Look What I Found

Culling my many books, clippings, swatches and stones - and the wondrous worldwide web - in search of inspiration, as I do on days when I'm short of it, I came across something of a reminder and, I think, a brilliant one at that. Too bad it wasn't my idea. But there you go, we all have ideas but don't always act upon them. Lee Crutchley, graphic designer, finds quotations, plays with them a bit, scans them and creates art. So if he's been culling his quotation books, at least he's done something amazing with what he's found. I think this one in particular is appropriate for myself and a few of my friends.






Just a little reminder for all of us to take the things that come to us and do something with them, otherwise, no one will know how brilliant we really are....go ahead, be daring....make your art, because what you read on the left in Crutchley's piece, is true....and our talent is a gift....success of any kind only comes when we use our gift. To hell with what people think, make art, don't be a part of the common heap who give up.....and there are many of us.......be brave......

Lee Crutchley, graphic designer (Click here for his flicker set of other quotations......and look at this next one.....

Before you leave this page, take a look at another Crutchley wonder.....and wouldn't it be nice to take words and images and send this message to someone special.....

Namaste'

Creativity Creating

I was so impressed when I discovered this that I had to post it on the blog. This is a perfect example of what creativity/art combined with technology - which is an art in itself - can do for art/artists. I can't think of a better use of talent than the creation of possibilities for other talent to thrive when faced with extreme circumstances. It is a true act of giving just to imagine such an incredible device because to deny an artist the making of their own art, is like taking away their air.....

The EyeWriter - (a simplistic sketch of what is to come is below).....will enable people with ALS and others with only the use of their eyelids to create art......courtesy of F.A.T. - Free Art & Technology...

And you absolutely must check out the direct link to the EyeWriter article at F.A.T. here and view the videos and read the comments about what this will be able to do because I couldn't possibly write anything that would do it justice.....really, its amazing.....



Namaste'

The Forgotten Meaning of Art

If you read the last line of the American Heritage Dictionary definition of ART, you will see that it says:



"A specific skill in adept performance, conceived as requiring the exercise of intuitive faculties that cannot be learned solely by study."


...................that cannot be learned solely by study.



And so there is something else at play when we create, something other than knowledge, something that preceded knowledge, that trumps it, and that lives elsewhere, perhaps in the soul.