Creating: An occasional discourse and diatribe

More mark-making since the twelfth of July, when I last added images of a watercolour in-progress. I have a few days to paint before another garden project and will show the development process shortly…

I've always felt slightly bored at artists who manage to paint lots and lots of pictures, all similar all the same. They get recognised or feel comfortable or even safe with the way they work.

Pure creation is a relationship with an unknown but powerful presence, an all enveloping world where the essential essence of experience and meaning and madness and mind are unleashed to provide a moment in history of the artists true abilities. A beautiful thing to be cherished.

…just returned from the family home in D'alt Vila, Ibiza.

For many years this wonderful island in the Balearics has inspired my paintings…the light, the life, the love, the long evenings, the nightlife, the beaches, the water and the warmth…how come then I returned with a full on fluey cold?!

Tiesto's closing party at Privilege, the largest, most hyped, dated and shabbiest nightclub in the world was an anti-climax…his simple sampled sounds sadly showed his distinct lack of professionally trained musicianship…but never mind, we still had a good time.

The biggest reaction came when someone shouted out, 'They make half a million pounds a night…they could at least cut the fu**ing grass!'

Money market melt-down monday. Less 4×4's, less American fridges, less arrogance, less selfishness, less listnessness, more assonance and alliteration, more poetry, more prose, more humanity, more hope and much much more appreciation of the Arts…

http://www.eartharchitecture.co.uk/artist.html

BIG Big Bang Day…it's 3 in the morning, just woken up, with shivers running up and down my spine. I know I'm onto something because I only get this same incredible feeling when I'm creating a picture or playing chess.

I've been thinking about the Swiss particle accelerator project, the Large Hadron Collidor. I've not seen the place because we've not had a TV for about ten months.

Thinking outside the box…human brains, our brains, our minds are contained within a skull, consisting simply of protons, neutrons etc..

Outside our brains, these particles do not disappear they are everywhere and everything. Animal and Man's evolution has managed to order these particles and place them within a convenient area, the head. The particular order is our mind, our individuality. They continue to exist throughout the body and outside the body.

There is no reason for the particles not to exist in infinitely different orders and infinitely similar orders everywhere else as well.

My own unique order of particles is communicating at this moment. These particles are passing their unique energy onto other particles passing through my mind. Thought in Man is simply an ordered communication of particles. These particles have an energy of course and are continually communicating with each other. We don't need a brain for this to happen, it's just that Man has a brain and can make some ordered sense of this energy.

The God particle the scientists at CERN are hoping to find is not so much another particle but a reason for these particles to communicate. I think it's like a giant social network throughout our own minds and beyond.

In a way the particles enjoy communicating with each other giving and receiving energy, like a huge continual social network. It's all a relationship. The invisible particles are the communicators, the visible particles are simply the things we see and touch; trees, birds, humans and where they have naturally decided to gather, to make this world an interesting and natural place to exist.

What a load of nonsence…tired now…back to bed…

Boringpouringrainrainrain…8 tons out then 12 tons in. All is now complete…desperate to paint…went to my studio and fell into a deep sleep instead…