November 1 by anahata.c
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This old scene (above) always reminded of the desolate beauty of November...A spare and strangely peaceful month. It's just 6 blocks from home: Welcome to the Midwest, people! Them there's real Midwestern cold, people...can't beat that spareness anywhere!
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Wanted to share something about creating (for those interested):
My last tale was one of the simplest I've ever posted. I've got a lot of 'm, I just don't post many. My usual tales are messy, complicated, flying in several directions at once...and I'm not being self-depracating, just honest. Mike (faemike55) used to say "this tale has more twists and turns in it than a tornado!" He wasn't being insulting: Just honest, bless his soul.
(I hope he's doing well, btw!)
We grow up thinking we're the masters over our art: But many of us learn that our art is master over us---meaning, our art has a life of its own. And our "creating" is as much due to listening as it is to dictating: The art guides us as much as we guide it. Which is why I leave very detailed comments on all of your works, but couldn't say nearly as much about mine...I create from intuition as much as from intent, as I think many of you do...
One more thing: How do you explain to a non-artist why we "agonize" over one line, one hue, one phrase, etc, when it's "only a work of art"? "All that effort over one freaking line? or one freaking phrase?" people will say. It's like what a poet called "the universe in a grain of sand": We find the whole cosmos in a single splash of color, a single line of prose. I met the great Stravinsky (the classical composer): He said that one musical phrase by Beethoven can "carry the whole cosmos in it". We're always seeking that cosmos, as far as I'm concerned...
Personally? I start a tale with a gazillion images, whether I want them there or not. They come out of the woodwork. If you think my tales here are "thick," you should see the first drafts! It's like someone dumped a massive sack of images, jokes, phrases, etc, on my rug, and then left. (Nice guy!) And I'm stuck with all these 'things', and I haven't got a freaking clue what to do with them. (I wanna call people and say: "HELP!!!!") The images fly in the window, break through the door, roll under my couch, my bed, my carpeting...some roll to the kitchen and eat me out of house and home. It's a huge "splat"---the beginning of a tale---and I'm expected to "make sense" of it all. So if you think, "where is he GOING with this thing!" believe me, I'm tearing my hair out so you'll know.
That's why I never take any of your art for granted: You might've gone loopy getting one color right, or getting the light to fall an exact millimeter to the left, or crafting one phrase until it sings. I respect that. We're fingerpainting with the cosmos over here, people; and when an outsider says, "you STILL with that red??? one hour, and you're still on that single red???" You answer, "that red has the cosmos in it!" And the amazing thing is: It does. It truly does.
Thanks for your wonderful support. I"m commenting again and will catch up.
I wish you a wonderful---and healthy---November. Take care! m
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Comments (8)
goldie
I enjoyed your commentary, Mark...it definitely provides some food for thought. All I can say is that when I start a scene, I do have an image in my head, but. in the process of creating that scene. it is as though it has a mind of its own. Anyway, do like you photo--depicts a serene beauty in it near desolation. Stay well.
Richardphotos
record high temperatures is the forecast for most of the Northern USA including here. superb winter capture
bakapo
I want to put on one of my hand-made scarves and fingerless mitts and climb that tree with a book. I could probably sit there for hours. the tree is an unusual shape and it's probably old. the nearly leaf-less branches mean winter is coming and dull November turns to icy December, soon enough. I really like the coloring in this photo, too, it emphasizes the calm and stillness of the season.
sometime I have an idea when I start creating, sometimes I don't... either way, the image takes over and I always end up with some things I had not planned.
RodS
Oh. My. God.
You absolutely NAILED the creative process as it takes place in what's left of my mind (I tore my hair out a long time ago... Welcome to the club, buddy!). My 6 remaining brain cells are high-5-ing it in your honor!
And next time you see that guy with the sack of stuff he dumps on your rug, tell him it took me YEARS to sort through all that stuff he left last time... And you and I are gonna track him down. And probably buy him a steak dinner at J. Glibert's..
I know I always look forward to your comments - I learn so much from them. I've said it a million times - you see stuff in my artwork I didn't even see when I created it. I don't know if somehow your spiritual projections (there's a fun phrase, huh?) are looking over my shoulder and directing my hand/mouse, or if I'm just lucky as hell. 🤣
And where is this wonderful tree? I love Barb's comment - and I know I have a photo somewhere of me at about 10 - 11, sitting in a tree just like that with my mom standing on the ground right beside me. Your photo makes me smile - as does all your wonderful images and writing.
And.....
CONGRATULATIONS on being voted Artist Of The Month!! Very, very well deserved!! YES!!!
eekdog
Would enjoy sitting by the trees with friends like you chatting about everything. Love the great harmonic autumn feel Mark. Superb capture.
ShadowsNTime
As you know, trees are my thing, lol! I love the 'slumber' period and then the awakening in the spring...This tree is amazing, I wonder what stories it could tell...I would sit with it for hours, the bark has gorgeous patterns...You were absolutely correct in your story about us artists...wonderful how you put that into words and a superb capture of the beautiful tree! I tried to find where to vote Mark, but couldn't, sorry, because I would have voted for you...this place drives me crazy, I never get notifications on time, grrr!
JohnnyM
First things first...Congratulations for being voted artist of the month! I just found out the news early this morning, so happy for you! :-)
The way you write makes a great statement as to who you are...you are one of a kind artist my friend! I consider the comments you leave behind as gifts that soothe the inner soul in each one of us. We all participate on this site as a collective community driven with the purpose of creating art in our own special and unique way. Your words are encouraging and helpful and as our friend RodS has said above, you help us see things through your eyes in ways we never imagined.
The tree photograph does a great job of giving us a hint as to what time of the year it is. yet what this tree does not show are the stories of the many that have sat beneath it on past Summer days. Take care and be well Mark! :-)
Wolfenshire Online Now!
The world is preparing to take a little winter's nap, but we'll be here to greet it again when it wakes in the spring. You are right about the way the creative process works. For myself, when I fight what the page wants, I get terrible results, and though it might take many rewrites, mostly because I'm not listening to what the page wants, when I let go let the magic take flight, I get better results.