Adventures In & Out of Boxes: HOD. Page Six.

from: http://www.inner.org/sefirot/sefhod.htm

 

Hod is the eighth of the ten sefirot, and the fifth of the emotive attributes within Creation.

 

Hod is associated in the soul with the power to continually advance, with the determination and perseverance born of deep inner commitment, toward the realization of one's life goals. The acknowledgment of a supreme purpose in life, and the total submission of self which it inspires, serve to endow the source of one's inspiration with an aura of splendor and majesty. Hence the word hod connotes both "acknowledgment" (hoda'ah) and "splendor," in the sense of an aura-like "reverberation" (hed) of light.

 

 

 

        This part is about recovery.  What 2011-2012 was all about. The act of waking up by day.

The acceptance of what is outside of you affects but does not define what is inside of you.  The rediscovery of Self and what is important:

 

TELLIN' STORIES!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR.  MAKE EACH DAY YOURS!

 

 

 Reading List:          The Gospel of Thomas from the Nag Hammadi Library.

                                 Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery by Grant Morrison & Frank Quitley.

                        

 

Music List:               Bob Marley

                                 James Taylor

                                 Allure by Jay-Z.

 

TV& Movie List:     Star Trek Enterprise. Season Three.

                                 Coffy.

                                 Truck Turner

                                     

Adventures In and Out of Boxes:Who Am I. Page One.

This is how CHANGE occurs. 

 

Through ACTION purpose is met.  I am leaving the Bunker.  The Studio.  Continuing forward on this Sorceror’s journey.  I am  actualizing the Turtle Triumphant.

                This is how the story begins.  This is how I enter a new state of being.

 

Being a Father. 

            It begins with a packing box of my favorite books from my special bookcase.

 

Of Mythic Proportions: Extinction. Character Sketches

 

 

         It took me years to begin to appreciate how useful sketchbooks are.  Here are four characters of OMP: Extinction. 

 

 

 

Lord Lizard

 

Lord Lyonmane

 

 

Lord Tapestry with his whips

 

 

Escora of the Northern

The Cornerstone of artmaking: Seeing and Sketching

Often students deep in the role of tortured artist will not turn in assignments. When asked what the problem was they say they have a terrible case of artist block and can't come up with good ideas or effective renderings. Of course thats bullshit. Not the inability to come up with ideas but, being unable to make effective renderings. Artmaking as a process is conceptual and technical. Concept deals with your intentions, the strength of your ideas you wish to communicate and I have found the more life experiences you have had the richer your conceptual landscape. You got more shit to talk about. The Technical aspect is the thing we can always do something about. If you can't translate wht is in your mind then excersize your muscles. And drawing is a muscle. Drawing or rendering from life is a skill you can improve.



I look at my mind as a compter with all this potential knowedge space. The more things you know the more things you have experienced the more things you can access to tell stories ( interesting or boring), negotiate problems, an yes draw pictures. So whenever a student says the can't think of nuthin' to draw I say draw from life, draw what i infont of you. if you can understand and master the language of the visual world you can create a language where your conceptual world meets the natural world or communal world. I took the last three years focusig on the female figure and styles in additiond to my other visual interests.



Once you findthe common visual lagauge you can play with it and evolve it. Playing with colorfields...



Or primary colors...




or complementary color relationships.

So draw something in front of you to improve your technique and turn natural ability to a powerful skill. Cause you gotta learn to mke correct sounds before you make sense. You got to understand what you see before you began making symbol marks.