IMMERSION

I went for my 2nd art class conducted by Eric yesterday. We discussed our given assignment on the elements of design, namely lines, dots and circles. I found it very hard to finish my work because I do not know how to process. And I found it even harder when after much discussion I cannot figure out what to take away from it. Well, I was a bit under the weather... so that could be it.

To top that, I am finding art and the learning the art of appreciating it, a little out of reach. It has something to do with my search for the boundaries which defines whatever I am looking at. I needed the answer to be given to me - point blank. Period. And apparently, that's just not the way to go about it.

I don't know what I am talking about... I think it's a World based on processes and journeys. Trials and many paper tosses. Being a 'destination dude', it didn't bode too well with me and it sat there staring at me; this 'Jim Dandy journeyman'. But I got acquainted with Jim after some 'questions' which weren't answered... so here I am... 'journey-ing'.

So, what have I learned so far?

1. Never draw from photographs. Because you are not drawing the real object, merely the object on that paper.

2. To learn to be like August. To be aware of the things that are going on around us and to know the difference between them. (I will need another post for this one...) Briefly, with everything that is going on - the re-interpretations and the amalgamations of things in a very confusing present, one must know where things really came from and anticipate where they may spin off to or not.

3. The role of an artist or a designer is to use his ability/talent to express the current societal challenge(s) and whenever possible, advance the much needed change(s) to solve that question.

A bit dry, my post today... not inspired? I don't know. I am using that phrase a lot these day, just to not sound negative. Not sure if it's healthy, because I am not expressing... but I am so tired being a pessimist all the time...

Need to dive deeper.

CONNECTIONS

The world I live in is beginning to get really real. The dreams. The journey. The destinations. All of which is pulling me in every directions and I am starting to feel stretched as thin as a film. This is the life of a wanderer. To be at one place and yet traversing through myriad dimensions and directions and paradigms. The line is a cyclical wonderment and it needs to be reduce to a point of zero-ness. The Zen of timeless time; an encompassing solar system of exploding thoughts and nothingness...

Reality is setting in real fast. Time is running out. Passion and fervency need to converge into a point of intense implosion of a mind set toward the Heavens. I am high on chewing gum. Please read the following with caution:

Life is not a journey of discoveries! Nor is it an postulated future of flying cars and smart surfaces! It is about connections! Of sleek databases. Of imploding network and faux man-made structures. The maintenance of the highest order. It is a horrid state of a feeble mind at work and yet a beautiful dance of chaotic melody. Pause. It is indecipherable even in its own requiem. Life is a process of dehydration and imminent death. So why is passion important? Why is art worth fighting for? Why is democracy the epitome of human civilizations? Choices abound. We seek solace in what is not! Life is about struggle and the notion of hope that we will prevail... Fuck all that!

Creation is the key to unleashing the power of the human imagination. it is the shard that splices the Minds of the Gods; that composes the Songs of the Sirens and the re-tellings of the Musings of Urania. White Plains and magic mushrooms... The State is in control. We must embrace anarchy with vigorous inactions! Stop paying your taxes! Channel your energy to the things you believe in the most! Earth is dying! Money will not grow trees. Money cannot create water tables. Beauty rises from grit and dirt. Not bank reserves. Equilibrium is created through homeostasis; a flux that money cannot generate. Life as in all living beings is precious and undeniably connected!

We need to search within our hearts; where the true Divinity resides. To plunge into the deepest, sordid perversion in order to rise to our ultimate collective consciousness. To build the connective-neural pathway to the Stars whence we came from. To arouse the vibrating strings of our brainwaves toward the billions of galaxies that exist.

We must reconnect to the Air of Imaginations and the Earth of Realities and the Water of Life and the Passion of Love.

We are but amphoras of starry galaxies contained. Un-enlightined!

We must explode to reconfigure spaceless void and regain the one consciousness.

We are the awakening.

We are the connections.

We are pieces of a fallen God.

RAIN

It's raining right now... the pitter patter of the raindrops is so soothing to hear. Droning you off to sleep...