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Photo of the industrial plant of operations and near Indian Island captured from California Highway 255 and on the Samoa Bridge in Eureka. Humboldt Bay. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
The second Gallery of the Washington Square East Gallery. The "Small Works Show" has been going on each winter for the past 30 years. Unforturnately, I wasn't selected to this years show.
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Photo captured off the Oregon Coast Highway, U.S. 101, at Humbug Mountain State Park in Curry County. State of Oregon. "State of Jefferson." 2013.
A middle-aged woman with curly hair sits thoughtfully, resting her chin on her hand, in a warm and inviting space filled with natural light.
There are times when life dosent go as planned. When this happens we can feel intense emotions like greif, resentment, disappointment, and fear. Those emotions can lead you to a lower vibrational state and in that state you can discover your “Shadow Self”. Everyone has a shadow and it can be very beneficial to not shut out that part of yourself . It’s important to experience these intense emotions so that you can uncover deeper parts of yourself to either embrace or let go before the next cycle in life.
Photo captured on U.S. Highway 97, the Dalles-California Highway, in Klamath County. State of Oregon. "State of Jefferson." Late February 2013.
Charcoal on paper
Self-portraits from the 1980s to the Millennium
In the autumn of 1983, almost every day for two months, Hockney challenged himself to produce a self-portrait in charcoal. This period of intense self-reflection was, in part, a reaction to the untimely deaths of many of his friends due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The honesty and vulnerability exposed in these drawings is a far cry from the confident self-portraits of thirty years earlier. Like the pages of a diary, these works record the daily changes in the artist’s moods and emotions.
In 1999, alongside his camera lucida drawings he made a series of self-portraits, for which he could not use this optical tool. These playful and vulnerable drawings in which he displays different facial expressions, were influenced by Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings. In others, he adopted the classical side profile and half-length pose found in self-portraiture throughout art history.
In 2002 Hockney turned to watercolour, a medium he hadn’t explored since the 1960s. This new way of working freed up his approach; allowing him to draw quickly and directly onto paper. Hockney described the watercolour series as ‘portraits for the new millennium’, convinced that, despite his experimentation with the camera lucida, the human eye, the hand and the heart were the best tools for capturing the individuality of his sitters.*
From the exhibition
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
(November 2023 - January 2024)
David Hockney (b.1937) is regarded as one of the master draughtsmen of our times. He widely champions drawing, which is at the heart of his studio activity and has underpinned his work throughout his life. From the early pen and ink and coloured pencil drawings, to his more recent experiments with watercolour and digital technology, the artist’s inventive visual language has taken many different stylistic turns.
Over the past six decades he has never stood still, or rested on a particular approach, medium or technique, remaining inquisitive, playful and thought provoking while generously sharing his ideas with his audience. His drawing reflects his admiration for both the Old Masters and ‘modern Masters’ from Rembrandt to Picasso.
Drawing from Life explores the artist’s unique vision of the world around him, which is played out in portraits of himself and his intimate circle. A room of new ‘painted drawings’ of visitors to his Normandy studio in 2021-2 offer a glimpse of Hockney’s continuing working life.
All works in the exhibition are by David Hockney..
[*National Portrait Gallery]
Taken in National Portrait Gallery
Froma while back, one of my early attempts at selective colouring. I love playing around with reflections
Huile sur toile, 63x100cm - 2018
david-al.com/projets/in-search-for-narcissus/
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"in search for narcissus"
oil on canvas
Digital me trapped in the physical world.. so this is what makes the world go round!!
self reflections - taken with my iphone.
Oct 7 281/366
Reflect-o-me
Flickr Group Roulette today doing Self Reflection and I wanted to add a little color... so off to Target we went.
Photo captured at a sheep ranch, with a hint of Redwood National Park in the background, in the town of Orick. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
What does progress actually feel like on an emotional level?
In this short, reflective monologue, Sindy explores why progress often feels quieter and more uncertain than we expect. Instead of excitement or clarity, emotional progress can feel slow, unfinished, and easy to misinterpret.
A calm, non-utopian reflection on change, meaning, and how progress is experienced in real life.
SCRIPT:
Progress isn’t always exciting.
It doesn’t always feel like momentum
or relief.
Sometimes it feels uneven.
Quiet.
Almost disappointing.
We expect progress to feel obvious—
like improvement,
like clarity,
like arrival.
But emotionally,
progress often feels like uncertainty.
Like letting go of something familiar
before the replacement feels solid.
It can feel slower than expected.
Less satisfying than promised.
And because it lacks drama,
it’s easy to miss—
or to mistake discomfort
for failure.
Maybe that’s why progress
doesn’t always inspire confidence.
Not because nothing is changing—
but because emotionally,
change rarely feels finished
while it’s happening.
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