A Glimpse, A Glance, A New Mixed Media Art Romance!

Here are some select sections of one of my recent mixed media artworks titled

"Triumph of Man".

It's a  24" x 18" canvas painted with acrylics and  filled with original old stamps, enhancements of some of my photos, a piece of the front page of an original 1964 New York World's Fair  brochure, architectural drawings and  ephemera creating

  layers and layers of textures.

This work is a metaphor for the achievements man has attained, built and layered on the discoveries of so many- each creating a  foundation for the unending  new  innovations within society.  I  attended the 1964 World's Fair as a child and remember being in such awe of these new  21st Century technologies- seemingly futuristic in nature. The experience of sitting in moving seats within dark cavernous exhibit halls- taken on a  journey to see striking  new designs  was just  miraculous.

Just think what new  revelations and discoveries  in science and technology will become the staple of American life in the next half century! 

Within your own life, what would you like to create? 

 

A New York City Walk and Crossing Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Walking from Battery Park in lower Manhattan to the Brooklyn Bridge, and then actually crossing over to Brooklyn on foot is a "stimulus package' grander than anything you can imagine.

And here is a Sphere by Fritz Koenig formerly at the WTC, which is now a memorial in Battery Park .

All you have to do is take a step and look up,

then down, side to side and then straight in front of you to be taken in by all of the unimaginable sites.

You can get swept up with building after building wrapped in ornate detail work , larger than life glass windows and architecture to make your head spin every which way - catching glimpses of sculptured angle after angle.

There is art everywhere!

And amid the rapturous architecture, you turn the corner, cross the street and there are poignant, reflective sites that are so touching - deep within your soul.

Before you know it, you are on your way to the Brooklyn Bridge.

And as you enter Battery Park, there is a draping over the fence that reads:

"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream."-- Midstream: My Later LifeHelen Keller

Even in the unimaginable, there is beauty and art where ever you turn, where ever you go, and in what ever you do! If you can think it - imagine it - it is there to be seen.