Create an Art Movement

A view of a watercolor surface,

Anticipating two opportunities:

1. A City of New Haven Dept. of Commerce single well-framed piece

2. WhiteSpace Gallery next summer, four watercolor abstracts

Prints may be available soon via http://www.artistrising.com, an excellent venue for aspiring / inspired artists

need to try follow-through

optimistic yesterday, today pushing as I can;

too much is reassuring and yet remains dust in my hands

“Snickety”, ink on acid-free paper 2007.

My work is hanging at Claire’s Cornercopia in New Haven for the length of September 07.

“Snickety” is one of five framed drawings at the show.

Apologies for the smudgy photograph.

One of the paintings may be found at my goal to Sell My Art:

http://www.43things.com/entries/view/2322061

I have thought of myself as “the Motist” since I have this particular concept of an art movement in which “motes of light” become apparent through the “spelling” of the ink (mots are words).

However, there is a Brazilian artist called Alejandro Mota or something like that, who describes his own artwork as Motist.

It would be very interesting to me if in ten or twenty years there were two popularly known usages for the term Motist, one referring to Mr. Mota, and one referring to the Mote-ist work that I have produced.

Needless to say, I would not have adopted the term if I were not very committed to its meaning, or knew of a better alternative.

There have already been art movements for dynamism, futurism, even vorticism. Yet I feel that there is a huge potential for playing with space, since even physics proclaims life to be full of multivarious dimensions.

I feel that some of these previous movements do this on a superficial level, but it isn’t taken very emotionally, as though the intent is closer to propaganda than what I might call intellectual reverie.

There are some who might dismiss art in general as “intellectual masturbation” (something I unfortunately overheard in a conversation once), however I feel that there is a certain amount of productivity that can only be achieved by abandoning a crude, formal sense of limits, towards a living form that is reflected in art as easily (and with strength proportionate to) its capacity for manifestation within other branches of intellectualism.

Art becomes a metaphor for the sheer potential of human thought.

How can I describe it? Not sterile, dark, yet full of wonder. Part cubism, part Escher, with a dream-like symbolist slant. Examples at my blog and on my website:

http://www.impossiblemachine.com/Gallery2

http://360.yahoo.com/drypress

http://www.geocities.com/drypress/Artwork.html