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Love, Death, and in Between - Dan Beck 2007 - digital art

This is not a particularly representative work for me, but then I see my work as being in transition - which is indeed what this is about.

The digital painting above was done for the Day of the Dead and accompanying celebration here in Salinas - though I didn’t exactly include a Steinbeck Theme - just wasn’t thinking about that aspect at the time.

What I was thinking about what the different world spheres we all live in - how they seemingly overlap, sometimes don’t, and sometimes aren’t even seen. Without the confines of time and space, I am not sure how in flux the world would seem - but imagine a world where we saw every change and everything in flux - not just a swirling world, but the separation between life and death being blurred.

Add to that the newness of painting mostly by finger movements and finished by mouse - a blending of new and known - and at the very least(or most) “brilliant in color”.

See Also

• Dreampt Away - a brilliant colored piece from another time - not related - but for the colors of dreaming and the obvious flux of that overlapping world
• Escher’s Reflective Sphere - school project shows how we can learn from what exists and take it somewhere else - this is exactly the kind of reflection I would like to see from my own art - as would any artist - learning how to see is an ongoing process