My New Year's Greetings to You -- and Intentions for 2017
It’s 2017, a new year, and I owe you all -- and myself -- a restatement of who I am as an artist, and my creative intentions for the period ahead.First of all, thank you for dropping by and viewing my art. Thanks to all my followers and creative friends. I invite you to check in on all my blog and social media entries, too. These tie in closely with how I think about art and the lives of creatives like us. Oh, and please sign up for an outrageous newsletter. I think it's worth your while.
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In December, I attended a Comic Con in Salinas, California to explore the prospects of turning serious writing I’ve been working on for years into graphic novels that explore ideas on intolerance and inequality -- whether it be racial, sexual, age, economic or social -- and the process of discovery of one's self and place in existence.Some very informative workshops and panels there pointed me in a better direction towards what I need to know and approaches to take -- not only towards comic artists, editors and publishers in producing graphic novels -- but promoting any of my art and writing. One of the most important take-aways was to be able to quickly and succinctly describe my story, character, concept or whatever in three sentences or less to whomever I’m pitching.
My art is humanist, asserts and celebrates that people matter, aiming to champion the humanity of all children, women and men – and the natural universe in which we exist.
My art is subversive, using visual and literary metaphor to subvert dominant patriarchal and intolerant cultural practice, even if flying in the face of "popular" opinion. We create our own reality -- and the monsters that show up in it through abuse, abandonment and neglect.
There’s more to reality than what we experience simply through our immediate physical senses. My art is mystical art, describing through visual metaphor the indescribable, and making visible the invisible.
Art is my spiritual practice. (By "spiritual", I mean whatever journey one may be on to find wholeness and meaning in life. If you don’t like the word “spiritual”, that’s fine, and I can live with that. I hope you get the spirit of my practice.)
Okay, that’s more than three sentences; but I’ll get better at it, with your feedback and collaboration. Comments are welcome.
