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junior
tundra
nigh nigh
overman
trapped tapes
fast story lines
in a cement garden we go round
to round
we go garden
before learning
nominating no more
How long have you been an artist? This kid has been an artist since day one :)
Why are you an artist? To expand. To understand. To wonder. To be.
Is
there one particular artist or any person that helped you along the way? A role model? A source of encouragement? There
is one artist, Dave McKean, that had a huge impact on me during my teenage years when I was going through a lot of inner
turmoil. His fragmentations and distortions seemed to parallel how I was feeling. They inspired a sense of wonder
in me and led me to open my eyes to the possibilities of creation. The dark and the light came together in his work,
which I admired as a genuinely loving and bright person who also felt drawn to welcome and understand his dark side.
I also found his art connected to a lot of my favorite music, he was making cd covers for a lot of bands that I liked…his
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swan understood
What
is your favourite medium? Please describe your techniques. I am open to any medium,
whatever suits the art best in whatever form its arriving in at the time. Right now I'm using a simple blue ballpoint
pen. I'm using it as a way to pacify desire for things. It is helping me to remember to always be whole right now,
in the process, and not to get lost in wishing for more in a future moment. As for technique, it comes without thinking
when I'm not desiring any outcome. Read on for more on that… |
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strong arm
Do you have a ritual that you go through before, after or during the creative process? Something that helps
you work? To begin, I make a distinction between what I imagine and the art that is made. I remind myself
that what I imagine may inform my action, but it is not my action. In this distinction I find the openness to let go
of planning and needing to desire for outcome. I then let go of the entire process and just exist in that state of not
needing and I go on to make the art. The art is weightless then and happens naturally, effortlessly. I don't
feel attached to what I make so that anything can happen. I am not emotionally trying to control it or force it to fit
a mold I've imagined I desire. Forms appear naturally in the art at all angles, animals and faces and meditative posturings.
Its wonderful. I can say that meditation and inner exploration have been highly influential in my artistic development. |
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the wisest lover
Have you ever felt like giving up? If so, what kept you going? I was temporarily paralyzed
from the neck down a few years ago due to an illness and during that time there were certainly moments of futility and helplessness
that brought me very close to feeling like giving up on life. Why me? I asked that question a thousand times in
desperation and the only answer I ever received was in the form of loving care around me. It came from people in the
hospital, from family and friends and even strangers… and from deep inside of me. That signaled me after I recovered
to see what was truly informing my reality, the love that abounds. So I gave myself to it and let it drive me and this
is where I am now, being who I am fearlessly. That includes being the artist.
To someone who wants to travel the path you're traveling, do you have any advice?
Be. Let life happen naturally by hearing what your heart needs you to be, allowed. Stop fearing and stop expecting.
Fear paralyzes seeing movement for what it is, a signal to understand what you are, being. Expectation leads to disappointment
and exterminates wonder. We use wonder to be creators. Love. |
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color wheel
As
an artist, what is your biggest source of frustration? Desire…wishing to have, wishing
to keep, wishing to hold. All desire ever does is signal me not to desire anyway, it just reminds me of how boundless
we truly are.
As an artist, what's your biggest
source of satisfaction? Being. Seeing creation in existence happen. Knowing we all
gain from seeing openness in expression happen around us, whether it is in the form of artwork or a loving gesture.
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cygnet
If you could visit
a certain period of history to observe the art and artists, which era would you choose and why? I would definitely
go to the time of the cave painters…like 30, 000 years ago? I would love to know what they were really like and
what was truly inspiring them to create those images. How did they perceive their world? How did they feel about
what they were doing? Did they imagine how far these images would transport us? It would be wondrous to observe a painting
being made deep in a cave with only a flickering flame to illuminate the journey.
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