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Playing the Field

after seven years observing, I have finally seen the air hoe

Air Hoe 3 - digital painting - Dan Beck 2007

Air Hoe 3 - digital painting - Dan Beck 2007

There will be art prints available for the above piece - but I am in the process of rethinking how I want to offer these. So be patient or not, and I will figure it out.

Almost a month ago I featured a new digital painting. At the time I commented that I would explain the posture of the last figure at a later date. It was not consciously trying to recreate what I had seen, but when I sketched in the figure, I saw I had included a figure a lot like the above.

I will say - that I actually saw a field worker playing his hoe momentarily like a guitar. Since I didn’t hear any music, I assumed it was not plugged in and he was playing the air hoe.

For reasons I will not explain here, I used the same figure in three different digital paintings - proving once again - that I have no issue with breaking my own rules.

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Music Art Continuum

Time, Space, and the Endlessness of Creativity

Jazz 3 - digital painting - 2005

Jazz 3 - digital painting and art prints - 2005 - Dan Beck

Music exists in time and space, but not so much in vision - though one might not know that with the advent of music videos and of course live performance from the get-go.

It is not two dimensional and it is more than three - and I am not sure exactly why I say that. But like vision it can stay with us and reappear at a later time even though it is long gone.

How the above is like music is a tough call, but I know it to be. I know it was about the music I was listening to - moving to the beat and feeling the place inside.

Sometimes I feel art is time based as well - only working in a certain place and time - but creativity fortunately seems to be endless.

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  • Jazz 3 - art print options for above digital painting
  • TBA Festival 2006 - apparently there is a time based art festival in Portland - last years offerings demonstrate the breadth of the concept
  • Introduction to Time Based Art (course offering) - my understanding of time based art was always - limited time and changing over time - such as using organic matter - this course is almost the antithesis.
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