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Dialogues With Nature
We Are All Ordinary Humans With Extraordinary Abilities Locked Deep Within Us..............Nature
Is The Key, The Source, To Unlock That Gift.............Open The Dialogue
Catalyst - Concept - Creation
Contemporary Abstract Artist
Contemporary Abstract Expressionist--Feral Expressionism
New Species
Deeply Connected To Nature
New Species
Extremely Conscious
...........With Necessary Intelligence To Serve That Consciousness
New Species
Sensitive, Caring, Giving, Loving
New Species
Ability To Transcend Space-Time Through Non Technical Means
New Species
Ability To Evolve-Change As Development Suggest And Directs
New Species
Cooperative, Not Competitive
.........Extremely Sensitive To Interaction To All, Everything
New Species
Knowledgeable Of Belief And Inevitability Of Change Of Belief
New Species
In Constant Dialogue With Nature
New Species
Homo(?) ?
Post Contemporary--Art Of The Future
Truths--World Without Art
Love It When Its Like This............A Brief Silence Following A Thunderstorm........The Only
Sound That Of The Blade Slicing Through The Water...........Leaves Glisten..............And Release Droplets To The Water
Below......Forming.............Perfect Little Waves Reaching Ever Outward In Concentric Circles, Creating Orbits..............The
Thunder Retreats To The Distance...............Its' Sound Soon To Be Replace By The Sweet Chorus Of Tree Frogs, Cicadae, Crickets
And Of Course The Feathered Ones......................But For This Instant............This Brief Instant Of Wonder.........The
Silence Is Mine To Explore
--Life On The River
Truths--Species Extinction? (Us)
Nature Really Holds No Mysteries........We Often Like To Think It..............A Useful Notion,
One Presumes, When We Do Not Understand, Can't Explain, Something............But It All Is Right There In Front Of Us..............We
Simply Have To Open The Mind To Perceived Concepts And Ideas.............No, It Is Not An ABC, Black And White World...............Can
One Assign An Algorithm To Consciousness?.......Or Unconsciousness?...............Can One Explain The Source Or Even The Reason
Of Life(Death Too For That Matter) Itself?.........If Source Is Infinite, Then So Too Is Reason............I Digress...........Only
Energy Of Mind, No Vehicle, No Instrument, Can Venture To The Edges Of The Universe(S)(Figure Of Speech)......Only The Mind
Can Turn "Mystery" Into Reality
Abstract Painting--Creative Evolution
The World Grows Warmer..............Storms Intensify.........Waters' Rise............And Still,
Yes, The Sunsets(Sunrises Too!) Are Magnificent.......Just This One Simple Little Wonder Of Nature Should Make Us Pause And
Reflect On The Precious Gifts Of This Wonderful Little Planet.......Everything, Everything, We Do Is Made Possible By Natural
Bounty.............Vehicles, Fuel, Food, Drink, Your Cell Phone, The Paper You Wipe Your Butt With........Oh, Hell.........This
List Is Endless..................Point.....................Why Do We Betray What Sustains Us?.........Have We Become Such
A Selfish, Consumptive Society That We Literally Are Going To Consume Ourselves To Death?.............There Is An Enormous
Urgency Presently...............We Are Coming Face To Face With Ourselves And What We Have Become.......Will We Look Into
That Vast Mirror With Yes, Brutal, Honesty And Take Appropriate Action And, Yes, Behavior...........How Many More Sunsets
Will We Witness?
Art--Medium--Mind--The Freedom To Create
Contemporary Painting--Abstraction
New Chapter
Harmonious Planet
Where
No One Is Hungry
All Species And Elements Are Respected
.............And Treated So
New Chapter
Where
No One Dies Of Malice, Greed, Anger Or Ideology
Where
Disease Does Exist
But Only By Necessity
New Chapter
Healthy Planet
Where
Cooperation Is The Norm
And Truth
Sensitivity And Mindfulness Prevail
New Chapter
Immediately Available!
We Belong To The Earth
Tend To It Carefully
And You Will Have Carefully Tended To Yourself
Southern Artist--Shotgun Art
Nature Has Many Voices...........A Multitude Of Ways To Reveal Of Herself.........To Express........To
Speak............To Communicate Through A Mutual And Shared(If Allowed) Consciousness..............We As A Species Are Limited
In Our Sensory Abilities........We Have Been Given What We "Need" In The Context Of Our Evolution.............But Our Perceptions
Can Range Far Beyond That..........Dialogue With Nature Provides All The "Tools" We Need........(And Close Observation Of
Everything, Everywhere)..............It Is Simply A Matter Of Opening One's Mind To What Is Already There........Allowing
The Conscious Energy Of Nature To Communicate With One's Own........You Know That Almost Magical Feeling You Get When Walking
In A Forest Or Paddling A River, Etc.........That's Nature Speaking Directly To You........Listen.......Listen Carefully...........You
Can Reply.......Converse With Her.....................She Will Listen
Abstract Artist--Art, Nature, Logic, Wonder
It Is A Special Place, Isn't It?.........This Earth.....This Tiny Little Planet, One Of Many
Orbiting Around One Of Many Suns........Such A Wonder, This Living Little Sphere.......Guess One Could Think Of It As The
Embodiment Of "Life".........Pulsing And Growing, Changing And Evolving...........Like So Many Countless Others Out There
In A Seemingly(Yet Maybe Not) Vast Universe(S) Caught On The Edge Of A Precarious Sustaining Orbit...........A Few Million
Miles, One Way Or The Other, And, We Would Not Be............Nature Would Be Left To Chance On Other Shores........But We
Are And In That Single Little Fact We Should Find, Keep, And Spread Joy.........Of Nature.........Of Life
Cease Attempts To Control Nature And One Will Have Regained Control Of Oneself.....Artist Particularly
Are Prone To This "Controlling" Vulnerability............How Often Does One Hear The Term "Control Of Materials"?........One
Can Teach A Monkey To "Control Materials"..............Nothing New Here Though...Artist, Humans, Have Been Attempting To Control
Nature And Environs For Several Thousand Years..............Freedom(Particularly Of Expression), True Freedom, Can Only Be
Found When One Drops This Unique Impulse Of Control And Allows The Wonder And Yes, Truly Creative Connection With Nature To
Manifest Itself In Its Myriad Forms........But The Connection Must Be Made.......One Must Be A Part...............Then, It
Is Not A Matter Of "Following Nature's Lead"......It Is A Matter Of Following One's Connected Heart, Mind And Total Being..And
Today It Is Much More A Matter Of Necessity.......To Take K A Step Further.........A Matter Of Inner Urgency...........Oops.......Off
On A Tangent........Guess What I'm Getting To Is Drop The Control, Live With Nature And All That It Has To Offer...........Experience
Of The Wilderness And You Will Experience The Vast Uncharted Wilderness Within Yourself
In My World Art And Nature Are Synonymous............Creation, Creativity.......Nature Is The
Ultimate Creator......Always Striving, Seeking, Creating, Evolving..............Always Seeking "Perfection" But Never Attaining
It, For No Such Thing Can Ever Occur In An Ever Expanding Universe(S)............If One's Dialogue Is With Nature First, Then
The Remainder, As An Artist, Is Easy......Connection With Nature Is Source........Amazingly, Things(Perception, etc) Become
As Simple As Nature Herself.......Pursuit Is No Longer A "Goal"...It Is A Simple And Very Profound Reality
My Friends Weren't About Yesterday........Too Hot!.........Probably Laid Up In The Shade At
Bank's Edge Somewhere.............Only Eyes And Nostrils Sticking Up Above The Water.......But That's O.K........Above Them,
In The Branches, Prothonotary Warblers, Blue Grey Gnatcatchers And My Other Cast Of Characters Were Busy At Work Making A
Living..............Odd To Think About The Connection Between The Two............My Scaled Reptilian Friends Basking In The
Coolness Of The River While Their Semi Scaled Cousins Feed Above..............Odd To Think That Both Descended From The Same
Once Extraordinary Life Forms..........Odd To Think That We Too Descended From Something In That Post Episodic Mix..........Before
That Even............And Before That.................Until There Was Nothing..............Yet, Yet Before That Even.........For
There Was Nature's Consciousness...............As My Friends In The Trees And Branches, Busy At Work, Creating, Developing,
"Making A Living"
--Life On The River
Art And Evolution
The United States Gives(Of The Wealthiest Nations, The Lowest Percentage In The World) One
Tenth Of One Percent Of Its Gross Domestic Product To Foreign Aid............Put Another Way, Less Than One Half A Percent
Of The U.S. Budget Goes To Foreign Aid.......We Have Ample Resources To Stop World Hunger.......And.....Take On Many Of The
World's Problems, From Disease, Basic Rights Of Humanity To Natural Disaster...........Have We Completely Lost The Gift Of
Caring?
Pastoral, Coastal, Tropical, Alpine........Images Which Reflect A Quality..............An Ideal.......People
Plan Vacations Around Them......Indeed, Envision Lives In Such Settings...........So Why Do We Allow Their Continued And Unabated
Destruction?
How Many Times And Ways Can The Expression "Art Is Life, Life Is Art" Be Noted.........So True
Though..............So Very, Very True...........Life, Life Style, Thought, Idea, Feeling Should Be Much Greater As An Art(Creative)
Form(Expression) Than Any Image, Note, Word, Movement Or Form.......One's Product(S) Are Simply An Expression Of One's Life..............Indeed,
"Product" Truly Isn't Necessary...........Creative Thought IS
Quietness Of Morning
Like
Before Life Even
Like
Before Light
...........Darkness Even
Like
Reflection
.............Without Thought Even
Like
That Period Of Transition
(Illumination)
...........Between
Existance
And
Non Existance
Like
End
...........And Beginning
Renewal
This Month Marks The End Of A Full Year Of Monthly Reviews Of Imagery Produced……….Must Admit
That It Has Been An Excellent Method For Tracking Evolution-Development Of Work…………..Can Now See Some
Months Took A Lateral Branch On The Developmental Tree, Which Is, Of Course, As It Should Be…………..They
Do Have Significance In My Growth And Were Contributory Yet Not Part Of The Flow Of The Whole………….Let’s
Call Them Experiments…………..As In Nature, One Is Necessity Bound To Attempt Different Methods, Procedures,
Forms And Images…………The Body Of Work As A Whole Reflects Grandly My Dialogue With Nature…………..Reflects
Grandly My Life, Thoughts, Ideas And Ideals……………..It Is A Fine Time……………Indeed……A
Very Fine Time
DoDa
Expressionism, Abstract, Abstraction, Plastic, Non Objective, Non Representational, Neo, Geo, Homo, Anthro,
Ic, Ism, Itic, Ite……………One Would Reckon That Such Terms, Prefixes-Suffixes, Would Have Some
Degree Of Relevance……..Certainly Do As Far As Categorization Within A Website…………..Or
Book Even For That Matter……..(Even Though Their Usage May Well Be Totally Incorrect)………..Humans
Do Enjoy Having Things In Neat Little Boxes, Don’t They?………..Adds A Degree Of Finiteness Thus "Understandability"….Do
Think That Any Word Which "Categorizes" Art Should Have A Question Mark After It………Admittedly, I Am One
Of Those Humans Who Enjoy "Playing" With Words………….A Few Of Them Even Used In Their Own Well Meant
Context(But Very Few)……But Their Relevance And Importance Must Be Tempered With Topical Interest Only……………….For
All Present Belief Is Destined To Be Future Myth
DoDa
I Do So Desperately Wish That I Could Have The Same Respect And Admiration For My Own Species As I Do For
All My Many Friends In The Wild
DoDa
Life On The River………………At The Edge Of The Swamp…………Dialogues
And Conversations…………….Ethereal Connection…………Sublime Determinations………Manifestations
And Realizations…………Moment………By…….And To……………..Moment…………..The
Sweetness Of A Silent Mist On A Late Afternoon…….The Joy Of Sound…….Thunder, Wind In The Leaves, Calls
In The Night………One’s Own Breath………………….The Constancy of
Exchange……The Constancy Of Idea And Dialogue………….The Constant Passing Of Energy And Idea
Between One………And The Other…………….The Richness Of Reciprocal Experience…….And
Nature’s Consciousness Is One’s Own……………
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