Life’s a Loop
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DAVID ALEXANDERS
the people, events and surroundings that inspire my artwork
This is my latest painting and the first one of 2013. Acrylic on canvas, measuring h190 by w90cm (75in by 35in), it’s titled: ‘What Goes Around, Comes Back Around’.
Recently, a kind and complete stranger on Google+ wrote this about my last painting titled: ‘Your Life Is Your Message To The World, Make Sure It’s Inspiring’ -
Side by side, my last two paintings show an unintended sequence one from the other, a balancing act or yin-yang if you will, portraying how polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are indeed complementary, interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn in relation to each other.
Introducing my latest painting, titled: ‘Your Life Is Your Message To The World, Make Sure It’s Inspiring”. Acrylic on canvas. h190 x w90cm.
Recognize that whether you are worthy or not is all a “made-up story”. Again, nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never heard of anybody who went through the “stamping” lineup at birth. Can you imagine God stamping each person’s forehead as he or she came through? “Worthy … unworthy … worthy, worthy … unworthy. Yuck … definitely unworthy.” Sorry, I don’t think it works that way. There’s no one who comes around and stamps you “worthy” or “unworthy”. You do that. You make it up. You decide it. You and you alone determine if you’re going to be worthy. It’s simply your perspective. If you say you’re worthy, you are. If you say you’re not worthy, you’re not. Either way you will live into your story.
TGISunday and there’s nothing better to start the day than a steaming cup of Latte Art. Latte art is a method of preparing coffee created by pouring steamed milk into a shot of espresso and resulting in a pattern or design on the surface of the resulting latte. It can also be created or embellished by simply “drawing” in the top layer of foam. Latte art is particularly difficult to create consistently, due to the demanding conditions required of both the espresso shot and milk. This, in turn, is limited by the experience of the barista and quality of the espresso machine. The pour itself, then, becomes the last challenge for the latte artist.
Rinascimento. Acrylic on canvas. h190 x w100cm. Private collection Turin, Italy.
