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go to my blog archive on right and click on
the January post; a self published book titled GENIUS IS EASY,
is free on this site. This art book is the foundation for this blog.
WHY IS BEAUTY ATTRACTIVE?
Why are we more attracted to beauty than not? As we hike a trail in nature, we pause around every corner view, taking it in, as though we are breathing in some energy to fill our insides. With a sigh, we continue on hiking to fill ourselves throughout the day, healing our souls from previous stressed filled days.
What is the attraction, what is that essence energy we are taking in?
I am attracted to nature, familiar with the experience of that imperceptible essence, we all find attractive.
I thought the element of attraction was that beautiful scenery and landscape. One day a thought unraveled in my mind and I realized the attraction was nothingness, the space, surrounding all the physical beauty.
I was craving the quiet peace, the vast openness,
something I called the loud quiet.
Physical beauty was the by product of my interest. Even though nature was quiet,
it was an intense quiet because the space was so vast.
I was drawn towards no sound, visual emptiness,
an undeniable essence of nothingness.
What permeated me was real emptiness of space and quiet, surrounding a maze of images.
I could hear the air move and then it wouldn't, for hours without interruption. The contrast of physical beauty against vast nothingness became the mantra, beating against my psyche and body, into my soul.
The physical world seduced my senses and abounding silence and vast open spaces
filled me with peace, contentment, fulfillment and bliss.
I realized
nature was the catalyst triggering something inherent within myself.
The energy exposed within me seemed to be elevated by being present in that natural setting. Nature was meditating for me, I felt more alive, fresh and energetic.
I craved a very special, comfortable, undefinable volume of nothingness.
The gaps of silence or nothingness between the notes of sound define the melody. The emptiness of nature enriched and magnified my perception of physical shape.
My inspiration to create as an artist was magnified in the light of nature.
In nature and in meditation I experience this value of nothingness.
The book, Genius is Easy, on my blog archive,
contains one of four art mediums called pour and flow painting.
With pour and flow paintings,
I attempted to uncover more transparent pathways of nothingness
through the physical world of nature,
exposing more of this essence within and around all objects.
is free on this site. This art book is the foundation for this blog.
WHY IS BEAUTY ATTRACTIVE?
Why are we more attracted to beauty than not? As we hike a trail in nature, we pause around every corner view, taking it in, as though we are breathing in some energy to fill our insides. With a sigh, we continue on hiking to fill ourselves throughout the day, healing our souls from previous stressed filled days.
What is the attraction, what is that essence energy we are taking in?
I am attracted to nature, familiar with the experience of that imperceptible essence, we all find attractive.
I thought the element of attraction was that beautiful scenery and landscape. One day a thought unraveled in my mind and I realized the attraction was nothingness, the space, surrounding all the physical beauty.
I was craving the quiet peace, the vast openness,
something I called the loud quiet.
Physical beauty was the by product of my interest. Even though nature was quiet,
it was an intense quiet because the space was so vast.
I was drawn towards no sound, visual emptiness,
an undeniable essence of nothingness.
What permeated me was real emptiness of space and quiet, surrounding a maze of images.
I could hear the air move and then it wouldn't, for hours without interruption. The contrast of physical beauty against vast nothingness became the mantra, beating against my psyche and body, into my soul.
The physical world seduced my senses and abounding silence and vast open spaces
filled me with peace, contentment, fulfillment and bliss.
I realized
nature was the catalyst triggering something inherent within myself.
The energy exposed within me seemed to be elevated by being present in that natural setting. Nature was meditating for me, I felt more alive, fresh and energetic.
I craved a very special, comfortable, undefinable volume of nothingness.
The gaps of silence or nothingness between the notes of sound define the melody. The emptiness of nature enriched and magnified my perception of physical shape.
My inspiration to create as an artist was magnified in the light of nature.
In nature and in meditation I experience this value of nothingness.
The book, Genius is Easy, on my blog archive,
contains one of four art mediums called pour and flow painting.
With pour and flow paintings,
I attempted to uncover more transparent pathways of nothingness
through the physical world of nature,
exposing more of this essence within and around all objects.
WINDSWEPT
The painting called Windswept in the pour and flow section of the "genius is easy" post, is a good symbolic example of transparent pathways through solid rock. This piece happens to be my favorite representation of real physical reality. In essence, the physical world contains more space than substance.
Abstract expressionism turns inward towards the emotion of peace and awe. Beauty and calm is magnified as essence becomes more exposed onto the surface. Expanding this perception gives rise to greater appreciation, joy and serenity.
The pour and flow paintings referenced on the genius is easy post represents a clear demonstration of nature’s work.
When anybody paints a landscape, the painting is a created representation of the real landscape. The land is real and the painting is fake land, represented onto the canvas painting.
The technique I use to create this abstract work is a natural technique. Natural laws of physics are utilized in the creative painting process. I set up the initial conditions and once the process of creating begins; the design unfolds due to laws of gravity. The pressure of flowing paint runs against edges and bends of vertically tilted large loose canvas sheets.
The Colorado River flows against the side of cliffs, carving its interesting textures against the rock walls of the Grand Canyon. The texture or art found on cliff walls is real, some more interesting than not. The texture found on my canvas sheets was designed by me but created by nature.
My paintings are real reflections of nature, since the designs are naturally carved utilizing laws of physics.
My hands did not stroke the canvas surface, in amazement I witnessed nature's processes unfold before my eyes. As you view the beauty of line and curve of the snake river flowing beneath the Teton Mountains you are viewing the physics of natural formation. As you view the lines and curves of my paintings you are viewing how formation is created through natural law over a tilted canvas surface.
My paintings are real as the Snake River is real. Both are created by the same force of nature. My paintings tend to mimic nature because they are nature.
The message of my abstract paintings is that
they are not representations of nature,
they are nature on canvas.
What is abstract?
Everything is abstract in nature. Your mind creates the Snake River and all its definition.The Snake River is just a number of curves and lines and shapes cutting across random boundaries.
Take a picture of the Snake River,
turn it upside down, crop out a section, display it sideways
and what do you have but a number of abstract lines, shapes and patterns.
The only reason you may know there is grass and water in the picture is because somebody else's concept of what it was, told you so...when you were young.
My desire and passion was to re experience and to place you into that joyful mysterious realm of undefinable energy, by painting,
AS NATURE CREATES.
My paintings are not my own.
In all four of my artistic mediums;
i.e. crystalscape, florals, skyscsapes, and pour and flow paintings
I felt more like a witness during
the art making process than the creator.
Nature performs all of the work. I watched in amazement and directed the creation and variations of color and texture. The work is truly an artistic jewel of nature. Whenever I can find ways to create in nature’s way, I know I can do no better myself.
If God created nature, God has become my muse and inspiration
and I am humbly taking credit with God’s hand in my work.
Dave Ryan
A DIARY OF THOUGHT ON
PURITY, MEDITATION, OBSERVATION
AND CLARITY
Copyright, 2009, all rights reserved.
