memories
timelessly reverberating
– adrift
in a fathomless canyon
art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things – when the world you’ve come to know is full of quiet moments | feb 1987
we may be showing again in May
309 north 3rd street
– portraits;
it was sudden
the conversation about art … and
the things we longed for …
and realities never collected in one moment
… we get to the meeting late
and everyone is leaving
but i am here
on the beach
on the pier
flowered in peaceful meditation
art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things – when the world you used to know has been deconstructed | jan 1987
that afternoon i got the call
we didn’t do any work as a group
– afterwards
in the rain with the sleet and mist
a self-awareness deconstructed
to be thought of as weird trying to be normal
– a tentative thought
but i soon found out – asleep
in the abandoned monorail station
that everything was fine
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.
A Rewind: Grandfather Mountain | Hiking in 2002
One of the coolest places at elevation in North Carolina is Grandfather Mountain. It is home of the mile high swinging bridge. At just over 6000 feet it is one of the highest mountain peaks in the state.
art and thoughts remixed | an abstraction of historical things – intro
On the beach. With memories and historical things.
I am starting a new series. Or will at least move in that direction. Lots of history to my life; some joyous moments full of magic, some of it dark and full of lost. Explored and exposed. Expressed in art and penned in prose. Remixed and reinterpreted. Image and diary.
Another Winter: The Haunting Reality Of Things Lost
It’s there
Surrounding your every memory
The haunting reality of things lost
Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal
I started this challenge of renewal with the theme of meditation. So I will conclude the challenge with meditation as its theme as well. This piece entitled: “The Flower And The Pier In Meditation”. It was created in 2009 after a trip to Kure Beach in North Carolina. What a great place to flower ones renewal at sunrise, on the pier, in the meditation of healing. Hope you enjoy this last entry to the challenge, and see you in the next.
n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s 