I think it says something about an artist not fearing to be creative. Seeing the actual larger format can make quite a difference from the small diminutive screen image here. Feel free to question-comment - criticize
A must see for artists and scientists > Art and Science- Leonard Shlain
http://www. rheingold. com/texts/reviews/artphysics. html
A friend recommended this book recently. Excellent beyond words, I must say.
The above link is a review of it that gives so much praise and synopsis to the book that I feel the critics review is more immediately and profoundly informing than the book itself. But please do see the book!
I highly recommend that you at least read this review if not the book.
-Mark
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I remember seeing this image on Spaceweather.com Mark and was highly impressed by it at the time and of course I still am. Must check out this book you mention as reading the Review it sounds right up my street.
Thanks for sharing.
Quote: ArtBefore Science- DoNot Fear the CreativeProcess
I always see this as something we can show through our imagination and often something which we will not see in our lifetimes but possible in the vastness of space n time. Through being creative it opens up Questions..
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I would feel better to address you by your actual name. Thank you for the compliments. Actually, I pulled all the stops on this work. I had just looked at a bio book on the famed abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning after observing that wild sunspot.
I think many of the public were a little jolted by this artwork. I believe I remember receiving a personal email from Dr Tony Phillips web master at Spaceweather.com, the night they published it. He expressed that he wished he could do art like mine. I merely asked him to try it and not to fear abstract imagery.
I just read the other day, part of the book Art & Physics. I related wholeheartedly to a quoted line from a famous artist who I cannot now remember. I think it was Jackson Pollock or Picasso. One of them remarked that they cannot remember executing some works that are entirely abstract in composition. It is as if something else takes over in sub-conscience.
I would liken it to a complete sense of liberated freedom in producng art like this. Of course I include at first the actual image observed in the eyepiece of the central theme, that being the solar surface observed through my h-alpha telescope.
I reflected for a moment on doing that first wild abstract that I have spoke of here (that was also featured in Spaceweather.com Oct 14 ~ 16th 2006 * see their archives or my gallery) As I cannot remember doing the piece now.
I think you are the first to comment on this particular one other than the web master at Spaceweather.com. As you seem to enjoy it, could you elaborate a little more about your impressions of it? I would appreciate any other input as I plan to do another similar abstract soon and could utilize others input.
Thanks again for sharing your generous response; as I mentioned, these works are 20” X 24” in original format- The actual originals are much more compelling seen live in original state. I would hope to lecture somewhere some day where many others could see the originals that I would display.
Mark
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The impression I get when looking at this image is one of Passion and this Passion is flowing out of your love for the subject matter. I personally feel when looking at the image is one of mass activity and a sense of being there in space and touching the wild Sunspot this is something no image from a Camera can do BUT observing wise you can get that feeling so in essence your sketch to me at least is closer to being by the Telescope and observing than a Photo can ever do.
I prob sound Mad but there ya go this is my impression of this fine work.
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James
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Thanks for the compliments. Now see the latest. I just finished another tonight after speaking on NPR's Talk of the Nation today- I was the opening comment on artists as procrastinators. This new work was inspired from a pyramid shaped prominence that I had only done a preliminary pencil sketch of on June 8th - Mark
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