Left Brain Artists
Multimedia immersive art forms ‘Immersive art experience’ has become a ‘trendy’ exploration of emerging media, AI, and unexpected displays. Virtual reality and video games are taking art icons such as Van Gogh and Frieda Kahlo into their realms. Embedded, sensory overload kicking in, the viewer reacts not by observation and contemplation, but by ‘immersion’ – […]
Mind filler story Where are we marching towards – as individuals and society? What awaits us at the end of the path we travel, intentionally or accidentally, the path so difficult to divert from? The question is both existential and philosophical. We all carry the burden of that path, as well as its joys. Do […]
Mind filler story The series ‘Identity’ illustrates a search for one’s recognizable identity, personal, ethnic, and racial. The search is arduous, looking into mirrors and fighting blind spots. The path is uncertain and convoluted. Could you define your own identity in a sentence or two – with clarity and precision? Perhaps words are not sufficient…are […]
Mind filler story Imprints impressed in our core come from an ancient past, origins of the species, as well as from more recent and vivid, ethnic and cultural histories. What is it about this elusive memory of the collective past, ancient or historical, imprinted in our brains and reflexes that define us individually? Why is […]
Mind filler story ‘Observers’ are moral authorities that channel or control our behavior, freedom of thought, and actions. They carry a carrot of belonging (to a beleif structure) and a stick of reprimand. They guide us and limit us, our freedoms. Observers could morph into an image of a strict father, religious leader, authoritarian philosophy, […]
Mind-filler story I came to experience a period of flirting with sexual ‘fluidity’ in my teenage years, sneaking out of control, parental and educational, to watch (then highly controversial) ‘Emmanuelle‘. Although I was firmly ‘she’, I did not shy away from experimenting kisses with girls or dressing in ‘man’s’ clothes. It was definitely an experimental, […]
Mind filler story I have a friend who is losing her faculties to Alzheimer’s, slowly but visibly – each time we meet, a distance of a few months, an inevitability of her decline sets in, sadly; she is fading away… Fading away…recent memories thinning out, clinging to the past, emotions flat or irritated, pinning time […]
Still life, clay objects etc. The expectations for this theme of the project ‘Orange’ were 3D objects, functional or otherwise. Bowls, figurines, jewelry…Well, you cannot prescribe creativity. We ended up with contributions of still-life paintings, and artistic deserts. And a quintessential ‘orange car’! Spontaneously, the theme transformed itself into ‘orange’ in our lives…we are searching […]
Large alcohol ink paintings The August studio workshop was focused on painting ‘Art Garden’. Enveloped in the tranquility of ‘Zen garden’. Waterfall murmuring in sink with our voices, hummingbirds feeding on monarda’s blooms, critters milling around in early rush for fall preparations, stone Budas sleeping peacefully in shadows of late summer flowering… Summer rain, refreshing, […]
Mixed media paintings Alter Ego runs deep in each person. We are rarely unidirectional. Rather a multitude. Whereas our previous Alter Ego session explored masks as (artistic) tool to assume different personalities, a desire to conceal or transform our identity, the true ‘alter ego’ resides within us on its own – no need for masks. […]
Left Brain Artists