light shines
Light shines. It doesn't try to move whatever is causing shadow. It certainly doesn't draw it closer causing more shadow. Light shines. it does its best to shine wherever it…
perfection clouded by perception
Perfection clouded by perception is how I can best describe the images I have been creating lately. I am talking about the broken mandala the twisted kalidescope. What goes on?…
Dance like everyone is watching
Sunday I performed my songs at the Open Mic once again. On the drive in I began to feel nervous and that didn't pass until ten minutes after my performance. …
when artists discuss art
I attended a function for artists at the Palm Springs Art Museum yesterday. It was a critique sponsored by the Artists Council and put on in our very own space…
How to create chaos
I am searching for order in chaos. I create the chaos, a few gestural expressions, and then step back and ask what is required to balance it. A series of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How to hear creations song
It's true, I hear the song creation sings when I am fully involved. Fully involved in painting, cooking, driving, playing games, mowing the lawn. it doesn't matter which noble undertaking…
creativity
A final clue came from “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention” (1996), in which Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi acknowledges that, far from being an act of individual inspiration, what…
Upon entering the world
it is nearly without pleasure that i bring this news to you today. It has come to my attention that some of you aren't eating your pudding. How can you…
Art as Commodity
This is an idea which has been acting as a backdrop for the virtual work and is fostered by a lack of interest in the trading of art for money.…
Sometimes the Truth Doesn’t Set Them Free Its Just Another Burden
Watched the final episode of Treme Season 1. It's rare to see a reaction such as the character LaDonna had to further investigation of her brothers death in police custody.…
remember you will not die
remember you will not die you didn't and you had plenty of chances back and forth over and over yet here you are
Story of Stuff
Recommended viewing The story of stuff Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals,…