Darele Bisquerra

Art
In an age where art, creativity and perception are affected by electronic media, it is time

to reveal the raw aesthetic of seeing, touching and feeling

the color, form, scent, time and motion that have been orphaned throughout the life cycle.

Before the digits, before the whitewater rapids of information overload

Before our perception was dulled by the easy access of backlit displays

Color, form, structure; Drawing, painting; Biology, botany, zoology; Figures in space: life drawing, portraits, animals; Letters, words, languages: eng, span, portugues; Letters, numbers: musical notation systems – colorful, morphed, changed; Color as language: experiments in palettes and textures; Threshold between sand and sea; The spiral of seashells as metaphor for cycles and infinity ; Inter-generational art making: compare/contrast/hybrids/overlays

Art+Music

to connect the seen & heard

Visual forms (such as seashell/fibonacci sequence) combined with numbers/formulas; Coded with color, Synaethesia (synnumerisia? Synlenguesia?); Layered with language... (meaningful, associative, synonymic, antonymic;) Visual typography to sonics (typosony?); Connected to pitches, Invention of chords, Creation of melodies from position or quantity values; Use of formulas (quadratic, chord extensions, conic); Use of tone rows; Use of frequency-based pitches with spectral color ranges; Use of geometric proofs to create strange creative 'truths'; Accounting ledger with visual and conceptual balance; Connection of rhythms, visual, electronic, tactile; Exploration of volume, panning, presence, intensity; Playing compositions backward, slicing, overlaying; Zoological sounds + pattern relationships; Folding 3d digital paper, panels, polyhedra, messaging

Music

to explore the components of sound

Structure, systems, documentation, reading; Theory, rhythm, melody, chord, harmony, mood, tone, improvisation

Language

to invent, describe & convey

Syntax impacting meaning; Order of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions; English, spanish, portuguese, invented; Single words, multi-term phrases, contained sentences; Narrative - homo narans - fema narana; Sense and non-sense

Personal

to delve inward

Components of identity; Creativity as action or reaction; Poly-ethnic dispositions; Hovering on the threshold, cusp, edge; Definitions lead by allowing breadth for inspiration; Fear of creativity / unleashing my internal imagination; Creativity has been tempered, masked and transformed through teaching; Teaching becomes more than sharing and guiding others; Suppression of self through teaching others, like a sports referee; Narrative of color through hue as character and symbol, blends as phrases and metaphors; Embedded narrative within path of life to be named, described and acknowledged; Choice of content within simple still lifes reveals autobiographical tendencies; Choice of viewpoint, color palettes, media reveal subjective outlooks; Self-selective defining of inner identities, pre-language; The wrestle to express what is actually in my mind; Structure, semiotics, simultaneity and metaphor

credo

to respect the process

To not repeat the traps of the past, whether direct, indirect, intentional or not; To not bury the creativity to ‘get it done’; To not ignore the potential of fertile situations; To encourage the growth of new ideas in self and others; To allow peaceful, calm time to reflect and to cogitate on the why, the reasons behind the yearn to create, the curiosity to understand; To curb the safe move to transmogrify surroundings into comprehensible bits and bites that please, tease and suffice; To not please people in the short-term circumstance while sacrificing the long-term vocation

origins

to enable space for the unexpected

early life I enjoyed natural, touchable media as a youth as a physical, real time, analog delight. Art as special, Art as reverence for the unseen, Art as holy gift

transformation to digital 1 Became spoiled, changed, less patient Doing design submerged many concepts Yet cool hybrids formed

rush Too fast Need to question, reevaluate the potential For expression, communication, perception with these ever-changing digital possibilities Need to survey the inate abilities Need to restore the ability to see, hear and touch without media-tion

transformation to digital 2 I am satiated and saturated with the tidbits of chaos The pressures of teaching and the interchange of the marketplace I have solved others problems, nurtured others’ creative issues And initiated creative solutions for others’ benefit

I am emptied and ready to focus inward, to nurture and discover It is time to exude new work, to analyze the processes of Paint, academia, music, sound, poetry Made with my own hands… again

realizing Following the necessary leads to entropy and the obvious through constraint of thought and action

Whereas inventing mystery leads to inspiration and relaxed release and to the floating above, to the transcendence of genres

Enabling space for the unexpected nurtures the opening of time through melted form, substance, and the transparency of perception and the clarifying of aesthetic

actualization Excited about creating new hybrids of natural and digital Physical satisfaction, real time, redefining time Quickness and transportation of digital, allowing more ideas Within mortal timeline, physical versus/and combined with digital Words, pictures, phrases, images, both and none Art-music, visual-sonic Contrast of the light of creativity with the dust of books Honoring the dyad of spirit and flesh

inventions

Powder, Paint, Pixels = Povo, Pinto y Pixo Essence, Ether, Existence = Esa, Eta, Exa