For some time now I’ve been mentioning specific quotes or phrases—including spontaneous thoughts, ideas from friends—that inspire a particular work of my art. All such references are published on the landing page in the section describing “New Works.” When needed, some topics floating in my head find resonance by Googling “quotes about _______.”
Book sources include thoughts from Patricia Cornwall’s Quantum, Joe Ide’s Wrecked, David McCullough’s The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s In Love with the World, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Gontran de Poncins Kabloona, and Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
Other poets, writers, philosophers, scientists, and generally famous contributors include Maya Angelou, Zanny Minto Beddoes, Paul Cezanne, Leonard Cohen, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lena Horne, Aldous Huxley, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Anais Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, Parker Palmer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rumi, Igor Stravinsky, Rabindranath Tagore, Eckhart Tolle, Simon Weil, Eudora Welty, and Oprah Winfrey. I’m still waiting for those not dead to see my work and comment. 😉
The process goes like this: I decided to work with an idea from American author Melody Beattie. I found this quote from her by Googling “Gratitude Quotes” since that’s a topic currently on my mind.
Beattie said, “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” This jumped into visual cues.
Initially my vision included striations or parallel stacking—one for each stage (past, present, future) and somehow gratitude. Working it out with pencil on paper, I discovered NO. Time is likely not linear and everything interacts, connects. The past influences the present, the present the past, which in turn creates the future.
And thus a sort of blob formed. Now I need to discover the color and pattern best representing past, present, future, gratitude, including one’s space/time and to translate this wonderful abstract thought into a visual representation.
P.S. The resulting art will be posted with the next New Works edition. Hint: gratitude travels in black, silver and two shades of pink.
Book sources include thoughts from Patricia Cornwall’s Quantum, Joe Ide’s Wrecked, David McCullough’s The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s In Love with the World, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Gontran de Poncins Kabloona, and Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
Other poets, writers, philosophers, scientists, and generally famous contributors include Maya Angelou, Zanny Minto Beddoes, Paul Cezanne, Leonard Cohen, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lena Horne, Aldous Huxley, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Anais Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, Parker Palmer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rumi, Igor Stravinsky, Rabindranath Tagore, Eckhart Tolle, Simon Weil, Eudora Welty, and Oprah Winfrey. I’m still waiting for those not dead to see my work and comment. 😉
The process goes like this: I decided to work with an idea from American author Melody Beattie. I found this quote from her by Googling “Gratitude Quotes” since that’s a topic currently on my mind.
Beattie said, “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” This jumped into visual cues.
Initially my vision included striations or parallel stacking—one for each stage (past, present, future) and somehow gratitude. Working it out with pencil on paper, I discovered NO. Time is likely not linear and everything interacts, connects. The past influences the present, the present the past, which in turn creates the future.
And thus a sort of blob formed. Now I need to discover the color and pattern best representing past, present, future, gratitude, including one’s space/time and to translate this wonderful abstract thought into a visual representation.
P.S. The resulting art will be posted with the next New Works edition. Hint: gratitude travels in black, silver and two shades of pink.