Expanding
I’ve discovered that my images are personal oracles; messages from my future…signs of things to come. This is how it has always worked, and a secret motivation that even I have been unaware of. Now I really want to expand the vision. I feel I could see more, that skill is a guide to greater imagination, and imagination is the ability to travel even deeper into the mind. There is a preliminary…
Bubbling
I’ve been uploading a large project I was working on most of last year…while doing that I’m surfing through Red Bubble and the inspiration factor is exploding my mind! It’s thrilling to see the creativity here, and the skill level in which it is being expressed. So much originality, and fresh concepts. I’m really proud to be part of it. Red Bubble is a very cool place.
Red Bubble Prints Quality Cards
One of my images was included in Gaia. I just recieved my Gaia gift from Red Bubble-I spent it all on cards from both my own images and also from my favorites list. The print quality is truly excellent and the paper that the cards is printed on is really nice-super heavy. I am really pleased. Thank you so much Red Bubble!
For USA Copyright holders
Orphan Works Bill
Call your Senators and Congress person to ask them to vote no on both the House of Representatives bill and the Senate bill. Both bills are way to broad and seriously limit an artist’s right to protect their own work. Even the House bill, which is being touted as the better bill, puts the onus on the artist to register their images twice, with the Copyright Office and with …
Desire
More and more I realize that I don’t want to create imagery that leaves a residue of oxidized desire. So many things in our culture seem ultimately to be about: “choose me buy me”. Will I merely be the tool of the salesman? Will my love be chained to the marketplace? What I dream of is an art that undoes desire and liberates the immaculate presence of the subject. But I wonder; is desire the en…
pathos
One thing I feel is that my ability to understand the world is deepening and becoming ever more intimate. Conversely, the deeper I go the less I understand myself, and my personal mystery becomes less clear and more problematic.
Self Taught
As an unschooled photographer I don’t consider myself self taught. I worked for and was trained by a lot of great photographers. It is this training I wrestle with. I approach photography as: problems requiring solutions. This especially as a result of working years in advertising, a very muscular venue for image making. You can really get off on it. But something essential was transmuted in th…
The Temple Of Failed Works
Strangely as I organize these unfinished, never to be finished, slated for destruction prints and paintings I am just as intrigued by them, if not more, than any of my finished work, which seems in contrast, shopworn. Their fatal artlessness suddenly allows them a quality that makes them feel holy in my hands. These are the efforts of mine that will be cast into the fire being born only for my …
Buddhist Magazines
I am still not working, however been very busy. One of the things I am doing is cleaning up and organizing my hard drives-what a mess. Normally I don’t take time to keep up with it. This is a big job and I am in the mood to do it. Also think I’m going to take down all my unfinished paintings and lay them flat in a dark place-tired of looking at them. Mostly though, I am going through a big stac…
Great Polish Photographer
I’ve been happily spending much time of late online with the vast portfolio of Abigaill Berenika over at AltPhotos.com. She has infused my love of photography with a new excitement. Her work seems quite personal, as she shoots the same model over and over-perhaps self portraits. I don’t know, she doesn’t write much about her process and I’m enjoying getting everything I need from just looking a…