Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when we as individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.
Priceless!!!
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The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science…The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion.” Albert Einstein
'Daily Rituals' Of The Brilliantly Creative : NPR
How do creative geniuses do what they do? Daily Rituals, which assembles the working regimens of 161 artists and thinkers into a lean, engaging volume, makes one thing clear: There’s no such thing as the way to create good work, but all the greats have their way â and some are spectacularly weird.
How do creative geniuses do what they do? Daily Rituals, which assembles the working regimens of 161 artists and thinkers into a lean, engaging volume, makes one thing clear: There’s no such thing as the way to create good work, but all the greats have their way â and some are spectacularly weird.
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—Christopher Bucklow - Guests (2005)
“Solar pin-hole photographs of luminous silhouettes, for which the technical process is a cross between photography and drawing.
Strongly influenced by Carl Jung’s theory of the Anima and Animus, the idea of the repressed parts of the psyche feature repeatedly throughout Bucklow’s work.”
Our Schizophrenic World, 2013
Just Add Water: Mars Rock Experiment A and B 082012-042013
Inspired by Nasa/Mars missions, this piece investigates the ‘what if’ possibility of life on the red planet and whether or not it would be feasible to regenerate dormant lifeforms by just adding water to Mars rock specimens if we were to bring some home to Earth. -Crystallynn*Neilanami, 2013
Materials: lava rock, fossil, steak seasoning, seeds, weeds, pods, tomato stem, dried flowers, acrylic paint, gouache, wood, shellac, paper, floral pin
Each base approximately 2.75” x 4”
A: 3” tall
B: 5” tall
Untitled, 2009
Charcoal and pastel on birch plywood
I did this piece for a self portrait assignment in an undergraduate drawing class. At the time I only had a vague sense of spirituality and was only beginning to add it to the art practice agenda. Looking back I believe it is this piece that acts as an ‘objectified thought’ or the embodiment of a transitional time of my life as a human being. Then, I would have told you that this piece was about meditation in general, skipping over all other descriptive interpretations because my intellect of spiritual matters could have been compared to a newborn being asked to describe their insight of the world. Today, I would tell you a different story…..if I could put it into word(s).
Word(s)…those subtle utterances that do so much yet so little….
Close your eyes to See the Light
Find your Self on the Inside
Notice the distance between the body and the Spirit….
You’re floating in the Infinite void of time in space..
Inside, inside the inside
Can you See the Self in the Darkness of the Light?
It’s such a powerful sight…
And the feeling of it…
It’s absolute; Eternal
…….that’s all for Now.
C*N, 2013
I am not afraid to tell you, “I love you.” Your mind may say, “How can you love me when you don’t even know me?” I don’t need to know you. I don’t need to justify my love. I love you because this is my pleasure. Love coming out of me makes me happy, and it’s not important if you reject me because I don’t reject myself. In my story, I live in an ongoing romance, and everything is beautiful for me. To live in love is to be alive again. When you recover your integrity, you always follow love. You live your life as an eternal romance because when you love yourself, it is easy to love everyone else. You love so much that you don’t need anyone else’s love to make you happy.
Trajectory of Time
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: April 27, 2013 6:00-9:00pm
University Gallery
San Diego State University
School of Art, Design and Art History
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, California“Existing in this age of bio-social integration among science, technology, and us as human beings, I create works of art that embody the aesthetics behind our deepest questions within these fields. By applying a cosmic understanding of different mediums and materials, and as a 21st century alchemist in a laboratory of conceptualization and manifestations of art, I am inspired by much of our history’s shared connection to cycles of epoch. The further back we plunge, art is all we have to derive an aesthetic consciousness of a specific time. I hybridize the designs and concepts of the past to not only create resonance within the individual through form, but to potentially cast echoes of the self throughout the past, present, and future.” - Justin Kramer
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