It's A Tree ~ Drawing By Red Dust
Lines and Labels
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Way back in 2001 I was going to college, buying my books at the college store, I discovered gel pens and prisma colored penciles. I had a blast getting to know them.
I was majoring in psychology, going back to college after My first and only divorce at the age of 40, but I had no clue which area to focus. My psychology professor and mentor Dr. Wise told me psychology didn't really heal people, psychology was all about controlling people. He said people can lie, cheat, murder, be a real monster and look perfectly normal, pass any psychology test with flying colors.
He worked most of his life at Emory primate research center. Dr Wise told me I'd make a better living as a BSN with less schooling and money invested for my time. He was right, but then I found allopathic medicine was great for broken bones and organ repairs, everything else was a scam, so I became a paralegal. The legal system is a scam but at least everyone knows it!
20 x 16, drawing paper, gel pens and prisma colored pencils.
“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995
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Wow! Spectacular art! Drawings and the like awe me, probably because I am not an artist, so anyone who can create something that beautiful just astounds me!
Your first quote reminds me of a similar E. O. Wilson quote: "We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom."
Thank you @natator88, Simulacra and Simulation was the prototype for the matrix...wisdom is scarce and no one knows what wisdom i and we know so much but don't know how to use the data to help mankind....scary though!
“Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning...”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Beautiful creative work as always @reddust :] I'm a big fan of Jean Baudrillard - I've read all his books, but some them can be REAL TOUGH!!
I've tried reading Baudrillard other work, it's tough going, but I've been trained to read philosophy so I can peel layers, slow going. Maybe a paragraph an hour lololol
I read one page of his work and I need to pee!
It's really heavy lifting lolol
It's like lifting a super-heavy rod of natural Uranium - which I have done!!
Can we see you glowing in the dark now? Hahaha💥
With natural uranium your perfectly safe my @reddust :)
Breathes a huge sigh of relief😁
Very nice detailing again. This is tremendous. You are very talented. Well done. :)
@prakashghai, thank you for supporting my art, hehehe, I love detail.
Beautiful introduction dear friend @reddust the work is really beautiful, congratulations for this beautiful work
Thank you dear friend @jlufer!
Very nice piece of art here!
I really enjoy the way you have framed this piece, as seen in the first image. It nearly looks like a tapestry or even a really cool rug.
The composition is great too, that frame keeps me looking inward but there is enough detail in the frame where it eventually becomes a focal point itself.
The first thing I saw was all of the blossoms in the tree. The branches lead my eye down to the trunk and into the garden below the tree. From there my eyes go to the frame as I work my way back up around the outside. Which leads me right back to those blossoms again.
The second time around, I noticed that some of the blossoms and branches in the background are done in blue. As my eye went through the same cycle, I went up the frame on the other side noticing that the tree even tends to overlap this border frame a tiny bit, here and there, breaking up the design of the perfect rectangle.
Great job! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you @kidsysco, I thought of a tapestry or fabric design too, as a wall hanging. I've always wanted to learn to weave. Thank you for the excellent critique and your time. A book you may ne interested regarding industrial revolution, art in everyday workmanship.
http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/products/0-941532-71-2_Every_Man_An_Artist.aspx?ID=131
I have not heard of this book or the Author before. The description sounds pretty deep. I have been looking for a good book for the summer, however. I might check it out and I usually post a review of the books I read so... Not a bad idea. Thanks!
One more interesting effect I noticed about that wonderful border.
My eyes would travel down, to the right then up the border easily. I really had to force it to look to the left and then up. When I really analyzed it, I think it works this way due to the direction of the scales. The border travels in only one direction.
So I cleared my head and re-framed...
Looking at it today, I get a more circular composition from it. Fortunately, it is a delight to look at for so long but I can see some interesting opportunities for variation here. It gives me some ideas for my own work.
I would do this piece totally different now. I didn't think of layout or how to move the viewer...I just hit the piece thinking about exploring my new pens and pencils😋
If you like to explore Ananda Coomaraswamy more look up Sophia Perennis, it's a deep thinking phisophical group that looks at our spirit as the "whole" in the middle of the wheel in every religion. Ananda writes in English and he loves art, he is my favorite out of his group. Rene Guenon is my husband's favorite, he is a mathematician, his works are written in French and translations are tough to read sometimes, plus he looks at the world through a mathematical mind set. I still love his work!
http://www.sophiaperennis.com/books/biography/the-simple-life-of-rene-guenon/
http://www.sophiaperennis.com
http://www.sophia-perennis.com/index_english.htm
I love the tree!
And so true about Allopathic Medicine too.
I was really depressed for a couple years what I learned from the horses mouth. I worked for a Nurse with a Ph.D in family health, she taught at Emory too, she told me the skinny on government research grants regarding health, family, and community. It's about selling products that make big profits for corporations and government power and control over the individual.
I would love to see you do a post on what she told you.
It is definitely depressing to see the level of corruption and how people's health is not considered, but rather making a profit.
I feel overwhelmed by the weight of the topic...I've read some good books and articles on this subject though, maybe I'll post the data from other author and researchers instead.
One topic, her research pointed out juice and soft drinks were detrimental to a child's health, the study was ignored and grants were pulled because food corporations would of lost profits.