Art and Existential Crises

[bete_lumineux]

I've been playing around with watercolor pencils and going through existential crises... I am honestly just in the strangest of places. I'll post an excerpt of what I wrote this morning as well.

Go ahead, engage me in dialogue, I'm ready.

Comments

[mericslovaine]

I believe that, due to laziness and confused purpose, the collective pool of faith (of which there was only a certain quantity) is used up, dried beyond recompense.

There are no gods to create - it's all been done and we've seen more than is available.

[bete_lumineux]

So we just need to wipe everything away, yeah? Tabula Rasa and all so at least if things aren't new the ones that come after haven't seen it yet?

Up for it?

"My turn press the button!" -Plucky Duck

[bete_lumineux]

I knew Los Angeles would make an optimist of you...

[_paper_wings_]

I love the transition from cool colour on the left to warm colours on the right in 'touring dreams' and I also really dig Confusion/Rage.

Nobody ever knows which cracks will envelope them. All you can do is go about your way and let your fate decide.

[bete_lumineux]

I'm finding the more we let fate decide is the more we do nothing. I believe in a concept of fate that revolves around potential... that we have potential fates but that few of us wake up enough to see them, and out of those who do, even fewer yet follow them.

Thanks for the comment :)

[_paper_wings_]

Ahh... I meant that we can't force fate's hand, but I like your idea better!

[bete_lumineux]

You can force fate's hand... if that was your fate... vright? :P
If you destroyed fate... broke the chains of destiny, would that still have been your fate?

Really really... answer.
;)

[monkeyx3]

There are new gods that are growing in popularity everyday. Although people may not call them their god, they are worshiped, people make sacrifices in their names both brutal and symbolic. They are old gods but hidden from the palaces of religion. Money, Technology, Youth, Sex, and of course who could forget power.

People have abandoned the old gods and have set out to serve the Gods that dwell within their desires. Don’t bother to fight them, give in, sell your soul, get your eyes done, and nuke the enemy.

Someday I will write the next great myth. Did you know god created gayness to prove a point to satan? The point has yet to be made and Satan still thinks he has won the argument. People need something to hate by nature, only the smallest difference, it doesn’t need to be race, religion or sex. But the point is the struggle to move forward and to improve.

My heart aches.

[bete_lumineux]

"Money, Technology, Youth, Sex, and of course who could forget power." These are the new gods I was talking about... the gods of apathy.

"the point is the struggle to move forward and to improve." But improve from what -- into what? I don't disagree with anything you say, though.

[c2tink]

maybe you should make your own version of tarot/rune/faerie type cards, using the watercolor pencils and focusing on emotions and mental concepts, etc.

i bet they'd be purty.

[bete_lumineux]

I've thought of that before... always tempted - never get around to it. I'm such a lazy artist. :P

[toyin]

I adore "little china" and "scary face molly."
Both are done so well.

[bete_lumineux]

Thanks, sweetie. What is it you like about them above the others? :)

[toyin]

Compositionally, the are both striking, espcially in "scary face molly" with the hair sprawling out above her and teh scary face awaiting the viewers eyes at the bottom. Descending into evil metaphor? In "little china" the diagonal lines and possition of the angled buildings piques interest, as does the vivid, bright colors.

[bete_lumineux]

That was a beautiful critique, thanks. If I were going to duplicate any of them on a larger scale... would you have any critical thoughts on what changes they would need?