I work with soft pastels en plein air. Because my 'studio' is outdoors on location, I tend to choose perfect days when the day itself seems to tell you stop everything and come look closer at the world. A blue sky day when the air is crisp, the light is shimmering. All of us should listen to that call, because perfect days are like a string of pearls...a precious treasure.
26 Jan, 2006
The Country of Time
Thoughts about
time. I was thinking that perhaps time itself stands still.
We think time is
passing
but it is really just us passing through.
We are MOVING through time like a car
driving through the country of time.
We move through different states,
past, present, future.
The past continues to exist once we pass through it.
What state was that, and how do we get back to it?
I was also thinking about future selves and past selves...
that my child self is truly a separate person
from who I am now.
Does the future exist before we get there?
The person that I am now...
as a child, was I able to sense that person?
Can I sense who I will become in the next 30 years?
What kind of communication is there between selves
future, past, probable or improbable?
Perhaps though, time itself is not completely static.
Perhaps it changes and moves at a different rate than we do.
Like geologic time versus human time versus insect time.
Being able to feel time itself moving
depends on your size.
Our small size does not allow us to feel the earth moving.
The earth itself is also moving through time on its own journey.
So think of time like a place, and how it is
when you go back to a town that you haven't been to in a few years.
It never is quite the way you remember it.
The place of time also changes its shape.
The past is before us, ahead of us, not behind us.
It is as though we are walking backwards to the future.
We can only see the past.
We rarely turn around for glimpses of the future.
We are surrounded by the past.
TV, newspapers, everything we see and read is already past.
Turn around.
19 Aug, 2005
WHAT'S A PAINTING WORTH?
What's a painting worth?Well, that depends. What are the benefits of art? To cover a crack in
the wall? To impress your clients? Is art an object of commerce or
contemplation?
The art materials themselves aren't worth much, but don't forget the
frame, the artist, overhead and gallery commission. Does that
signature say Picasso, or Joe Schmoe? Even a bad Picasso is worth a
hundred times more than a good Schmoe, right? How do we explain that a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, who never made a dime while he was
alive, is bought a hundred years after his death for sixty million
dollars by a huge Japanese corporation and locked away in a
climate-controlled vault? (More)
