Quantum Artworks on Paper
Quantum Bio - Sonic Sphericity Field series in Watercolor, Acrylic - Mixed Media, Collage 22" x 30" 2022
2022 Quantum Bio - Sonic Undercurrent Series
New "Quantum Bio - Sonic " watercolor, acrylic, and vinyl collage series created to music from the Afro - Celt Sound System, Mali musicians, and Afro - Beat groups.
2020 American Western Field Bio - Sonic Watercolors
Colorado Mountain Quantum Bio - Sonic Improvisations
I have painted audio/ visual quantum bio - sonic watercolors to recorded music on site in the Colorado mountains since the 1980's. I have used Jazz, Indigenous, Rock and World music from a variety of musical traditions and instrumentation. The Rocky mountain national park system has provided me the resonance of its streams, its geological ordering systems and color filled Fall trees that have inspired my watercolor rhythm quests. The captured optical color energy of color has been fundamental to the studio development of other mediums. The translation of the nature's sonic rhythmical essence from the field site watercolors, drawings, poetry, and photographs have grounded the integrity of the harmonic order needed to recreate their resonant properties onto a canvas or paper medium. The on site nature audio taped recordings collages of a variety of music recordings challenge the perceptual awareness and physical color ordering of the watercolor painted mark notations of a particular site's natural ecology. National parks throughout the southwest four corners area have been my studio away from Dallas. I camp, hike, and spend hours on the ground drawing, painting, or photographing nature's amazing operating systems to develop concepts from these experiences for future application to multiple mediums in studio projects.
I also have painted at sacred Native American park sites where many rock art paintings are located. These sites are holistic in nature and have their own harmonic ecological relationships. At times I have been able to tap into the spirit world and soul power of their sacred nature and capture its essence and lessons.
My watercolors are an a record of the spirit of the National Park's phenomenal systems, mysteries, and sacred holistic psyche. I also practice Transcendental Meditation, eat a healthy diet, and replenish my intuitive knowledge of my 'sonic body' soul/spirit at these sites.This sensing process assists me in coordinating the audio visual experiences with the consciousness of all nature phenomena. The recorded music from musicians of multiple genres, countries, and instrumentation offer me an opportunity to 'entrain' with them and their collective consciousness while harmonically ordering the colors produced in each watercolor composition. These talented musicians, their cultural influences, and unique instrumentation have given me rhythmical insights into how to direct the color and brush work. This challenge keeps the audio visual and heart felt responses to them and nature fresh and exciting. Feeling these sensations determines the quantum use of imagery, color combinations, and rhythmical gestures discovered at each site.
The music recordings are collages of different musical styles from Jazz to world - music that assist me in finding resonant vibrations within the geological crystalline ordering systems of the mineral kingdom above which I paint on the ground at each site. I use the assistance of a quartz crystal at my work site to amplify and direct the bio - sonic vibrations of these conditions in organizing the watercolor painting rhythms, colors, and compositions overall energy and dynamic quantum flow of the aesthetic coherent exchanges. This rhythmical energy flow is heightened when I am in the mountains, near a stream, geological 'hoodoo' formations, and within an animated plant world presence, especially Fall tree leaf coloration.
My 'Quantum Way' watercolor experiences in Nature illustrate how the Taoist poetic nature of the elemental influences of the wind, water, earth, and fire can operate in an artwork. The bio - sonic 'Quantum Way' of recording natural phenomena creates new multi - dimensional color/ sound possibilities that can be recreated and amplified into future studio creative consciousness explorations of all my studio media processes, tools, and material applications.
Arizona Canyon Water Music
Sedona, AR., Oak Creek Canyon has become one of my favorite places to paint. I have been making color energy entrainment watercolor studies of Oak Creek's rhythmical energy patterns, sounds, and connections to it's ecological neighbors for years. I paint to music alongside it to see, hear, feel, and 'resonate' with the spiraling sonic energy of it's magnetic fields and 'water music'. Through water and color I try to capture an entrainment of consciousness with the musicians, their instrumentation, and emotional energies and transpose their sonic expressions through the dynamic water field force magnetic vortex energies, swirls, and currents into watercolor painted magic.
I became aware of the creative power of the entrainment forces in water and its harmonic ability to organize movement while painting in India, along the mother of all rivers, the Ganges river. Those water - color forces and spiral designs were transferred then through the watercolor medium to paper and the complete harmonic entrainment color consciousness process. The cosmological hydro - logical cycle energy starts in the Himalayan Mt. ranges .
I have hiked and painted in many canyons throughout Arizona and even in the depths of the mother 'Grand Canyon' and along its Colorado River. I have worked at cliff house sites, where ancient Native American spirits dwell and still inhabit. Those experiences have been some of the most poetic experiences I have ever encountered, as well as ceremonies at stone medicine wheels and sweat lodges. This water spirit filled watercolor was painted in Oak Creek canyon.
Utah Fall Mountain Tree Color
The Canyon Circle of National Parks in Southern Utah has been my outdoor studio away from Dallas. Artworks on paper made in these parks have been the foundation of my 'Quantum' art development since the mid - 1980's. Through watercolors, drawings, poetry, and music I have captured on site Utah's natural phenomena; magnificent crystalline rock color changes, the rhythmic dance of the Aspen tree Fall colored wind blown leaf mobiles, and the canyon Taoist spatial conversations between dried out Juniper trees and geologically sculptured 'Hoodoo' totemic sandstone figurines.
These on site canyon encounters with natural phenomena along with audio recorded music are the quantum aesthetic foundation for the color energy essence of many of the my studio abstract paintings, sculptures, and mixed media artworks.
The four corners region of the southwest has evolved my creative understanding of what it means be aligned with the sacred holistic geometry of our 'Mother Earth'. The Native American rock painting sites, and their mythological symbolic depictions of other cosmological spirits have enhanced my curiosity and enigmatic desire to learn more about universal quantum aesthetic perspectives and the operation of consciousness.
Overall it is the awesome character and shifting coloration of the Aspen mountain trees that moves my brush along to the recorded music I use to amplify my bio - sonic awareness of all harmonic sequences in observance. This harmonic entrainment with the dancing Aspen leaf movements in the changing light and wind throughout a day of painting allows me to swing and sway with these dynamic tree rhythms. The tree and music exchanges are a great joyous challenge to my quantum watercolor painting aesthetic. Each site represents a watercolor that exemplifies the heart felt love I have for time spent painting in the presence of those Utah Aspen mountain wonders.
Insights into "Is that Jazz?": Poetic "Collaging" Series
The "Is that Jazz?" series began in 1982 and is dedicated to a audio visual poetic search through my "collaging" Methods. Watercolor, acrylics and oil pastels are coordinated to the direct sonic sensations of jazz music to instill an aesthetic creative synthesis of both audio and visual mediums. Musicians music recordings from all over the world were recorded in an audio - collage manner on tape in different sequences to create a listening challenge while I was composing the many layers of the artwork. Thus the performance, timing, and composing to the musical vibrations; whether on paper, painting, sculpture, and or other mediums, had to be fluid and coherent. The music also assists me in timing the application of water based acrylic technology, watercolors, and other industrial materials.
Music is critical to the rhythmical selection and coherent timing of all color mediums and applications. The paint materiality is completely transformed by the bio - sonic physicality of my whole 'sonic' resonating being. My whole being performs to the music and color choices in a wide variety of heart emoted hand to mind media interactions required of the creative acts of each quantum expression. The title "Is that Jazz?" is from a Gil - Scot Heron song title.
"Collaging" is a 'verbing' expression that puts an accent on the performative, transformative, and informative relationships to the aesthetic development of the artwork. These actions create metaphors that ask the question; "what is the 'meta' for? to a bigger context, as well as a cosmological poetic framework . "Collaging" also addresses directly how we are participating in our digital 'cultural environment' in which there are many systems of possible creative interface. It does not reference the old paper and paste methods but all available technology and systems that are mostly considered commercial. When these systems are collaged then new systems are created with new materials. This dynamic process demands a quantum leap of creative curiosity and an aesthetic re - evaluation.
The watercolors that I have produced from numerous field trips to national parks have changed the way I now see nature and its diverse 'cultural operating systems' and worldwide (Australia, Europe, India, Canada, Mexico) potential of entrainment. These field artworks can now be transformed through digital print technology, acrylic paint formulas, and tools into new creative processes, including painting, photography, and other disciplines combinations. This is what quantum art making is all about -infusion and inclusion into new creative and cultural operating systems.
I have hiked, meditated, created, and made art in nature for many years and have witnessed the dynamic forces it can present in trans forming the heart, body, and soul. The many nature sites I have had the pleasure of creating on, whose earth energies I have been able to absorb from within its geological order and sacred geomancy have filled my sketchbook with many ink drawings and concepts. These experiences when they are fueled by audio musical vibrations unlock new visual information informs my complete being with a new awareness and aliveness. In nature the mineral kingdom can resonate complex ordering systems that can collectively inform the sonic geometry, color energetics and psychic -poetic offerings of natural phenomena. Musical instrumentation can profoundly alter one's consciousness and creative alertness and atune one to the spiritual essence all inanimate life forces. A belief in the audio visual capabilities and their vibrational qualities can transform the many voices of musicians musical instrumentation into new quantum sonic expressionistic potential of art processing of creative intelligence. The collection and combination of audiovisual vibrations and natural phenomena can be infused into new 'collaging' processes.
Every "Collaging"(my word) process has many individual bits of information that can be aligned with natural phenomena, a wide variety of musical instrumentation that can be combined to structure complex sets of 'creative operating systems' that with a wide range of materials and digital , and technological data can be combined with analog heart and hand systems to develop new quantum coherent mind and body adaptive qualities that resonate with creative possibilities.
The vibrations from an 'ecological-tech' audiovisual synthesis contributes to the poetic nature of the coloration, gestural sensations, and emotional sensations embedded in these sonic collage expressions.
All my compositions are formed from a complex mathematical system of crystallographic matrices, musical ordering processes, a geomantic ordering of natural phenomena, nature visits, as well as the holistic conditions and teachings from all Native American societies. They all represent an ecological concern for natural beauty and nature's holistic psychic truths.
Enjoy the cosmological dance, iconographic symbolism, and the
meta - logic that is entwined in these "collaging" spaces and timeless poetic harmonic pulsations that beat at the heart of these unity conscious 'jazz' poems.
David W. McCullough
The "Collaging" Aesthetic of Bio - Sonic Expressionism
"Collaging" - Jazz Music Collaborations
Jazz poetry 'collaging' began in Kansas City in 1969. These artworks were photo images from social events, music, and people of the counter culture created on off set lithography plates and mixed media. In 1982 geometry, jazz music, and calligraphic expressions merged to form a new series on paper featuring the poetics of multiple bio - sonic color entrainment processes, called the "Is That Jazz?" series.
"Collaging" Nature, Music, and Aesthetic of Bio - Sonic Expressionism
I have made watercolor field trips worldwide to explore nature, geological sites, cultural artworks painted on cliffs,and their relationship to music from all cultural traditions. My nature bio - sonic findings were then translated into improvisational colorful crystallographic poetic musical expressions later in my studio. The addition of Quantum physics opened my doors of perception to how creativity could be enhanced by a coherent exchange of consciousness through an entrainment bio - sonic processing of creative intelligence. Once the 'Quantum Leap' was made then all creative systems were in 'PLAY' to be converted through "Collaging" into all other mediums and new combinations.
"Collaging" Gaia Poesis of Cultural Operating Systems and Beyond
The term 'Collaging' was necessary to change the traditional methods of collage into new active systems that involved all current technologies, such as commercial printing, water based art products, and industrial materials. This transformation created new ways of combining mediums to give the possibilities of color and sound to speak for all natural phenomena and other universal galactic frequencies. Now color and musical sounds have a voice in the creative processing of our conscious being and all artistic expressions.