Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Two Sides of Your Mind-Cat Card-It Is Complicated-synchronicity
I’d like something good to happen to inspire me as I just feel blah right now. I’m going to meditate and clean up my apartment and look for synchronicity…
Three pencil sketches with digital paint addeded, sometimes more IS more! You can see what style of motifs I draw when I concentrate (the figures) and what motifs I draw when I’m just ‘winging it’. I think what makes it interesting is the combination of the two methods, deliberate (conscious) and random (from the subconscious). What I’d like to do with these is have them printed large, wall sized, and then paint more details over them. Would it be graffiti to have your future self draw over your art from years back?
One of the things that you can learn from the discipline of General Semantics is to learn to consciously label yourself in distinct separate times for the purpose of clarity. For example the me in 2004 is quite a different person mentally from the current me in 2008 so while it’s not inaccurate to say ‘this is my art’ it is clearer to say ‘this is my art in the year x’ or from ‘when I watched a lot of tv and worked that job where such and such happened’, anything so that you associate the art with a specific time or thing you used to do etc. Of course you already do this unconsciously, but if you consciously index your work mentally it is apparently easier to notice synchronicity when it occurs, and synchronicity is magic!
Originally posted 2008-05-09 08:12:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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May 9th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Darren,
Thanks for this post. I’m going to start labelling who I am at different times when I write – so I start to recognise what different states of mind bring out of me.
It’s definitely true that as soon as you start looking for opportunities, more opportunities come your way.