Contemporary Abstract Paintings
THE POSITIVELY ELECTRIC COLLECTION This collection is about exploring the energy in positive emotions expressed in art. My intentions are to
affect your emotions with positivity and to incur a sense of relaxed well-being that may eventually translate to feelings of personal empowerment. The positive energy encompassed within these works is real and stems from connections with the natural energies of the earth through quartz crystals. These crystals are the same minerals that are used in the electronic devices you use daily to transmute information that helps them work like they're supposed to. And, ironically, they're also part of what we humans are made of. Energy. That said, I hope that you feel uplifted every time you view these works and that you not only carry on that positivity throughout the rest of your day, but that you also try to pass it on daily to those who are part of your circle of influence, as well as to new people you meet along the way. (If this piques your interest and want to know more, please continue reading.)
The reason quartz crystals are used in electronics is they're efficient absorbers and transmuters of energy, and they work because their crystalline structure absorbs, conserves, focuses and emits it, especially in the electromagnetic waveband. At the heart of the crystal is the atom and its component parts, which is dynamic and consists of particles rotating around a center in constant motion while vibrating at a certain frequency. This is what gives crystals their energy and, this energy, when programmed correctly, can also affect human beings with positivity.
So, I'm not only being affected by this energy while creating these works with my chosen medium...the computer. But, by programming raw pieces of quartz and other crystals to also emit the positivity I'm expressing within the brush strokes, the shapes and forms and even the colors and composition I'm working with, they're assisting my efforts to help change the overall spirit of negativity prevalent in our world today to positivity. So, in effect, I'm creating positive oriented works of art about energy, with positively programmed energy.
An interesting conundrum here is that according to quantum physics, energy can never be created or destroyed...it just is. And, when something changes, affects and/or interrupts the source of its wavelength, it simply evolves into another form of the same thing. So, let's say that none of these works in this collection have ever been output, but remain as 1s and 0s that, until powered up with energy (electricity), are simply static pieces of plastic without context. So, what happens to the art that has been created with these 1s and 0s when the source of its wavelength frequency gets interrupted, say by simply turning off the computer? Does that art evolve into something else and if so, what? Or, was it even real in the first place, i.e., the only way to prove that is, is to have it printed out onto a material substrate. And, you have the unique opportunity to prove that these pieces are indeed real by doing just that....and then hanging them on your walls.
