Artist Must Gather To The Urgency
On The Angst Of A Whisper
Silent Perspectives -- Art And Environment
Contemporary Abstract Expressionist--Feral Expressionism
What A Nice, Neat Little Self Contained World We Live In...............Everything In Its' Proper
Place, What We Think, Say And Do Controlled By Heirarchy Of Human "Reason"........Little Room For Difference...........Unknowns
Placed In A Box Labeled "Don't Touch"...........Belief Is Imposed And Rigidly Controlled.........Anything Otherwise Would
Be Heresy, Wouldn't It?.........Another "Uniqueness" Of A Singular Species Found On This Planet Earth......One Wonders Why
We Always Refer To The "Dark Ages" In The Past Tense............One Wonders About A Lot Of Things When One Spends Even A Modicum
Of Time In Nature.......Out There, Yes, There Is An "Order" To Things, Even In Chaos...............But It Is An Everchanging,
Evolving Order.........It Doesn't Resist Unknown...........It Accepts It.........It Does Not Deny Anything New Or Different.....Indeed,
It Is Welcome And, If Useful, Assimilated Into That Vast Harmonious Order...........Things Adapt And Change Constantly.............That
Which Does Not, Is Lost To The Aeons
Southern Artist--Shotgun Art
Contemporary Painting--Abstraction
Ever Wonder What Life Would Be Like If There Were No Artist?.............No Art?.........No
Music?...............No Song?...........No Dance?...........No Image?.........No Word?.............It Should Be Our Identity............Our
Legacy............And Our Tribute And Offering To Something Far Greater Than Our Individual Selves
Rainforest
Typical Four Square Mile Area
1500 Species Of Flowering Plants
750 Species Of Trees
125 Species Of Mammals
400 Species Of Birds
100 Species Of Reptiles
60 Species Of Amphibeans
150 Species Of Butterlies
These Oldest Living Ecosystems On Earth Have Existed For 70-100 Million Years......They Are
Being Destroyed At A Rate Of 50 Million Acres Per Year
Art And Evolution
Someone On This Planet Is Dying At This Very Instant Of Hunger............What Did You Have
For Lunch Today?
The Evening Was Brilliant............And The Water's Calm.....................Smooth.........And
Shimmering..............As A Perfectly Formed Tear.............Was A Fine Tribute................Yes It Was...............Soliloquy.........Notes...........
.............Presence...............Silence
Abstract Expressionism--Icon And Myth
Redundant, Redundancy, Profusion, Abundance, Prolixity, Needless Repetition, Superfluous, Excess,
Repetition, Profuse, Lavish, Repetitious, Contemporary Art
If Agriculture Uses 70 Percent Of The World's Water Supply And Population Is Expected To Increase
By 1.8 Billion By 2025, Then, Well, Er, Ah.............Enough Said
Falling(Failing) To Its' Own Gravity........Swiftly...............Without Remorse Even..............A
Compressional Absurdity Reflecting The Same..............And When Light(Or Particle) Can No Longer Escape.........Begin Anew...............Lateral
Progression...........Non Specific Answers.................Detail..............And Light Of Darkness
In Rainforest
Present Extinction Rates Of Mammals Are 100 Times The Natural Rate Of Extinction Without Human
Intervention(Natural Rate Of Extinction For Mammals Would Be One Every 200 Years)......In The Past 400 Years, 89 Extinctions
Have Occurred(50 Of Those Occurred In The Past Century) Overall Species Extinction Rates May Be Up To 1000 Times Natural Rate
Of Extinction
There Is This Place..............Of Mellifluous Intent...............Far,
Far Away.............And Yet So Near..............Floating With Grace And Peace Amid The Chaos Of Destiny.........Evolving
To Its' Own Measure, Point By Vertical Point........Secure In What Does Not Exist But Is Yet To Be.............Secure In Rightness
Of Place(Space) And Dimension...............Secure In The Silent Detail Of Consciousness
Nearly Half The World's Population Lives On Less Than $2 A Day
Sometimes It Would Seem That Thought Can Be As Deceptive As Form Itself.........Indeed, Dogma............One's
Myths Become One's Singular Pursuit To Exclusion Of All Else.........Recognition Of Such Proclaims That Central And Essential
Necessity(Kandinsky?) So Intrinsic To Thought, Idea, Energy And Self Realization
Can You Honestly Say You Are Contributing More To This Planet Than The Single Little Honey
Bee?
What Final Glory Do You Pass Through En Route To The Understood?..............What Passions?.............What
Ecstasies?.........Do You Give Yourself Freely To Reinvention?....Or Do You Retain The Obnoxious Core Of Self Deceit?...........Do
You Rejoice In Tribute As You Pass Silently Into The Shadow Of Fine Uncertainty?............Do You?
Only The Fool "Knows" Anything With Certainty
No Thing.............Nothing............Is Finite.......Yet We Insist On Our Unique Blunder.........That
Would Be The Melancholy Of Insistent Idea, Wouldn't It?.................Security.................Sweet Security....................But
Secure In What?.........(Finite Finality!)
Interesting Developments This Month………………Much Of It Still Being Assimilated…….Thought-Idea
Rules……………..Energy The Conduit……..Would Appear To Be Dealing With Something Outside(Separate
Branch) My Developmental Stream………..But Then Again, Perhaps Not……………….Often
It Just Takes Me A While To "Catch Up" To The Work(Chalk That One Up To This Simple Human Mind Of Mine)…………Also
Much Of The Imagery "Wild", "Get In Your Face" Sort Of Work……………Contrasting, Clashing, Use Of
Color………………….Some Of It "Muddy", Undefined……………….And
Definitely "Garish"(A Seasonal Episode?)……………Also Tearing, Shredding, And Cutting More…………It
Is With Certainty That I Love These Periods Of Uncertainty!
DoDa
Also Difficult To Keep Up With Technical Developments…………..But Then Again, They Do
Seem To "Appear" As I Need Them……………….Unexpected(Where Did This Come From?) And Well Meant
For The Occasion……………….Rather Like "Magic" This Unconscious Stream Of Invention
DoDa
The Lushness Of Spring Is All About Me…………………(And Within Me)………..The
Countless Shades Of Green Punctuated With Outrageous Colors Of Flowering Plants And Shrubs, Wild And Domestic……………And
The Choruses!!!………..What A Delight!!!………..From Before Light To Dark, My Feathered Friends
Treat Me To Their Many Symphonies Of Ecstatic Sound……..And My Friends The Frogs And Toads, Always Off In The Distance
Proclaiming The Pure Innocence Of Beauty And Being………….And My Particular Friends, The Bird Voice Tree
Frogs(My Little Chopins’)………..Late In The Afternoon, When Sun Is Obscured By The Now Dense Green Canopy,
A Grand Chorus So Intense That One Becomes(Resonates To) Part Of The Sound…………Barely Touching The
Surface Here………….So Much Going On About Me…………Every Moment Of The Day Presents
Little Wonders……………….Eastern Bluebirds In The Magnolias, Carolina Chickadees Gathering
Nest Materials, Cedar Waxwings Raiding My Pear Tree For Blossoms, Hummingbirds Delighting Only As They Can, Snakes Emerging
From Their Slumber(Gators And Turtles Too!), Still Sluggish And "Sleepy"…………..Oh Hell, This Could
Go On And On And On………………The Pure Beauty Of It All!………….And The
Simplicity……………There Are No Mysteries To The Simple Grandness Of Life And Being……..Within
This Elemental Fact Is The Wonder Of Everything…………..Within This Construct Is The Silent Comfort And
Warmth………….Of…………..Connection
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