Consider the Interior
Many artists say nature is their source of inspiration: the beauty, power, grandeur and persistence can incite one to fervent composition—whether in paint, ink, music, literary works, theater or dance. This can be seen as representing an exterior landscape concern. Such expressions may also be expressing reverence and/or gratitude.
My artistic expression most often arises from the interior landscape. By this I mean I’m contemplating what moves a person? What moves me? What do you contemplate, wonder about, love, hate, find intolerant, boring? What are your core beliefs and priorities? All of these are expressed by a person’s actions.
Since part of my philosophy is that reality manifests the interior state, much of my work is concerned with enhancing awareness of one’s interior and learning to recognize its power over actions and subsequent consequences. That’s addressing growth potential for me and you.
An alphabetical run through on some of my titled artworks includes: 4:am Anxieties, A Quiet Place Within, Action-Motive-Instinct, An Absence of Meaning, and we’re not even finished with the letter “A.”
A painting just finished is titled “Unwanted Stuff.” Let’s examine its potential:
• On the simplest level the reference is to household items now useless or at their last gasp, ready for garbage, re-cycling, passing on to someone else as donation, garage sale item or moved to rental storage. It’s just stuff. These items take up space, time, and maintenance.
• A secondary level is to one’s memories: the stuff we remember with uneasy fondness, lost joy, regret or shame.
• A particularly real level for “Unwanted Stuff” could be physical: being short or too tall, weak eyesight, impaired hearing, carrying an extra too many pounds … any illness or physical trait perceived as a fault, like “my nose is too big.”
• Another level might include character traits we’ve recognized that we’re not particular easy about having—say irrational fear, hate, bigotry, pettiness, laziness, anger, impatience, greed, a tendency to gossip. Sometimes these are things other people may have commented on recently or forever.
• Some viewers might find a spiritual level to examine too, depending on their aims.
Viewers may welcome a floating state of engagement—musing, following one’s own thought processes, identifying visual elements in one’s own terms. For example, with “Unwanted Stuff” one may imagine the yellow dots represent ongoing fear, the brown elements unwanted memories, and so on. The silver gray swashes as parts of one’s being. There are no wrong paths on offer.
Many artists say nature is their source of inspiration: the beauty, power, grandeur and persistence can incite one to fervent composition—whether in paint, ink, music, literary works, theater or dance. This can be seen as representing an exterior landscape concern. Such expressions may also be expressing reverence and/or gratitude.
My artistic expression most often arises from the interior landscape. By this I mean I’m contemplating what moves a person? What moves me? What do you contemplate, wonder about, love, hate, find intolerant, boring? What are your core beliefs and priorities? All of these are expressed by a person’s actions.
Since part of my philosophy is that reality manifests the interior state, much of my work is concerned with enhancing awareness of one’s interior and learning to recognize its power over actions and subsequent consequences. That’s addressing growth potential for me and you.
An alphabetical run through on some of my titled artworks includes: 4:am Anxieties, A Quiet Place Within, Action-Motive-Instinct, An Absence of Meaning, and we’re not even finished with the letter “A.”
A painting just finished is titled “Unwanted Stuff.” Let’s examine its potential:
• On the simplest level the reference is to household items now useless or at their last gasp, ready for garbage, re-cycling, passing on to someone else as donation, garage sale item or moved to rental storage. It’s just stuff. These items take up space, time, and maintenance.
• A secondary level is to one’s memories: the stuff we remember with uneasy fondness, lost joy, regret or shame.
• A particularly real level for “Unwanted Stuff” could be physical: being short or too tall, weak eyesight, impaired hearing, carrying an extra too many pounds … any illness or physical trait perceived as a fault, like “my nose is too big.”
• Another level might include character traits we’ve recognized that we’re not particular easy about having—say irrational fear, hate, bigotry, pettiness, laziness, anger, impatience, greed, a tendency to gossip. Sometimes these are things other people may have commented on recently or forever.
• Some viewers might find a spiritual level to examine too, depending on their aims.
Viewers may welcome a floating state of engagement—musing, following one’s own thought processes, identifying visual elements in one’s own terms. For example, with “Unwanted Stuff” one may imagine the yellow dots represent ongoing fear, the brown elements unwanted memories, and so on. The silver gray swashes as parts of one’s being. There are no wrong paths on offer.