November 18, 2022 Weekly Musings
Posted on November 18 2022
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An artist proof print has a connection to limited edition prints. It is commonly known as a copy of the photograph and is not a part of the numbered edition. These prints are used as a test print by the artist and kept for their personal collection.
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Musings:
Process vs Product
Featured image: Poppies and Roses
Personal Visions
Featured image: Visions Are Like Maps
Blow'n With The Wind
Featured image: As The Wind Blows
I think of the Bob Dylan song when I think of creating yourself as a work of art – “The Answer My Friend is Blow’n In The Wind.” In order to be a work of art …. In order to create “you” you need to blow with the wind.
How many years will it be , how many years will it be before you can be yourself – and blow with the wind.
Narrow Path
Transcendent
Featured image: Patchwork Landscape
Transcendent – Beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience. Existing apart from and not subject to the limitations of the material universe.
Is a soul or spirit transcendent? If so, how can it be imagined? For me the soul, the spirit is something that is a loosely woven tapestry made of fabric, a weaving that has a lot of gaps. A weaving of the transcendent is not stable. It is unstructured. I imagine a weaving of clouds moving with the changing wind- not stable, sometimes transparent and sometimes opaque. So yes, I believe the soul or spirit is transcendent.
Is this kind of transcendent divine like many famous philosophies claim,such as Kant, Plato and writers like Emerson and Thoreau? I don’t see it that way. I don’t know why, because their transcendence is based on the idea that romanticism is better than rationalism. I do like their idea of transcendent being grounded in nature – but this nature needs to be divine.
How do I imagine the transcendent? Imagine a haze surrounding yourself, something like a sun dog surrounds the sun because that implies a glow – a light. I like that imaginary and the weaving of the sun dog with the clouds. Great tapestry – the soul and spirit of the transcendent – honestly – it is the imagined.
New Works:
Poetry, Haikus, Limericks and Musings
Raccoon
Featured image: Raccoon
I enjoy my night critters as much as I enjoy the birds in the morning. I have a trail cam pointed at my ground feeders and the raccoons are just a hoot to watch. Such rascals! I just had to paint one. I might try another. I’m really trying to lighten up my paint on the paper. The body of the raccoon turned out great but I struggled with the face and the paint got thicker there. I guess it might have something to do with my painting freehand.
It Is Not Art
Featured image: Peacock
Abstraction : the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events. Freedom from representational qualities in art.
Abstraction, transcends, labels and forms. Abstraction begins naked. It is undressed. When we can touch the naked work, the blank paper, the white canvas, then we become part of it and it is no longer naked. We, unfortunately, find a need to dress the blank page or canvas,. We label it and it is no longer abstraction, it becomes representational. The beauty in abstraction is that it allows us to create a unique one-of-a-kind work that can be itself.
My art is that way, when I step away from the work it needs to speak for itself. That is hard for me with most of my work, because I seem to always want to speak for it because I am so much a part of it. But, if it cannot speak for itself – then I believe it is not art.
Spirit's Power
Outside and Inside
Featured images: Journey of the Blackbird, November Chickadee, Blue Jay II, Dove, Ms Pileated, Chickadee V
There is nothing, nothing, to give unity or continuity to the outside of us. Outside, you are many things, mother, father, daughter, son, teacher, scientist. All of us are conditioned and influenced by things from the outside. Genuine action, authentic action is never determined from the outside. Rather, genuine action rises spontaneously and freely within. Art allows one to react from within, it is creating.
Chickadees for Thanksgiving
Featured image: November Chickadee