tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24590072161532931192024-03-12T20:33:19.773-07:00The Artist Within UsThe works of a mixed-medium abstract artist and fine art photographer, Egmont van DyckThe Artist Within Ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081658641380811738noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459007216153293119.post-75303487404766862102012-12-23T14:54:00.002-08:002012-12-23T14:59:44.482-08:00Holiday Season’s Greetings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I know I have not been around all year, but then I also have not been painting. Instead, I became fascinated with mobile photography after my son, Armont gave me an iPhone 4S for Christmas last year. </div>
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Though I always had an iPhone, I never thought of using it for photography but once I did, I quickly secured a dot com and started building a website, <i><a href="http://www.theiphonearts.com/" target="_blank">The iPhone Arts</a></i> dedicated to mobile photography and the iPhone.</div>
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Ten months later, I am still devoting all my creative time to mobile photography, using the iPhone as my main camera to create and achieve fine art photographs, but I also have been itching to paint again, since it has been more than a year I held a paint brush.</div>
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In closing, I would like to wish you a wonderful Holiday Seasons and the very best for the coming year,</div>
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For a couple weeks now, I have been postponing the decision to attend the LA Mobile Arts Festival 2012 (August 18-25) and as you read this, I am on the road driving to Southern California.</div>
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Over the next several days I will be covering the exhibit and some of the events, along with meeting with several iPhoneographers I have been exchanging correspondence with or have featured on the <i><a href="http://www.theiphonearts.com/search/label/Weekly%20Showcase" target="_blank">Weekly Showcase</a></i>. One of the pre-events I will participate in, is the <i>Venice Beach Photo-walk</i> (10AM-1PM) earlier Saturday of the LA-MFA shows opening.</div>
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I am not sure I can stay till Wednesday for the Apple hosting of The LA MAF as I will need to cover a photo exhibit at The Getty Center on Monday and then a photo shoot on Tuesday.</div>
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While in Los Angeles, I will also stop by <i><a href="http://www.getty.edu/" target="_blank">The Getty Center</a></i> in order to view their photographic exhibit <i><a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/picturing_landscape/" target="_blank">Picturing Landscape</a></i>, which runs thru October 7, 2012. The exhibition includes a range of works, from a pre-photographic drawing made with the aid of a camera lucida to a digitally generated print. The installation is divided into three themes: 19th-century technical explorations, the 20th-century turn toward developing a particular camera vision, and the ways that contemporary photographers have framed the landscape to make environmental and conceptual statements.</div>
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If time permits, I shall have a closer look at the works by one of my favorite artist <i><a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/klimt/" target="_blank">Gustav Klimt</a></i>, a special exhibit also held at The Getty Center. </div>
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This major loan exhibition was organized by the Albertina Museum, Vienna, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, to mark the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth. The drawings in this exhibition come mostly from the Albertina, which houses one of the most comprehensive collections of Klimt drawings. They are supplemented by works from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and a number of generous lenders. </div>
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The Artist Within Ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081658641380811738noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459007216153293119.post-46272595339506537052012-03-03T00:00:00.000-08:002012-03-03T00:00:12.106-08:00Something new and different<br />
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As an artist we are always searching for way to reinterpret our visions and as I have always been in love with textures, I too have been searching for ways to interpret and apply the texture I discover in the form of a painting.</div>
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So while gardening, trimming a tree and cutting all the branches down to fit in the fireplace, I looked at the pile of wood on the ground, my imagination began to run wild.</div>
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After collecting enough pieces of twigs and branches to fill a ten gallon bucket, I felt I had an abundant amount that were size appropriate for use on a canvas to begin the project. Using tweezers and medium gel, each piece of wood is carefully positioned in place until the desired effect is achieved and here are the results . . . </div>
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<i>Holz vor den Schuppen</i> (Enough wood in front of the shed), 8 x 8 inches</div>
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For me the kitchen is where one finds the heart of a home. Neglected and without love, it is nothing more than a room within a house. A house to be considered a home, it most provide a place of safety and nurtured tenderness.</div>
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You can empty a room and remove all traces of a former life and identity, yet the memories still remain.</div>
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Pealing away the many layers that have hidden the cruelty not only exposes the ugly secret. it also begins the healing process for the victim.</div>
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To regain out identity, to discover our full potential and shed the abuse we have suffered, we must leave by many doors.</div>
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The series ‘<i>Family Secrets</i>’ comes to a close with ‘<i>Lost and Found</i>,’ but for many people from an abusive childhood, the pain never ends.</div>
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<i>In the last few weeks I have relived many memories, gut wrenching and painful at times. The abuse suffered ends with me! It is a promise I made to my dear and lovely children, Armont and Ariana. They will never have to experience the pain and memories of the kind of verbal and mental abuse, or the physical beatings and sexual abuse I endured at the hands of my perpetrator; my mother.</i></div>
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<i>The healing process for any abused person takes a lifetime.</i></div>
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The only way we can eradicate this evil is to first say to ourselves: “We are not at fault.” All too often we think we are to blame for these conditions, but it is not so. Remember, no love is worth suffering pain and abuse. There is help and you must seek it.</div>
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I had returned to the empty club house, deciding to photograph the hallway, using the mirror in the ladies room. As I was setting up the shot, I looked into the mirror and decided to photograph myself instead.</div>
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Between April 25 and May 30, 2005, I posted ten photographs at an art community website, <i><a href="http://bit.ly/nChx3b">Renderosity</a></i>. It was during this time that I went public for the first time, sharing my childhood memories of abuse and openly confronting my inner demons.</div>
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The process of healing has taken twenty-six years, when at the age of thirty-five, I realized that I had not been the problem.</div>
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Even though I am doing better today, the wounds and scares still remain, at least I proved stronger and so was able to break the cycle, for my children are now grown adults and were never experienced abuse. However I am sorry that my wife was exposed to my pain these many years.</div>
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What helped my recovery process was that not only coming to terms with what had happened to me, but that seven to eight years ago, I was finally able to forgive my mother and so release the anger that I had harbored against her, which by then had eaten away my spirit like a slow moving illness.<br />
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A spot where many travelers stop off, to view the ocean and experience the feel of pea size pebbles under their feet, as others venture to the other side of the beach and are exposed to a variety of rock formations stretching some distance.</div>
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I have seen <a href="http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25219">Bean Hollow State Park</a> under a different weather conditions, when the oceans water serenely caressed the shore and at other times when the oceans furry seemed to clash with a mighty force, as if to carve the topography of the land to its own liking.</div>
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</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">After an almost two year absence from painting, I finally held a paint brush in my hand, inhaled the scent of oil paint and Liquin as if they were rare perfumes. It has taken almost this long to also solve a technical issue with which I was faced trying to emulate the series “<a href="http://theartistwithinus.blogspot.com/2009/07/discovery-turns-into-artistic-vision.html">Typography Graveyard</a>,” the Berkeley telephone poles with their remnants of torn paper fliers.</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In a 2009 post ,“<a href="http://theartistwithinus.blogspot.com/2009/07/discovery-turns-into-artistic-vision.html">A discovery turns into an artistic vision</a>,” there are samples of art works, were collage material and painting are combined in order to duplicate the visual experiences. Now I wanted to take the art to the next level, beyond “<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xhTZ7TjDmYc/Sl2A-KHH-hI/AAAAAAAAAQo/odP9iU3jVlI/s1600-h/N08853M1c-FNL-675w.jpg">Howl</a>” or “<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xhTZ7TjDmYc/Sl2BLnNG7CI/AAAAAAAAAQw/0NGN_omDuZY/s1600-h/N08298M1c-FNL-675w.jpg">Beauty Re-defined</a>,” which are both flat, absent of any light or shadow play and recreate the micro-structure on a larger scale, including adding shapes to the surface. “White on White” is the result of that quest.</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>The Artist Within Ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081658641380811738noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459007216153293119.post-84101674440660720232011-01-07T06:32:00.000-08:002011-03-11T23:27:46.703-08:00My 2011 calender for you<div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">As we begin the year, I would like to share with you some of my images recently posted for download in the form of bookmarks. These 2011 Calendar Bookmarks cover the first quarter of this year and feature three of my favorite ones captured in 2010 from the Berkeley telephone pole series <i>Typography Graveyard</i>.</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In general things have been slow all last year due to my being in cardiovascular rehabilitation and though I graduated at the end of August, I since returned six weeks later till early mid-December. The year 2011 will remain guarded, yet I have decided that health issues should no longer dictate my life as it has these past two years., this also means no longer bringing it in future posts.</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">A few days ago, during meditations I scribbled a few words in my notebook, then revisited them the following day. The following line represents my path for this year.</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In closing I wish to thank you dear reader for having ventured with me these last nineteen months and though I cannot predict what this years offerings will bring for us, my notebooks have been filled with ideas which deserve another closer look.</div><div style="font: 10.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">One of the goals of the cardiac program is to be generally more active, especially accomplishing more walking and to achieve this, we were given a pedometer to guide our progress. So today I looked over the numbers I have been recording in my notebook to see that in seven weeks I have covered 181.53 miles (292.144 km), averaging 25.932 (41.734 km) per week, or 3.70 (5.955) a day, with the most in one day being 8.46 miles (13.615 km) when I visited the Pacific coast.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Now to help pass the time during my walks, I have been combining it with photography; especially focusing on the series I began a little more than five years ago. Walking down Ashby, Haste or Dwight , holding my extended tripod with camera securely mounted, inspecting each telephone pole, searching for the visual gem.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">As I continue to cope with the disruption to my previous routine and life style, the past two months have felt like being stranded, isolated in a time warp from which there appears to be no escape. I have missed visiting your blogs, to see what you have been up to and leaving a comment, wile sharing with you my own creative events.<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">As I bring this update to my ‘<i>Leave of Absence</i><span style="font-style: normal;">’ to a close, I wish to express my sincerest gratitude to those who have sent me letters, cards and emails, checking up on my progress, sending me encouragements and wishing me well, I also desire to say thank you to those who have stopped by either of my blogs, just to see if there was anything new.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">I would also like to say thank you to those who have decided to become a follower during my absence and in due time I shall also return the honour and list your blog at my blog roll and resource blog, <a href="http://fourseasonsinalifedirectory.blogspot.com/"><i>The DIRECTORY</i></a>.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I would like to reciprocate by sharing with you a few images of my excursions that I have designed into a page of bookmarks that you can download in full size <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/TheArtistWithinUs/Freebies#"><i>here</i></a>, then print out on card stock. You then have the option to punch a hole at the top for a string or ribbon.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you would like to check out my other version of the books, please visit <a href="http://fourseasonsinalife.blogspot.com/"><i>Four Seasons in a Life</i></a>.<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>The Artist Within Ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081658641380811738noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2459007216153293119.post-84853771808958705102010-05-01T00:01:00.000-07:002010-05-01T00:33:01.434-07:00A leave of absence<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the last two months I have fallen considerable behind on many levels, this includes responding to those who have commented and especially my visiting your blogs with any regularity. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Many of you also know of my medical challenges that have been a major distraction, particularly the previous month learning after an angiogram that the reason for always feeling tired and short of breath was due to a collapsed graft from the open heart surgery three years earlier. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Since some of the lateral veins to the artery have tried to take over, the current method of dealing with this is through medication and a three-day a week’s cardiac rehabilitation program that will last for three months,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Because this program occupies a large portion of my day, I would only fall further behind and so I have no option other than to take a leave of absence while I am in cardio rehabilitation.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">This does not mean I will not be looking in now and then on your blogs, just that I shall not be posting. The decision was not taken lightly as I have worked hard these passed months building my blogs.<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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All of Friday we faced numerous periods of heavy rainfall with intermittent showers, but in the late afternoon the sky broke open, revealing a low setting sun and with ones back to her, the hillside before me became alive. Bathed in a pale soft golden light, the new years growth drenched from the rain sparkled, while off in the distance the sky was a dark turbulence of grey, a dramatic contrast and I wish I had stopped and taken a few pictures. Yet some things are best remembered, treasured in our memory as an experience randomly recalled when something irrelevantly triggers the past. <br />
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With the day mostly gone by now, I am sitting back in my favorite chair, drinking a new tea that I have not had since my early twenties and contemplating about what to write, even though I am also yearning to get started with my first artist trading card (ATC). However I have been struggling with not only style and subject matter, but also my personal demon, fear. The fear of not being able to draw as I did years ago, when I last held a pencil or a fine tipped Hunt’s pen in my hand.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Previously the sets were recreations of scenes found in nature or on a fly tiers bench, in which the very books, tools and materials that created the fly, now surrounded them. Though I was content with the method I had established, I began to explore the idea of developing illustrations as background surfaces on which a fishing fly would be placed and then photographed. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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October 8, 1954, 156 x 116 mm<o:p></o:p><br />
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August 88, 1955, 215 x 180 mm w/o support<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Today a heavy fog has blanketed the area as it lingers, filtering through the landscape with the stillness of a dream; winters melancholy soon shall pass, bowing out to an approaching spring that slowly rises from the darkness. Though morning light has crossed passed the mountains ridge, there are no shadows but in my room, as candles flames flicker to the slightest movement, as its warm amber light baths the surroundings with solace.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have been deeply touched by everyone’s visit and with what you wrote, more so than I could ever express and I hope, I had replied to each one of you individually as promised. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The images of the iris flowers are from our garden and I wish you to have one for yourself as a reflection of my sincere appreciation for your presence. If you would like a digital file at high resolution to print out for your home, please send me an email and tell me which one you desire, also make sure you are able to receive a PhotoShop electronic file that is 15-17 MB in size or if you prefer a much smaller JPG document.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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As we bring another year and our first decade for the century to a close in a few days, I have been reflecting on my first seven months of blogging. I had not known a thing about blogging, let alone visited any blogs. Well, all this has changed now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With 17 post published and another 33 at <a href="http://fourseasonsinalife.blogspot.com/"><i>Four Seasons in a Life</i></a>, I am truly thankful for those who have stop by, had a look at my photographs and read the words to my thoughts. I am especially grateful to my regular readers who have chosen to follow, including the ones who elected to follow anonymously; I cherish your company just as much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Besides Irving Penn's lighting approach to photograph, I admired his compositional style of angles, shapes and the drama the elements created as he filled the frame with the person or model when working for Vogue magazine. Above all, Irving Penn never stopped growing as an artist by resting on his laurels. He was always exploring new ideas, not only in what he photographed, but also investigating and trying different printing methods, including producing a number of his images as palladium prints.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">With his passing, he was the last survivor of three who defined for several decades what fashion photography was all about. Now Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Irving Penn are all together again. May they share a glass of wine and reminisce how their lives paralleled one another.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Helmut Newton</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">, born </span><b>Helmut Neustädter</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">, 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste<o:p></o:p><br />
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