Whats the Point? Back to the Basics

For all of you saying "What's the Point?" this release is dedicated to you. The point is, you are not seeing what you think you are seeing. Your eyes are constantly adjusting to the context around them.

In the image at left, the two swatches are the exact same color. Now that I have told you that, you can see that. You probably even predicted there was some trick to this and guessed that the two swatches were the same shade of gray.

Let go of your pretense. When you let your eyes see on their own, the two swatches look different even though they are the exact same shade of gray.

They look different because of the background color around them. We accommodate with our eyes. If we see a dark background, we make the lighter spot brighter, appearing lighter than it actually is. And just the same, on a light backround, the same gray appears darker than it actually is.

These excercises are not answers, these are tools to help you train your eyes. As you move your mouse along the array on the left of ten shades of gray, the background matches the swatch you choose. As well, the whole in the middle of the upright rectangles also matches the swatch you chose and thus the background.

Our perception of color is adjusting constantly.

Transformation

here's a saying by ursula k. leguin shared by Amy Halvatzes:

only in silence, the word

only in darkness, the light

only in dying, life

Bright the hawk's flight

on the empty sky

Poem provided by Jamey Austin

Sweet Darkness

When your eyes are tired
The world is tired also

When your vision has gone
No part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
Where the night has eyes
To recognize its own.

There you can be sure
You are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb
Tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
Further than you can see.

You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
Except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
Confinement of your aloneness

To learn

Anything or anyone
That does not bring you alive

Is too small for you.

-David Whyte

The Poet and The Painter

Poetry Painting, the movie that Jamey Austin and I made in 2003 is now online. Search video.google.com for "poet painter".

At left is the piece from session six. The only one that he and I actually both went hands on with a painting. Note our signatures in the bottom left.

(BTW, I never put any words in his poetry. Though I did catch some great shots of his mad skills at writing straight without stopping).

For more details on "The Poet and The Painter".
http://funkyenough.com/classic_funk/poetpainter.htm

To watch The Poet and The Painter:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=poet+painter&page=1&lv=1