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15 Oct

When Art Speaks To You…

By Silver Blue

Sorry to have been absent for a while. There are myriad things going on behind the scenes, and while I don’t use the blog to air personal issues, I’ll say this. Take care of your spine. If it causes you pain, there’s most likely a reason for it. Years of not listening to my body is finally catching up with me.

On a brighter note, when ART is the thing speaking to you, it can be fun to listen to as well. 🙂

The housemate and I went to a Rummage Sale (for lack of a better term) today. I’ve never really enjoyed combing through castoffs for the hidden jewel, but something bid me go today. So, I went. There, I found, for a ridiculously low sum (under $10) a framed print that not only spoke to me, it wouldn’t let me go.

Now, it’s an abstract, but … somehow different. More than just colour thrown on a canvas, or the cleaning of an artists brush, there’s … hidden objects in this painting that are not of my imagination.

There’s a figure with arms outstretched:

and she seems to be reaching for, or releasing a bird:

There are hands reaching up from below, even.

Then, from the top corner of the paining, another figure emerges:

also with arms outstretched, but I don’t know what, if anything, she’s holding.

The last figure I discovered (so far) is in the lower right… and the arm is bent as if there is a blanket folded over the arm, yet the hand is folded back in a strange position.

This one’s a little trickier to see, as the face is looking down, and the eye is far more pronounced.

It’s in the corner of my living room, opposite what I call Meditation Corner.

Silver Blue, who at 42, still likes looking at clouds and seeing what I might make of them. 🙂

 

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26 Sep

My evolution through time

By Silver Blue

In 1988, I created an abstract piece of art on my bedroom wall in my parents’ house. It exists to this day:

The wall was painted Federal Slate (a light blue), and it would still be another year before I took the moniker “Silver Blue”. The width between each triangle, and the diagonal stripe is 2″ — the width of the largest masking tape I had in the house. The top blue line is 2″ wide, the bottom red line is 1″ wide, and the red triangles are 1″ wide as well.

In 2001, I digitized the wall painting, and altered it for a (then) web company called “Polo Blue Web Productions Ltd.”

This served me well, but I disbanded the company in 2007, for numerous reasons. While I still own poloblue.net, it’s closed and probably will not be resurrected. I needed a way to be reborn. Enter the Phoenix. That’s how I see myself, most of the time. In a constant state of rebirth. Old parts of me are destroyed while new parts spring forth of the ashes of my past. Ergo, my new logo (designed by Elise Heath) is:

Take that with the changes in me (from left) in 1988, 2001, and 2011.

Silver Blue, who hopes that as time goes on, I never lose the will and desire to continue evolving into newer and more exciting (to me) versions of myself.

[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/wia.mp3]
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