Word Tattoo

I invite you to join me on a journey to explore memories of the future.

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One Becomes Three

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2014 ~ The focus was to combine everything together; Artwork, Flying Dolphin Studio and my massage practice. The blog was the playground that everything gathered twice a week to interact and play. The thought process (or at least my understanding of it) was if everything was located in one location it would be easier for me to maintain. This worked out relativity well, until the components started to grow and expand as each required a new distinctive playground.

 

The challenge of 2015 is to pry these apart allowing each to expand and grow in the directions that they need to. This forces me to step back and release my preconceived ideas surrounding what it “should” be.

 

Bottom line is that my ecosphere is now divided into three uniquely different worlds that need nurturing and love in different ways.

But this allows me three different playgrounds in which to visit and explore!

 

What does this mean to you, my audience?

 

You will have several new ways to connect and interact with me. I have listed some of these below. It also means that the next newsletter might take on a different look as it will be much shorter and will only cover information and events of that subdivision… and at some point my website will be split up into two sites:

Artist – Me

Flying Dolphin Studio – Business

 

There is a learning curve…I admit this is a process so it will not be completed all in one day. I invite you to join me and enjoy the journey as we walk the path into 2015 together!

 

 

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Self-Portrait ~ Explored

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There are things as an artists that I am able to do well..and there are many more things I need to learn. One of the these is to create better portraits. The only way for me to do this is through practice and the making of many really bad portraits. To avoid subjecting individuals to this learning curve I am working from photo that was taken of me several months ago.

 

Each month I have worked on a new piece based on this image.  I have worked in pen, pencil and pastel. I wanted to play with different mediums while the subject remained the same. To better track  how they evolved in the process,

 

Below is the original image and the drawings.

 

These are usually things that I do not share with others as I feel these are not works that should never leave the studio.  I view these as stepping stones leading me to fulfill a goal. The creative process is an opportunity for me to go within and learn more about myself the  images created are just a by-product of the process.

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Thought for the day…

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Creativity happens in the spaces between the silence, the quiet of the morning sunrise, the awkward moments when we are lost for words. In the moments of joy and sadness, these are the moments that provide the substance that feeds the inner artist in us all; it is the natural state of humans to create, to question, to be filled with wonder of the unknown. We are always searching for answers to why, what and how, and applying those questions and answers to all parts of our experience. Often it is the questions and the search for the answer that is more important than the answer you find.

 

Go boldly into the world and search for the answers that resonate to your inner-self.

 

Though this process you learn and grow!

 

Creativity takes shape in all different forms; find the one that is true to you.

 

Question Of Time

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Like most artists I spend many hours each week looking at art, exploring what is currently being created, unique techniques and pondering the internal process of different artists. This allows me the opportunity to engage my creative process; exploring other’s work gives me permission to investigate what resonates with me.

 

Call it random, call it kismet but I have been encountering many works that contain clocks or other timepieces within their compositions. In photography I love the notion of an image frozen in time, the minute hand documents this was taken at this time… it will never ever change. The part that I find fascinating is the depiction of this in drawings or paintings where the artists chooses the exact time to be represented.

 

I want to understand the story behind the choice of this exact time. The fragment of the day captured, dawn, mid-day or dusk can be express in the choice of colors and the quality of light. How does the artists choose between, 3:15 or 3:25, random… or a very calculated decision?

 

This question reflects the mirror back upon me and how I have determined the times that I have chosen for my pieces that include timepieces in the past… and my answer is “ It is just what felt correct at the time.” I wonder if that is how most artists determine that which suspends their work in timeless space.

 

Svetoslav Stoyanov - Illusion of time

Svetoslav Stoyanov – Illusion of time