The Creative Process...

I have chosen to describe my creative process. I don't think I ever tried to do it for myself before now. As an art facilitator, it has been about the development of the other individual but I have worked continually with an overview and philosophy. Hopefully that will not stop. I know it can be complex based on my travels and the interests I have followed and the weird way in which I look at the world. Experience is also a good teacher and I have worked and learned from many different perspectives and many cultures- including my own. This is truly old fashioned in today's age of post modern thought and identity and race politics.I never could understand our divisions which is why I always attempted to unify them in some way. I found this unity in Modern art which saw art in terms of the progress of creative freedoms and the struggles toward a stronger sense of individuality. I bathed with delight in their efforts to define time and space with form and figure leading us into a new reality beyond the naked eye. Many sought this through a spirituality away from the formal understandings of a Religious doctrine. They looked to many sources including the 'primitives'- African and other earth cultures including Japanese art.. I use this term sarcastically as I believe it is dangerous to categorize anything but it is how the world works with labels. I had another artist compared my art to the Bahamian artist Amos Ferguson. I think it is because I have developed my style into simple shapes and form. I am an abstract artist but find I delve into both worlds interchanging them continually. It takes courage to do this as for most Bahamians Realism is preferred as that is what defines art for them. You have to know how to draw. My art however has been about discovering that creative freedom through line, space and form. I also have the additional curse and fortune of seeing symbols and images which predominately are simple but not exclusively. In that sense I believe they may draw some comparison to Amos and the Bahamian artist Tony Mackay who worked culturally but used art intuitively. They produced paintings that worked from the inside out rather than the outside in within a psychic imprint that spiritually left its memory. There is merit in everything but I have chosen to deconstruct all cultural narratives as far as I can to reach that point of infinity (freedom) through transcendence to see the Universal. I wish I had more time to develop this but selling souvenir items does sometimes get in the way of this but I enjoy that process too. I guess I wished to put down how this creative process worked for me as I do get offended when it is interpreted without understanding the extraordinary journey I have had as an artist to reach the simple development in its execution. It is a journey that has taken me twenty five years to have the courage to do. I felt it necessary to use this process in my struggles toward self acceptance with love and this has taken me deeper into that understanding
placing myself into the greater living universe within that creative force through healing and love. I have delved into some of its mysteries. It is not a place for self hatred and fear whomever one is and that discovery has been the greatest lesson I have ever learned... Peace and love...