pkin-j

I am an artist exploring my voice. I have years of built-up emotions and life experiences that I have never communicated or expressed. The build-up has amplified the urge to express. Express myself. I have expressed myself in a variety of ways including but not limited to dance, paint and canvas, ink and napkin, photography and video.

I believe in living in the moment for that very moment and perfectly expressive of whatever emotion and feeling that moment calls for. I believe that this could be called life. It could also be called art. It's perfect expression in real time. In this paradigm, there is little need for anything else. The purity of the moment renders all else irrelevant. I believe this paradigm of life emphasizes emotions and relationships with whom we share moments. Real and unconditional love is the sharing of moments purely. The more moments we can share purely, honestly, and openly with another person, the greater the magnitude of the love in the relationship. To the extent that there is no or little honest and pure sharing of moments, there is no love and there is no real relationship. In this context, acquaintences and relationships should be constantly re-evaluated to determine the honesty of moments within that relationship.

Relevant visual art is the product of perfect expression. On a very personal basis, my art is predominantly a "catching up". My art is very hurried and very expressive of the built up emotions from years of repression. I'm eager to express myself currently. I'm eager to express myself in the moment and by the moment and for the moment. Until I reach that point, I am catching up to myself.

People question the value of art. Or how to arrive at value. Or why it's valuable. Things like this. I am not as concerned with this as I used to be. But I do have some views on the subject and given the nature of my 7-6 job, I find myself ruminating on this otherwise moot point. Art is the expression of moments. It's honest. And personal. It's spiritual and reflective of the artist's personal journey and attainment of some higher level spiritual thing that I have not achieved and cannot describe. But I can feel its potential. I can understand it intellectually. But I cannot feel it. The value then of art, especially when viewed as a body of work for a given artist, is a glimpse into a higher spiritual plane. I'd want to buy something to capture a glimpse of someone else's spiritual journey. To understand it, to gain insights to apply to my own life and journey. Most importantly, to FEEL it. It's not a matter of technique or media or anything of that sort. It's a matter of integrity and honesty to expression. If you can express with what's available, do so. If you can't express with what's available, innovate. What's important is that you express honestly and for no other reason than to express for yourself, for perhaps no other reason than to visually see your moments. When you see your moments, you can understand how honestly you are sharing your moments. How you are living your moments. How you may grow your moments. When it's all said and done, we are the moments we live. I want to appreciate my moments and whomever I'm with to share them.