It's Time To BREATHE

Breathing is essential to life, just as hydration and nourishment.  There is also something to be said about the reduction of stress, which aids and promotes the mental, physical and emotional.  If any one of these elements are missing or not sustained, then there is a loss in the natural balance and chemistry of what makes you alive. 

Every chance you get, do something that will alleviate stress.  I choose to Breathe and Dance.

'Breathe'

15 seconds with one good beat is all you need...

Don't believe me, try it!

Visual Stimulation

Art Through Association

   Many times, something might capture your attention for no apparent reason at all, but your mind's eye notices something that ultimately stimulates and arouse a feeling, memory, or a momentary pleasure.  
   I didn't want to give this post too much thought or in-depth verbiage.  The below images are for your own interpretation.  They may have multiple meanings with a single focus and/or vice-versa.  As I create, I often give it no thought at all or intentionally mix my current emotional state within.  

   *If you get multiple visionary thought from either of these images, You are among the living.

'Untitled'

Colored Pencil

8" x 10"

(Behind Glass)

 'Untitled'

Mat Board in Shadowbox

8" x 10"

(Behind Glass)

*If you are in any way a person, vegetable, or mineral that believes in balance, nature and natural order, these images may help you to invite focus, concentrate and find your calm.  These images are also subject to change as your mood changes.  

Creations From The Past

   In my efforts to archive my earlier works, I keep finding little trinkets of doodles and dabbles stuffed away in dusty corners, and shelves all over the place... But as I locate them, I will digitize them and archive them here.  I'm also finding some drawings and paintings that are incomplete.  I think they were mostly experimental sounding boards.

   I'm not yet an owner of a gallery, so most of my creations are displayed sporadically throughout my dwellings, hidden away in my closets, and/or gathering dust on un-kept shelves.  Here are a few gems recently located from circa 1996 +.

'The Eye'

Black Pen Ink on Paper

26" x 20"

(Matted, Behind Glass)

'Test Pallet'

Water Color, Acrylic, Pen Ink, Pencil on Card Stock

20" x 30"

'Warrior Series 1 & 2'

'Untitled 1'

Pen Ink on Paper

8" x 10"

(Matted Behind Glass)

'Untitled 2''

Pen Ink on Paper

8" x 10"

(Matted Behind Glass)

'Untitled'

(Jazz Series 1 & 2)

'Untitled 1'

Acrylic on Canvas

10" x 12"

(Matted Behind Glass)

'Untitled 2"

Acrylic on Canvas

10" x 12"

(Matted Behind Glass)

   Thinking back on when most of these were created, there were a lot more paintings that I've done in groups of two and three... I can't seem to locate them.  Hmmm.  ...Possibly given back to the universe from which it was created.  Still lookin' for 'em though.

Power in the Trinity

   In Hollywood, there is a saying that the 'greats' pass away in threes, In dimensions there is a common symbol '3D' - third dimension - Height, Width and Depth.  Three Wise Monkeys - Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no evil.  Third time's a charm.  With colors, there's RGB.  Mind, Body, and Soul (Spirit).  Earth. Wind. & Fire.  Mother, Father, Child.  Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  Faith, Hope, and Charity.  etc...

*Three is the number of perfection, completion.  
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity - GOD: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
1 Peter 1:7 (not to get all religious on ya')

Tried in the Fire before Gold

'Tried in the Fire before Gold 1'

Acrylic on Canvas

20" x 20"

A mere drop of innocence cast'd into the flesh of a human, only knowing instinct and basic needs.  This thing called life creates an unruly inferno of unorganized, unnatural heat and pressures that twists and turns sporadic elements of simplicity into a complex ball of confusion. 

'Tried in the Fire before Gold 2'

Acrylic on Canvas

20" x 20"

A ball of confusion, slowly but steadily being molded and reformed into unexpected configurations, shapes, and patterns that are unrecognizable of ones former self.  Being challenged, abused, forced, used, coerced, tempted, and tired.  The experience of each and every trial created a pattern, a stripe, a unique mark as a reminder and reward of what challenges has been conquered and survived.

'Tried in the Fire before Gold 3'

Acrylic on Canvas

20" x 20"

Each mark and stripe is undeniably unique to the story in which is being told, simply by the mere existence of the purifying resistance in refining through fire.  Edges are sharpened where used to be round.  Rough places are now smooth. Lines are defined where used to be frayed.  

Pure gold put in fire comes out of it proved pure.

*Real, pure gold, when exposed to the flame, will get brighter after a while as it gets hotter, but will not darken.  Fake gold pieces, such as fool's gold (actually pyrite, an iron sulfide) and pieces made of brass, iron or copper alloys will otherwise change color when exposed to fire.

Oozing Creativity in 1998

In retrospect, it's a bit difficult to remember what ruled my thoughts over two decades ago, but here are a few reminders of what I did with some of my free time.  I can clearly remember turning up music, played on my pieced-together turn table.  Living in a one bedroom apartment with my living room acting as my lounge, my studio, my gallery... my sanctuary.  

I managed an art supply store, my friends were people of creative backgrounds, and I inhaled and exhaled breaths of full spectrum. Many of what I created were passed on to others for one reason or another, but the ones I kept, I can now share.

1998 was not that long ago...

'Mystic Moon I'

Acrylic on Canvas

5" x 7"

(Gold & Black Velvet Framed)

 'Mystic Moon II'

Acrylic on Canvas

5" x 7"

(Gold & Black Velvet Framed)

Untitled

Black Ink on Paper

5" x 7"

(glass framed)

 Untitled

Acrylic on Mat Board

8" X 10"

(glass framed)

pardon my reflection

 Untitled

Pencil on Paper

8" x 10"

(glass framed)

pardon my reflection

 'Flowers'

Colored Pencil

3.5" x 6"

(glass framed 8" x 10")

...yes 1998

Therapy Art is Art

Therapeutic Art is Art

It's been a while since I've posted anything here,  I will explain later ...but now I have been encouraged to show some of my older images of works that has been hanging in my personal space since the beginning, since the time that I had created them

It's funny how I look back and notice things on each of the following pieces, something that I could have added, changed, and/or subtracted to suite the mood of the day, or time that it was created.  Overall, I'm glad that they each have a life of their own and is standing the test of time in my universe.

If you feel something, It's OK to feel it. Go with the flow...

'The Journey 1'

Acrylic on Canvas

7" x 10"

(Glass Framed)

'The Journey 2'

Water Color

7" x 10"

(Glasses Framed)

'Africa I'

Acrylic on Canvas

w/ Black Ink Paper

18" x 36"

(Stretched)

'Africa II'

Acrylic on Canvas

w/ Black Ink Paper

18" x 36"

(Stretched)

'Africa III'

Acrylic on Canvas

w/ Black Ink Paper

18" x 36"

(Stretched)

'Untitled'

Acrylic on Canvas

30" x 40"

(Stretched)

The above is just a hand full of my earlier works in no specific order ...as I continue to blow the dust off the other pieces, I will capture them and display according.