Impressive stuff; finished or not. I particularly like the black & white one with the dog.
I looked through your journal some to kind of catch up, ya know, and I just want to offer my humble opinion: What strikes me as most significant about your work is the inherently chaotic and eclectic nature of your style. Out of the madness and chaos that we call reality (like infinite deranged brush-strokes of "God") there exists good, bad, beauty, and ugliness (as well as infinite other dualities). All these opposing elements define the universe as we know it. Chaotic. Out of control. Perfect. The universe is PERFECT because it IS. For instance, a wickedly gnarly dead tree with a thousand bare branches clawing reslessly at the winter sky is one of the most blatant examples of nature's chaotic perfection. Or, for example, imagine a twisted, mangled mess of dry, rotting deadfall with equally dead and decaying vines relentlessly intertwining themselves throughout. And though you could look at the whole thing as a big pile of dead and decaying brush, you could just as well focus your attention on a peculiar little length of vine that has somehow eluded fate and is still a bit green. Upon noticing this little length of green vine, you might notice with a sense of divinity that this little bit of living vine has even managed to sprout a tiny bud. And upon focusing on the bud, you notice that it has actually begun opening and what you are actually observing is a partially open flower vibrant enough with color and scent to attract a honey bee, right before your very eyes. That bee paid no attention to the giant pile of dead, rotting brush. It only focused on what was important. It's up to each of us to direct our consiousness to focus on the good parts (this I would possibly consider to be a manifestation of passion). And, when I look at true art, that's what is most apparent -- a representation of an individual's passionate focus. I can see that you are passionate. You are an artist. A true artist. And with being a true artist comes a highly focused and sensitive awareness. As long as your artistic vision stays true to expressing what moves you in the world, your art will automatically move others.
It's been a long day; hope that all, or at least some, of that made some sense. Anyway, great artwork. Keep it up, man.
I looked through your journal some to kind of catch up, ya know, and I just want to offer my humble opinion:
What strikes me as most significant about your work is the inherently chaotic and eclectic nature of your style. Out of the madness and chaos that we call reality (like infinite deranged brush-strokes of "God") there exists good, bad, beauty, and ugliness (as well as infinite other dualities). All these opposing elements define the universe as we know it. Chaotic. Out of control. Perfect. The universe is PERFECT because it IS. For instance, a wickedly gnarly dead tree with a thousand bare branches clawing reslessly at the winter sky is one of the most blatant examples of nature's chaotic perfection. Or, for example, imagine a twisted, mangled mess of dry, rotting deadfall with equally dead and decaying vines relentlessly intertwining themselves throughout. And though you could look at the whole thing as a big pile of dead and decaying brush, you could just as well focus your attention on a peculiar little length of vine that has somehow eluded fate and is still a bit green. Upon noticing this little length of green vine, you might notice with a sense of divinity that this little bit of living vine has even managed to sprout a tiny bud. And upon focusing on the bud, you notice that it has actually begun opening and what you are actually observing is a partially open flower vibrant enough with color and scent to attract a honey bee, right before your very eyes. That bee paid no attention to the giant pile of dead, rotting brush. It only focused on what was important. It's up to each of us to direct our consiousness to focus on the good parts (this I would possibly consider to be a manifestation of passion). And, when I look at true art, that's what is most apparent -- a representation of an individual's passionate focus. I can see that you are passionate. You are an artist. A true artist. And with being a true artist comes a highly focused and sensitive awareness. As long as your artistic vision stays true to expressing what moves you in the world, your art will automatically move others.
It's been a long day; hope that all, or at least some, of that made some sense. Anyway, great artwork. Keep it up, man.
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