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Random Notes from the ole' journal, or from one of them ...


I'm trying to pull together notes to re-evaluate my artist statement and focus in on why I do what I do.

My mind balances differently in the morning.  I can notice a shift.  Can you?  It seems freer and more on point.  But, my rational mind takes over.  It seems so peaceful, more like a perspective on what to do, not what TO DO.  Logical brain takes over, I'm slipped back into rationality.  Putting everything back into a fixed context, perspective.

Dreaming and the waking mind is so relaxed, the ebb and flow do not follow the linear lines.  Process.

Create products that we love and want around us ...

Why do I create art?

I read this somewhere, just not sure of the source, oops. "The more successful, the more there is in terms of documentation, explanatory, analysis, understanding.  They'll want to know "why".  They'll know what they are doing and why they are doing it, where they are going."

Contemplating the course of my artistic experience is harder than it may seem.  There is a lot of dreaming and analizing and critiquing and so forth.  It really doesn't stop, ever.  The ideas, the visions, the hopes of what to create seem endless and there is not enough time in the day.

My goal is to reveal and clarify my purpose, direction, and desire to be an artist and to create art that impacts you and others.

Some brain drain ideas:

create an idea/concept.
natural/theraputic.
process of why living in life.
emotion/spiritual beings vs. logical/reason side.
tap into that more on a constant basis, our spiritual being.
to not "think" because overthinker.
making sense of a time period.
communicating ideas/messages.
affected by senses, emotions, music.
redirect my emotions/energy - changes my energy
attached to the piece, the idea of the piece
understanding
intentional in my process of how i like to work, then energy takes on that form/energy

philosophy/concept on how we approach the world or see the world - all works together.
layering all to create a whole.  my philosophy - all works together.
colors work together.  no symbols - redirect no - with certain connections, new train of thought because we already have attachements to or ideas about and i want to avoid that in my work.  we need to find new context, new perspective to change the form of the current energy and cycle ... if we are to continue to grow and evolve.

all of life is a belief, embracing beliefs, understanding how i think of things working @ the core - all is interwoven.
complicated - want to simplify the complex, back to the core.
being, core of the whole process.
experimental - ideas cohesive - changing?

i think this is a struggle within myself.
order vs. chaos, right vs. wrong
led by emotion, but since my emotion is so directly linked to my senses - endless cycle? the energy is constantly changing forms.

energy:  basis for action and decision and reaction.  to every action, there is a reaction.  energy is involved in all and constantly changing form.

are emotions and/or thoughts considered forms of energy?

in physics (analysis of nature and how it behaves) energy is an indirectly observed quantity (of anything?)
patterns. (cycles - energy changing form?)
reason
why/searching/explanation
energy

energy ---> physics ---> study of matter and its motion through space time, along with energy and force.

energy and mass cannot be created or destroyed.  just transforming the energy.
potential energy ---> stored.
vis viva = living force.  energy.
any form of energy may be transformed into another form.
although the total energy of a system does not change with time, its value may depend on the frame of reference (context?)
changing energy forms.

releasing old patterns encourages self-renewal ... in order to resume creative flow of energy.
emotional completion caused by discovering the hidden.
create connections.
developing deeper awareness.
trusting your own creativity.
missing underlying feelings.
mind controls me in most ways - it's nature is continual change and variety, which leaves the self insecure.
fresh inspiration is necessary to take things to the next level.
heighten understanding of foundations of life.
good time to contact and identify with your inner child.
need heightened discipline.
align desires and needs, need to adjust goals = satisfaction.
awareness that discipline is a critical component in current work, realistic thinking.
great will power - greatest traits.
inventive, but also will lead to isolation.
diplomatic vs. progressive.
emotional satisfaction.
basic and emotional values.

calm energy and hope for magical moments to come.
a routine is working for me beautifully, imagine that.


----> RELAX, DO THE WORK, BE INSPIRED.