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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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." …
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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Then Williams cleared her throat and quoted her father’s poem from memory: “Have compassion for everyone you meet,/ even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,/ bad manners, or…
Conceived as a metaphor from the game of chess, the artwork, Check, Checkmate, takes the global warming debate beyond partisan politics. It examines the role American media plays in…
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…
I started out independent but slowly I succumbed to the lure of international art stardom and began to see myself as an undiscovered genius. I patiently exposed myself to the…
the art itself doesn’t encourage thinking. Rather, it privileges emotional response — particularly the feeling of being impressed and awed — over understanding; in other words, passive consumption versus active.…
what is worthwhile art? --The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking two ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of it. You see I…
With the arrest over the weekend of Art dealer Jose Carlos Bergantiños Diaz the noose is tightening for Pei-Shen Qian, the artist who created works in the style of some…
Besides deeply seated subconscious programming that I need to deal with there has been a long term love hate relationship with the gallery model. Yesterday, allowing myself to have a…
Yesterday I devoted the day to marketing my art. I committed to one full day a week and it seems to be effective. I started out giving myself permission to…
Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive.…
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Between 1881 – 1884, about 15,000 Chinese laborers from the southern Province of Guangdong were hired to build the most treacherous part of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia.…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pmh1n Talking about monumental visual art in a picture-free medium means, as The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik admits, that the odds of failure are quite high. How can you…
THE GUEST HOUSE This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome…
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside!” – Rumi
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…
Unlike Iceland, where the government let misbehaving banks fail and talented kids became less interested in leaping into the cesspool of finance, in New York there has been no public…
Berkeley College: 255 Duffield Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201EXHIBITION DATES: October 1, 2013-December 27, 2013RECEIVING DATE: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:00am-2:00pmRECEPTION DATE: Saturday, October 5- 1:00pm-3:00pmREMOVAL DATE: December 26, 2013 11:00am-2:00pmExhibition…
Two new studies regarding heartbeats and virtual worlds. Apparently the heartbeat has a powerful influence. Eindhoven University of Technology (2011, April 8). Personal touch: Hearing a heartbeat has the same…
