I've always enjoyed interacting with nature and using disorder to create something that is pleasing to my eyes. Often I'm not choosing to record the moment because what's enjoyable is the act of creation and not in the final product. This was a a piece of bark that had fallen down. I saw an image in this decaying material and wanted to bring it out from hiding. I hung it on the trail for others to hopefully find.
I think it's a wonderful moment when someone else helps decide that a picture is finished. It's also interesting to see what they feel it is worth. Often I feel that placing a monetary amount on an act of creative inspiration diminishes the product that this act inspired. There are lots of words I could use to describe what was happening when I made these pieces, but now they have a new owner, and what those owners decide to say about the pictures is more important than anything I could say
I wanted to share a different kind of creation. An object that is similar in its combination of small items that make a whole image but captured in only in one moment.
There is great moments of beauty in creating when you're totally immersed in the moment.
The impermanence of anything made on a beach creates a great awareness of the effects of time regularly apart of our lives. The work has to be finished before the next act of nature or person comes and modifies back to a resting state of natural disorder.
Smiling is an extremely important experience for my mind to be at peace. There is something soothing and therapeutic for me when I smile. Also moving heavy rocks to create something physical with my body is also quite good for my mind. This image of a happy smiling face speaks deeply to me. There is something very enjoyable about using my entire body to create something spiritual important to me
I'm interested in an object that is similar in its combination of small items that make a whole image but captured in only in one moment.
There are great moments of beauty in creating when you're totally immersed in the moment.
The impermanence of anything made on a beach creates a great awareness of the effects of time regularly apart of our lives. The work has to be finished before the next act of nature or person comes and modifies back to a resting state of natural disorder.
Smiling is an extremely important experience for my mind to be at peace. There is something soothing and therapeutic for me when I smile. Also moving heavy rocks to create something physical with my body is also quite good for my mind. This image of a happy smiling face speaks deeply to me. There is something very enjoyable about using my entire body to create something spiritual important to me been on the road for a month and I've not posted anything. I have still been busy making something every day. I've had to redefine my thoughts on family, friends, and what it's like to have a home. The paper work reminds me of another time and my whole goal is to stay as present as possible. I'm really excited about making things that are impermanent. People have always been drawn to the water and it's an incredibly awesome experience to stand in front of such great power. Money has become a replacement for power, but nothing is greater or more powerful than something as large as a great lake. Something that within itself can turn concrete blocks into sand again.
In making this representation of happiness, I felt it important to point out the relationship between what is man made and what is naturally occurring. Even in this connection, there can be beauty. It's completely in perspective.
I'm curious about what draws people to each other. I would like to think that written in the empty space in our universe and the emptiness between the atoms in our cells, is what binds us together. If we all leave this world alone and return to the space that we originally started from, then what is that space that we occupy with other people? Is it anything other than a random chance collision between two miniscule objects in a fraction of time. The continual progression and improvement between anything is spectacularly amazing. The fact that these relationships continue and progress instead of dissolving into nothing is beyond what I could believe from natural observations. It makes much more confident that there is something greater than what we can conceive that is driving us forward to something greater than the tiny atoms that make up our existence.
I remember first drawing the scales on a dragon when I was a sophomore in high school. The repetition at the time was frustrating. Looking back now , I see the foundation for a style to come. There is great freedom in being able to create without worrying about the image. When ever mark is purposeful, there is nothing incorrect. There is something that has always been very identifiable about dragons. The story that I see portrayed in this image is one of a dog sleeping on a woman, and a woman sleeping on something that becomes a dragon while they are dreaming. A lot of myths about the dragons have them protecting something. Maybe I'm protecting the dreams of the ones sleeping on me. Or maybe the dragon is my dreams. The force that protects my life dreams while I'm sleeping until the point in my life that they a able to become realized. Maybe this is an image about a realized dream trapped in a moment. The dream of having 2 creatures so full of trust and love for you that they will fall asleep on you.
We all have dreams and so many of our dreams are left unfulfilled and unfinished. This is one reason why I'm not letting the feeling of incompleteness to influence my desire or decision to work on something. I feel like so often I get lost in the recognizable, and forget about the smaller details that lead to the finality of a piece. I feel like what often gives "art" soul is not necessarily in the clarity or perfection of an image, but at in the recognition of humanity and honesty present in the works. I feel like art across the ages has always been about attempting to portray the soul or most ephemeral aspects of something. The clarity within the individualistic nature of lines of the line maker is asunique as someone's signature. It's as though it could be a thumbprint hidden within the nature of each individual line.
