Finally, someone who understands!

Art is meant to be alive, filled with things! Not dead, dying, and dull!

<3

Those eyes are fantastic and the eyes, I don't know, they seem so quiet.

Hmm. Quiet eyes... Interesting. That's my trait too, sure, but... I often see the eyes of animals as being "quiet", i mean - look a horse in the eye, or a goat... or a deer... even a dog... or any animal really. Hm, does it stem from apparent "alienness"? The eyes are black, sometimes you can hardly read them. And unlike ours - we don't get to see whites of animal eyes very often, and when we do - we know it means bad things, fear, terror, anger (like ears turned backwards).

It's the same sort of quiet that I think this poem is talking about: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-s-ours/

Indeed, now i see.
It may be slightly related - void and silence in traditional west aesthetics literaly means "nothing", in the far east aesthetics it's full of potential, it's a container for thought, invitation to contemplate. An artist only starts an artwork, it takes another person to complete it, without one, any art is a dead pile of indifferent matter. Art without spaces doesn't let the other person participate.

(That comment after the poem makes me loose hope... How does the bloke know animals don't experience it? It seems to me the perfect job for perceptual consciousness, maybe even its very deffinition.)

Some people put too much importance on being separate and different from the animals, I don't understand it. I feel like that way of thinking has it's roots in Christianity.

Hm, yes. I don't understand it either... Does sound like something out of saint scriptures of major religions, but i wonder... maybe that fundamental desire to feel superior and special comes from somewhere... but regardless, major religions justified it as a sort of good - "this is our (vastly superior) group, this is the outside (enemy) camp" (arguably, in-group solidarity is the core principle and the reason of existence of any religious practice), right next to "we are the chosen people (not they), god created everything for us to use and abuse". I hate crowd psychology... the moment a person becomes part of "people", the person stops thinking and becomes a brainless amoeba echoing any thoughts of others. The slightest mention of an 'enemy" is enought for bad things to happen. It's a dangerous state. Any action seems justifiable... Any warning - a betryal. It's madness. And I thought the attrocities of WWII machine-gunned enought nails to the coffin of ideas of human superiority and the practice of dividing things into camps, "ours" and "theirs". <shrug> Puzzling.

you look like the kind of guy who would enjoy scratchboard.



or printmaking <3

Quite correct.

Well... I study printmaking in art university...

I felt inferior because I couldn't communicate in B/W properly, even thought i'm supposed to. That's why i made an oath not to use color irresponsibly anymore.

That's quite a portrait. Excellent!

I can't tell you how glad I am you started posting against. Most people here are artists, but they tend to draw pictures, whereas you make art.

<blushes>
Naaaah... it just "looks" like art. C:

This.