Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Animals at the Pond
This started as an abstract oil painting of a forest, I photographed the canvas and then mirrored the image in Photoshop until it became fractilized.
Suddenly I started seeing animals, woodland animals and swamp animals which lead to me realize that my subconscious did exactly what I asked it to do the other day when i was walking on the street looking at the reflections in the puddles.
I asked my mind to find a way to capture that magic of seeing the world reflected in the puddle, and these colors are exactly what i saw in that puddle, the trees the sky the shadows, wow! Tripping myself out is part of the magic of fine art.
A few hours ago this canvas was just another canvas i wasn’t sure what to do with, it felt that a good start of something but not done, now, after taking the chance to photograph it and bring it into Photoshop it manifested into a completed thought.
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things." Edgar Degas
I can see a bear, a deer, an alligator, a spider, plants etc and to me, this is proof that you should trust your subconscious to work for you, consider it a computer where you have to program it. I’m sure that this idea of asking your subconscious to do something is easier to see with somethings than with others but i swear this is a real phenomenon.
We are far greater, far more brilliant than we allow ourselves to believe, and we can tap into that brilliance if we can find techniques to bypass our inhibiting factors. Meditation helps us tap into the spiritual side of things and it seems that if you trust your mind to create art and ask it to guide your hand then the art you asked for appears!
Below, the current stage in the Green Egg painting!
Originally posted 2008-07-26 09:37:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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July 26th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
This piece is magical. You know a lot of these creatures are from my world on the river. In fact, the alligator is my main shaman animal.
I so agree with your words:
“Meditation helps us tap into the spiritual side of things and it seems that if you trust your mind to create art and ask it to guide your hand then the art you asked for appears!”
Reflections indeed!
Thank you for sharing your art and your words!!
Good and creative energies to you my friend,
~gypsy-heart
gypsy-hearts last blog post..Dreams..miracles in waiting.