Remember, not everyone makes it to a new year, life can be short.
(Requiescat in pace)
Our Lady of the Broken Heart
Reformatting me
Since I retired from actively working on other people’s projects a few months back, and have given myself some time to recover, by enjoying a break from visual creation, I can feel myself slowly starting to reawaken, as though the light that had been dulled is being rekindled. Most stress has been removed since the change. I do not work to a timeline, and I do not push myself beyond the enjoyment of creating my own work for my own purposes.
Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some very talented people, I’m sure some of them are probably pissed with my new found retirement/isolation and outlook, but hey, I gave bucket loads while I contributed over 30 years, there comes a time when you need to do your own thing, so I am, I’m now doing Dan things whenever fuck Dan feels like it, and it is good.
The combination of maintaining this website, while limiting social media interaction was just what I needed. Injecting energy into new hobbies and breaking away from art altogether has also been extremely helpful. You kind of burn out after a while and become jaded with everything you create; it is no longer fun.
I forgot that creating artwork was for my benefit, a form of therapy, which I will now continue uninterrupted.
We are the cosmos
Illuminated by distant starfields,
Our minds may be terrestially imprisoned,
But we are built for infinite possibilities,
We are the timeless,
Those born of stardust,
We are the cosmos.
Go ya by the nose
Sometimes it is important to regroup mentally, to step away from everything you’ve been doing to filter out the stressors. I’ve done that recently with a pause on social media. This has opened my mind(s) a little more and allowed me to experiment again and scribble down ideas and possible new pathways. The arrival of AI and its rape of the artistic world, dealt my interest in creating art a considerable blow. So the freedom given by stepping away from these digital platform has been good so far, I’ll keep at it, I do hope to find my feet again.
Thoughts Intrusive
Thoughts Intrusive – is a new artwork, it falls into a category of my work I call Dreamscapes.
I revisit this dream world periodically, and since I’ve hit pause on social media, I have made this website the primary access point to all of my work, and I feel pretty positive about the change. So from now on, my digital artwork will occasionally creep onto this page.
Unrequited Love
When a painting starts to flow,
It is like breathing for the first time,
Every twist and turn of the brush,
Can be filled with memory and feeling,
Recently, I’ve tried to fall in love with colour,
But she doesn’t feel the same way.
After Days of Silence
Days can pass when I have nothing to say,
No news shared, no great achievements come my way,
The practicalities of life take over and they must be attended,
A down time, when the arts are begrudgingly suspended,
But soon I return with renewed creative zest,
These are the times in life that I love best.
Image from a dream
I had a dream,
The image stuck with me,
For weeks now I’ve drawn it,
I close my eyes, and I see it,
I don’t know what it means,
I don’t know what it is,
But it is relevant somehow,
And my mind won’t let it go.
Urge to Create
Moments appear from nowhere, creative portals forcibly open,
Some call it inspiration, I call it, mandatory participation,
Moments when we MUST create something, anything,
To do otherwise is uncomfortable, it cannot be ignored,
So, we create.
Dan Verkys 