Art as Incarnation
6 Sep 2023

Art as Incarnation

by | posted in: Inspirational, Making Art, Recommended Books, The Artist's Life, The Table of Creation | 2

When I have created something, I think of the mysterious thoughts and moves within a person forming an idea, all that has gone before to make this person arrange mental concepts, images, formulae, memories of sounds which excite the hope of birthing something into the world. The energy of that interior excitement causes bodily action which changes or remixes the exterior world resulting in the becoming of something which was not there before. It is spirit incarnating materiality.

Watching Ourselves Change
20 Apr 2020

Watching Ourselves Change

by | posted in: Film Development, Inspirational, Making Art, The Artist's Life, Visual Arts | 6

This animation was started 50 years ago. Wanting to practice on my new graphics tablet and explore Photoshop’s animation features, I used a photo of a six foot painting I did in my youth as a template to draw progressively, frame by frame, a new version of the painting.

God In the Limits
27 May 2019

God In the Limits

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Breaking out of our limits has been a primary passion of humanity since prehistory. Artists appreciate limits for the liberating revelations they give. Before the Big Bang there was a yearning to be known and to fellowship. The Yearning manifested … Continued

This Film Renews Ancient Warning
13 Apr 2018

This Film Renews Ancient Warning

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I am a late viewer of Leonardo DiCaprio’s important documentary “Before the Flood” (2016) . It starts with Hieronymus Bosch’s monumental artistic prophecy  (painted between 1490 and 1510) of humanity’s degradation of the Creation and then documents the real, current day … Continued

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