The Art Cure

I want to create a 425 foot long sea serpent for the beach here in Valhalla! This one, by Huang Yong Ping, is at home on the shore of the Loire River just outside of Nantes, France. 

Rithika Merchant is giving me ideas too. Her work puts in mind Lenora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, ancient Egyptian pottery designs, Hindu iconography and more. They’re magical. Merchant works in gouache, watercolor, penciled ink.

If the creature designers for Star Wars went in a more arty, sculptural direction we’d have Spencer Hansen’s artwork. Maybe.

Sculptor Ekow Nimako’s medium is black LEGOs and his vision is Afrofuturistism. Gorgeous, inspiring, powerful.

For my own work, I need to step out of the paint on canvas box—walk down some new avenues. I may well be able to stand up at an easel again (for longer than my current 15 minute stretches) but exploring different paths makes a buttload of sense. One thought is mosaic. If nothing else, it'd be a great way to recycle my clay artwork—sculptures and pots, old jewelry that I no longer wear and stones (I've a habit of collecting small rocks as well as shells along the beach). I could declutter at the same time I attempt fresh modes of expression. 

Win/win and shit.