Matt Foleyさんのイラストまとめ

“The fantastic breaks the crust of #appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. The big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not #shocked by ruptures in the order.”
― Julio Cortázar: author

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the #eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does #art color life.”
— Sir John Lubbock: banker, politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath

Once a planet of volcanoes and lava fields, followed by rains that filled lowlands making oceans.
From primordial ooze a travail stretched across mud and dust and became alive.
From then up to now changing until it became human - and made #art.
Wow! What an adventure it has been.

The mysterious is so exciting. What are the colors of thoughts? How does time look as it flows and eddies? How do actions look pictured?
Let out the clutch. Engage the mind. Embrace the adventure.
One thing about the ongoing majesty of life is: there are no do-overs.
― Matt Foley

“Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and #art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.”
― Daisaku Ikeda: poet, philosopher, educator, author

Art is realization

The artist, Marcel Duchamp said, “The creative act is not performed by the #artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."

No solo tango?

Together in our differences, united, we become the big picture. It is wide-ranging variegation that makes the whole ever more interesting. Embrace the diversity of existence. Revel in the variety. Being 'us' does not diminish the 'each' - a lesson to be had from encountering Art.

With 3,131,014 new #COVID cases in America over the last 3 days, and 6,968 deaths, I needed to put brush to canvas to alleviate this distress.
A bit of plein air painting helps me cope with others' idiocy.
I do not understand why people are so resistant to common sense protocols.

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

Someday, the variegate that constitutes "me" may conclude its reveal.

"So, you are an artist, MAFO. Do you paint?"
"Yes"
"Sculpt?"
"Yes"
"What else?"
"Oh, I'm a ceramicist, printmaker, metalsmith (gold and silver), lapidary, scrimshander, glassblower, and more."
"You would've made da Vinci jealous."
"Perhaps so but we'd have gotten along famously."