“A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.”
― Euclid
The closer one looked, more the realization that so much of creation is geometric. Crystalline structures become quite apparent.
#Xerado
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot
“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell
"God's Vaulted View" - mixed media
#Xerado #artist #artwork
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.”
― Khalil Gibran
My archetypal self has seen.
#Xerado
Humans carve compositional abstractions
across the earth
where they live and work,
but seem not to notice until they look down
on themselves
and then there is the perspective of gods
laid out before those who behold.
#Xerado: "London's Calling" - watermedia on paper
#art #artist #artwork #abstract
Heavily Metaled
There really is so much incredible #music to experience.
The problem is that much of it lives and dies in obscurity.
That seems a huge travesty, one that should not go unaddressed.
This is a "Painting" of a performance, saving great stuff from the dustbin of #history.
I film bands.
Puzzled, with pieces falling
where they may,
or may not.
There may be a dichotomy,
a successive forking
into two
but not necessarily
equal divisions
in a proposed equation,
but reality offers a much more
fragmented outcome,
fractured factions
gathered together,
an amalgamation.
― #Xerado
#artist
in a test of public approval,
its share of the popular vision,
its closely watched resources,
with a tight grip, robust scrutiny,
while bracing for turbulence.
unprecedented influence
is far greater
in untested opponents.
after small gains,
potentially choppy surprises,
upsets.
― #Xerado : poetry
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen...
Art.
They say a picture is worth many a thousand words.
Twenty. Twenty one. Twenty two. Twenty three. Twenty...
How many will this need?
— #Xerado: mixed media
#art
"A boundary of moist air along the cold front is forecast to stall in some areas,
bringing repeated rounds of rain and storms,
with a slight risk of excessive rainfall over various portions, with some additional isolated instances
of flash flooding possible through the night.
Access routes are out."
In a shimmering forest, the tiny sprite named Lumia discovered a lost star fallen from the sky. With her courage and a little sprinkle of magic moonlit dust, Lumia climbed the tallest tree to return it to its celestial home. The grateful star gifted Lumia a radiant glow, lighting the forest forever.
“Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble.”
― Ed Yong: science journalist
#Xerado: creative visualtor
“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”
― Carl Sagan
“Our capacity to #create and manipulate mental representations has many benefits."
― Randolph M. Nesse
#Xerado: visualize
“Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.”
― Arshile Gorky
“Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it.”
― Talismanist Giebra
#Xerado
“A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin
A painting hears more ridiculous opinions in a museum or on the walls of government than anything else anywhere else.
― #Xerado:
#Xerado: Signs Of The Urban Shaman
― watermedia on paper, 9”x12” - 23x30 cm
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
― Albert Camus
This Life of mine stretches in both directions
#Xerado: Feelin' Funny The Morning After
(The Secret Travails of Being An Urban Shaman)
― acrylic on canvas, 24"x36" - 61x91cm
“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
― Theodor Adorno: philosopher, musicologist, social theorist, leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory
Memories, like scattered missives across the surface of now,
but thens and past are bold foundations for new edifices of experiences,
perfect for inquisitive wandering;
kicking through,
as feet in leaves of yesterday,
reminding one of a forgotten future deftly eluding capturing once again.
― #Xerado
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck
“In times of war the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
― Joseph Heller
"Make Art, Not War" Mr.X
“Art is not the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.”
― David Rakoff: essayist, journalist, actor
"I am my harshest critic and best ally."
― Xerado
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen...
#Art.
They say a picture is worth many thousands of words.
Twenty. Twenty one. Twenty two. Twenty three. Twenty four. Twenty five. Twent...
How many here?
— #Xerado
Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.
― Keri Smith: author, illustrator, conceptual artist
Every fight is one between different #angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
― Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist
#Xerado #art
time to change course.
few had the courage
to face overwhelming odds
despite a lack of support
from ones sworn to stand fast
against the aggregate chaos
forecast by even experts
at the very beginning
of current maneuvers
still underway.
nerves on edge never
make for restful sleep.
— #Xerado
#poetry
keep hatches battened down tightly
for those monsters
you think without
are ones that lurk within.
there is no real escape,
only the fragile truce
negotiated at length
for certain stretches
and periods of time
before the imminent threat
of serious savagery
raises
its ugly head
again.
— #Xerado
#poem
Le temps est comme un acide
ce qui érode l'inutile
et révèle des trésors perdus.
Time is like an acid
which erodes the useless
and reveals lost treasures.
— #Xerado
Live every day as if another poem and you may find your rhythm and rhyme within the allotted time life has afforded you.
Fulfillment.
Her 'hawk was red and gold,
like a flickering flame so bold,
burning ever brightly
in a writhing darkness, nightly
#Xerado : watercolour, gouache, ink on paper & poem
I "Paint" performances, and sometime paint performances.
It is the Art of Music.
A unity of that seen and heard.
#art #artist #poem
Plug in. Power Up.
There is so much incredible #music to experience.
The problem is that much of it lives and dies in obscurity.
That seems a huge travesty, one that should not go unaddressed.
I film bands, "Paint" performances, saving good stuff from the dustbin of history.
It seems a noble effort.
"You may read a book a few times, you may watch a movie a dozen times, you may listen to a song a hundred times but a good work of #art will last you all the days of your life, sometimes even longer than friends or family. Quiet and steadfast, art is forever a visual refuge and #sanctuary."
— Xerado
uncharted territory in an unconstructive maze,
wandering a mercurial playing field
dotted
with key positions,
ambitions are unclear
without ultimate responsibility,
tending to produce agreements of power and autonomy
as tangential and transitional
as sand upon the beach of time.
― #Xerado
poetries
“Only through #art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
― Marcel Proust
“To all appearances, the #artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.”
― Marcel Duchamp
#Xerado acting as an aesthetic guide.
