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Repository 164: Modeling Your Creative Process After a Banana Slug in 2015
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus Last year I suggested that our culture needs some more dirt in 2014 – dirt being the handmade, the intuitive, the messy bits of life. In a flattened, photoshopped, smooth, screen-based environment the soul of our being – the messy and complex part of it – needs…
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Repository 26: On Black and White, Urgency and the Seduction of Color
Over the years I’ve worked with many colors – been seduced by the art of mixing a color, and overwhelmed by the effect colors have on one another and the energy they create. They repeatedly seduce – distract it seems. I’ve always thought that the Impressionists’ work – the impressions of what they first see – is deceptive. Color directly out of the tube is sensational for sure, but first impressions rarely last. And why is it when I am…
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