What inspires me?
In short, everything to some degree…
I use my art to illuminate and hopefully make a lingering impact on the viewer. Share with others what I think and see inside and outside of myself.
As an observer, philosopher and alchemist of the moment I ask the following questions define the scope of my work
What is being alive?
What does that mean to me?
What is belief? …faith? How is that applied by myself and other people?
What details do we miss in life? …forgotten? …overlooked? …disregarded? …avoided? …or ugly?
Inspirational artists
Indigenous artists of all cultures from all times. Cave painters of Lascaux and elsewhere. The masters Dali, Escher, Picasso, Rothko, Bacon, Woodroffe, Kuksei, Donatello, Da Vinci, Caravaggio, de Goya, Pissarro, Gaudi, Homer, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Munch, Klimpt, Matisse, Klee, Fuller, Kandinsky, Rivera, Georgia O’Keeffe, van Gogh, Kahlo, Pollock, Warhol, Degas, Brown to name a few, (sorry if you are not on the list and you should be)
Inspirational Styles
Impressionism, surrealism, abstract, photorealistic, tribal, contemporary, sculpture, Expressionistic, idea driven,
Conceptual, subversive / underground, street art, pop art, deconstructive to give an idea, postmodernism, aestheticism.
Science and nature
Natural power like the sea, tides, weather, gravity, moon. sun and stars, volcanoes, evolution.
Minerals, land forms, geology and erosion.
Genetics and Biology sciences.
The big stuff:
Meaning of life, the universe, life, physics, chemistry, God, faith, religion, beleif, memes, family, generations,
the unreal, dreams, human nature (all of it good and bad) shapes, forms, crystallisation, patterns, tessellations,
War, loss, greed, selfish behavior, thoughtlessness,
Great People:
Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi, X, JFK, Mohammed, Tankien, Lennon, Attenborough, Jobs, Roy, Chomsky, Marley, Einstein, Haw, Guevara,
Wallace, Huxley, King to name just a few. (in no particular order)
Concepts
Time
Consciousness
Spirit
Perception
Morality
Ethics
Cognition
Observation of culture.
Self Deception
Awareness
The Oligarchy and their branding, presentation, psychology and information.
Authority and Law
Faith
Media
Spin
Ideology
The unobserved
Manipulation
Digital
Memetics
Post humanism
Technology
Trends
Acceptance (blind or otherwise)
Values
7 Deadly sins – moral characteristics
Vision = Complacency
Integrity = Self obsessed/ Hedonistic
Awareness = distraction
Generosity = Greed
Compassion = hard hearted
Responsibility = Blame
Forgiveness = grudge
Humbleness Humility = egotistical/Pride
Self control = Lust
Zeal = sloth
Faith and temperance = Gluttony
Kindness = Wrath anger
Love = Envy/ hate
Educate – ignorance (Is bliss)
Sacrifice = Selfish
Charity = Stinginess
Responsibility – Denial / Blame /excuse
Embracing growth and inner change = Stubborn attachment to the familiar
Seek the light and gift in others = gossip and acknowledgment of the darkness
Solutions of the heart
Sharp mind – strong body – soft heart
Heart mind intention are one
Love and Utopia:
Leadership values
Deep love for the people
Genuine desire to meet the needs of the people
Happiness of the majority
Lasting valuer and long term results
Philosopher – seek truth and essence
Access to higher truths and values
Lead from the inside out, introspective
Contemplative, Character driven,
led by ethics and moralities
Self controlled
Principle centered ” Truth, piety, Love”
Universal principles
Visionary – big picture thinker
Past – present – future
Future focused – what does it mean for the future?
Engage others according to their propensities.
Educate to liberate
Time and space place and people:
Synchronicity
Serendipity
Epiphany
Paradigm shift
Providence
Coincidence
6 degrees of integration
Ask it will be given
Living in the past or the future makes it hard to see the present.