Borderless Boundary

I’ve been a writer/painter/intellectual all my life. So a site like this is a great challenge and provocation to me: do I have anything to say that can be of use to the other artists?

 One thing might be what is called the Yin-Yang aesthetic. Let’s suppose you’re looking at a painting that you don’t think is successful. It’s remarkable how often you can find what the problem is by asking this question: is there too much yin or too much yang? The yin is the soft, the murky, the lyrical colors, the purple prose, so to speak. The yang is the structure, the lines, the possibly boring symmetry. Achieving  balance between these two things seems to be what most great art has done.

Second, I write a lot about education and one of the themes in the schools now goes under the heading “the creativity curriculum.” I don’t trust the Education Establishment at all because it seems to me these people like to debase real education and to encourage students to take the soft route. In any case, there is a legitimate and fascinating question as to how much education (and discipline) an artist actually needs. Can you take it easy and somehow be very creative? Or are hard academic work and discipline really necessary? I think every artist struggles with these competing demands. 

One particular point that might interest everybody is the question of whether you want to study poetry, for example, in order to get ready for a career writing poetry? Maybe. But a good case can be made that doing anything else else might be a better way to start. It’s sort of a Zen thing. If you want A, aim for B.  I know there are no rules, but if a college student told me he was majoring in Chinese history or South American insects, on his way to being a poet, I would be optimistic. (For an essay on this debate, Google “23: The Creativity Question.”)

- An article written by Akbar about my work,  published in a Hyderabad newspaper called Andhrajyothi daily.

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Well, here I am, stepping into the wonderful world of blogging..
nothing new for me, I have filled up journals for years, recording things I see, feel and maybe want to do or paint someday...

I am as scattered sometimes as a seed on the wind, but I prefer it that way...lol
If you cant follow my thoughts, just try again...I type as I speak...a bit here and there and everywhere...

This fall, late fall, I am invited to show five paintings in a wonderful gourp show, ~The Narrows~ in Fall River, MA.
so far I have three nearly completed and two more to work out what I want as subject matter which has me again...here there and everywhere....
The theme for the show is I believe is Fin fur and feathers, the magnificent  animals, a favorite subject of mine so I thought I wouldnt have any problems.......eh..problem is there are so many fabulous animals that I want to work on, its hard to decide which ones!

So now I have joined the ranks of artists that tend to babble in public....funny thing, ones who know me? know that I have been babbling for years....~wink~
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I plan on trying to get into the small community college in my hometown in the near future...I don't know whether to study Liberal Arts, photography, or proffessional writing.

I don't like self-advertising, it makes me feel vain. So you don't have to look at my album if you don't want to...