Painting, particularly in oils. . .I am intrigued by natural structure and elemental form as subject matter and the ways I might be able to abstract that in the visual images I create, using different methods of photography as a starting point (well, actually, the starting point is in my mind, and photography is a bridge between my mind and the canvas)"Since existence is prior to essence, the existential individual at every moment confronts the nothingness of existence. TRANSCENDENCE OCCURS WHEN THE INDIVIDUAL UNDERTAKES A PROJECT THAT WILL GIVE MEANING TO HIS OR HER LIFE. While such acts are individually subjective, they are intertwined with everyone else's reality. NO ACT, OR FAILURE TO ACT, IS WITHOUT LARGER MEANING AND CONTEXT. Most individuals are afraid to confront the responsibility entailed by radical freedom. Existentialism, initiated with the subjective despair of the individual, ends with an ethic founded upon the shared goal of human solidarity."Poetry, Edward Gorey, snow storms, Alphonse Mucha, Frank Lloyd Wright, very large drops of rain, collaboration between like minded individuals, words like "sublingual" and Tappanzee,Archaeology, the sound of the ocean, stimulating and even animated discussion, Philosophy, visiting Art Museums, laughing out loud, Photography, good friends, telescopes, microscopes, Foreign Travel, Genealogy
But also creative, open-minded people willing to share the colors between the black and white . . .ARISTOTLE, Buddha ~ any and all amoungst us, Mother Nature, Andrew Wyeth, Ernest Hemingway, Christopher Walken, the lyrical genius Bob Dylan, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gloria Steinem . . . Jung, Joseph Campbell, Sartre and Simone, Foucault, Thomas Aquinas, but especially Joseph Campbell . . . anyone who worked at Zanzibar Blue in the early 90's - before the move to Broad Street . . . anyone else who grew up overseas in a diplomatic environment . . .
I appreciate her healing power in multiple and various forms . . .
"The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images" ~Camille Paglia
same as above :)
Joseph Campbell: The Hero With A Thousand Faces, the Masks of God Series, the Power of Myth; Julia Cameron: "Vein of Gold" and "The Artist's Way", Sophie's World, Arisotle's Ethics, Karl Marx, The Feminine in Fairytales (von Franz), Tulku: Gesture of Balance and Dynamics of Time and Space, War and Peace (Tolstoy), Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce), ANYTHING by Hemingway, Doctor Zhivago (Pasternack), Bob Dylan Lyrics, Georgia O'Keeffe biographies, Sylvia Plath poetry - as well as anything by T.S. Eliot, Le Carre, Agatha Christie . . . books by James A. Michener . . . Art Books, I love Art Books, especially with respect to museum collections and exhibitions . . .
Gloria Rocks. "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry" . . .People who are honest - everyday - which is not always easy, I know . . . anyone who stands up for what they believe in with a logical argument . . . And Kids - it takes some courage to get through being a kid sometimes, it's all new and unknown, sometimes scary . . . remember?