One year ago a friendly gent emailed me. Ken Marquis, a gallery owner (PA, USA) and a trailblazing artist, who began a movement and an international exhibition called The Landfill Art Project. All artists were asked to create a master piece using a recycled hub cap. I thought this was brilliant. I just love how art and one person's vision can connect all these artists together. I can only imagine all that creative energy in Ken's gallery when he exhibits all 1041 hub cap art pieces. I was able to submit my hub cap art a few months later. It is called 'Rice Field'. I put together a slide show of the process that went into this great art project. I love how these visionaries break all the rules in art and just go for it. What type of world would we live in without the visions of Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, Jean Michel Basquiat and all these great artists who create art for the sake of creating art. It's the energy within these art pieces that are causing such waves of interest. Even I step back sometimes after weeks of painting and ask myself, "How the did I create that ?". It's the vision and the energy within. I love surprises and accidents during the creative process; this is what elevates the work and gives it such depth. Artists know what I mean when I say depth, it's in the layering and no one can cheat on the layering process.
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