Yesterday I was very creative at our demonstration table in the museum: my first collage that isn't just paper & paint. There was no audience (people probably used the rare sunshine for outdoor events), but we had fun! Now some small embroidery in gold to finish it. Should I make more collages with textile parts? 🤔 @embroidery@fibrearts@fiberarts
I sketch when I am learning by listening. Otherwise I zone out and do not retain anything. By engaging other parts of my brain (and hands), the bored part wakes up. LOL
Country living serves me well
The big city offers many thrills
But nothing like a warm breeze
Whispering through the pines
Cows serenading each other
Across lush green pastures
An expansive bright blue sky
Caressing a graceful swallow tail
The fragrance of the wisteria
A joy like no other
Scissor Dance: The Menstruum of Silver and Gold, 2009
"How many angels must cry for silver and gold?"
Lenny Kravitz
"I remember a funny dreamer in Leipzig who pretended that gold, which is a pure fire, could not be opened or made potable except by another pure fire. In so saying he was not wrong, and it is so in truth. But I asked him what he understood by the fire that was to dissolve gold. He did not wish to tell me but said that it was a fire that only lights but does not burn. Now I well remembered that Paracelsus also wrote of such a fire, but whether that dreamer understood what was meant by it, I doubt very much, for in such a fire the angels and good spirits are also transformed."
The mother of an astute philosophical thinker once described life as "a box of chocolates". She's right, or course, as most mothers are. When you work on paper, you never know what you're going to get.
Grayson Perry says that your mistakes are your style. Given the amount of mistakes I'm guilty of, I hope it's true.
It doesn't take much, it's true. Sometimes a little is all you need. A little time. A little graciousness. Ten breaths, one after another. A little art. A little music. A few small letters stacked into ten good words: You're ok. You're ok. I promise you, you will be.
I've been thinking about how to draw a distinction between ethical and non-ethical generative #Art
For instance, I like using the bit art & mandelbrot bots to start collages. These are randomly and mathematically derived. Ethical, imo.
Contrast that against the LLM's which are built off of stealing people's labor (sound familiar?). Largely unethical, imo.
Another sort of generative art that I'm involved with is #DataSonification & #Image2BonkWave. These use a copy left python script and open source DAW's producing #CreativeCommons music. Ethical and quite badass, imo.
"Beginning is the hardest step", Carlo Rovelli says. First impressions matter. They are vital. Irreplaceable. There are no second chances at them we're told. But, all art is the art of iterating. Of starting and restarting. Making your mark and making it again…
It's not suffering when you choose the pain over the profit. When you choose the process over the goal. When you choose calluses over tenderness. It's not suffering when you want the hurt more than the reward.