In life …if you so choose to
You can fuck things up good
Beyond repair
Your own life…a family …your health …a marriage
You name it
There is redemption…it’s a long arduous and difficult journey
A painting
You can’t fuck up …you can scrape all that you did off, back to the bones and start again..
Sometimes what you see on a scraped surface is what you were looking for all along…
Sometimes what you pick up off the floor and throw against the wall is the start of something really special
Redemption is not necessary
There are lessons here
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It seems everybody is an artist nowadays
I don’t know…it just seems many don’t get it
Some you know, do it to deliver messages or preach about some social grievance or some revelation they had
Others do it for some form of personal therapy …like a replacement for some type of deficiency or to correct some hurt
Then there are those who engage in creating art as a way to achieve notoriety and fortune
When you dig into this with folks you realize a large number are in for a rude awakening.
For what they expect of this calling and what it delivers seem to be of different worlds
The creative act occurs on a much higher plane then these singular reasons and truly benefiting from it happens when you leave the above
reasons behind.
I am very interested in witnessing the unfolding of the creative act with my hands and spirit…the collision of forces, of space, energy,
gravity, vectors, movement, interaction and state of being, the narrative and non-conceptual. The possibilities of exploration are endless,
and filtering it all thru you while making something, bearing witness to this act in the form of a work a construction
a sculpture.
Painting and creating 2 D imagery is a portal to a state of being…to an existence that is different
I feel elevated above the worldly…I go places I would not normally go on roads less travelled. Others utilize the creative act in different
ways but the purity of creating imagery, the creation of an illusion that tells the truth ..the chase , the hunt the ever changing destination
point and submitting to forces greater than those with in you …its and understanding some of us share. Painters are modern day shamans
and what we do is no more noble then the act of picking thru garbage for dinner that evening. It is…. just necessary.