Telescope Reviews: Re: ArtBefore Science- DoNot Fear the CreativeProc

Dear Poo-Bah OrionTheHunters

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

Edited by markseibold (06/09/08 09:27 PM)

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