Is the shittiness intentional?
Is the art world a lifestyle? This week the veil was finally lifted. There were instances heading toward this moment but I think it was this quote from an article…
Sphere of Influence
A lifelong struggle to remain outside of the sphere of influence. The influence of drugs. The influence of sugar. The influence of social media. The influence of comfort. The influence…
gestural abstract watercolor paintings
abstract watercolor paintings A series of small abstract watercolor paintings created in a flurry of action in the desert then removed to the beach to be painstakingly highlighted and refined. …
Art in New York City
During a short 6 week visit I managed to not only visit Art in New York City but I was able to make some of my own Art in New…
Art as a Form of Active Prayer and What Writers Really Labor For | Brain Pickings
What you have chosen is a profound vocation of healing, and your stories and poems are as sacraments, as visible blessings. Be at the heart and soul of your time,…
The Contradictions of Albert Oehlen – The New Yorker
Oehlen offers an insight into why digital pictorial mediums can be exciting—and certainly are triumphant in global visual culture—but still fail to sustain intellectual interest or to nourish the soul.…
Down with Kickstarter! Where art is concerned, the crowd is an idiot | Art and design | The Guardian
Internet utopians believe the crowd is the future, and equate it with democracy. But all the evidence of history tells us crowds are dangerous, irrational and colossally unwise. Source: Down…
Yoko Ono: ‘To be an artist you need courage’ | Environment | The Guardian
“To be an artist you need courage, and most people don’t think that,” says Ono. “It’s an age where people are only interested in entertainment. People are just entertained every…
16 x 16 print on canvas
what’s the inspiration for painting?
I've been back in New York for a month now and have seen more art in the past month than in the last two years. A lot of times another…
Freedom song video
Not much painting going on. I have been obsessed with animating imagery to accompany one of my songs. I finished the song video it and posted it online should you…
oversharing
I believe the problem is rooted in the immediacy of today. In other words, the desire to obtain instant feedback and praise is strong in our age of instant information.…
Study Finds Making Art May Keep Our Brains Healthy
Researchers discovered “a significant improvement in psychological resilience” among those who participated in drawing and painting classes; they did not find it in the art-appreciation group. What’s more, the fMRI scans of the art-class…
Science Shows Art Can Do Incredible Things for Your Mind and Body
Science Shows Art Can Do Incredible Things for Your Mind and Body.
The essence of the facet known as Ariel
Soul Portrait, Personal Mandala, Essence Portrait
Each painting has it's own personality. I've heard authors talk about a character developing a mind of it's own and having to follow the character they have created to it's…
equal in love
Over the years I have developed and maintained deep seated beliefs regarding wealth. In an honest attempt to remain aligned with the poorest of my brothers I have condemned the…
Common Ground
Over the years I have developed a visual language. I don't always know what I am saying but I can tell when I have everything in place. A visual poetry…
Slaves of the Internet, Unite! – NYTimes.com
“Let us not kid ourselves,” Professor Vladimir Nabokov reminds us. “Let us remember that literature is of no practical value whatsoever. ... ” But practical value isn’t the only kind…
How did I get here?
It isn't always funny the path a painting takes but it's never boring. While on the subject of animated gifs the following was created for the exhibition "You Should Not Be…
detail of a work in progress
art cycle brotherhood
With the new year comes a prompt to reflect and take inventory on habits and aims. Sometimes it seems like my habits control me and that's the easy way. Just…
The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People | Podio
The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People | Podio. Want to develop a better work routine? Discover how some of the world's greatest minds organized their days. Click image to…
Jennifer Wynne Reeves: A Prayer for the Art World
If, BIG IF, I don’t live another year, my prayer for you, for the art world, is that creatives banish doubts about breakthroughs because if we can’t imagine Pollock or…
Photography is the art of our time
Today, photography is the only art that seriously maintains this attention to the stuff that matters. via Photography is the art of our time | Art and design | The…
You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? | Life and style | The Guardian
“Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one,…
An Appreciative Heart is Good Medicine – HeartMath
Emotions and the Heart As we experience feelings like anger, frustration, anxiety and insecurity, our heart rhythm patterns become more erratic. These erratic patterns are sent to the emotional centers…
allover paintings and forgive me photographs in a respectful setting.
real news from a newspaper
The reflections exhibition at the Mount San Jacinto College Art Gallery looks great. The reception was well attended and we ate all the cheese. A reporter from the Press Enterprise…
plein-air non representational allover style painting based on grave rubbings
all over style
These paintings are allover paintings in that they are painted all over the surface of the canvas. There is no part of the painting more special than any other part.…
What happens when we ask for forgiveness?
Take a picture of yourself holding a sign that says “Forgive Me”. How does that feel? Can you do it seriously or is it too uncomfortable? Can you now post…
Will you resign and reflect?
The act of holding the Forgive me sign can lead to a posture of resignation. The space created by that posture is where grace goes. Witnessing that moment, whether in…
release
I released myself as I am. I recognized a younger self and released him too. that recognition led to a series of selves all in a row. I released them…
reflections, forgive me photos
The Reflections exhibit brings together allover paintings with "Forgive Me" photographs revealing their common origins in non-hierarchal foundation beliefs. The allover paintings have no horizon, no compositional elements to focus…
join us and set someone free
We are undertaking a public art project to release resentment worldwide. To participate take a selfie holding a sign that says, "forgive me". Share the image on your favorite social…
Fractal fun
Been messing about with fractal images the last two days in an attempt to improve the Soul Portraits. This is a fractal animation I created using Chaotica. I have…
who is this trance artist?
How would you like to be present at the moment something brand new enters the world? That's where I am every day. No, I don't work in a hospital birthing…
plein-air non representational allover style painting based on grave rubbings
Why create? are you seeking praise?
When I was a wee boy I was praised for using the big toilet. Since then I have been making shit and seeking praise. Sometimes I wonder if I am…
plein-air non representational allover style painting based on grave rubbings
plein air abstract painting
I was weaned on abstract expressionism. I am smitten by the allover image. I have developed a method of plein air non representational allover style painting based on grave rubbings.…
what is the purpose of art?
Painting Depression This painting is unusual for me as it comes from a darker place than I am accustomed to recognizing. I started it after a meeting during which…
Collage of two photos from instagram.
Robin Williams
I was looking through instagram last night about to do my daily painting and saw these two images. One was an image of Robin Williams laughing along with some…
"Lar7 cogniet 001z" by Léon Cogniet
Picture your gift
Picture your gift (painting, writing, cooking, surfing) as a white silk flag standing up behind you in the wind as you race through the meadow on your life's path. Now…
The secret to understanding art.
I used to be afraid of meat. Not just meat but the butchers shop. The butchers were all bloody and they stood up on a platform behind a formidable wall…
20 inches by 16 inches acrylic on canvas, organic abstract painting. IFC0508 Spiritual art
Do you deny your journey?
My function is focused on recognizing all the distractions I have created. Once recognized as distractions the beacon of love seems to shine brighter. The distractions become transparent before revealing…
don’t be concerned
I am concerned enough for everyone I am changing hosts and everything seems to be in flux. I have to remember I paid for this confusion.
barefoot by choice
I immigrated to Southern California when I was ten years old. We were near the beach and everyone that was cool was barefoot so I decided I wasn't going to…
We are instruments
When the music is ended, no one congratulates the wooden stick on the music it made: it is the musician who is applauded and thanked for this beautiful gift of…
Metal spikes embedded in the lawn prevent undesirables from lounging in Serenity Park. Aequitas SL11B contribution about defensive architecture. http://bit.ly/1uHIXzh
Defensive Architecture, yes or no?
SERENITY PARK The theme for this year's Second Life birthday celebration is taken from the Winston Churchill quote: "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." …
Do you want homeless sleeping on your doorstep?
What will you do to stop that from happening? It seems the solution some have come up with is defensive architecture. Is this the way of the future? We can’t…
wilful misconceptions about homelessness
wilful misconceptions about homelessness: that it is a lifestyle choice, which oddly becomes more popular during periods of nationwide economic ruin; that poverty is down to personal failure; that kindness…
Is social media diluting art?
instead of writing songs and composing albums its easier to post on social media If we agree that great art comes from the friction within and then agree also…
Welcome to the summer of nothingness – how one book made it hip to be bored | Emma Brockes | Comment is free | theguardian.com
The take-away from all this, perhaps, is that boredom itself can be a virtue. The rise in popularity of meditation and the $27bn yoga industry is an antidote to the…
are you a change agent?
Loving the creative insurgent podcasts. Today Cory Huff and Melissa Dinwiddie interviewed Stephen Goldsmith who calls himself an empathic essential animal, a change agent. He suggests we can engage the community…
Not paying artists deeply entrenched in gallery culture, research suggests | Art and design | The Guardian
more than 70% of contemporary visual artists who took part in publicly funded exhibitions in the last three years received no fee. via Not paying artists deeply entrenched in gallery…