Many cultures and religions have a major holiday that coincides with this time of the year. That is because it is the winter solstice, the annual celestial event around which our ancestors invented traditional superstitious practices to celebrate an end to the darkening of days and breaking through barriers between the physical and spiritual world.
Contrary […]
I was embarrassed to show this painting until I realized how I could fix it.
One of the creative advantages that I am discovering as I create more artworks digitally is the infinite possibilities for testing variations.
I painted Threshold #5 over 10 years ago. There are many things I really like about this painting – like the […]
Awakening #6 is a new original print that I just finished. My usual way of creating these is to start with an image of a painting and rework it in Affinity Photo – my preferred image editing software – and merge in some astronomical photos. It is a fun process that can lead to unexpected discoveries that […]
To determine how space sculpts itself, physicists describe its shape using triangles and their higher-dimensional analogs. To see how this works, first consider that triangle is 2 dimensional and is the simplest shape that can be made in 2 dimensions. A tetrahedron is the 3-dimensional form of a triangle, […]
This new artwork presents two slightly different views of the same cosmic event seen as if through a bifocal lens.
As with all my work, there is are metaphysical and personal development implications. The mystically inclined among us may see an illustration of “As Above, So Below”. Or perhaps this will remind you that when you are faced […]
Etic Landscape #5 is a brand new painting, the latest in my series of landscapes. (A discernible horizon makes for a landscape because I say so.)
To me, it looks like it might be someplace real. Maybe a place in another galaxy or maybe someplace in another reality in the multiverse where the physical laws are not the […]
We are living in crazy times. New times. Things have changed and we are all going to be doing things differently from now on.
Artists too.
Most of us are finding ourselves spending more time at home than ever before. Working from the dining table, full-time parenting, or just staying in instead of going out..
All that time inside and […]
The impressions that I have of an etic reality go through my own filters.
Getting back to the anthropological roots of etic and emic: those who study indigenous culture can’t ever be in that culture to experience it. They can try to imagine what it would be like and they may even get the opportunity to talk […]
In the process of developing my art, I first get a vision of an energy dynamic or physical presence that is from an etic perspective. This information is not necessarily understandable – because I am outside its defining parameters – but it does make an impression that I feel necessary to bring forth into this physical reality.
I […]
Xanadu Gallery of Scottsdale, Arizona has selected my recent painting Soul Mates #7 for the cover of their latest catalog and prominently on their homepage.
Xanadu Gallery is all about selecting outstanding and eclectic artwork. In the legendary city of Xanadu (from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem) Kubla Kahn gathered the finest art and treasures from the […]
By popular demand (Joe Popular of Nyack, NY demanded it), I am making my recent painting, Soul Mates #7, available as a reproduction for affordable purchase by the rabid fans of The Mindstream, the up and coming prog-pop/space-blues/rock musicians that commissioned their debut album cover art from me.
I am happy to make these reproductions […]
The move to the new studio is complete and a blank canvas beckons.
I may have had the vision already and maybe it is yet to come as I work, but every new canvas is an intimidating invitation to creativity.
And not just a blank canvas but also a freshly painted wall and pristine floor.
I am hesitating to get […]
It’s not a big secret that I get inspiration from astronomical pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope and even use them liberally in my digital collage prints. (It’s all ok. They are paid for by tax dollars and therefore in the public domain.)
Inyo is a Paiute word for “where dwells the Great Spirit.”
At a time of personal crisis, the context for my artwork was gifted to me by the higher spirits on a three-day fasting Vision Quest in the Inyo National Forest in the high desert of California.
Up there alone in the mountains, I was impressed by […]
In the rush to announce the winning entry earlier this week, I neglected to say anything about why I picked “Fibonacci’s Eye”.
Fibonacci was a 13th-century mathematician that popularized the system of written numbers that we use today. He is probably best known now among Sacred Geometry aficionados.
I use many spirals in my artwork and […]
I know I want this to be one of my triangle based paintings. Here I am trying to decide how I want to orient the triangle. That’s a piece of paper I am holding in front of the canvas that enables me to better visualize various alignments.
Sometimes I know before I start a painting what it will […]
Sometimes the hardest part in creating art is coming up with a good title that is engaging and gives insight into my process or invites contemplation. I’m looking for fresh titles.
So…
Give your ideas for a title for this print. The winner is entirely up to me and will receive a free print provided they have a domestic USA […]
Have you ever had the insight that a dollar bill has absolutely no inherent value or meaning other than what we attribute to it? It’s just some ink on a small piece of paper.
Even the specific patterns of the ink on the paper – the numbers, words, and pictures – only have meaning when we agree that […]
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