The Inherent Vulnerability of Desire

Diverging Correlatives

An Oxymoron?

Well, yes, but...

the two words still suggest the paradox of creating artwork, deconstructing it, rebuilding it with different forms and sometimes for different functions...basically "recycling" an idea until it's become many other things with a hidden thread between them.

For example, when I sell a piece of Jewelry, I proceed to make packaging for the specific item sold.  This involves photography of said item, making digital collages, then printing them.  Phase 2: Choosing paints, and grabbing my Xacto knife in order to make intricate paper cuttings of the digital collages just printed...I won't even go any further than this.  I've suggested several of the stages of building something, breaking it down, and remaking it in dozens of permutations from there.  And so on, to reference another literary inspiration of mine, Kurt Vonnegut.

Now some multi-exposures of the custom box for the Sympathy for a Cyclops Ring.

Collage: Diverging Correlatives

Collage: Diverging Correlatives 2

George MacDonald: Unstuck in Time

Being the sort of creature that loves audio books, and listens to them whenever "creating" anything [especially the genre of books old enough to be in the public domain], LibriVox.org is my lucid dream come true.
I was delighted to find this morning, in the new releases, another novel by George MacDonald.  This Scotch writer of fantasy, theology, adult fiction, and children's stories, has become an abiding presence in my imagination.  Everything I've been working on today has been mingled with the intense pleasure of falling into a fresh narrative generated from a mind I revere.
I'm watching the emerging ties between the half-dozen projects I've been working on today and the rich narrative, teaming with allegory.
My adulation to the late George MacDonald and long live "LibriVox.org"!

                                                      A Young-ish George MacDonald...

                                                      An older George MacDonald...

                                                   George MacDonald: wizened patriarch...

              George MacDonald: Unstuck in Time.

Fodder for the horses

Or brainstorming Album artwork for my friend, Richard Sanchez and his musical venture: Panda Sanchez .  I'm having way too much fun with this collaboration already..."Help! I'm having too much fun!!
 And now to indulge in listing some of the many permutations thus far: 

Pattern & Texture, Divine & Human

Nearly everything has fascinating details.  The details themselves are made up of hundreds of micro-details in smaller components- a world within a world within a world- I am transfixed.

Cyclopean Sympathies Still

As I bade a fond farewell to another of my rings, here is the traditional montage In Memoriam

Pattern Play

 

A leaflet in my digital sketchbook incorporating my jewelry, photos, paintings, collages, and assorted clip art. For some, this might be headache inducing, but it's eye candy to me.