This is the first piece of art I’ve ever sold. When I was a sophomore in high school my super amazing chemistry teacher (whose face I remember but name I do not … Mr. O….) offered to buy a pointillism drawing I did in art class. He was responsible for taking our class up in a hot air balloon in the football field though so I just gave it to him as a floating thank you. Since then I have given away paintings to close friends and family but never really had much confidence in them as ‘art’. I just love to doodle and paint but never felt they were any masterpieces by any means.  I definitely connected with pointillism and to this day love drawing with little dots.

Recently I was given a sort of break from responsible / normal life that afforded me much time to sit and draw. Given the time I feel like I found my ‘voice’ in my little doodles, for lack of a better description. Fine finished drawings where I put love and concentration into every line. For the first time I’m really proud of them and proud to share them. So, on the chance that someone might connect and fancy one for themselves I’m offering them for sale.  They will all be a bit of mixed media with the original drawings scanned in and then digitally finished.

I’ve got a couple thousand pictures from those unique months as well which are soon to come!

FOR SALE via Society6 – Stretched Canvas, Framed & Art Print

Naming inspiration for this particular drawing:

“Heidegger notes that the origin of the word “technology” come from the Greek word techne, and this word was applied not only to technology, but to art, and artistic technique, as well. “Once there was a time when the bringing-forth of the true into the beautiful was also called techne,” he writes. “Once that revealing which brings forth truth into the splendor of radiant appearance was also called techne.” He found this to be a numinous correspondence, and considered that, in art, the “saving power” capable of confronting the abyss of the technological enframing might be found.” – Daniel Pinchbeck 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl pg. 106″

“The Greek concept of techne can aid in understanding technological society and the way it can generate a separation of business and personal lives. As used by the early Greeks, techne mean the knowledge required to get the job done. The “manager” of today epitomizes this early concept. He is trained to get the job done efficiently, economically, and rapidly. As a result, management can take on a life of its own and managers can lose touch with their personal values. The Greeks, however, quickly saw the inadequacies of the concept. Obssessed with wholeness and concerned with telos, or the “end” of a matter, they added an ethical and aesthetic dimension to their early definition. Techne came to mean not only understanding how to get the job done but also how the skill could be integrated with being a good citizen. Aristotle further defined techne to include a moral dimension. At each state in the development of the concept from basic know-how to general community implication to specific moral concern, education was of prime importance. Education today, especially the humanities, can play a role in helping our techonological society take on the more humane qualities of the evolved concept of techne.” Byrum C. Stephen 1984 The Greek Concept of “Techne.”