Images of Images

I created an image of the broken mirror with an image of the broken mirror.

I think I'll go make some more.
Perception, Text, Conversation, Narrative, Identity.
maybe that's where I'm going?

the heart and the head

My Horoscope...again on the mark....."You may even have to be a mediator between your own heart and
head, or explain the motivations of your past self to your future self. You
can't be perfect, of course. There will be details lost in translation. But if
you're as patient as a saint and as tricky as a crow, you'll succeed." Rob Brezny

I presented my work for 5 minutes this morning, and it felt like the worst thing ever even though I had been waking up early in the morning telling jokes and enjoying myself totally when I was "rehearsing" 

stage fright, lack of clarity, many directions

but there is commonality. 
I am Talking. And Creating. 

come together, peeps!

welcome

here I am, relishing in the changes that have occurred for my life and art since this time last summer! There's work to share, direction, and a trueness to discovering the artist in me that is now a compass rather than a sketchy map.
Go There! says the compass, and I am. Going.

 detail; "looking" 2013

art as an experience

In one of the micro-essays, titled “Miraculous cures and the canonization ofBasquiat,” Eno revisits the subject with a sentiment Greil Marcus would come to echo in his fantastic recent SVA commencement address on “high” vs. “low” art. Eno writes:

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.

from brainpickings 2013

storytelling

At the heart of Perry’s argument — in line with neurologist Oliver Sacks’s recent meditation on memory and how “narrative truth,” rather than “historical truth,” shapes our impression of the world — is the recognition that stories make us human and learning to reframe our interpretations of reality is key to our experience of life:

Our stories give shape to our inchoate, disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life. They bring together the past and the future into the present to provide us with structures for working towards our goals. They give us a sense of identity and, most importantly, serve to integrate the feelings of our right brain with the language of our left.

[…]

We are primed to use stories. Part of our survival as a species depended upon listening to the stories of our tribal elders as they shared parables and passed down their experience and the wisdom of those who went before. As we get older it is our short-term memory that fades rather than our long-term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck.

from Phillipa Perry: How to Stay Sane 

This is giving me ideas regarding storytelling....the telling of Hansel and Gretel, as a story that ends positively despite it's sad beginning, a new filter by which to regard the past.

authenticity is powerful!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In *The Book of the Damned,* Charles Fort
revealed one of the secrets of power. He said that if you want power over
something, you should be more real than it. What does that mean? How
do you become real in the first place, and how do you get even more
real? Here's what I think: Purge your hypocrisies and tell as few lies as
possible. Find out what your deepest self is like -- not just what your ego
is like -- and be your deepest self with vigorous rigor. Make sure that the
face you show the world is an accurate representation of what's going on
in your inner world. If you do all that good stuff, you will eventually be as
real and as powerful as you need to be.

http://youtu.be/yDuZHtsxp3s take a look