Slow Down the Pace....so i wrote this when it was flat...but today, its bombing....

The waves have been flat like one pancake.....along with the shift of population here on the North Shore of Oahu for the winter contest/photo opp. madness. Work has been the go-to-gig. Paint monkey paint! I moved the piece to Thom Madro's Gallery to work in public for it's completion.
"Energies" have been a focus for this painting, choosing to name it after its completion.
Yeah, sounds trippy, my so called science experiment in social interactions and how people emit vague yet certain vibrations that have an effect on those around them. I guess it has to do with the guessing....does a person's energy never die? I'm subscribing to it as i have been experiencing some very cool evidences of this-in action. Like i said...Trippy. No, i don't see dead people. Just focusing on the phenomenon of "good vibage Mang". It's proven as sure as math.

 i do think i feel them (people who have passed or are just too far away physically....i know you're thinking, OOOOOkay. "Nutjob"....naw,......"Artist". Maybe it's just my imagination generated by my studiobrain bleeding thoughts of a lost love.......it has not been lost in an energy sense.

Soooo, as i questioned the existence of our spirits, souls, & ghosts in the machine, my focus on spirituality has indefinitely also changed the direction of the art. The type and increments of energy gathered, released & realized.
The Art; a reminder of the physical senses. A semi-permanent record for posterity.
A breeze at my back in times of sorrow-comforts me often as it feels like her butterfly kisses on my shoulders when she used to stand behind me. Finding misplaced items after being frustrated asking for help-then finding it a moment later. The computer crashed because i'm not being diligent with my time.....a dime showing up in weirdest places at the most quieted of times to remind me....a song with the right words to explain or comfort in a song as if there is a line for me to hear at the right time....to keep going.
Seeing without eyes....our bodies are so amazingly made with auto functions and sensory systems. Try to imagine its power source-no batteries required.
In the same light speed of this very computer and how it connects us in cyberspace. With an open heart, our energies of thought are limitless. Our thoughts-the rope tied to manifestation by our actions. By choosing where our energies are focused-we experience, learn, & activate our wisdom. As i became aware of a few signs that light my proverbial path, each moment has become "square one" on the journey within..... both the physicality & mind set of now.

Okay. Now, We are all Artists in our chosen focus, a broad spectrum of miracles, large and small happen without us knowing sometimes- as we trip out on our car not starting or at a touchdown being scored. Holding calm focus lets us see without eyes-from the tips, of our thousands of nerve endings. Heightened awareness or just plain paying attention helps us to see these miracles happen. Over time, day to day, or moment to moment.

As a painter/sculptor, it's an easy relation while nurturing abilities to create something from nothing. Think about cooking a meal. The use of flavors and how those flavors are experienced. We are all artists in our chosen focus. All co-creators in different realms, we live and learn from and with our own teachings, understandings, and spirituality.

The statement "I am You" as a more accurate verbal description than "I love You". Physically we were all created and born in pretty much the same way. One example of spirituality, Jesus is God manifested to relate and relay to humanity. Other spiritual teachings relate to a bigger picture/source on an ethereal plane. An intangible intelligence (beyond our comprehension at this point in time) made you. When we look at each other, we are certainly looking at God or what ever you choose as a name for this intelligence. Everything we touch, smell, eat, feel, see, experience, man made or not has been created in some way that no one is truly positively knowing exactly how it all went down. We learn from each other, we take care of each other.

So Yeah, this painting....yeah note to self....Blog about the painting....

A series of events, meeting of minds, & warm hearts, have rebuilt my purpose and direction. We all have IT in us, and it is a remembering of all we already know. So this remembering is all that was in my mind while beginning the piece.

After Deborah passed, there were rainbows that appeared to comfort me at every corner i turned. Even at night when the clouds passed between the  Moon and I. So, i began to add every color of the rainbow to my color palette. I sought out desperately the truths of energy and light....I wanted to know and hold a solid understanding that her energy was definitely around.

This painting holds symbols of this journey up until this point in time.
The sky depicts a simultaneous day and night, a compressed view of connections of Earth and Sky, Fire and Water.
Teachings of the "Sacred Geometry", the flower of life. Teachings of Light and how we all are points of light energy to be shared and transposed, transported and transformed. Temporarily here on earth.....Whew, getting a little hippy here now you say?
Okayyyyy. Back to the painting. The Sky. Where we all have the relations of our physicality......

Wait this is a blog...not a book. This song  As by Stevie Wonder. sums up my painting.....
"Soul Most Known" 36 x 48 Original Acrylic on Canvas by ClarkTakashima2011

"Soul Most Known" a study of our Universe, There & Here, as One. depicting the empty spaces between the tangible. Our thoughts; the stars, our souls; the water, our smiles; the wind, our love; the land, the design of it all-in the flowers....our will guided by the fire. 48X36 Original acrylic painting on Canvas.

"Soul Most Known" a study of our Universe, There & Here, as One. depicting the empty spaces between the tangible. Our thoughts; the stars, our souls; the water, our smiles; the wind, our love; the land, the design of it all-in the flowers....our will guided by the fire.
48X36 Original acrylic painting on Canvas.