08/26/2021
Today’s post is in response to a question asked yesterday on Instagram (Spiritinspireddesigns) regarding the picture’s story.
My mind creates an association with everything I experience turning what my human eyes see into photographs, vignettes, a metaphor for life, something to write about or a new piece of art.
Many who are unfamiliar with my story may not realize that impetus behind my original art is the spirit world. As a medium I began to create art while in conversations with those who are deceased.
Recently, I began using a mobile application that allows images to be modified. It is in this process that I began to realize how quickly one moment in our life can be changed and appear as something quite different.
One might never realize that the image I posted yesterday is a modified photograph or that that same image was modified and posted on August 22nd, looking quite different. (I am re-posting both modified images today.)
The moral of the story is that I take the original photograph saving the image both internally and externally. I chose something outside of myself to modify the photograph.
This does not mean the original is any less beautiful or important; the original was the impetus for the modified images. Now, I have a choice for the future. I can ignore the images I have created, or I can use any one or all the images to create something new.
It was the spirit world who taught me that my fear of getting something wrong in my artwork could be overcome by simply painting over what I desired to change. I have pieces of art that I have literally painted over thirty times until I arrived at a place where I felt satisfied with the art I have created.
I go through a similar process when modifying photographs or images of my artwork. I may change the modification ten or twenty times until I reach a point where I am satisfied.
I have learned not to judge the present state of my creation, either the artwork or the images because I have become confident in how easy it is to change something specific to the creative part of myself.
I cannot say for sure I am can apply these attributes everywhere in my life, but I can say they give me pause for thought.