Missunderstood or hostility

There are people who don't understand or have a unvaforable view on the artistic life.  It is a bit saddening.  They don't see the importance of creativity or arts in everyday life.  It is not an affair of museum and dusty cobweb.  There are piece of art everywhere now.  Inside homes, in big buildings, outside and in public transit.  Part of art have an everyday application.  For example: photographers.  The domain is vast.  There are those who do only sports, only news, only weddings, only portraits, only nature, only cinema, only horrors of wars,  only what I have not thought right now.  It cover art in the purest form to practical day to day grounding and sobering art.

Cuttiong all form of artform is not practical and is not the thing to do.  Art can have a large definition.  In addition, art cover creativity.  Creativity can be practical.  Creativity can help solve problems.  People don't always think all the way to the end, the ramifications of their missconception.  Cutting creativity would cut soap opera, tv shows, painting, photo, cinema, books, danse, music, even sport because sportpeople put their domain into an artform.

The poor artists who die without recognition and fame is so out of date.  Some people seems to cling on that prejudice.  In our modern world, artists can have a bussiness side.  They can pull their strings from the vast field of creativity.  They know how to make a living.  They can be trustted in making their way into the world.  Artists deserve an upgrade in the old views of their trade.  It is not like in the old times where social media were not as technological and fast as today.  Prejudice no longer need to be glued to artistic people.

A theory on artists and their arts

While discovering new artists that I didn't knew before or learning more on famous ones, I ended up with a theory on artists.  It is best to know the artist and his life.  Why?  It help understand their work, their art.  Symbols are universal and personal at the same time.  To decode the symbols of the artist, we must know how to interpret it.

To do so, we must know the artist on a personal level: be it his background like family and personal trauma of the past but also the period of the art too.  Each piece of art have it by what had shaped it.  The immediate experience that have triggered the piece of art.  The symbols are not always conscious.  I know that I have a lot of unconscious art under my belt.  I only start to see some element of symbolism in what I do, in written form.

The process of creation it very a personal process.  I like to see other artists in the act of doing, of creating in their main art.  I like to see their personal twist on some techniques.  Learning about an artist is becoming closer to his artwork.  Acknowledging this makes me understand the peoples who study art, artists and any person that work in the creative field.  It only makes me wanting to learn more on the creative process, the artists and their arts.

Sidewalk tree trunk with a branch

Paradolia, seeing patterns or familiar things in our surrounding,  It seems to be more and more in my life.  I seems to see familar shapes everywhere.  Too much practice or a too fertile imagination?
I found this photo:

The asphalted parts look like a tree trunk iwth a branch.  It is what I see.  Of course, it isn't a real tree, it just look like one that is on the ground.  It is in my imagination.  The place doesn't move at all.  It is akin of the spaceship tree (https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2758842815612261477#editor/target=post;postID=8857784221154598566;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=4;src=postname).  I may be in a process to see more of my surrounding and more into seeing shapes.  I enjoy doing that, even if it isn't always on the spot.  It was the case with the above photo. It is only when I looked at the photo that I saw the tree and branch shapes.  For the spaceship tree, I saw it right away, while I was beside it.

Another part into this is all the photos that I take with trees in them.  I like the shapes trees can take.  There is also the two ugly trees (https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2758842815612261477#editor/target=post;postID=1170695786913894355;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=8;src=postname).  Trees seems to take an impartant part in my life, or I just  becoming conscious of their part in my life.  In both explanation, it end up that I see trees everywahere.  There are time where I find there isn't enough trees in some parks.  An obsession?  Maybe but I just hope it is an healphy one.

Soapmaker mold

I like the mold that I have for soap making.  My favorites are the one made out of silicone.  I like them because they have nice shapes like my favorite one: snowflakes!  It gives nice, crisp and beautiful end result: an original snowflake soap:

I am sure there are other nice soap mold on the market.  I am keeping an eye out in finding more.  I haven't made soap in a while.  Start to miss doing that.  I should make some soon again.  Just for the fun of it.

I like to make nicely shaped soap.  It makes me an original soapmaker.  Well, it could be my trademark in the future.  Maybe the next step would be to make myself my mold.

Girls and stickers

It can happen when girls meet stickers:

I would call this the «door of stickers».  Now, I wonder if I will unstick them from there or leave it be for the time being.  Children and stickers are a match made out of heaven for sure.  The two mix too well.  From now on, I will have to keep a close eye when the girls get stickers in their hands.

As a side note, I think I am seeing a pattern: the stickers seems to form the hair.  The center of the photo is the face.  Down, there is the neck.  Could be a girl or a nice jokers, as you want.  I just get tired of seeing pattern every where.

Storytellers

As I watched Crash Course Mythology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA3j5_vKQfc),   It is about the flood in the Near East.  I thought «There are people who are great storyteller».  I don't know why I thought that at that moment.  It just came in my mind.   It is also a true thought.  I know people who are great stroytellers, in their own way.  I think it is something universal.  Everybody can find great storytellers around them.

I am not a good oral storyteller.  I hope that I am better on the written side, where I have time to choose my words.  I wonder how good storyteller spin their story, how they do it to keep their audience interested.  It can be artform.   Can also be an disapearing artform.  It is not widespread.  There isn't much oral storytellers making a living.

Thinking along those lines, I thought about oral storytelling stoires that made their ways into bookform.  One famous example is the Kalevala (https://www.amazon.ca/Kalevala-Epic-Poem-Finland/dp/1463745605/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1497659043&sr=8-3&keywords=kalevala)  or the fairytales of the Brotthers Grimm (https://www.amazon.ca/Grimms-Fairy-Tales-Jacob-Wilhelm/dp/1606600109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497659625&sr=8-1&keywords=grimm+fairy+tales).  It seems to be the future of storytelling along with movies and tv shows.

I just wondier if there is still a place for storytelling around a fire ground in the summer, for those who are still doing it.

Spaceship Tree

People can have strangely shappen trees.  The tree above makes me think of a spaceshp, especially on the second photo.  The first photo makes me think of a bad haircut on a person.  I like to look for pattern in trees.  Other people do that with clouds.  Maybe I should look up for dendromancy, the tree divination.