FAUVIST LANDSCAPE

  

hiatus

Thsa will be my last post for about a week and a half. There are some family, mediucal asnd other things I need to sort out. But I will be back. rest assured; Hope everyone stays well . Vernon/Arashi Enjoy this painting based on a photo of rocks.



 

RUMINATIONS

It is no easy thing, living. but it is a harder thing giving in to the darkness. Every act of creation becomes an affirmation of the light. One portrayal of the Tree of Life in the Jewish Kabalah as outlinde in pre-medieval texts is portrayed as the Ladder of Lights. At the top of the ladder is the Light Without Limit, and that is what I believe we may be strivfing for when we create. Do we hope to become one with the piece on which are work8ng and having a conversation with it as well as with the media with which we are working, and sometimes the conversations coialesce and there is a new meaning derived from the two. Being a stranger to others sometine creates a situation where one is a stranger to oneself. Do we know where we're going. Most likely not. Do we need to know. I'm not sure. It is a sad thing that now, the older one gets, the more isolated one becomes from the society in which one is trying to live. Things have changed so much and few mutual reference points exist as the sequel generations have been educated differently and one has to to a long way to find people who've had anything near a classical education. Does tht make things wrong. No, yes, I'm not sure. It is hard to find people who read anymore, or have read any of the books I'v read, the works of Octavio Paz, the poetry of Neruda, the work of Milan Kundera, and other European and Asian writers. I'm not sure if this is because I live in the uSA, and this situatuion may not be prevalent in other parts of the world.

TWO FOR ONE

These two digital paintings were derived from the same source - a photo of a vaulted ceiling in an Indian building



 

chsllenge

If you want to, you may copy this photo and use it to make a quil. paper, digital or a multimedia piece, and send me (for email, see my profile). If accepted it will be included in an online exhibition in my new zine which will be available free of charge online. Watch this blog for updates and announcements. See www.artmixter.blogspot.com for her comments about her piece. The photo is actually of a frieze from aa Mayan Temple in the Yucatan. Used with permission and only usable by entrants for this chsallenge.

DOORWAY TO PERCEPTION

A digital painting (abstract) created by taking portions of a photo and recombining them


 

For M

A little quilt, paper transfer to cotton rfom digitgal, handpainting, machine uilting, burfned edges.