What's been happening to me was that I would have a thought - for example "I should put a lid on that can of paint" - and then a while later, something would happen. Maybe I would flip the can over. Sometimes I can literally see myself dropping something or knocking something over a second before it happens. There seems to be no avoiding it.
I've been thinking that thoughts control the body, but also, if thoughts are something real, they must have an effect in the world outside. Every action has a reaction. A thought is a sort of an action, therefore there must be a reaction. I don't think that...
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I love creating but I really don't like marketing or, for that matter, selling my work. First, I feel like I don't have the time to market - like I should be using my energy and time to create instead. Second, I often feel I'm selling my work too cheap - compared to 5 years ago when my paintings were all 800 dollars for whatever size. But that was because I really didn't want to part with any of them. Now, I don't mind - that much... - parting with paintings, and it helps me live a lifestyle that allows me to continue painting (rather than going to a full-time job, thus spending all my energy on things...
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A lot has been happening... I went to David Leonardo's gallery - to show the stuff to a friend. There, I met a sculptor, who was apparently well established. He had good work and I told him so.
"Oh yeah, I am famous, I am going to show in Soho and then in Spain," he told me. "And what do you do?"
"We are painters," I told him, speaking for me and my friend John.
"Oh yeah? What do you paint? Houses?"
I felt not the slightest bit of uneasiness because I am sure of my work and don't need the approval of anyone else to validate what I am doing. In any case, we had a very...
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A few weeks ago I had an art show and there was a lot of interest in my work from both the Mexican and the foreign audiences. One Mexican man came up and asked me if I could paint him a reproduction of one of my prints. It was a digital art work and he wanted it in physical... "OK," I said, giving him a price" But he was not a rich man and said he only had 100 dollars to spend. I was selling my work at $400-500, and people were buying. "What the heck," I thought. "He likes my work, so I will let him have it for $100"
Of course, I told him that I never paint the same thing twice... It would have...
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I have been in the process of writing down some of my more interesting chord arrangements, in an effort to not lose them. And as I was playing one of my old songs (from 2007), I realized that there is a common thread among much of my music. That thread is the absence of repetition in the harmony.
For example, in the above mentioned song, I go through 14 chord changes during the verse (that is to say, the harmony changed 14 times without repeating any pattern) and then 7 more chord changes in the chorus. There were 21 changes in the sequence before the entire sequence began to repeat in verse...
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I was recently asked by the Huichol friends for whom I made the website www.Arts-Mexico.com to paint them a portrait. Last night, I took my piece of gesso covered masonite and started on that. It went really well. I started by outining the pictures (working from several photographs as well as memory) in brown paint, then coloring in the various basic colors. I had no trouble whatsoever with the composition.
I painted the Huicholes as archeotypes. You can tell that they are Huicholes but you can't tell who exactly they are. I painted the generic Huichol face - the essence of the Huichol.
These...
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After a very productive period of painting, I find myself out of ideas. What more do I want to say at this time? I probably need a little bit of a new influence in my life - some inner or outer change that can be reflected in my artistic expression.
I finally found a gallery to represent me here in San Miguel de Allende. It is a nice little space not far from my studio and hopefully it is just the first of several galleries of which I will be part.
While painting is slow, I have turned to music to keep my creative flow going.
I music, I am continuing to experiment with uncommon chord...
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Now you can listen and download the Dimension Dream album, the songs of which were written in Peru and Mexico.
It was recorded with only Ben Vincze and myself plying all the instruments, singing, producing, etc.
If you would like to receive a high quality Mp3 download, please send a donation of $5 or more to andrew@spreadlove.ca. Thank you!
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Since I moved to San Miguel, my art has been taking an interesting new direction. Usually, my images would be complex and multifaceted, to the point of being confusing... Actually, I alienated the regular, casual viewer with the complexity of the images (which they could not appreciate) and only made it harder for myself to be understood and accepted as an artist.
My first painting in San Miguel was in the same tradition - a complex, multifaceted painting with Shamanistic overtones, titled "The Artist and the Shaman." It was as if I had to get something out of myself, to purge something, to deal...
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Now the entire Dimension Dream CD can be downloaded for free. A complete, fulldisk download coming soon - as well as rarities, live versions of the songs and many, many rough demos.
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1695428434/01 - Dimension Dream.mp3
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1695375214/02 - Hoo Hoo Yeah Yeah.mp3
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1695449974/03 - So Small .mp3
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1695386864/04 - Yesterday's Gone.mp3
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1695533274/05 - With You.mp3
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1695543854/06 - Little Fire.mp3
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1695573394/07...
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