Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Being wrong and re-thinking the past
I recently saw a photograph of a petroglyph, presumably from pre-history and the photographer, areoeros, and he thought it looked like a guy surfing but then decided that it couldn’t be as ancient peoples didn’t have that kind of fun right?
I honestly think that we give our ancestors too much credit in that all their art is ‘sacred’ or ‘appeasing the gods’ etc, how the hell can we possibly know that? all we really know is that we are them and spirituality is a part of our lives but so is fun and how do we know that they didn’t have some kind of surfboard?
Even if it is a log in the ocean, you can surf and have fun, and even have a spiritual experience doing it, heck, many dedicated surfers claim a spiritual connection while in the surfing zone so why it sooo impossible to think our ancestors surfed? 
Re-thinking the past is a technique I enjoy to keep to mind active in this world of mindless tv and institution induced fear and arbitrary rules often enforced by hypocrits.
I don’t care if I get it wrong, I just want to draw my own conclusions to the big questions, like Paul Gauguin did!
One of the most liberating things I ever did was to forgive myself for being wrong on so many things and tell myself it’s ok to fail. I had to get off the hate train of politics for example. People are generally the same in the things that matter and labeling them as being on ‘the other side’ just leads to negativity and negativity leads to malaise.
I was ‘wrong’ on a figure I recently painted and so I painted over it and one of my random sketches (call it a doodle if you want to) seemed to be the prefect pose for the theme of my "2010" painting!
Here are two more phases of this huge canvas in progress!
My thinking was that while the figure on the right showed the flow of the energy it didn’t inspire the way the figure on the left does (to me anyway) so I painted over that part of the canvas and drew a new figure, but the old figure is still there and you can see part of face under the paint!
allegory of 2010 oil on canvas 8ft by 20ft in progress by Darren daz Cox
Here is my garage art studio in Pekin Illinois. You can see that I am slowly adding colored glazes to my Allegory of Imagination painting! I know, I thought it was done, but I was wrong haha!
Originally posted 2010-03-18 08:26:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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