tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57909320618414446202024-03-08T17:59:02.302+11:00zeddess AustraliaThe Art Of Zian SilverwolfZian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-77042610426467759652021-02-24T14:30:00.000+11:002021-02-24T14:30:51.902+11:00Feeding The Spirit<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a5EmBCwuqOc/YDW5LqObEiI/AAAAAAAAUdY/6d3eu12WnaQrk1crHtNIPF0BiFszsQNvACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/image0-750246.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6932650811371229730" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a5EmBCwuqOc/YDW5LqObEiI/AAAAAAAAUdY/6d3eu12WnaQrk1crHtNIPF0BiFszsQNvACK4BGAYYCw/s320/image0-750246.jpeg" /></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">The past year has been filled with disturbing revelations; I have seen friends battling with the reality of themselves, discovering themselves in the burning spotlight of</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"> isolation</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">, friends who have discovered the truth of their relationships to others in dark times;</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;">To say that the majority have been confronted by the baring of their illusions would be an understatement.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">To say that these times have exposed the greater need for human compassion, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">both for the self and for others</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">, would also be an understatement.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">With our vulnerabilities, needs and desires laid bare before us, our self-limiting paradigms and our self-criticisms, our inner children </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">hungry and starved</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"> for human connection, we have all had a relative common ground in one aspect - the fragile nature of </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">humanity</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">That divided, we are less than the sum of our parts, befuddled and confounded by our very existence, reaching out for answer while those internal pleas go unnoticed; united, we are confirmed, we are real again, and not some blind mute, made of nothing but </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">the vagaries of our own thoughts and feelings</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">It was a different experience for every person, but the culminating effect was the same - the recognition of the value of human life, and </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">by what means it is valued</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">, where and how and who and why it matters.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">On the 7th of March, 2021, I'm participating in the</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"> Recover Art and Fashion Show</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">, an event for the Upstream Festival, organised by the Wodonga City Council. Along with fellow artist</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5790932061841444620/7704261042646775965#" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; opacity: 1 !important; position: relative; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5790932061841444620/7704261042646775965#" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc; opacity: 1 !important; position: relative; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">Steve Stewart</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">, and a number of local artists and designers, the aim is to create an event that allows the human element to be present again - for nowhere in human existence is there a more prevalent measure of our </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">connection to each other</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"> than in the arts. Events Creator Bernadette Torresan and her team at</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5790932061841444620/7704261042646775965#" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; opacity: 1 !important; position: relative; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5790932061841444620/7704261042646775965#" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc; opacity: 1 !important; position: relative; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">GO Local Media Group</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">, have been working hard to re-ignite that cultural unity, and bring something to the community that provides </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">relief, relationship, and recovery</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">, to the society's soul.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">I'm a long-standing believer in the idea that art brings people together; and never has it been more necessary for people to find </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">common bonds</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"> beyond the constraints and constrictions of hardship and grief, loneliness and bereavement, and quite honestly, nothing does that quite so well and so efficiently as the </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">exposure to art</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">, and artistic endeavour.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Artists have a unique responsibility in the world as the</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"> caretakers</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"> of the human soul, and what we create, what we imagine and what we manifest into being, has the power to bring our world into focus. Through culture, through creativity, through vision, we have the </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">privilege </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">of uniting our societies and challenging the dark times, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">through our work</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">I don't think that I've ever been more proud to be an artist. People are now awake to the things that they can discover in art, the depth, the substance, the profound and the sacred, merely due to its absence in life during these times. The wow factor has failed to be enough - </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">feeding the spirit</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"> has come to be far more valuable. And I'm putting my hand up for that job.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Hellyeah</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;">More things on the horizon for zeddess arts, as the year gets going, and more news and art to come. In the meantime, as always,</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stay beautiful,</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;">Zi xxx</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: text; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;" /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><br style="background-color: #fbfbfb; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); cursor: text; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20.5833px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></p>Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-61596034748069676042021-02-02T14:14:00.001+11:002021-02-02T14:16:32.657+11:00The Construct<div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-size: large;">Away from discerning <a href="https://ziansilverwolf.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-journey-thus-far.html" target="_blank">the contradictions of mankind</a>, I came to perceive my artistic vision under the terms of "the perfect moment" and the pursuit of beauty. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">But it wasn't enough. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Where is the curiosity the investigation, the questions that art should pose - the romance, the intrigue, the mystery, and let us not forget <b>THE DRAMA.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I became <i>bored</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">However, a great artist does not down tools in the absence of vision - they hone skills, instinct, intuition, balance and composition.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I have not been idle, merely <i>uninspired</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Here I have created a universe, full of characters and aspect, and time and culture, a full generation of puzzlement and wonder - what would naturally follow its creation? What would ultimately evolve from its current state?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">If humans are brilliant at anything, it is illusion, and <i>imposing</i> an illusion on life until it becomes a <i>manifest reality</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">In our quest for perfection, we build, either with our hands, our minds, our hearts - or our imaginations. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Necessity is the mother of all invention</i>. Even the stories we tell ourselves. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">And where do these stories inhabit? </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Construct</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Not an unfamiliar term in these times; films like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix" target="_blank">The Matrix</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception" target="_blank">Inception</a></span><span> have readily explored such devices - but what is it in terms of handmade art, graphite and ink, paint and pen?</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Constructs in the form of images are about where you're transporting the viewer - in a <i><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/narrative" target="_blank">narrative</a></i>, it's the environment, the surrounds that hold and engage the character/s, the location, the space, the arena. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">In art, that construct can be abstracted, compacted, distorted, an allusion, a hyper-reality - and every construct has its own nature, its own rules and its own governing principles. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">In super-evolution of an already constructed universe, what this means for the next stage of development in my own artistic journey, is an <i>elevation of focus</i>, an upgrade in intensity, detail, form, examination; consider it a perpetual spiral of investigation of a singular reality <i>constructed in the fantastic</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I had a mind to head off in a completely different direction, and just create an entirely new universe - but I couldn't get away from the idea that I had unfinished business in this one. That I was not done with the ideas and the purpose of what I have already created. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">It's something of a mystery tour - I see the repetitions develop into new sciences (of a sort), there's always been a concentric nature to my investigation of similarity and synchronicity, perhaps fractal in nature, though that was entirely unintentional. And to me, there's something <i>enigmatic</i> about the unintentional, because it still resides in the sub-conscious, <i>where all fantasies are truly revealed</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">And after all, this journey is entirely about humanity's discovery of itself through the fantastic. Mythology, mysticism, fiction, illusion, and the manifestation of such as <i>a super-imposed reality</i> on top of a practical reality. We are particularly awesome when it comes to talking ourselves into belief. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Science investigates, measures, categorises and classifies. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Art <i>reveals</i>. </span></div><div><br /></div></div>Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-6386091010809707922020-10-11T21:54:00.005+11:002020-10-11T21:56:16.333+11:00Forever Autumn<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e7RGI3obO18/X4LecvUV_QI/AAAAAAAAUAM/ZxDnoWAesS4pf3EWLj2x8kpqcIOXAeTVQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/image0-746061.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Forever Autumn work in progress" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6882307765895036162" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e7RGI3obO18/X4LecvUV_QI/AAAAAAAAUAM/ZxDnoWAesS4pf3EWLj2x8kpqcIOXAeTVQCK4BGAYYCw/w300-h400/image0-746061.png" width="300" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_v3To9KBRNo/X4LedSKxiLI/AAAAAAAAUAU/S5Vx-dyYwIAc90p2Q1hQsFK8BJUHhuWFACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/image1-748685.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Forever Autumn work in progress" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6882307775250139314" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_v3To9KBRNo/X4LedSKxiLI/AAAAAAAAUAU/S5Vx-dyYwIAc90p2Q1hQsFK8BJUHhuWFACK4BGAYYCw/w300-h400/image1-748685.png" width="300" /></a></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Working on a <i>colour</i> composition inspired by a song on the War Of The Worlds soundtrack, <i>Forever Autumn</i>. I've loved that album since I was a teen, and that particular song has long been a favourite of mine. </span><div><span style="font-size: large;">I started with a <i>graphite</i> comp, outlining and shading the leaves, then a layer of <i>ink</i> work, to deepen the lines, and create greater contrasts. I followed that with the <i>colour</i> pencil work, choosing my colours as I worked, working <i>organically</i> rather than working to a plan. I didn't do a colour study to plot my progress, I'm just working on the fly. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">There are, as always, other works on the go, including paintings and projects like the <i>Book Of Grace</i> - I prefer to have a lot of different compositions in progress at once, to give me a greater critical distance with each work, as well as keep my eyes fresh when I come back to a piece. So there's a lot happening in the studio right now - I'm endeavouring to be a little more active on the blog, but there are great many changes happening for me both personally and professionally at this time; I'll do my best! </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">For any questions, comments or enquiries, please email zeddess@gmail.com, and remember to visit my social media sites (listed on the Home page) and stop in and say hi!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Stay beautiful, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Love the world, it needs you right now, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Zi xxx </span></div>Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-31019920761503130192020-09-05T01:15:00.000+10:002020-09-05T01:15:04.067+10:00Then And Now - this is zeddess. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x7lmXRuN5ow" width="320" youtube-src-id="x7lmXRuN5ow"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A video selection of recent and previous works, created over the years.... </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, as then, I am still committed to creating signature original artworks, with the intent of examination, exploration and celebration of human nature; who we are in myth, reality, and all the spaces in between. </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As humans, there is no greater place to find ourselves than in the stories we tell, the fantasies we create, and the worlds that we escape to. From them, we design our lives, our realities, our inventions, and all of our tomorrows. That's the finer purpose of art - to reflect the higher purpose of our humanity, our hopes, our dreams, our woes, our fears, and our pasts and futures. For each of us, we have our part to play in the weaving of life's tapestries. It is my honour to have that role as an artist. </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stay beautiful, </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Zi xxx </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remember to Subscribe and Share for art lovers everywhere. </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Instagram : @the.art.of.zi @ziansilverwolf</p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Twitter : @zeddessarts</p><br /> <p></p>Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-10052760492018135522020-08-20T05:14:00.000+10:002020-08-20T05:14:23.309+10:00Update on The Book Of Grace <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RXphv1DkKV0/Xz13-GAgcfI/AAAAAAAATrw/QX-KUld7Zw8WAkzypVzEwvMivxedWrQfgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/image0-727278.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="500" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6862773315830837746" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RXphv1DkKV0/Xz13-GAgcfI/AAAAAAAATrw/QX-KUld7Zw8WAkzypVzEwvMivxedWrQfgCK4BGAYYCw/w375-h500/image0-727278.png" width="375" /></a></div><p class="mobile-photo"></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkWteOJfb68/Xz13-ogVAuI/AAAAAAAATr4/_m7-pWZP-7cgbAkdkZezzldZY6mRJstngCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/image1-729477.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="500" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6862773325091111650" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkWteOJfb68/Xz13-ogVAuI/AAAAAAAATr4/_m7-pWZP-7cgbAkdkZezzldZY6mRJstngCK4BGAYYCw/w375-h500/image1-729477.png" width="375" /></a></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Work continues on this, my long term project of a hand drawn book. A <i>fully original</i> work of art, with no digital printing or technological intervention, the title "<b>The Book Of Grace</b>" was a gift from a good friend and patron, meaning both the nature of grace of humanity, the grace of Mother Nature, and incidentally it was also a nickname of mine back in the 90s.
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<br />Stay beautiful,
<br />Zi xxx</span>Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-1781684746741709032020-04-21T21:02:00.002+10:002020-04-21T21:08:06.391+10:00The Story Continues...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A new showcase of stand-alone artworks, mostly from 2019-20, works from The Book Of Grace, the zeddess Black book of digital art, the ZULU series and some photographic works as well. The soundtrack is a digital work I created, called Desert Jazz. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy, stay beautiful, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Zi xxx </span>Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-79788987796819715062020-04-18T23:42:00.001+10:002020-04-18T23:42:47.513+10:00World Within Worlds <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-7218120082950533292020-02-08T00:35:00.001+11:002020-02-08T11:12:40.558+11:00The Journey Thus Far<span style="font-size: large;">The journey thus far:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I went full time as a working artist back in 2001, the focus of the work was the paradox - the contradiction that is the mortal coil seeking definition in the divine. Spirit and science, heaven and earth, body and soul, myth and reality - all the ways humans explore their own condition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The questions inhabiting such exploration were answered when it came to the presence, or rather, the desire for perfection. Because perfection is an ideological construct of momentary satisfaction, which passes as the observer becomes sated, bored or otherwise aware of the imperfections that are naturally present, leading to limitations of said perfection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus the desire for perfection changes definition as the observer's state changed - and this is why the contradictions exist. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so too could it be said of the state of perfection. The changes in perception created either by resolution, conclusion or satiation, inform the lack of an infinite state of perfection. Perfection is forever elusive and momentary as a result. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But there is such a thing as a perfect moment - even if that moment is a state of perfect dissatisfaction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What this has meant for me and the artistic journey in comprehending the existence and the need for contradiction in human experience, is that I have an answer - mayhap not a complete answer, but then that is the imperfection of the moment. Yet it is enough for me to consider the exploration complete; and myself now imperfect enough to answer another question. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If beauty and perfection are specified merely by the desires and appetites of the animal, is there a state of beauty and perfection that can defy the limitations of perception? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I immediately consider Michaelangelo's David. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now there's a moment in time that has lasted over 500 years of human civilisation and contradiction, and while I have not seen the statue in real life, and I understand it to now be showing signs of age, was that not an overwhelming moment of perfection? Created by intelligence, crafted with skill and knowledge, resonating with creative spirit, love for the work and its sophistication, its material, and the majesty of the subject - I could go on and on, and oh, on.... Michelangelo himself attributed such grace to the glory of God, and the skill of the stonecutter, worshipping the images he made in stone - but it was more than mere craftsmanship and faith. Art is the elevation of a craft; yet to say it was art, in the modern era, seems insufficient in comparison to the resonance of its very existence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those I have spoken to who have seen David in the flesh have been unable to communicate adequately what they experienced in its presence - their words - and I am very much aware that this is more than just human expression. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's the human conception of perfection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">People have been in awe of it, jealous of it, in love with it, intimidated by it; however they felt, it stands out that the greatest feature of the work is that it was made by a man. A human being. Not a machine or a printer, or an algorithm, or preset program - just a man, with tools in his hands, and power in his heart. And a sense of perfection and beauty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the fact that David is over 500 years old means that Michelangelo is still here with us, across time, speaking to us through that sense, capable of moving people of the world five centuries later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, by no means am I comparing myself to the great master, or the age in which he lived - if you have read anything of Vasari, you know that not all masters of the era were as dedicated to that sensibility as Michelangelo - but the presence of his art in our modern day world tells me that this drive was as possessing of mankind in our history as it is today. All our art, our philosophy, our creativity and the drive to develop, improve, seek the next level of beautiful authenticity in our moment. How much of today's art will be considered as alive with the same magical, divine, human quality as that of past artists, even 20 years from now, we will only find in hindsight. But is the perfect moment alive and well today? Will beauty and perfection and the desire for both lead us to greater or lesser consequence as we continually redefine their meaning? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I consider now is to explore this idea through my own sense of beauty and perfection - is that pure decoration or philosophical meandering, or both? We will only find out in the execution of such a task. It's no coincidence this occurs as I reach the halfway point in my life, and I'm now looking at the slow gradual decline of my own existence; faith comforts me in the face of mortality, however, curiosity inhibits my willingness to age. There is still so so much to learn....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Changes are coming, the art has new limits, new boundaries to get creative with - and I really don't know what that means yet. But I'm looking forward to finding out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stay beautiful, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Zi xxx </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">When I work, I get extremely annoyed if the result is passive, just kind of sitting there, not getting into it, timid and meek, trying to please. Even a painting of an apple sitting on a bench should have <i>attitude</i>. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">It's always been my feeling that art should <i>intimidate</i>, one way or another - a work of art inspires awe, curiosity, it stirs up through the body - it should grab you by the intestines and tie them in knots, take your breath away. Y'know, gutsy. Otherwise I feel like I'm just decorating the place. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Things have been like that for a while, feeling like I'm just going through the motions. There is little at the moment in the emotional environment that is more that just a siege mentality - people locked up in their boxes, choking on fear, and desperate to have people to panic with them. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">There's nothing daring or significant or strange about any of it - and once again, it comes off as passive, decorative - just taking up space. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I hate it. I loathe it with every fibre of my being, feeling infected and contaminated by that which is commonplace being worshipped in ignorance and apathy. I despise it. There's no sense of being, no enigma, no mystery, and I am left with that faint distaste and contempt for what is, in all other manners and reason, ordinary life. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I've been staring at a drawing I did last week; hateful thing, an example of that galling ordinariness, the total lack of <i>commitment</i>, the complete absence of life - and I know I'm deliberately taunting myself for having allowed this expression of nothingness to exist. She is, and that's about all she is, with flowers in her hair, a small wreathing of pearls, and a couple of jewelled turtles - and it's all very pretty. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I go through my archival folders to be greeted by these strange, luminous beings, with their odd faces and limbs, their abundance of inner wilderness, writhing in a mire of energetic incompletion, locked in a state of eternal impermanence - and my gut twists in their ecstasy, their wholeness at every stage, their enigmatic countenances, hands outstretched, hands gripped tight. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The myths, with their wings and fangs, their claws and bulbous eyes, full of false innocence, and burning with confrontation; the wraiths and the goddesses, content to wander the universe as mists and vapour, inherently ethereal and simultaneously corporeal, as they walk between worlds; the lovers and the warriors, seemingly vibrating with passion and power, alive and humming on the page, filled with anticipation. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I follow these wandering visions, and then return to the woman with the flowers in her hair, and know that something deeply fundamental at the core of my being is silent. Quiet. Passive. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">And then like a <i>flash</i> from the hand of a god, I understood why. Why I was disconnected from that magical element that must be surrendered to each and every work like an offering to the divine in every stroke. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Something so vital has no words. It's not psychological, it's <u>visceral</u>, and cannot be described. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">But every artist who has bled gallons for a bittersweet victory over their own vision, that passage through the soul into manifestation, knows what I'm talking about, knows how it burns from the inside, clamouring to be administered to the work, that it may <i>scream </i>itself into existence. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">For that is art. Not passive, not pleasing, not nodding to the audience - It is ripping holes in reality, and spawning life, over and over again. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Perhaps that is why I have such great admiration for those that collect my work - they are the punks, the rebels, the ones who reach for stars, and bathe in energy, who build and grow things, who initiate life, and seek its secrets. They also live for that kind of power. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Did we meet in the skies above my soul? Sometimes I wonder.... do I remember you, or were you merely a visitor in my dreams?"
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<span style="font-size: large;">Old work made new.... I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the amount of work that's sitting on the bench at the moment; hundreds of drawings half finished, unrealised and <i>awaiting incarnation</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it's a good kind of awe - I look into these archives with a sense of constant and persistent <i>renewal</i> of a cosmology I started decades ago, with strange, beautiful faces staring out at me from every page, all of them weirdly conspiring to construct this universe that pushes at the boundaries of my mind and soul.</span><br />
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Many things all happening at once, but all in the name of creating a final <i>cohesive </i>whole... at some point. The projects I'm currently working on are large in terms of volume, rather than physical size, and they're all happening simultaneously - as it is, none of them will be truly finished until the whole structure is put together and can be presented <i>all at once</i>.<br />
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Between graphite, ink, colour pencil, paint and the digital, I'm aiming for something reminiscent of my earliest working years - we shall see if that becomes the vision manifested... or just a lot of hard work.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time. We live it , we contemplate it, we celebrate it, we mourn it; and we exist in it more than just the now, the then, and the possible tomorrow. In dreams, we pass within it, in reality, we measure it, and at the deepest levels of ourselves, we stop it. Wherever we are is whenever we are - it is the point of origin in the perception and measurement of all time. ZULU..... </span><br />
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It's been a long time between updates, with real life being busy and unusual, but there has been art in the making nonetheless.
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A new series I have titled ZULU (as in time, not Shaka), which has given me all kinds of work to do, some in plain graphite, others with ink and colour, and a couple of larger sized works - it's all still in progress, but I am enjoying the process immensely, as it feels as though I have connected with a new world, and a new set of visions.
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's been a great year for production - and development - though I can always feel that pressure in the back of my mind, looking for more, feeling outwards for that spark of brilliance that has long been the quest in art. While the forward motion is relentless however, there are still works from years past that are looking for their guardians, and I'm planning on posting more of those here soon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's been an interesting process returning to paint - while it's no longer as familiar as a pencil has become, it's quite intriguing to note how easily I work with old habits long remembered, while simultaneously applying new ideas that I have learned over time. I'm enjoying the experience so far - but then, at the moment, I'm only being challenged to understand an idea through paint, not master anything truly new. That comes later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember that the works here are for sale - or will be if they are works in progress - and you can find out more about your favourites just by dropping me a line at zeddess@gmail.com, or you can call/text me on +61476 782 122. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can also follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, and connect with me online. Looking forward to sharing more art with you! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Now while that’s a very extreme view, and holds all kinds of tensions, even in the modern context, it got me thinking; what if you turned the concept<i> inside out</i>, and laid it out in reflection? Whereby all beauty would immediately reflect the viewer’s philosophical modality, and would not merely <i>represent beauty alone, but all the truths of the individual?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">In fact, it resonated so deeply with my own concerns for art, that I feel like I’ve found something new in the <i>storytelling </i>process; here’s why.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">I’ve been in art for a while now, 25 years, and the world has changed - I wouldn’t say that it has exactly modernised, as much as it has multiplied social constructs, cultural expansion, political prospects and religious identification. People are now presented with an amalgamation of ideas from all over the world, and the higher the awareness of the collective, the lower the response of the individual. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Regardless of culture, belief, creed, political views, human beings all have one thing in common - whether it is a lake, or a beach, or a mountain, or a parkland of trees, a beautiful person, a beautiful room, a beautiful city, they all respond to beauty with a sense of awe, wonder, and find sense in it. Structure, order, natural or artificial, organic or mechanic - there are organisations of patterns, lines, colour, light, that all allow humans to connect with something deeper within themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">We all have a different idea of what beauty is - but the principle is the same throughout. Regardless of where we come from or who we are, there is something granted to us in the presence of the beautiful - and not when we compare it to ourselves, but when we don’t. It is when we stop identifying with who we are, and start relating to where we are that we find our own intimate truths. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Most people would say that beauty is skin deep, shallow, hollow, <i>impermanent</i> - but anything that is impermanent is precious to those who outlive it. Otherwise, we would not romanticise sunsets, or pay respects to the dead. It is in the acceptance of the impermanent that we discover the<i> eternal in us. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In recent days, I've had some problems with the renewal of the zeddess.com domain, which has caused some confusion - however! Thanks to the great customer service from Google Tech Support and my hosting agent, it shall soon be resolved, and things will be back to business as usual. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, I've been continuing with the slow and gradual process of packing up the studio to return to the south - between work and moving house and daily living, all things in their time and place, not to mention a few outside personal projects that have to be completed in Brisbane before I can move on, it's quite the process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you want to keep up with my daily posts, you can find me on Instagram - @zian.silverwolf is the everyday account, and the gallery account is at @ziansilverwolf. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's one of my latest digital media videos, Street Lover - you can find the whole playlist on my YouTube channel, along with virtual exhibitions, time-lapse clips and art videos. </span></div>
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Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-35866480744271858672018-05-30T10:42:00.001+10:002018-05-30T10:42:51.113+10:00The Art, The Stories, The Adventure Within<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you're an Instagram user and your following my account @zian.silverwolf, then you might not be aware that there is a sister account @ziansilverwolf, that is<i> devoted to the works on paper</i>. Recently I posted a new host of drawings to the page, with their immediate details, as they are now ready for sale. </div>
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Original works are <i>one of a kind.</i> They have the years of experience and the actual DNA of the artist within them, as well as the vision and the <i>ever-expanding universe</i> the artist is seeking to describe. </div>
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Each one is a<i> layering of stories,</i> not only the image being presented, but the journey of its creation, the method of its making, the history of its design and composition - and all the <i>potential </i>of its future existence. </div>
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If you're a collector, or seeking to become one, I highly recommend going beyond sampling art that suits your current relationship with the tastes that you have, and <i>take your own journey</i> into the unknown, through art. After all, art is an experience in itself, travelling into multiverses of internal frontiers of thought and emotion - <i>the artist is an adventurer of the soul,</i> and the art is the opportunity <i>for you to do the same</i>. </div>
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I've had a lot of mixed reactions to this work, largely due to the audience's personal perspective - I have given no editorial or explanation of the art for them to consider, so their response has been entirely made of their own perceptions and <i>personal ideals.</i> Some immediately unfollowed me on social media - obviously whatever they encountered in their own mind was unpalatable, and while they did not stop and ask for <i>clarification</i>, that's their prerogative. </div>
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I'm quite pleased with the work as a result of such a volatile reaction - I have left <i>interpretation </i>wide open as a consequence, and simply allowed people to see whatever they wanted to see - those that saw something negative in it have only their own reasons and justifications to explain it - I have presented nothing that could be used as a slight against any one culture or creed - therefore, whatever imagined for them, <i>must be the truth</i>. </div>
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Graphite on A3 paper, another finished work for 2018. I think of our life experiences in a manner of <i>layers </i>- not all are wounds and scars, and we have the option to make life a lesson, a challenge, a mountain or a molehill - we're creative enough to be taught how to perceive life, and<i> sentient </i>enough to be taught again and again. We're also<i> curious</i> enough to recreate ourselves to adapt and survive the inevitable changes that are part of life's journey - in the metaphor, these would be <i>extensions</i> of ourselves, rather than changes to the core <i>identity</i>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The lighting in the shot is a little yellow due to a lightbulb with alternative lifestyle choices, so that whole vintage feel is an <i>illusion</i> - the reality is purely in silvers and blacks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I uploaded a new digital media creation to my YouTube channel today, "<i>Odyssey</i>" - after only a few months really getting to know this software and how it can be used, I'm very much enthused about future applications. I've already been commissioned for digital work for video intros and outros, as well as web element designs, which has been another joy to add to the resume. Being able to concoct my own digital music has also been an <i>enormous</i> amount of fun, and a pleasure to share - I'm contemplating creating <i>ambience albums for artists</i> to use while working. That significant need for white noise without distraction can be sometimes difficult to achieve with every day choices of music. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our lives are limited by what we see. Our joys are limited by what we love. </span>Zian Silverwolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161760283318061423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790932061841444620.post-86121131208757057142018-03-17T00:37:00.001+11:002018-03-17T00:37:36.583+11:00The Times They Are A-Changing... Again....<span style="font-size: large;">With the move down south coming up in the calendar, a lot of new work has been done to keep things rolling during the transition - there are now 24 new works on Red Bubble, in the <a href="https://www.redbubble.com/people/sonata/collections/863237-canvas-prints-and-posters" target="_blank">Canvas Prints and Posters Collection</a>, a new gallery level Instagram account under the username<a href="http://instagram.com/ziansilverwolf" target="_blank"> ziansilverwolf</a>, which is devoted to the original artworks, and new videos and virtual exhibitions on my <a href="http://youtube.com/user/zeddess" target="_blank">YouTube channel.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are also original works underway, along with the completion of artworks for current clients, as well as the slow and part time progress of new work - something that continues even while I sort out used sketchbooks and archive all the ideas and rudimentary sketches that could be useful in the future. I cleaned out seven sketchbooks the other day, it was quite the purge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I would like to invite you to have a browse of all the new work online at my Red Bubble gallery - the original works are also on view there in Galleries 2017 and 2018, along with the zeddesss hourglass merchandise and other little specialities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And remember to keep an eye on the <i>Featured Offers</i> page of this site to let you know what's new and currently happening that might interest you, if you're looking for that special something or extra for your collection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anytime you would like to contact me, just email zeddess@gmail.com, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Here's a picture of one of the latest works from the Canvas Print collection, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love art, stay beautiful,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Z xxx </span><br />
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