A Suggestion...

Lying in the sun, face it with eyes closed.

Stare at the back of your eyelids as intensely as you would a delicate still life.

Focus, observe the pure color of abstract observation.

Experiment with using one hand to block sunlight from one eye, the other, or both. Different distances can block more or less light.

Squeeze your eyes closed tighter for an explosion of new color.

Open your eyes, just slightly slightly and observe the bright unfocused white patterns of light reflecting on your eye lashes set against the blue of the sky, with the hood of your eyelid weighing over it all.

Open your eyes completely and stare at a tree or some other object for a few minutes. Then return to your eyes closed facing the sun and observe the silhouetted fragments of pure color.

Do these things for at least an hour.

Today I got accepted into the BFA painting program...

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VICTORY IS MINE!

Ghost Cat Owns

Thomas Gainsborough, "Two Daughters with a Cat", c. 1759

Fra Angelico, Entombment of Christ

Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Directed by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass, this movie that combines slow motion and time lapsed footage creates a dialogue between the sublimity of nature, but also of the technological age (and man's small, yet greatly effected position within it).:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6C9u7ras
(you'll have to excuse the intrusive youtube ads, but, hey, it's free!)

Hauntigly beautiful.

70 Million by Hold Your Horses!

Full list of paintings here (2 of them were super hard for me)

Jefferson Pinder

Excited for Jefferson Pinder's lecture tomorrow.

Lazarus from Jefferson Pinder on Vimeo.

He is a video, installation, and sculpture artist who works with themes of African American identity. I most appreciate his videos, which are often accompanied by extremely good music selections from hip-hop, African, Blues, and Latin sources. They effectively retain viewer interest while creating metaphors of struggle.