I’m indolent by nature. Schools of thought and faith based explorations are interesting, but they are a lot of work to read. I’m one of those transient memory people, and learning names and dates, and subtleties and nuances of understanding are too much for me to comprehensively use in my existential musings. It leaves me inclined to understand personal and existential purpose that doesn’t involve traditional institutionalized faith or reasoning.
My thinking is that life is the spark, the secret sauce that creates the universe. Creates it by being viewpoints and activities that can perform independent of the purely action/reaction entropic actions of energy and matter.
I believe the more developed forms of life create ephemeral dimensions that we sometimes share with other life (emotions and play, mathematics and music, communion and inner worlds shared). The richly expanding inner/outer world of communication and community is the profoundly particular magic of humanity. We are a fountain of dimensions. A lot of my art generates and finds its specific voice in what I think of as the Dimensional Blooming I find myself part of.
“Surfacing†is a long and gentle rumination about what a surface is using my paints and brushes to create that musing on an interestingly proportioned canvas. I really wanted to make something that used the entire surface as a flowing whole. I wondered about scales, and at what scale does a surface become contained. Teasing out cycles, I will generally take a lot of time in a re-iterative exploration of form, depth & nuance in my painting and drawing. The art gradually reveals to me its own relationships and inner structure.
A piece that is open, surprising, satisfying, and speaks in unscripted ways is better for being that way.
I’ve often realized the power of artistic trust. There is wonder and whimsy in abundance when I don’t plan and plot and iron all the mystery out of art.
there is a wellspring deep within me that will replenish itself continuously – a wellspring that raises up it’s own inexplicable yet significant gifts for me to try to clarify and express using innate talent and nurtured skill sets
There has been a shift, somehow, in ages past that has resulted in this place I now stand. I sometimes wonder what is the real place I am standing in. Is my perspective limited in some way? Ought I shift my viewpoint in order to really see what is around me?
12 years ago I realized that I had to do something with my artistic ability. The press of kids and work had left me with no room or desire to pursue art. But I couldn’t leave it lying fallow any longer – I was not only short-changing myself but I was depriving my family as well. It is one thing to know that a possibility exists. It is something else to begin the long process of realizing the possibility. So I decided to start drawing. Drawing is the basic artistic skill that I wanted to develop as a first step to being able to express my artistic visions.
I’ve heard different times that people want to know the stories that the work acts as a window for . . . I wanted to sweep the sky into the earth, the surface into the depths, the ephemeral into the eternal. I wanted to play with the paint.
I am showing this upcoming long weekend in a booth at the historic Distillery District just east of Downtown Toronto. A free event in this very attractive and pedestrian friendly venue, the art show runs Saturday, Sunday and Monday August 4, 5 & 6. Officially the hours are 11 am to 6 pm each day. I’m guessing that there will be a little leeway in those times depending on crowd & weather. There are times people keep their booths open for the evening crowd.
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