New Artist's Statement
Doug
What I make is outsider art, I make it for love alone no longer considering the confines of the art market, not that I ever really did consider that aspect. It seems to me to be contrary to art itself to try to fit within the confines of what has come before it. Art history is not altered by conscious effort on the part of the artist, the universe herself gives birth to new forms through artists who sacrifice for her love only. Perhaps the work is just common gray stones in the waning tide and requires a heart in love to find the one among the millions with the vein of pearl?
Craft is the Victoria's Secret model and Art is the painfully shy girl in the high school cafeteria with food tray in hand and no one saved her a seat at the table and so in humiliation she scuttles off to the back of the room to eat alone, hoping no one will notice and hoping someone will notice.
It also occurs to me that we are all outsiders and we are all artists the moment we realize that the inside isn’t real and there is nothing but the outside. Welcome to our wide open spaces.
Access: Public
love
August 2008 
It is why I am so vehement with my own work. Making money on one's art is great; but when it assumes a primary motivation to produce that art, kills the very art one is trying to produce. It is a fine, fine line, fraught with huge peril.
Shawn
And hopefully I'll never witness the irony of this statement on the walls of the Witney but for my children yes. It's what I'll leave them be it trash or treasure.
Well said doug
I agree
when people have harrased me in the past to create art in a particular way because
'that will sell'
a funny thing happens.
the life force withdraws completely and only returns when i move out of the way of the
attitudes that smell of falseness!
keep throwing that paint and pulling those weeds brother,
As I feel also about writing…I write because I must, because not to write stifles my creativity and stifles my spirit…I tried to explain this to a friend and she is clueless and laments daily that no one will publish her work…she misses the whole point think…you don't.
Blessings,
Aley
Approval is a piss poor substitute for love. Sadly our culture teaches us to seek approval, get the next degree, get published, have an art show and in the end it's an empty promise.
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” Mozart
Touche' my friend.
Through the heart of the artist
spirit reveils
the unspeakable
in rich moist layers of
oker dancing with
a touch of
crimson red
In letters and syllables
mysteriously turning
into verses
of poetic chant
in the beating of
distant drums
tempting bodies to
become the dance
Spirit reveils the unspeakable
it must be sanctified in freedom
it must be sanctified in love.
How good is art? When it has an audience that you share it with. I can see the artist as the source of all beauty, forms and shapes all we touch and exchange with in life. Art summarizes the quality of communication. Above that there is nature to inspire us and God or the Supreme Being.
Hi Kathy! It occurred to me this week that art is simply the expression of love and I simply can't find anything that doesn't. God it's nice to be a simpleton! Lol!
So YES everything you said and Thank you!
Hi Alluuvja. Wow your words are as colorful and beautiful as your icon!
Love you all!
One reason I love Delacroix :) The Salon? The hell with the Salon.
Wide Open Spaces… I can see such a studio / workshop / gallery… Created, or rather, materializing, from your vision above… Accessible and welcoming…both down to earth and as wide open and full of freedom and art and creating as the sky and beyond…
(My belief is that art is good the moment you are sparked to create…that spark is the art and what follows is its expression…eventual audience or not…)