Friday, March 08, 2013



In the great scheme of things, my life will create no more than a mini-blip on the Big Screen. Given that I accept this caveat, I propose that this "fact" is of no consequence in the face of 

  • "what  do I do next" and 
  • "how do I do it?" 

I want to make a mark. Is that the reason I became an artist? To literally "make a mark"? I do make marks. I also make digital marks in the form of photographic images. Will the sum of my artistic parts add up to more than the whole body of work? And how is this even possible to assess? 

In the course of developing my artistic self, I have developed my musical abilities. Music does not exist except to be performed and heard. On the page or in a digital form, it means very little if not nothing. Nothing

Something from Nothing. This my Artistic Credo. I would propose each of us has one. The output of an Artist connects to the source of the efforts. There is an underlying precept or stimulus. This underlying structure will often be unseen and unheard. Even the chance artists and musicians have to have modus operandi to bring new works from their own personal voids. Nothing truly comes randomly into this world. 

We are not random. 
Our world is not random. 
Random. 
Nothing. 
Whatever.

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