at 72 I make Art to express the deepest aesthetic versions of objective and non-objective combined. On number 33 of New works over 6 years.
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The directions I choose for art are widely varied. my core centers around combinations of objective and non-objective for a combined richness. But this has many possibilities between realism and pure, painterly richness, surreal, every day, intimate, society shared experience, beautiful light we live in in the darkness, we sometimes fear. There are many directions, content, that work can follow with an open mind and at 72 years old, a lifetime of aesthetic experience that I enjoy like never befo
Where do you find inspiration?Sometimes, in a quiet moment, a drop of water, the next spoken word by a person passing me without even knowing I was listening for it, late afternoon, light, memories of childhood, hopes for the future of all society, hopes for the future off world, the past, and the trials and tribulations of a lot of people that went through it, an emotion, a memory of an emotion, intimacy, public spaces, full of life, friends, existence, life, and the choices, gratefulness, kindness, greed, war, positive.
What would you do with $25,000?I would use it to continue to work towards my goal of setting up servers for children all over the world to pay like a dollar a year or less in the poorest countries to have access to learning, digital tech, coding, gaming, authorship, and much more. I have the person to write the app and in moving towards the startup money with 30 of my new paintings to be in an exhibit soon. None of this money would be for me and none of the money from the exhibit would be for me either. Those are my goals.
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