Artwork in Progress. The Blog. Please join in....

Hi! This is my blog. I hope to set up an exchange on information in which everyone who participates can interact with others, meet others with common questions and interests, and a platform for exploring such phenomena as pareidolia and synesthesia and other phenomena in our perception of the world, art in all its forms and our daily cultural lives. 

I intend to start posting daily my works, what I am thinking about them, what I am trying to achieve and how I intend to achieve it....and hoping to find people who comprehend (grasping or not grasping) what I am doing and take an interest in the process for its own sake. Warts and all I am starting this blog with this previous statement and objective.

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I want to share how the Hiero's were born. Part of a film clip that I was photographing about eight years ago showed sunlight reflecting on rippling water stemming from a light breeze as in interlude with the fading in and out of scenes in the film. This interlude appeared over some of the scenes I intended to do still photos of. I noticed the forms of the reflections and was fascinated at the many interesting figures I had arrested on film. I systematically went through the whole film and photographed each frame separately where this overlapping of rippling light on the scenes took place.

Here is a short example. 

This is the painting which resulted, done in acrylic paint and gold leaf. 135 cm x 100 cm.

November 20, 2021

I don't create forms or figures by myself, but I take random forms from nature and make note of them I make them noticeable, changed in color or texture, but the form remains orthodox. I don't know what causes the attraction, why one form is more elegant or fantastic than another. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I experience on excursions or just when I have a camera in my hand, that motives and compositions don't come easily. But as soon as I sit on a bench and just let my eyes roam unfocused, many wonderful things, compositions, appear and make a zoom objective a wonderful invention. Looking at a 400 square meter lawn, have you ever just looked at one blade of grass? Our eyes and brains are much faster than our consciousness is. Looking for four leaf clovers is an intensive ordeal, looking for one to press in a book to give away as a good luck charm. But walking over a clover patch I usually catch one without even looking out of the corner of my eye.

This is at a stage where I want to make a complete set of four. I love series. The challenge is making the colors jive and scintillate in harmony. These could be mounted on the ceiling. The gold catches the light, whether it is sunlight or a weak led diode, when you move... it moves. The paintings are through the play with light alive.