:: Useful Articles, Essays and How to Archive ::

Useful Articles, Essays and How to Archive:

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New Essay 1/11/2012:: “Explaining My Installation Work”. I’m over-stimulated, I admit it. I also admit that I love that part of myself. My case of  over-stimulation, which was once claimed be to be “hyperactive” seems to have transcended itself nicely. I can’t blame the doctors of the 1970′s who’s misdiagnosis of my early symptoms of radical creativity were in fact something else…

Read the Full Essay here:: http://wp.me/p2SFO-yM

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New Essay 1/5/12 :: “Symbols+Icons+Avatars+Codes=Branding Ourselves“ Consciously and unconsciously we are branding ourselves! This is the fact
of the matter, as I perceive of course. Indeed, some people are doing this
intentionally with much energy and enthusiasm. Others are becoming
aware as the process unfolds. I am one of those people…..

Read the Full Essay here:: http://wp.me/p2SFO-zj

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New Essay 12/29/11 “Something New to Dictate the Habitual.” We all love the fact that we need to control things. It’s a part of our human make up. Every so often, I feel that it is important to let ourselves “go a bit” as a result of that. Go, meaning, allow for something new to dictate to the habitual way that we do things. In this case….. Read the full Essay here:: http://wp.me/p2SFO-zh

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New Essay 12/25/11 “Thoughts on Content, Materiality, & Video Art.” The choices made upon selecting content and materiality are endless, profound and simply brilliant! Especially when a breakthrough has been made, materials communicate meaning…..

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New Eassy 12/24/11 “Something about Method and Procedure.” As an artist, I have learned that method and procedure must never cease. Our general knowledge of materiality can go deeper than we may have ever known, but we have to allow for it. I spend more than 10 hours each week … Read the Full Essay here now :: http://wp.me/p2SFO-yB

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New Essay 12/22/11:: Stretching ideas for new works.  What could, or might happen? This is a good question that I like to begin with when creating new works. The image here is based on a tiny photographic reference that I found on the street while living in Antwerp, Belgium for a month 2 years ago.  Read the Full Essay here:: http://wp.me/p2SFO-9i

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New Essay:: 12/17/11 “Keeping a digital image idea archive is useful, here’s why.”  Artists and creatives, how do you keep track of all of your ideas? How do you record and document your works in progress? What about a concise record of all of your completed works? How about all of those endless brainstorms and idea fragments that are so quickly lost if you do not record them in some way shape or form? …

READ the Full ESSAY HERE:: http://bit.ly/vTy2BZ

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New Essay:: 12/15/11 “A relationship with Immediacy, the Unconscious, & Drawing.” This drawing took about 2 hours to execute. It’s a nice reminder for me. It’s yet another tangible example…

Read the full essay here:: http://wp.me/p2SFO-fW

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New Essay 12/12/2011: “What I learned from Melting Ice.” 

Read the full essay here now:: http://bit.ly/sJiLkc

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NEW Essay 12/8/11:: “How to transplant your Energy into others through Story-telling.“  Read it here now :: http://theongoingrms.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/how-to-transplant-your-energy-into-others-through-story-telling/

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Imagination, is derived from the word, Imagine.

New Insight 12/5/2011 : Imagination, is derived from the word Imagine. This means, the faculty or power of the mind “to actually imagine”. To imagine, means to form an image in the mind. An “image” means, a likeness, a picture, a representation, a copy, or an appearance. More briefly, IMAGINATION IS SCIENTIFICALLY DEFINED AS THE FACULTY OF FORMING AN IMAGE.

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New Essay 12/2/2011 : “Insights on Form”- I stand before something ancient today, the structure is aesthetically beautiful, but I have a hard time getting my head around it. There are several other structures like it, some older, some younger.

Read the full essay here::  http://wp.me/p2SFO-aY

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New Essay 11/28/2011: “On drawing and seeing, more.”

Read the full essay here:: http://theongoingrms.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/on-drawing-and-seeing-more/

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