My Busy Art 1

I call it my ‘Busy Art’ because that’s how it feels. Acrylics on canvas and paper on canvas. Would some call it Intuitive Abstract or simply Collage? I’ve seen artists attempting to avoid too much ‘busyness’ in their art, but here I am embracing it. Unplanned, of course. Realism and good sketching don’t seem to be part of my skill set, but that’s okay with me. I do believe that I worked with that challenge in at least one other lifetime but now my personality feels more in tune with spontaneity, surprise and trying new and different expressions of what artistry means to me. I am more in tune with abstraction which for me is not emotional or cozy art. It’s like cold calculus in a way, though I’m a bit of a ‘Spock’ with regard to depth of emotions. Not as intelligent, of course, though I do envision unusual things at times. For example, I recently had a conversation with my son, Aaron, who has published four books on physics and reverse physics theories recently and this conversation led to my telling him of something I envisioned. He said it was about Calculus. I see a horizontal line starting with 0 (which has always fascinated me to no end) and on the right is a line of plus 1, plus 2, plus 3, and so on to infinity. There on the left of 0 is minus 1, minus 2, minus 3, and so on to infinity. Now I see this horizontal line of Numbers become more ‘spherical’ in every direction. It awes me. My son says it is Growth. I like that. I wouldn’t know how to ‘paint’ that or express it in art. Maybe, Ai could do that?

The World Between

Come. Let’s cross boundaries…

You have nothing to fear as we go.

Let’s walk through gates of definitions

into a glorious, Global Garden of Beauty-

the realm of Arts and Crafts there.

Let’s explore that vast World Between,

where definitions of Fine Arts and Crafts

are sometimes seen to merge and blend…

Let’s walk where aesthetic artistry

and reverent responses to Beauty

send us beyond simple perceptions.

Here are Crafts inspiring imaginations,

stirring emotions to flow…

Here, they meet with Fine Arts too-

those wondrous creations made through

skills, talents, techniques and tools.

Here, Beauty speaks the same language

understood in feelings we all know.

Come. Let’s cross boundaries…

You have nothing to fear as we go.

February 17, 2021

Shelley Wilson