ISOM SYMBOLIC ART: design

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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Thursday, June 25, 2015

As many of you know my art and teaching philosophy relies heavily on experience. I have always been fond of the “monkey and typewriter theorem” and in my own work I have been pounding at the keys and turning out hundreds of pieces of art work. in hopes of producing something meaningful. Exploration in the arts is a continual process. Human beings, always seem to be searching for something, trying to gain an understanding of our world and ourselves. I view my work as a means of exploration, something that allows me to investigate, and contemplate my own inner experiences, thoughts, and emotions, as well as observations of the external world.

John Dewey in his book, Art as Experience , proposed that artistic expression is not "spontaneous." “The mere spewing forth of emotion is not artistic expression. Art requires long periods of activity and reflection, and comes only to those absorbed in observing experience. An artist's work requires reflection on past experience and a sifting of emotions and meanings from that prior experience. For an activity to be converted into an artistic expression, there must be excitement, turmoil and an urge from within to go outward.” Art is expressive when there is complete absorption in the subject.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Visionary voyage

Took a little trip on my sailing ship

Ipad drawing 1/18/2015

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Visionary art

Stargazer

Looking at the stars and dreaming of unknown worlds.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Je suis Charlie

Freedom of Speech

I Pad drawing Procreate App. 1/2015

Friday, January 2, 2015

Outsider art

Cryptic series Electric Landscape. I pad drawing 2015

As an art instructor and artist I have received extensive training in the arts and educational theory. In addition, I have received a modicum of success as a regional artist. As a result, my art cannot be classified as raw art, untrained or outsider art. Outsider art has been a powerful influence on my personal imagery. The immediate primal urge to create something with your hands and wield any material to your desire is evident in the untrained art world. These artists do not consider audience interpretation or gallery showrooms. The quirky objects they create represent the familiar through distorted multicolored lenses. Is it art? Is it craft? Whatever it is, it is entrancing and has inspired me and many “trained” artists for generations.

Monday, December 29, 2014

Visionary art.

Cryptic series Neutrinos I Pad drawing 2014

Visionary art

Cryptic series. Face of Chaos

I Pad drawing. 2014

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Critical thinking...

A Brief History of the Idea of Critical Thinking

"The intellectual roots of critical thinking are as ancient as its etymology, traceable, ultimately, to the teaching practice and vision of Socrates 2,500 years ago who discovered by a method of probing questioning that people could not rationally justify their confident claims to knowledge. Confused meanings, inadequate evidence, or self-contradictory beliefs often lurked beneath smooth but largely empty rhetoric. Socrates established the fact that one cannot depend upon those in "authority" to have sound knowledge and insight. He demonstrated that persons may have power and high position and yet be deeply confused and irrational. He established the importance of asking deep questions that probe profoundly into thinking before we accept ideas as worthy of belief." http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/a-brief-history-of-the-idea-of-critical-thinking/408

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Isom Codex...

Non-specific exploratory

coded abstract images

page 105 of the Isom Codex

Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means "having no specific semantic content". With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret.