retrospective

Why attempt an art project so ambitious it could require 7 to 10 years to complete I have been asked more than a couple of times? One that would lay open my heart brain heartsoul as if I were a silly one-man reality show with no recommendations to make...no hard and fast message to share? Other than the belief that everyone is both unique and equal as each other in our Good expectations of everyone. And I was tired of complaining without  making any real effort to find solutions that might help calm things down—to end endless polarization, to further global willingness to pursue nothing but peace. Or to make fine art as soothingly powerful as music. After all, why can not both the activity of making beautiful art objects and enjoying music be considered components of His 6th sense, I  had always wondered? Automatically and reccurringly the answer came back that universal serenity quite possibly could be advanced by a global art project on which everyone could collaborate. But to really make the point strongly enough, i felt that an unknown quantity needed to deliver a marathon-like body of work alone, completely on their own, to show that such efforts can actually be achieved...

...so  when the virus first hit, I was closing in on the final stages of a  book. Best estimate was I still had about a year to go. But since much of its  content includes finished fine art drawings ready to be colored, me  decided to temporarily change course. My family and I agreed that just the drawings might better serve for awhile as a pleasant creative outlet to help distance oneself from COVID-19. So now, I have frantically gotten a Web site up which constantly needs revisions and updates so to feel out how to best get it noticed so to do the most Good. The biggest challenge so far has been to impress upon others that by taking on the searching for a rendering that appeals, the coloring, the otherwise enhancing, naming of it and signing of it so to own it is serious business. That to go through such a  process may truly make one a co-artist heartsoulist with every other as I keep mentioning. And hoping that together, everyone's effort really could become a global art project. That very possibly, the finished art of every participant will also appear on this Web site one day. To maybe be recognized as an important and worthwhile creative effort. Thanks for asking and maybe you could take a look sometime. While the pdf downloads are big, once  they get to your desktop, they can be colored by hand or converted so to  digitally bring one or more to fruition however you deem them to be most inspirational.

Also, I found this wonderful Web site called Yumpu that allows me to present excerpts of my upcoming book in very cool ways. As double page spreads and larger single pages, with both versions capable of being magnified 2.5 times. You can reach this showing by clicking on the blue green button below.