Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”
~ Niccolo Machiavelli (source)
Spring 2012—Lake Harriet
The fun and excitement with teaching is that you never stop learning. What’s even more exciting, I get to learn from my students.
Why art changes lives? Because we can express our laughter, we can express our tears, we can express our madness, we can express our fears, we can express our hopes, we can express our screams, we are the artists and art gives us the strength to grow into our dreams.”
~ Bill Hendricks (source)
Art Can Change Lives... 'Cause...
As a teacher, I see art changing lives daily. Some found new careers but most found happiness and direction. Lucky me.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man’s nature.”
~ Ayn Rand (source)
A Selective Re-Creation of Reality
A great quote for these images that I place here—tied to reality, then built with an algorithm that places each in time divided by space. A photograph at its essence is a vehicle to catch a memory, a mood, or moment. These images found in my blog use the photograph as the under-painting and then I apply technique that searches for the essence of feeling and mood that speaks through a visual vocabulary that is held there. It pushes the image to move beyond the seen to the unseen.
Today is a birthday of sorts for me and my blog. My one year birthday of capturing images and developing a process that ties place, heart, and soul together. A prayer of sorts, moments of solace, and reflection focused by Lake Harriet and her shores with images taken on my travels… As shadows passing over the landscape… These images attest to my finite existence.
Thank you to those that following Art Changes Lives (Dot) Com and check infrom time to time.
Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose-with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.”
~ Millard Sheets (source)
An Upward Gaze, Along the shores of Superior, Tofte, Minnesota
I read once that our sight evolved to look down at path we follow and level with the horizon to search for prey but I found looking up yields the most spectacular designs. Even if you stumble over a few stones now and again it is worth the look-see.
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
Perception is not Reality
Found a few minutes to look through my photographs and post this photo and quote. The quote came from Brainy Quotes. and I search out a quote specifically to do with Gestalt Theory since we are talking about it in my courses this week.
I am looking forward to being back and working more on my sites.
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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
