“Art is my…” is an ongoing project that looks on art as whole – its necessity for quality living and perceiving life with all its individually, originality and unexpectedness, as a form of art. The project aims to remind of and on all those sparks that we should never forget about. That we should embrace as knowledge. People/artists bring different concepts (situations) and stories through pictures portraying the artistry, the extraordinariness of the everydayness. The idea is that an artist is not necessarily just the person doing art. Just as well (any)one becomes an artist in their own way and work – by making their everydayness, their life, their “doing” be inspired and lead by artistry and innovative thinking.
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reborn through art.
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●reborn |rēˈbôrn|
-adjective
(1): brought back to life; (2)activity: having experienced a complete spiritual change
-origin:
1598, from re- “back, again” + born, past tense of birth (q.v.). Rebirth is attested from 1837.
●We get to be born. Our life starts. As we grow we learn. We learn about everything and anything. We feed our mind. We feed our soul. The more we know and feel, the more we become thirsty and hungry to express something. Through this constant exchange and journey, through new experiences we get enlightened. Life and art – unseparable components of happiness. As we draw energy out of everyday life and surrounding only to release it back. Giving new meanings, those that initiate creativity to have potential of seeing art in everything. Creating or recreating is essential to feed this drive within. With each new piece, experiencing it, learning it, feeling it, expressing your own self through it – we get a chance to be reborn. Reborn as a better improved self. More knowledgeable, more sensual, more… everything. Reborn, step further than our last “birth”, with goals and challenges further than where we were. In sense of creating new, as well as living life to its fullest through achieved. Creating something new out of nothing, out of ideas born out of world around us and implementing them into “way of thinking”.
*concept/text: DS
*photo/edit: DS
http://artismy.com/2012/12/07/reborn/
art is my superpower.
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●superpower |ˈsoōpərˌpouər|
-noun
(1):superior power; power greater in scope or magnitude than that which is considered natural or has previously existed; (2):an extremely powerful nation, especially one capable of influencing international events and the acts; (3):mechanical or electrical power, on an extremely large scale secured by the linking together of a number of separate power systems, with a view to more efficient and economical generation and distribution.
-origin:
[First known use: 1920-25].
●As children we dream of having superpowers. Being superheroes. The idea to be able to make a change, make a difference has never been a stranger to our child-self, but as well to our grown-self. To be a superhero first for your own good, but also for the greater good. For little things, for big things, for yourself, for a stranger, for society… For being better. For better being.
Beside their superpowers, superheroes we meet through stories all have, or had, those moment of solitude, reflection, leading to their becoming a superhero. Before engaging and using their powers to their best and fullest. Art and creative thinking allows a person to apprehend information from various sources, to take and through process of creation reflect and reinvent the content, in solitude of inner thinking (or actual isolation) to the moment of engaging and releasing the creation, sharing it with others. The artist him(her)self emerges victorious, for the knowledge and feelings he(she) enriches him(her)self and there for enlarges their potential and the potential of contribution to the greater picture – society, the world. Furthermore, it is not only as individual that one can function, but also collaborating with other artist, creative thinkers, making for a collective and even stronger impact.
It is this richness of the “felt” and of the knowledge on ethics and aesthetics that makes for a true superpower. That makes art be the superpower, the “very powerful and influential nation” needed for a greater good, for a better world.
*concept/text: Gergely Kóta, Dejana Sekulic
*photo/edit: DS
http://artismy.com/2014/06/14/superpower/
art is my aim.
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●aim |ām|
-verb
(1):to direct toward an intended target; (2):to direct toward or intend for a particular goal or grou;(3):to determine a course or direct an effort; (4):o propose to do something; have the intention;
-noun
(1):a purpose or intention toward which one’s efforts are directed; (2):the act of aiming;(3): the direction at a target.
-origin:
Middle English aimen, from Old French esmer, to estimate (from Latin aestimre) and from Old French aesmer (from Vulgar Latin *ad estimre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin aestimre, to estimate).
●Art is knowledge. As such it is both a weapon and an aim. It demands one to, whatever art form they want to express in, search, discover, include, reveal and completely expose thoughts and emotions. The fact of the matter is that an art piece shows the deepest connection of one’s inner thoughts and feelings with everything around them. To open one’s self in that way, consciously, takes bravery and courage. Sometimes the search takes unusual turns, but eventually leads back to the goal. If you think about it, isn’t it a bit like the archer’s paradox – the phenomenon of an arrow traveling in the direction it is pointed at at full draw, when it seems that the arrow would need to pass through the starting position it was in before being drawn, where it was pointed to the side of the target.
On the end, these processes and adventures, with all the bending and seeming misleadings, bring experience, knowledge , broadened emotional pallet and intelligence and therefor are completely worthy.
*concept/text: DS
*photo/edit: DS
http://artismy.com/2014/01/12/aim/
art is my belief.
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●belief |biˈlēf|
-noun
(1):trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something; a principle, proposition, idea, etc, accepted as true; (2):an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists: something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or conviction; a religious tenet or tenets; religious creed; (3):an opinion or conviction; something believed.
-origin:
[First known use: 1125–75; earlier bile(e)ve (noun use of v.); replacing Middle English beleave, equivalent to bi- be- + leave; Old English gelēafa, from ge-, associative prefix + lēafa; akin to Old English ly’fan (cognate with Dutch geloof, German Glaube; akin to Gothic galaubeins )].
●The creation starts of as a pure feeling, feeling of something good, something of value. The belief without a proof. But as the idea evolves, whether as a part of the creating art or absorbing art, the imaginary, non-existent, and the tangible intertwine. Until the point when “the product” becomes, both as the work of art for its beauty* and as the knowledge acquired through it, the proof on its own.
It is the belief in the idea, the process, the growth, the outcome, in non-existent becoming existent, through apprehending, dealing with, creating art that we mature – as a person, and ultimately as society.
It is believing in expression and creative thinking what makes for abstract to become tangible. To become life. To improve life.
*beauty as something/anything that can move, provoke to think, make it impossible to be/stay indifferent – either positively or negatively.
*concept/text: DS
*photo/edit: DS
http://artismy.com/2014/06/14/belief/
art is my game.
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●game |gām|
-noun
(1):an activity providing entertainment or amusement; (2):a single instance of competitive an activity;(3):a calculated strategy or approach; a scheme; (4): [mathematics] a model of a competitive situation that identifies interested parties and stipulates rules governing all aspects of the competition, used in game theory to determine the optimal course of action for an interested party.
-adj
(1):eager or willing to do something new or challenging.
-verb
(1):play at games of chance for gain; (2):manipulate (a situation), typically in a way that is unfair or unscrupulous;
-origin:
[Old English gamen; related to Old Norse gaman, Old High German gaman amusement].
●Whether it is an amusement, tactic, maneuver our first association is undoubtably childhood. The resilient energy and drive that takes us on endless journeys. Journeys that teach us and make our mind spark with ideas and how-tos for improving our performance and output. Competing, but with idea of overcoming ourselves and our previous achievements. Art brings all of these aspects of expressing, learning and having fun. It keeps us fresh and open. It keeps the mind in search. It keeps the child within alive and the “shadow” free, while still attached. It makes for best of both coexist and flourish in harmony.
*concept/text: DS
*photo/edit: DS
http://artismy.com/2014/03/02/game/
art is my bubble.
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●More than in any other period , while in their creative process artists live in a bubble. But it is not a protective bubble, as it may appear. It is a multi-layer bubble. Where the fist layer absorbs everything from the “outer” world. And than, through artists creative thinking and understanding, filters it. Right into the inner layer. One where all the feelings, thoughts, ideas are carefully mixed and put into expressing in the best possible way – making an unique creation grow. Right until the moment of bubble bursting – a moment artists strives to, sending perfectly meaningful and sincere message through his creation. A bubble is a place where peacefulness and rage, love and hate, reality and abstract… coexist. Not only coexist, but lead each other. Lead each other to perfect harmony. To perfect existence. To perfection: balanced mixture of “perfect” and “imperfect”, as substance of life and imagination.
Dear reader you must see the resemblance to life events and thoughts that occupy us daily. You simply must. But just imagine… how much easier it would be to invent and find good solutions and process of action if we would constantly “train” ourselves through creating and experiencing art. Educate ourselves.
*concept/text: DS
*photo/edit: DS
http://artismy.com/2012/10/04/bubble/
we speak art.
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●speak |spēk|
-verb ( past spoke |spōk|; past part. spoken |ˈspōkən|) [ intrans. ]
(1):the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings; (2):say something in order to convey information, an opinion, or a feeling;(3):communicate in or be able to communicate in; (4):convey one’s views or position; (5):serve as evidence for something
-origin:
Old English sprecan, later specan; related to Dutch spreken and German sprechen.
●Art gives us possibilities to embrace different cultures, experience them, feel them and in return express ourselves better and with more diversity and more genuine. We all know art is an universal language. But constantly engaging with and in it, making it irreplaceable part of you, your “language” becomes richer for few of those important words like freedom to see and notice, courage to feel and accept and bravery to act and express.
*concept/text: DS
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http://artismy.com/2013/04/18/speech/
art is my wilderness.
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●wilderness |ˈwildərnis|
-noun [usu. in sing. ]
(1): a tract or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings; (2): an area essentially undisturbed by human activity together with its naturally developed life community
-origin:
Old English wildēornes [land inhabited only by wild animals,]
from wild dēor [wild deer] + -ness .
●Every once in a while we all get in that difficult, even painful and scary moment in life when we are to encounter with something new and frightening. Like thrown in to the wild. Completely unconstrained, uninhabited, unrestrained… yet drawing us there with the adventure of taming and inheriting feelings and experiences and infiltrating this new knowledge into our future selves. Any piece of art gives us an opportunity to do exactly that. Every piece of art becomes our own personal safari. Filled with excitement, unknown, possibilities, fright, beauty…. And upon our own “conquering” and process of acceptance is finished, these unheeded knowledge and experiences become a part of reform. Towards evolution.
*concept/text: DS
*photo/edit: DS
http://artismy.com/2013/02/12/wilderness/