Sometimes artists have muses, I am no exception. Muses are often their source of inspiration. Muses give the artist a sense of passion about something. My muses are words – and the concepts they conjure up for me. Words never cease to inspire me which is why I call myself a conceptual artist and why I write a blog and about beautiful moments in the day.
Posted on August 02 2017
Conceptual abstractions give me a freedom that used to exist in the abstract expressionism movement but has totally been lost in modern day abstractions. This freedom, this process of thinking while creating from abstractions to form a concept, or to rethink a concept and how it has changed.
Posted on August 01 2017
How have we come to know reality? Is it caused by the past, history, that forms what we create in the present? Or have we come to know reality as something we create that is soul-y related to our perceptions, senses, and ideologies?
Posted on July 27 2017
Art and aesthetic must be guided by more than emotions and feeling. Art must be guided by more than, it makes me happy, it makes me feel good.
Posted on July 21 2017
The pure, divine value of non-representational abstract art has morphed into how one feels about the abstract form. The value of feeling is very subjective.
Posted on July 20 2017
When one sees the cracks, breaks and ruptures that come into play in all spaces - one can also see whether they have played in that space before and whether they want to play in this new space.
Posted on July 14 2017
The importance of line in a painting changes in the history of art. When I read this statement in “The Art of Rivalry” by Sebastian Smee, it made me think about the history of line in art. From the classical training of Ingres to the action painting of Jackson Pollock, to how an artist sees reality.
Posted on July 10 2017
I deeply respect and see this uniqueness, individuality but most of all I respect and look for independence it can create for it is where I believe a freedom exists. Freedom should be unfamiliar and abstracted like the wind.
Posted on June 29 2017
I have also been telling people when they ask me when did I know I was going to be an artist - that I have felt that I was called to do what I do, that I have tried to give it up, move onto something else but always come back to making and creating art.
Posted on June 28 2017
I am just wondering if art is something beyond words - then is it anything? And If it is indescribable then is it anything? I know how you feel I used to say the same thing about my sprint and being and art.
Posted on June 25 2017
Is reality nothing more than a narrative? A visual and or linguistic construction that can be controlled and that controls what we say and how we think? I reality nothing more than words and images? If reality is nothing more than a visual or linguistic construction than reality is a figment of what we imagine, ...
Posted on June 23 2017
If art is life does it imitate life? Just the word imitate causes a problem for me. Without going into huge detail I will just say no imitation - if it is art it is a thing in itself.
Posted on June 23 2017
I have to agree by putting yourself out there it pushes you to think and look beyond your comfort zone. Yes it is subjective - but because all my recent work tries to have a conceptual element to it I am able to speak to those subjectivists - and it challenges me to be able to stay on the play ground and not have sand thrown in my face. So I go for it - it is my voice.
Posted on June 22 2017
Remember when you could ride your bike and it was your vehicle to freedom, your means to get away and journey to places that only you, well you thought only you, knew about? Remember the joy and the fear of starting at the top of a hill, and gliding down going faster than you could ...
Posted on June 20 2017
The mind is conceptual, it is a consciousness which integrates with philosophical values, like ethics, and freedom and choice. To inject rhythm into his work, like a musical score was to inject as Kandinsky stated his inner world and the conceptual conscious choice to integrate it with reality and to integrate it with his own happiness.
Posted on June 18 2017
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Posted on June 16 2017
Artists have the power to change, creatively not forcefully, what is there into something beautiful. The self of the artist is not the self of the viewer or another artist, but linking this power to self and the notion of freedom there is then a collective creative concept of freedom that is a beautiful idea.
Posted on May 24 2017
I have learned how to help others visually read the imaginaries, the concepts that float around in that abstract visual space.
Posted on July 20 2016
The foundations I have and that I work with when I create a work of art are always challenging me. For example the notion of all art being subjective - as an expressionist I used to live an die by that notion, but lately I have noticed that the foundations that I was taught many years ago don't work for me anymore.
