About this Piece
#72 - Quanta:"Outback Visionary" :In this collage the top totem form became the visionary seer. This is the onlooker of the audio visual interaction of the outback park influences (like the Hawkeye bird viewer) and the sonic/color spirit vibrations. Each "collaging process" totem moves differently within each geometrical architectural crystallographic framework. The viewer can conceive of this exchange of watercolor park imagery and its spirit world as emanating from an unseen underground geological crystallographic ordering system. I've synthesized the ordering process through the music and the park site color /sonic experiences to enhance the poetic nature of the painted jazz improvisational imagery.
Note: I always use a quartz crystal at my paint sites to energize and amplify the painting experience. because I paint on the ground it also helps me to make contact and entrain with the geological force fields that operate in the Earth under and around me. In that regard it also serves as a way to vibrate with the other natural phenomena at each site in unexpected ways.
My early studies of the mathematics of crystals led me into the use of various forms of geometry to compose all my artworks. The quartz geology of Kakadu Nat'l park allowed me to tap into new ordering systems through a crystallographic alignment with those energy fields and the audio visual watercolor painting exchanges with it.
This meant letting the park environment speak to me first before entering into a dialog with it. By tapping into an understanding of the operation of the 'Ley line' field energies in the site areas I was able to use it to find alignments with the termite mounds, rocks, and tree forms that in turn energized the watercolor paintings, as well as the charcoal and pen ink sketchbook drawings.
About the Artist
David W. McCullough - Quantum Artist Statement
For fifty years my paintings, sculpture, and works on paper have been concerned with capturing nature's light energy, color, and geological crystalline Geomancy. Since the early 1980's I have consciously been developing a quantum coherent aesthetic based on my field trips and studio work.
My quantum art aesthetic is multi - disciplinary. It consists mainly of nature field research and originating creative innovative uses for all mediums in conjunction with studies of the disciplines of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Crystallography, Geology, Physics, Bio - physics, Mythology, and music, art, and poetry. I began in 1970 making art in my Dallas studio which also afforded me access to the National Park system in the Southwest, mid - west, and Southern states surrounding Texas. I have concentrated my watercolor field trips on the 'Four Corners' region that includes Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. They are my 'outback studio' outposts where I can paint watercolor, draw, and photograph, nature's holistic systems, Her psyche, and entrain with its geological crystalline Geomancy.
This field research is always assisted by recorded music and is the foundation stone of all my abstracted quantum art studio compositions. The field artworks captured essence of natural phenomena in the parks and at Native American rock painted sites assists me in maintaining an integrity to these places and its potential transference to all mediums and processes. I have also traveled to Kakadu and Grampean national parks in Australia to study them and paint at their Aboriginal rock painting sites. The Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, art and music, as well as the Native American mythology, and ethnological studies of their cultural operating systems has greatly informed the quantum potential of the use of imagery, coloration, rhythms, and Alchemy in my artworks.
The onsite watercolor painting experiences ground my quantum aesthetic and give it a mystical, universal, and naturalistic quality. They also have given me many insights into how to create an optical chemistry in the paintings that changes in the light and reflects their transcendental nature essences.
Musicians from all idioms and instrumentation throughout the world have contributed to the flow of spiritual energy that drives the processing of quantum aesthetic realizations which stimulate my creative activity. Their music resonates in the watercolor coloration and its rhythmical sensuality and lyrical poesis.
This has resulted in a Gaia poesis that represents nature's harm0onic complexity and its geological geometric ordering systems throughout the mineral kingdom and plant world. The poetic audio visual fusion of artistic expression, nature's psyche, and the emotional of musicians' imaginative insights are all woven together into a what I call, "sonic expressionism." These sonic rhythmical patterns and geometric ordering relationships animate the audio visual entanglement of conscious intentions and quantum coherence systematically into a harmonic entrainment process.
Animating words to metaphoric delight, like "collaging" is to take ordinary aesthetic learned processes like collage and turn it into a quantum - way processing juggernaut. Simply put quantum art is about being affected by a creative energy flow of pure awareness that allows our being to process consciousness in the moment so we can respond to the adventure of discovering new possibilities to making lively spirit filled artworks.