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The Finding Process.

“In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing. Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the pocketbook that fortune should put in “his path. The one who finds something … , even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration … .
When I paint, my object is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for.”

–Pablo Picasso

Many times when I start on a picture, I start by throwing patterns up on the screen, either royalty-fractals or mixtures of gradients or just splashes of colour. I play around putting various filter and light effects on the pieces and just play, rather like a child finger-painting. Occasionally something will happen in this random picture and an image will turn up. I don’t look for it tho am open to whatever develops. When the image comes along, (this happened in the Wrath picture earlier this week) I start enhancing it, either combining it with a reference or enlarging that part while shrinking other parts, muting out the background and bringing the found image to the foreground. I then continue on, certain that the picture has revealed to me what it wishes to be. It feels totally natural rather like how I have heard sculptures talk about the block of marble containing a particular statue inside and they just bring it out. I love creating this ‘found’ art fully as much if not more than the pictures I set out intentionally to create.
Blessings, G

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Befriending the Sun (Amon) by G A Rosenberg

Oracle by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – March 13 2013

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

Things I see:
My fingers on the keyboard
Art on the desktop
guitar and music keyboard
books and more books
water containers
tarot cards
candles
a breeze fluttering papers
a battery power in the making
a screen
a world of wonder waiting to be explored
a chance to do better
a hope for harmony
reasons to exist
joy in the making
bliss ready to begin
a message from a friend
a cat purring in her sleep
a life better than any I’ve dreamt
an opportunity to make things better
beauty…..

Just thought I’d share 🙂
What do you see?
Blessings, G

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Colour Poem #22 by G A Rosenberg

Night Swimming in Strange Pools by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – October 30 2012

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“What are you staring at?”
I used to hear that question all the time and seldom had a good answer. I’d stare at cars and bushes, at women, at men, at a flower or an eye of a beautiful shade that caught my eye. Sometimes i feel my sense of aesthetics may be somewhat strange but I love to look at that which strikes me as beautiful and if I don’t see several of those in a moment than perhaps I am not trying. It may be a truly picturesque form of ADHD :).
“What are you staring at?”
Still as I said before, I tend to stare, not because I want the object of my gaze but because I wish to admire it, to grock it (yes I’ve been using that word a lot lately but it truly does seem to fit its definition more than most words therefore I’ll stick with it) in its fullness until i can feel connection. It may not be what others find beautiful. Who wants to be limited to that? But it is because I am struck by it.
The longer we look at things, truly look as opposed to playing the memory tapes that we all too often do, the more we can truly see it, appreciate it and find within ourselves that part that resonates with whatever we look at. Thus as we give it meaning, it returns the favour.
Blessings, G

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Tarot Trump XVII – The Star by G A Rosenberg

Reach Out From the Inside

Quote of the Day. -August 19 2012

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ”
–Henry David Thoreau.

Do I see my son talking back and being cynical or do I see a young man somewhat insecure asserting his independence for the first time?
Do we see people trying to be better than they were or do we see them fall short?
How do we see ourselves? Do we see our failures, out successes or a combination of both?
Do we see the beauty inherent in even the most grotesque of people and events or do we only look at the ugliness?
What is it we want to see. Our choices make us who we are.
Blessings, G

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Gem Journey Scaffolding by G A Rosenberg