What You See….

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

The other day someone commented on one of my pictures and told me that she had seen a wolf there. I admired her perception and when I looked, I could see it tho I had put no wolf in. This has happened a number of times. People see things in my art that I have not potentially put in. Now it is given that I tend towards the abstract yet this tends to surprise me. On another level it also humbles and gratifies me. People are interacting with my paintings and getting from them symbols that are meaningful to them. When this happens I remember a quote that said something along the lines of “What do I know what it means, I’m just the writer?” I create my images and I pull together both intention and mood from the inside and a variety of materials (stock photos, filters, brush work, etc) and it often feels like a collaboration with the universe. Just because I didn’t put something in does not mean it isn’t there.
Blessings, G

Still time to enter contest for a free art print of your choice:
a) go to the Art Gallery 2013 page (link above)
b) Look through the art I created last year (clicking on the thumbnails gives you a full screen view of the pictures.
c) either comment or message me with your favourite.
d) Somewhere on or around January 15th I will randomly draw one of the entries and the winner will get a signed 12″ X 18″ print of the art they like the best.

Click on images to see full-sized:

Adoration by G A Rosenberg

Atomic Psychedlia by G A Rosenberg