"CONFLUX"
A celebratory exploration of "perception" perceiving itself.'Organic" experiments in the digital medium by Charles Mouyat, AKA Black doG.
These works are snapshots of happy 'accidents' produced while attempting to destroy "white light".
Brief Synopsis:
Beyond the "face" of all things, is the soul of all things.
From the sublime, to the mundane, and back to the sublime.An abstraction of "Life" presented in two dimensional works as; "A CONFLUX of light and shade", framed as frozen moments in the random interplay of chroma, saturation and luminescence, expressly presented for the dancing 'eye' of the beholder". Or in other words, "Chaos brought into focus by the eye of the Artist as a gift for contemplation and consumption".
The crux of this exercise is: The framing of "object" to create "subject"....
The object being "chaos", the subject being "order"...
Starting with a pure white canvas, I use a method of random "stresses" to produce effusions vivid colour in photoshop. I distort, invert, saturate, blur, sharpen etc, etc, etc... ALL done without knowledge or any desire to produce a definitive end. I effectively orchestrate a random destruction of virgin "white", and "redeem" my action by producing something of "worth"...
In freeze-framing these chaotic moments, random choices are made. That is, when I deem that the chaotic flow encapsulates some kind of "beauty" on the canvas (to my own eye at least), I save the file and give it a name...
This process is profoundly subjective, though it springs from an absolutely objective method and reasoning.
And so, in being "framed" by context, random sequences of destruction are given creedence to become crystallised 'moments' of valid creative "expression".
As an artist, I wish to express the "beauty" that is often the result of these frozen points of chaotic momentum...
When is a work finished? Only when it is deemed to be... Again, a PURELY subjective undertaking on my part as the "Artiste".
An open invitation is extended for you to share in the vibrant immediacy of these arrested "happenings", and I sincerely hope you enjoy them in ANY way you happen to find them!
"Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" (as is "genius")... "Subjectivity" IS ALL.
We are each in the unconscious habit of 'subjecting' the Objective Cosmos (God) to create our version of the 'World'.... for we are each to the One, "goD" - with the power to act on our own terms, be they conscious or unconscious, forever subjecting the divine macrocosm to our sense of self... i.e., daily, momentarilly, in EACH and every instance we turn the "Object" into "Subject"...
...As we receive it.
As we perceive it.
As we conceive it...
This is an esoteric communion of the most 'catholic' sort, as All things become One in the eye of the beholder.
We have been freed to decide exactly what part of the cosmic "whole" we choose to accept or reject, to discard or to deify, such is the ultimate nature of Love beyond semantics. It is our choice. Indeed, we have been freed to create our own versions of "heaven" or "hell", even as they remain one and the same inside the "cosmic mind".
"Alpha and Omega" - All is One.
The very question we pose is the answer to our desire for knowing the answer to that question.
And in answer; WE ARE "THAT" which we seek... Questing, ever questing to know.
We are the very eyes of the Mystery seeking to know itself through the Art of its creation.
i.e., "us"
As an after-thought, I've placed with the organic experiments some extremely graphic presentations below. I like the juxtaposition of the accidental "orgasms" (bangs), and the contrived graphic pieces... I'm not sure that the hard graphics will "show" along side the organic, however they all say the same thing, so the "contrast" it self, is very nice to my mind - maybe that's the way it should be seen, ultimately...
Everything is beautiful.
Inside the cosmic sphere, "All" is but polarity of Light and Shade in "One".
See "it" in your tea cup, as the Storm brews right before your eyes.
See it in the friction between the sea and the sky, manifest before your eyes as the rolling waves.
See "it" as the "rub" between male and female and the orgasmic start of all new life.
See it in the pulsing beat of the heart, as Life measures itself against Death.
"Black is White"
The Paradox of the Conscious Cosmos.
Here.
Now.
Wherever thou Art.
This is the Godspell acording to doG.
