I Love Art

Thoughts

By: destry

Written on March 20th, 2010

I could live art

I could breathe it

I could look at it all day and then again the next

I could create all day if surrounded by quiet, and beauty, and nature

I could get lost, escape and feel free....

Art is a serene haven in a stressful and mostly shallow world

It can move you, inspire you, and connect with your senses in a profound way

If you open your mind, let go of convention and rigidity, and let it absorb into your soul....

By: destry

Age: 46-50

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affinityterra

I agree and this post makes me want to paint a painting. I haven't painted in a few months.

Jan 11
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- destry
  I haven't painted much in ages, either. It's time, methinks. :)
  
  Jan 11
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lightpainter

Ironically, I can make my art because I can spend long periods of time in my studio room, and it helps to be an introvert to be able to do that. But then the business world and society require extroversion so I have to constantly switch gears and force myself to be outgoing in order to afford to be introverted. lol Sort of like a "catch 22" all the time.

Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  Yes, exactly! I want to make a career, again, out of doing art, but I find myself wanting to recluse a LOT, since I have been out of the workforce for the last 11 years. Hiding out by myself seems to help me create better, and it is my haven from the world. I like to get lost in my own surrealistic mind! lol
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  I like to get lost in my own surrealistic mind! lol.................... we aren't related by any chance are we?
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  And the only way I know how to create is by hiding out by myself. And by getting lost in my imagination.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  LOL! spooooky! I think all artists must be related by some cosmic force or something! :P
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Or we all share some of the same basic personality traits. I don't think a die hard extrovert would spend days alone in a room.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  It would drive them nutty, methinks!
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  I think they would only submit to that if they're incarcerated. Whereas we would be perfectly happy........ of course with our art supplies and food also.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  Yes... I could do it. Oh wait... I essentially do already! lol Art is like food for my brain. :)
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Same here, but I need the real thing so I don't pass out on my camera. Besides, being half Italian food is like religion...... but so is art.... so they run neck in neck. But then I cook also, so making food is like another art form. Damn... on a roll here. lol
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  Separated at birth. hehehe! Don't even get me started on food! lol
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Yeah, food and art, my two favorite things. When I cook, balancing sweet and sour is just like balancing the tonal range in photography. There is a weird correlation with the two. Light and dark, sweet and sour... one and the same. Zone 8 and pass the salt.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  hahaha!!
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  My god...... she laughed. I usually have people confused at this point.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  *laughs even more*
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  You're not by any chance imbibing are you? I'm told I make more sense when one is tipsy.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  No sorry, I make more sense when I'm the one who's drunk.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  no! I don't even touch the stuff! I am just strange on my own! *ponders the odds of having to say that on two different stories, same day* LMAO!
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Scary huh? Sort of like a hall of mirrors.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  yes!
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  I know, this site is like a cross between group therapy and The Jerry Springer Show.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Along with having to read what you write and seeing the patterns develop. Like looking into a mirror and seeing your own behavior reflected back at you. My god... like we need this???? lololololololol
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  ...perfect description! lol
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Thank you. Just read about you pilfering your child's halloween candy..... but isn't that a parent's right according to state law? And, you have three of them so they owe you.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  And you do pottery? I envy people who can handle ceramics. I work with clay, but I put it on cardboard and let it dry to mimic ancient ruins and such. For me to make an actual working pot or cup would throw off the natural order of the universe.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  ...hahaha! I'm bad!
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Yes, I think you need to do some serious soul searching (he says dead panning it while struggling to keep a straight face).
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  No, I work with polymer clay. I would love to do pottery. Need a kiln and more space to do it, though. Painting, textile art, jewelry making, and some photography are my main pursuits. :)
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  I do photography myself. I have some of my work in the gallery section of my profile. What's the difference between polymer clay and regular clay?
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  I will have to check it out when I get back on my laptop. :)
  Hmmm...I think firing temps, maybe. Polymer clay fires in a toaster oven! lol
  Plus it doesn't have to be wet to work with it. It comes in a wide variety of colors, and is mostly used for small scale sculpture over, say, vases and dinnerware.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Interesting. The clay I work with has to be kept wet all the time. It's air dry clay. Take it out of the wet environment and the air dries it..... I know... totally simplistic.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  That would drive me nutty-er! :P I don't have the attention span, maybe, for air dry clay! lol
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  I have a very limited attention span for certain things. For other things it seems to be limitless. This is driving me nuts (for a change), your avatar is a cat, your secret code name is destry....... and my cat's name is Destin, and your avatar looks like my cat. There... got that out of my system, I feel empowered......global warming shall cease... I decree it.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  That's a wee bit freaky!
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Sort of like "Gods and Demons" sans Tom Hanks...... and much more convenient not having to free up clergymen from certain death.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  hahaha!!
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Omg!!! Made her laugh again..... or is it really me? My dear, are the windows open in the room you're in? I would hate to think all this laughter is due to hypoxia (pigeon latin for "oxygen deprivation" as taught by satanic nuns with a god complex)...... film at 11:00.
  
  Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  paint fumes? :P lol
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- destry
  ..*paint* i mean! Argh! Why is it just dropping MY first letters?!
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Paint fumes. Makes sense. I would gladly have it drop my first letters instead if that would make you feel any better.
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- destry
  I thought it might have just been the laptop doing it, but the mobile device did it too. weird...
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- destry
  didn't do it that time...
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Technology................. it smells your fear........
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- destry
  No doubt! lol
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Just finished blocking up a window for my studio room. One small step for me.... one giant leap for the forces against procrastination. Go team!!!!
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- destry
  And I wish I had MORE windows! lol I have my art cave in the basement. Decent size, and it has a bigish window, but the window faces the house next door and lets in very little light. I call it a "cave" literally! :P
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- lightpainter
  I have different environmental needs. I lightpaint and need total darkness or there will be exposure problems. You on the other hand probably would like a skylight.
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- destry
  Yes! Or a few! Although in the basement that might present a challenge! lol
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- lightpainter
  My studio used to be in a basement with an oil burner. Soot over everything. Great in the summer, never had to worry about catching cold. Dante's 5th level of hell I used to call it.
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- destry
  I have a walkout basement, so it is mostly a second level more than a basement. Very bright in the main room. :)
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- lightpainter
  Hey, I have an idea, instead of using this insanely long thread why don't I just add you to my circle.
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- destry
  lol!!
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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- lightpainter
  How about just messaging me directly so I don't have to search the depths here.
  
  Sep 17, 2012
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lightpainter

This is exactly what I tell people. You read my mind.

Sep 16, 2012
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- destry
  :)
  
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destry

thanks, Kathie :)

May 5, 2012
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Kathieredart

That was beautiful,Des........we are two peas in a pod.....I could do and look at art all day, too.

May 5, 2012
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destry

I think good art is in the eye of the beholder. :)

Nov 23, 2011
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Mary1283

That's really nice. A lot of art I don't fully understand. My little brother is really good with ceramics. But, I don't know what to look for. Maybe it's just whether you like it.

Nov 23, 2011
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destry

Excellent way to put it!

Oct 29, 2011
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angsty

I'm reading two of Lynda Barry's books right now, "What It Is" and "The Near-sighted Monkey".

She said (to paraphrase) that a painting is not a depiction of a world. It is a world. We move through it.

As a painter myself, I was struck by the profundity of that comment.

When I'm painting, there's this niggling concern for how a viewer will cotton to it.

Does it "read" right?

Are the colors balanced?

More to the point, is this a world someone will want to inhabit?

Oct 29, 2011
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destry

:)

Apr 26, 2011
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destry

:)

Feb 6, 2011
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LifesGardener

You have defined artist as well as art

Feb 6, 2011
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destry

Thanks, tas! :D

Jan 30, 2011
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Orangetas

I love this story des : )

Jan 30, 2011
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Bren61

I love art TOO! I live it.

Jan 30, 2011
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Sylphy

You mean Picasso started optical illusions...? Stare at those paintings and sculptures and we'll see a sailor monkey, huh?

Hmmm...

That certainly moved my way of thinking!

Jan 29, 2011
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destry

Even the nude chicks? Hmmmmm...

:P*

Jan 29, 2011
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HappySailor

If you stare hard enough, almost every Picasso looks like a sailor monkey...

That image should move just about anybody....

:o)P*

Jan 29, 2011
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destry

Definitely :)

Jan 29, 2011
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destry

LOL! There be enough traffic, no doubt! Might be worth a query one day :)

thanks, Queenie! :D

I get affected in a very similar way. I find an inner peace in it. If I am creatively motivated, I can sit for hours on end and just get lost in the colors, etc. of what I am doing...

Thanks :)

Jan 29, 2011
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enjoythebeach

Des~ The greay symbolism about art is that it has so many meanings to so many people; all of them moved in a different way, yet the appreciation nonetheless is quite awe inspiring. Myself I gaze at each piece and let my eyes get lost in the movement within, and feel it teeming energy, tranquility and happiness from the inner calm I derive from it. Take me to an art museum any day of the week and see my spirits and senses put in order! Great piece by the way!

Jan 29, 2011
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Queenofargyll

This is a beautiful post...word art, if I may. :)

Jan 29, 2011
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Dee67

You could probably sit on main street and sell to traffic passing through in the summer, lol :) Maybe there's a boutique in town that might take some of your pieces to sell? Could be worth checking into. (Ain't I full of brilliant ideas tonight! A cooler later and I'm Einstein, lol!!)

Jan 29, 2011
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destry

hahaha! I wish! There is too much competition around here, even if I had the brains to do it! lol

Jan 29, 2011
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Dee67

Here's a thought -- maybe you should open up shop! Wouldn't it be great to get paid for what you looove to do...?? :)

Jan 29, 2011
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destry

thanks for the sweet comment ABL :)

Jan 29, 2011
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EternallyHopeful

Maybe. It's pretty stuck deep inside, though LOL

Jan 29, 2011
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destry

thanks, EH :)

I think if you can appreciate art, there is an artist in your heart... :)

Jan 29, 2011
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EternallyHopeful

This is beautiful des. I am no artist. But when I understand it I can appreciate a good work. I've been known to stand at the gallery gazing at some favorite pieces. You do indeed get lost in the world they've created. A scene. A thought. Some lives. An idea. Whatever it is.

Jan 29, 2011
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destry

thank you :)

Apr 13, 2010
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