#1 - First Art...

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#1 - First Art...

Painting One - "Birth; The Beginning of Time"

First, Art.
Sometimes, the art comes before the science, or philosophy. Taking a trip to the moon was first art in the form of an visionary idea, then a story, and then a film, and then rockets and then...or something like this. In my case I painted an image that was mysterious to me, then there were the ideas, dreams, thoughts, sketches, paintings, and more ideas and dreams, etc.
First, there was art.
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Cosmology Awakening began with one single painting, "Shaman" (below). The painting to the right is part of a 13 piece pyramid of paintings presented one by one in these pages and fully on the "Cosmic Questions" page and then on page 22, "Krallosvierd" (the name of the full series).
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Paintings from dreams...
Before beginning the triangular series, Krallosvierd (Painting One is to the right), there was one special painting I created in 1970 that seemed to come out of nowhere. It's meaning was so strange even to me that I decided to just accept it as a mystery with some meaning that I might find in some unimagined future. Even the title I gave it, "Shaman", at the age of 18, was unknown and full of mystery for me, yet here it was, this first painting I made using fence boards to hold the canvas and just going on instinct. From there my dreams grew wilder and my quest to make some sense out of the nature of the universe became part of my everyday life.

"Birth; The Beginning of Time" (painting #1) Krallosvierd series, 6' x 7' oil on canvas

"Shaman" 3' x 4' oil on canvas painting, 1971

Where the art began...

Origins - In 1971 I painted my first oil on canvas painting entitled "Shaman". I did not really even know the meaning of the word but the idea that there had to be more to the nature of the universe than what I had been taught in church and school and I wished to be someone who would find out something more. The symbol seemed to be a way to add to the limited big bang idea and the surrounding sky was a sort of sunrise on a new era, or something like this. Mostly it was a new symbol of a quest, vocation, or dream and vision of my future.
Following the making of this painting I did not paint again for a very long time. I worked and went to Junior College and read science fiction books (over 90 of them in a hand full of years) and then I began to read science books.

A very vivid and amazing dream sent me on a new course leading to the painting of a twenty four foot tall pyramid of paintings symbolizing aspects of the dream, and many dreams that followed.

Now, many years later, I still use these symbols to imagine the nature of the universe and to pose questions about how things might be. I have been free to imagine ways to explain the cosmos that are not limited to filling in the blanks with nothing.

Though I did have a few dreams of winning a Nobel Prize and appearing on Larry King Live, mostly I wish to encourage people to think outside the lines.

"Shaman" detail

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