Recently, after painting 28 paintings in 36 days, i took a step back, and a day off, to reflect on the whole creative process and how these physical manifestations of one's self become internalized and recontextualized by different individuals. At a recent exhibit opening, i had several people come up to me and ask me why this and why that? Why these color or images versus another one, etc.
Quite frankly, it does not matter the meaning i choose for a particular piece. one sets about with one idea but slowly and gradually it transfixes and transforms me in the process and the final product is independent from its initial intended purpose. In many regards, it is like a child, whom a parent rears and attempts to guide down a certain path only to realize that that child chooses its own path and own destiny though it may pattern its behavior off of their parent...
...let inspiration guide you and do not confine it simply to your own limited frames of reference...
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness"
~Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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