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Post Canvas And Paint: Into Recollection 01

Distraction can be thought of as the inability to focus or concentrate…

From distraction to recollection

… What then is recollection? It is chiefly an antithesis to distraction. We can say that sometimes we are unable to recollect ourselves in meditation: we are at once distracted. We are unable to focus our attention on any one point; we are controlled by the endless stream of thought and the embodiment of our associations; our mind is scattered; the complexity of life is perplexed. In its proper revelation, this state of mind, in which we cannot attend fully to any one object and fail to penetrate the logos of being, but carried away by the machinations of fantasy, is defined as distraction.


In The Dark I Can’t Safely Say (A What My Life Has Meant Remix)

A path with unspoken words and transcending moments…

The path in life

i often wonder
if i am misunderstood 
 - by me
in my every waking moment ...

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Images For Android Phones: Pop-Art Meets 2012 US Women’s Open Champion – Na Yeon Choi

 

Na Yeon Choi

What a fantastic victory for the 24 year old South Korean, Na Yeon Choi. Poise, skill and some rather good luck led her to her first US Major Championship. It was a difficult course depleting most of the opposition. She and fellow Korean, Amy Yang were the only two competitors to finish under-par. Yes without a doubt Na Yeon Choi is my favorite female athlete. You go Girl!


Images For HD Video: Sometimes In The Waking The Reality Is More Pressing Than The Dream

There are times when I have a visual dream. In the waking. A collage of kinetic images. And as painful as it may sometimes be, I can but only love … living my art; finding fuel for it in the most unlikely places …

a new day …

This piece is an exploration of the moment when waking from a dream. The dream persists, but so does the realities of life:  Our personal journey. As they intrude. Crash. Collide. And take us for a ride along the highway of uncertainty. I think it is here, in this moment, that we can rise from our slumber with our greatest fear or with our greatest hope. As we face the day, with our portfolio of experiences, memories, and designs, we can, with internal intent and wisdom, begin our search for a better tomorrow.

http://youtu.be/58Nwb7HmbLQ  –  Sometimes In the Waking the Reality Is More Pressing Than the Dream 3:10; music by Nine Inch Nails


Images For HD Video: The Night Outside Your Dream (A Blue Moment Remix)

Second in the series of “chance” recordings …

http://youtu.be/Wdrl6O_H1uE   –  Copyright 2012  Walter W Smith

the night

- blue

with restless dreams

– isolated

in scattered refuge

in sudden refrain

 – through the darkest storm

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – Calvin & Hobbs


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Images For Android Phones: A River Runs Through It

Images For Android Phones: A River Runs Through It

Red. The color of those who lost their lives during the American Revolution. This is a photograph of the Enoree River In the back country of South Carolina. During a recent hike, I visited the Musgrove Historic State Park. A signifcant battleground between the British, American Loyalists, and the American Patroits. Intense and bloody battles insued. A divided country. Friend vs friend. Brother vs brother.

red…
a transfusion of color
in blood and tears
– of lost
and gain
but not without
the soul in pain
– the spirit transformed
and the cries of freedom
in red flow

down by the river
brave men fought for independence
– for some


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Images For Android Phones: Pop Art – Track and Field

Images For Android Phones: Pop Art - Track and Field

The Olympic trials are in full swing. Competition. Endurance. Will. Beauty. Art and sports a Pop Art tradition. London 2012.


Images For HD Video: A Day At The Beach (A Tybee Island Remix)

A Tybee Beach remix…

Tybee Island is a small public beach located on the Atlantic Ocean near the Georgia/South Carolina border. It is just a few minutes away from historic Savannah GA.

A day on the beach, with sand and surf in hand.

http://youtu.be/Qsp8xhCNHMw


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Images For Android Phones: Pop Art: Golf

Images For Android Phones: Pop Art: Golf

Na Yeon Choi takes a swing.


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Images For Android Phones: A Place To Rest With Colors

Images For Android Phones: A Place To Rest With Colors

a morning trek
so patiently caressed
on winding paths

while colors reach out
with subtle invitation
through angled trees
and grass so lean

the intrepid eye
never at rest
seeking things anew
with every test of step

except for here
under the gazebo
with summer’s warm
– embrace

as i wait for you
– knowingly
feeling at peace
feeling transcendent


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Images For Android Phones: The Girl In The Summer Blue Dress

Images For Android Phones: The Girl In The Summer Blue Dress

The ocean flows in many ways, not unlike the wind swept beach and the girl with the summer blue dress. As the sun fades, and ends the day. She casts her weary dreams out to sea.


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Images For Android Phones: Standing With The Fading Sun

Images For Android Phones: Standing With The Fading Sun

A photograph is never the end of a moment in time.


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Images For Android Phones: The Last Moment (A Setting Sun Remix)

Images For Android Phones: The Last Moment (A Setting Sun Remix)

sitting on the beach
with the cooling sand
caressing my sandaled feet

mind and body
feeling bonded
with this very moment

the last moment
– here
with the setting sun
and you

while my joy
– and clouds
join in blended
transformation

leaving the waves
a fluid surrender
to a day ending


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Images For Android Phones: Flow Goes The Night (A Being There Remix)

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.


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Images For Android Phones: Monday Afternoon

Images For Android Phones: Monday Afternoon

There is a classic ambient piece by Brian Eno entitled Thursday Afternoon. An one hour shimmering landscape in the style of Music For Airports. This piece Monday Afternoon was created on Tuesday night while listening to Pandora Radio on my Droid phone. Slowly revisiting the drive into Savannah, GA. And the crossing of this remarkable bridge. Beautiful Sunshine. Warm atmosphere. Cool wind. Simmering heat.


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Images For Android Phones: Every Pop-Art Moment Needs A Self Portrait

Images For Android Phones: Every Pop-Art Moment Needs A Self Portrait

It’s so sixties hitting the beach. Sunrise, ocean, girls and guys. Bright colors, water ice and boardwalks. Bikinis. Everything’s pop. Everything’s art. On the pier, it’s Andy Warhol. With the Beach Boys surfing, and free love everywhere. And you know … it’s soon to be groovy. With guest appearances by Frankie Avalon, The Beatles, my favorite cousin, Godzilla and Twiggy. And now … It feels like yesterday as I move into Warrior pose and Sun Salutation. Power to the people.


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Images For Android Phones: Pop-Art In Motion

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.


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Images For Android Phones: To Each Expression Of Love A Flower

Images For Android Phones: To Each Expression Of Love A Flower

in your garden
– through spring
where you sustain
all things
like the flower
in bloom
– for only
forever


Nothing You Ever Do Is Collected In One Moment (A Two Worlds Collide Remix)

Perfection can be found over time when you follow your instincts….

Two worlds collide

Something other than remaining…

I often wonder when a work of art is finished. What defines a piece as being complete; needing no further creative intervention on the part of the artist? Perhaps nothing (completion) is ever collected in one moment. If as artists, we seek to embrace the process, then it is possible that perfection is truly the antithesis to what we hope to accomplish; the creation of great art, the connection with self, and the freedom to allow instinct to govern.

Instinct is a mystery. It has no ending. No point at which it is defined.

When I create a work of art, I first view it as a part of a whole. That whole being one that is infinite.

 – A life time of creating.

That which is the part of a whole, only serves to contribute to a never-ending journey; the idea of nurturing the creative instinct that lies within the realm of the visceral. While at times abandoning conscious decision-making.

Sometimes it serves us well to know that the perfection that is born of one’s decision, is not the perfection that is found over time …

In the end trust in the mystery….


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Images For Android Phones: After Digital Art What’s Next

Images For Android Phones: After Digital Art What's Next

32 bit
Data
Paintings
Color
RAM
Pixels
Art
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Images For Android Phones: We’re At A Gallery With Another Distinct World In A Frame

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


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Images For Android Phones: Post Canvas and Paint (A Pop-Art Remix)

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


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Images For Android Phones: The Abandoned House And The Darkness Of My Room

Images For Android Phones: The Abandoned House And The Darkness Of My Room

across the street
their memories abandoned
the years in view
slipping away
fading to and fro
weathered by the storms
and dreams
long since gone


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