Freedom Triptych
We left off with this image in the last post .
Now we will continue to flow freely forward on the long train of thought that we’ve been on for the past few posts…
Star Channel Squared
The river of time continues to flow, rippling and swirling through the experiences and endeavors of our lives, like the flow of sand through a time-glass, as we walk along the banks of time. Take time to breathe in the scent of the flowers that grow there, and notice the stars that twinkle in the reflecting waters that ripple at your feet.
Dot Stars -n- Stripes
The twinkling stars are numerous as the sands of time, as are the hopes and dreams held deeply in the heart. And it is the star of Freedom that gives us the right to pursue them.
Mod Flower
So revel freely in your style and in your spirit. Can your eyes taste the tangy sherbet flavored colors of pineapple-lemon, passion-orange, and strawberry-guava, audaciously topped off by a postmodern Mod flower in bloom?
Modflower In Crux
A cool blue current of sophistication sluices its way through a tangy ruby red fruit punch lagoon reflecting shimmering stars…
Flowing Freely
…And so the flow continues.
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NOTES ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS: The images in the current segment are done with vector graphics on computer. They are intended to interconnect into each other, and the nature of the vector graphics seems to call for a postmodern “Pastiche” kind of approach.
You might also be interested in knowing how these two images in this series are actually related:
Dot Stars -n- Stripes
Mod Flower
The two images actually have a similar background, but the colors were changed, and then a different “main icon” was used – a star for one, a flower for the other. These changes, which are readily done when utilizing vector graphics, serve to change the ethos and meaning of the overall image. (If you look over the images in the past couple of posts, which were done in this digital style, you might see how an approach like this was used on other images as well. Computer graphics seems to lend itself very naturally to this…)
The commentaries are based on whatever thoughts and feelings the images happened to inspire within me when I was reviewing them.
They say that a picture can paint a thousand words. But have you ever noticed that in many instances, the same word can have many different meanings or concepts? And so in some of the written commentaries in this segment, I began to experiment with making references to both sensory “taste” and stylistic “taste”. Did you notice the references to Taste in the “Mod Flower” and “Modflower in Crux” passages in this post? The notions of sensory “taste” and stylistic “taste” are being Intercontexted. This is all purely experimental, and done intuitively. By the way, by “Intercontexted”, I mean the intermixing of different contexts and notions to form new contexts. This intermixing and combination of contexts has been occurring on a number of different levels on this last series of posts – from the construction of the images from interchangeable elements, to the joining together of the images into long continuous scrolling images (“visual trains of thought”), to the interpretations of the images into verbal commentaries.
PSYCHOLOGICAL NOTES: The feelings that I get out of the images in this post are more lighthearted than those in the previous post, and the commentaries seem to reflect this. Also, the music that I felt like listening to in the background as I worked on the commentaries was of a more lighthearted type. And so the open-ended, experimental approach to this latest series of posts continues…
Still Flowing Freely
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…We’re continuing to flow along with the “train of thought” that we’ve been riding on for the past few posts…