Artist’s Life: Creating a World

Aug 16, 2017
2 min read

It is an act of courage to try new ways to live. It is a thoughtful choice to become creative and build on that essential human trait. Music, dance, visual arts, texts, or anything that is perfected to artistry.

The message I hear over and over again in the social media or on YouTube is not to give up when one achieves a treacherous plateau. This time, during which some skill is already present but no new ideas are shaped is the time when people quit.

Every artist has their own story of survival. Personally, I noticed that my art has improved when I set my mind on a very precise trajectory. I just decided not to allow doubt, but to continue my journey just curiously viewing the scenery around.

I create my own world of shapes, lines, colors, values, and ideas. I build on that and will continue until I am no more. What else is better than to have a purpose? What is that purpose? To see ones limits.

In this world everything is reshaped and renamed and you become the creative power. You will be everything that you always craved: a bold intellectual not shunning from controversy, loud or quiet, emotional or reserved, loving or rejecting, and most of all and maybe for the first time a being endowed with free will.

How to practice this “brave new world”? There must be a start somewhere so I created a little exercise for myself where I create, destroy, allow for chance, and recreate to a new language. Sounds something like my life? Hopefully not.

I started with a photograph of a concept that really engaged me. I tried to recreate it in a fashion I work with but was dissatisfied because the language was too obvious. So I rearranged the work creating an abstract form that would not hint of previous message.

Hancock, MI: Copper Mine