Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:   Boreal Forest Shoreline Silence greater than that of my backyard at home.   I was fishing in Northern Canada at a remote lake with one cabin on it, miles and miles from anywhere. Untamed shorelines, no piers, boats or people.  Shorelines with uprooted twisted bleached trees and roots.  Large rocks that have been left here since the glaciers.   Backgrounds of tall jack pines and reflecting gracefully on the glassy water.  Tall horsetail reeds, and yellow lily pad flowers.

  Featured image:  How Do I Get There? I have asked this question before. I’ve never come up with a good answer to my satisfaction that isn’t political. I always wonder, “How do we know things? Really, how do we know something?” Experience? Well, experience tells us that we know a diamond has high value because it costs a lot. Does value determine how we know something? And, if so, does experience determine the value of art and how we know art?

Featured image:  Sky, Earth, River Where is your card? In your artwork? In your life? Do you have a wild card? I sure have one. It’s my spirit, my unconstrained spirit, which is also my sense of freedom. These exist in the individual. Whenever I am challenged, I bring up my wild card, the individual. A constrained vision for others is moral. Why? Because constrained visions usually come from others who want to control, govern the individual and put them in order. Constrained visions for others hold others back and from reaching their full potential. My unconstrained vision is a moral vision that leads to an individual’s vision for themselves. If an unconstrained vision is held by an individual who wants others to be constrained so that they, the individual, being constrained cannot reach their full potential – this I believe, is simply immoral. They are restricting an individual of their individual rights and their personal sovereign self. The constrained vision limits high ideals....

  Featured image:  Shoreline The growth of something, an object or a concept travels through time and has a history. We know that as something travels through time it changes. It either grows or dies, depending on how popular it is and how we, as a culture, popularize something. If the changes, growth or non growth determine something, which to some extent is determined by its popularity, does popularity determine how we know? If that is the case would da Vinci ever have been considered a great artist? Would Picasso? We adapt to our times, as does our art today? Multiples, multiples.

  Featured image:   Nature's Beauty Rethinking History - Recently when considering art exhibitions in which I would submit my work, I came across a call from an art center in California that was inviting “artists to submit artwork for Reimagining History. The idea of reimagining history is not new in the world of art and literature.” This art center went on to give examples of “works of artists such as Robert Colescott, Cindy Sherman, and Enrique Chagoya examining issues of race, gender, ethnicity, and political identity through their visual retelling of iconic images and historical figures. In literature, examples span from Herodotus' The Histories in 440 BC to Tolstoy's War and Peace to the contemporary Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.” What a grand idea and what an outstanding way to approach history! When I was in graduate school the trend was to rewrite and rethink history. I questioned the idea of rewriting history. It is something I am totally aga...

  Featured image:  Your Mind Sings - Listen one's own unknown dream filled heart, hopes the wonder of you. your mind sings listen recognize the power in your own life let the light of you the rhythm of you sour

 Featured image:  Poppies and Roses Take two things, put them together and create an entirely powerful different thing. That’s how I think about art. I am taking two things and creating an entirely powerful different thing.