The Alchemy of Art
My Pecha Kucha talk at the Manitou Art Center last month. Using alchemy as a metaphor for the act of creating art, I explore creativity using my own drawings and writings.
My Pecha Kucha talk at the Manitou Art Center last month. Using alchemy as a metaphor for the act of creating art, I explore creativity using my own drawings and writings.
Over the course of fours weeks this winter, I created a visual art journal dealing with my understanding of the creative process. I used the themes of alchemy and journey as metaphor and peppered the pages with recurring symbols. Mostly, I had fun! What I found at the end of the project is that my chops for drawing from imagination had improved. I also rediscovered my love for writing. You can download a .pdf file…
Traveler: This place seems familiar. Have I been here before? Oberon: (looking up from the slow-moving river to take in the traveler) Where are you comparing it to? Traveler: I was walking along a riverbank very much like this one. And suddenly there was this shadow. Oberon: Excuse me, did you say shadow? Traveler: Well, not so much a shadow as a rustling of leaves. I mean it was a rustling of leaves until the…