But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .” ~ Nick Cave (source)
Prepping for Winter
Not sure how this fits but … I think it has to do with how you associate with others. If you want to do art; hang with artists. If you want to write; hang with writers. If you want to be a winner; hang with winners. That must be it!
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (source)
Paths—Garnet, MT
Design has no rules and the guidelines are only govern by culture and expectation. Be aware when you cross those lines and have a clear answer to the question, Why?.
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
~ Edgar Degas (source)
Garnet, Montana—Moment of the Past
Art and design… Both have design principles at play. Both allow others to see the world differently. Both focus on a potential target audience. Both communicate. Both are dependent on culture. Both have an aesthetic but each have different purposes.
Fine art is a mode of self-expression. Some would say self-flagellation. Every artist is a poet of sorts…
Design has a different function, here the artist/designer is consumed with purpose of communication and is focused to some extent on the principles of marketing. Most notably on the 4 Ps: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion as they relate to the target audience that exists within an environment. The environment is defined by culture, place, time, and the communities mores and beliefs.
Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life… the companion… the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.” ~ Mark van Doren, an American writer (souroe)
Art—To Some Stitching Past and Present Together
Since my diagnoses with HIV (AIDS), I literally sobered up. I’m about twenty-years sober and I feel blessed that I have found my way to sobriety. Sobriety has allowed me to go places and do things that I never dreamed possible. It’s been far more exciting than those haze filled days. I’m lucky I didn’t have to lose anything to find my way to sobriety. Never lost a job, never a DWI, and still have my partner.
For me, art is stitching time and place together…. Finding a way to connect the past and future together in some fashion. Whether it that is using a narrative or metaphor.
As I live with HIV, taking multiple medications a day, I think of how the present is connected with the past and how we experience the world. Our senses that we relay on to explain our surroundings and interpret the world are faulty at best. In a way, we all live in Plato’s Cave staring at the shadows on the wall.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
~ Pablo Picasso (source)
Change Your Perspective, Change Your World
I don’t know if I will ever look back at these pages. Probably never will but it is worth taking a minute and reflecting on today. Currently, I’m doing that with a camera and Photoshop… Tomorrow who knows. All I do know is that I find a peace through a camera lens.
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Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” ~ Rumi
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.” ~ Ruby Dee
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” ~ John Lennon
