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A Brief Dimensional Blooming Post

January 12, 2026markfineart No Comments

A whimsical drawing, the surreal edge of the metaworld of a beautiful snail. — Snail’s Dream *sold

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.

Things that underpin my art

September 26, 2020markfineart

My art tries to parse out depths visually and in connection, underpinned by congenital differences from the norm.

Intuition Space – The Place Where Poetry and Art Meet

December 4, 2017markfineart

“Night Bird”

Intuition space.

A piece that is open, surprising, satisfying, and speaks in unscripted ways is better for being that way.

Iâ€™ve often realized the power of artistic trust. There is wonder and whimsy in abundance when I donâ€™t plan and plot and iron all the mystery out of art.

Poetry is the creative build, the dance between the inner world outside of ourselves and our own inner being. Art is concretely realizing this dance in a sharing manner.

Quotes I’m Sharing – 3 – Vision

January 14, 2017markfineart

Vision

â€œIf the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is,
infinite.â€Â

William Blake

Our lack of sight defines us.
That definition of ourselves is constantly refined and outright changed by scientists, physicists and mathematicians, by philosophers, writers and artists. Their work shows us what we don’t see, where we lack sight. They make visible the negative spaces and dark matter and energy that interweave what we think is the whole of the perceivable universe.

Quotes I’m Sharing – 1

September 28, 2016markfineart

The long view. The big picture. A slice of reality that gives context to the larger reality that we are ripples on the intersection of the infinite seas called Deep Space and Deep Time.

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â€œEvery atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust.

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A most fortunate creative.

September 21, 2015Mark Johnson

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

A Basic Fact, and the Fundamental Denial of Same

March 6, 2014Mark Johnson

The Neolithic misogyny that requires absolute power and control over women instead of attempting even a modicum of self control is a characteristic of the destructive, backwards Fundamentalist mindset that infects billions of people world wide.

Time

January 27, 2014Mark Johnson

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?

Once upon a Sketchbook

November 10, 2013Mark Johnson 1 Comment

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.

Evolution in Action – The Creationist Dinosaurs

June 26, 2012Mark Johnson

Evolution works with populations. Individuals are irrelevant (unless there crops up a group of individuals who release a game-changer such as self-replicating nano-bots, a sustainable black-hole released into the earths core, fantasy of that ilk). That Darwinian fact is repeatable – evolution deals with populations, not with whatever group is caught up in surges of silliness over religious affiliation or geographic origin.