Art and psyche
I have been practicing a type of painting that I call emerging image. After making a chaotic background, I stare until I see forms and images. Then I begin to paint. The emerging process continues throughou
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9 Things That Happen When You Carry A Sketchbook With You Nonstop—by Priscilla Frank
Love this! I'm NOT an artist, and it really speaks to me... 9 Things That Happen When You Carry A Sketchbook With You Nonstop—by Priscilla Frank Draw everywhere and all the time. An artist is a sketchbook with a person attached," artist Irwin Greenberg said. OK, but what if you're not an artist? Or, at least, not yet. Can you still gain something from incorporating a sketchbook into your everyday life? The answer is yes, yes, a million times yes. And here's why. Exercising your creative mind…
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I thought it would be fun to post dream inspired art images along with the narrative of the dream that inspired the image. 11 x 14 Acrylic on Canvas This painting was done as part of my work with Karla Van Vliet, Art and the Practice of Presence. Dream: I am at some kind of outdoor function. There is a woman who jumps up and starts cleaning. I hear Mozart music and I close my eyes and start to spin around and around on the chair I am sitting on which now feels like a piano stool. It feels good…
Read more…Reconnecting with the Source of Artistic Expression
I work with clients who are professional artists, adolescent musicians who compete in international competitions, etc. Presenting problems sometimes include a lack of inspiration or crippling anxiety that blocks the ability to perform or audition. My sense is that these problems are partly due to a disconnection from the individual's core soul source - as well as a loss of serving as a channel for spiritual expression. I am inviting folks to share how they stay connected to their creative…
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Brief article on Types of Creativity by Denita Benyshek, psychologist/artist/researcher.
Article on "The Transformative Power of Shamanic Art" by Denita Benyshek, psychologist/artist/researcher, at AY Atelier Art.
By any chance does anyone in this group live in the South?
I am a new member. As an introduction, here is an earlier painting of mine, "Mother and Child" from my "Inner Being" series.
(I hope this isn't a double post, but I am a new member just learning how to navigate this site. Moderator: if this is a double post to this group, please remove this second attempt -thanks.)
I thought I was a member of this group, but am not included in this list, how can I remedy that?
I am absorbed by your work Les,
Ever come to the east coast of the US? would enjoy seeing your work "in person."
Ed
Overall view.
Here's another installation of my interpretation of the California dream. The paintings both on paper and canvas are extraordinarily detailed renderings of polypropylene straps that are used in yard furniture. The illusion of the paintings look like the straps themselves on canvas or paper, but they took months and months of tedious work. T
he sculpture is called useless chair.
I then reconfigured the pieces and created a outdoor installation in Sacramento in the scary part of town. I created five silk houses on stilts elevated 7 feet off the ground, and surrounded them with 24 silk towers 16 feet tall. This created an ethereal fragile world of luminosity and image. The silk sculptures were so fragile in the neighborhood so extraordinarily hard the juxtaposition in contrast was astounding. Thousands of people came out, everyone felt safe and warm for one night.Unfortunately I never got that many good photos.
This group is a little quiet, so I guess I'll stir some things up.
This installation is essentially the result of my time and work in Zürich from 1993. After Zürich my wife and I moved to Berlin, I was in a digestive state from over thinking everything. In my Berlin studio I wanted to paint large but have everything transportable. I started working on large pieces of silk, the idea of sending a friend a painting 4 x 6' in an envelope seemed kind of humorous to me. Silk had a fragile quality yet extraordinarily strong and durable with an incredible history. I had no idea what I would do with or how these paintings would manifest. Eventually we left Berlin and came back to California, I was shocked at the psychic and spiritual state of affairs and started to reconfigure my silk paintings into light sculptures. This first one is called Crystal, its essentially a a funeral pyre of sorts. this installation is from 1997
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