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Philosophy and Inspiration
"Discover mesmerizing Giclée Paintings by Curtis R Doll Jr, where ancient worlds meet contemporary vision. Inspired by the enigmatic energy of megalithic landscapes and the boundless expression of abstract art, Curtis's work invites you on a spiritual journey through expressive form and color. Explore timeless images that resonate with the echoes of ancient cultures, brought to life through a modern artistic lens."
As a teenager, I became fascinated on seeing a series about electromagnetic currents being traced throughout a landscape populated by ancient megalithic structures. "Cumulative evidence proves that megaliths and other ancient sacred places are actually attracting, storing, even generating their own energy field, creating the kind of environment where one can enter an altered state of consciousness." In art school, I simultaneously became enamored with the freedom of expression and inspiration abstract imagery allows. And during this time, I began my spiritual journey through meditation, literature, music, poetry, and later, dance. Melding these enthralling constructs has been a driving force beneath my creative process throughout my life.
"The heart is the path of experienced knowing rather than conceptual knowing. So it feels more resilient, and there’s no need, when you have an experience of the heart, there’s really no need to defend it as there can be with ideology. And it’s the path of empathy and deep compassion and tenderness and power and inspiration." It’s all contained within love. - Chelan Harkin
These works are entirely about love, beauty and light. In the beginning there was light. The creative spirit is in essence love, beauty and light. Light opposed to dark is beautiful. Love is beauty and beauty is love. They coexist metaphysically. The power of love is omnipotent. Beauty is eternal just as love is eternal. These truths are eternal. These paintings are in themselves Metaphysical Symbols of love light and beauty. They are intended to represent eternal truth. "Eternal truths; feelings that are beyond time and space. Art filled with love and light really becomes the metaphysical language of the soul... the eternal, universal soul. Light, love and beauty are truly what give life meaning. They are as eternal as the breath of Creation itself. We recognize ourselves and each other in them."
Love is also light. The kind that penetrates everything and changes the very perception of reality. Love is deeply felt... What for others are just pixels or paint, are actually the breath of love itself. When speaking about art, look at the world through your inner feelings - to see tenderness in the light, mystery in the shadow, emotion in every color.
The organic forms in these paintings reflect in an abstract sense or give a sensation of ancient megalithic structures. Megaliths are like messages through time, and their response seems to be heard in the organic forms in the paintings. The paintings don't just "hang" - they breathe, they emit vibration. The organic forms contrasted by contemporary geometric composition brings a fusion between the ancient world culture and the contemporary world culture. They are like a bridge between eras, between the intuitive wisdom of antiquity and the clear structure of modernity.
Light is love, love is beauty, beauty is light, love is light, light is beauty and beauty is love. All three are inextricably intermingled. In the beginning there was light. The creative spirit is light, beauty and love. Love is the center and the all powerful creative force manifesting everything.
These works are in themselves "Metaphysical Symbols". Form and color are combined, united, and harmonized to create heartfelt impressions of life. The concept of inner radiating light plays an integral role in the development of these images. This light emanates from within a counterpoint of darkness and shadow. In some of these images, the light is radiating from without, almost hiding the shadow. In others, the light is hidden within the darkness and is virtually unseen. The light expresses all the positive forces of human nature: growth and expansion, the power of intellect, and most importantly, the power of transcendental love. The darkness elicits the dark forces of human nature: anger, resentment, hatred, complacency. Ironically, we cannot have one without the other. The darkness increases the beauty of the light, just as evil contrasting with benevolence enhances the joy one experiences by doing a good deed. It is an eternal paradox.
The all-powerful, all-seeing, all-knowing living-intelligent force of love is creating through me, using me as a conduit to bring awareness of ancient living memory. Read more here.
Counterpoint in Visual Composition:
Each visual element (shape, line) should have its own character but work with others. Counterpoint rules in visual composition, borrowing from music, focus on balancing independent elements (organic forms-geometric shapes) with overall harmony, emphasizing contrary motion (opposite movement-direction), avoiding parallelism (especially perfect organic-geometric shapes and forms), managing consonance-dissonance (stable-tense intervals-shapes), ensuring each line's melodic independence, and building from foundational bass elements or dark colors upward to lighter, more intense colors for richness. Think of it as creating layered, conversational visual parts that fit together without overpowering each other, using techniques like oblique motion (one static, one moving) for variety.
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