Excerpt from an article about the exhibition 'The Nature of Things: The Nature of the World Versus the World of Nature' at The Pomona Cultural Center, including parts of an interview by Emily Kratzer of Ford Weisberg, which appeared in Gannett's Journal News on September 29th, 2008.
Digital painting: similarities to and differences from physical painting. Ways of working, 'the physically-made object', texture, character and emotion in digital painting. The advantage of its speed in the creative process. Digital painting is well suited to portraying 'the nature of the world.'
We encounter Nature before we understand 'the nature of the world.' We seek 'the nature of the world' through art. Paradox: seeking 'the nature of the world' by regarding an abstraction of nature itself. An artists subject ceases to belong to nature. Art is an attempt to reveal the secrets of our world. 'Art is ...the communication of what is secret by what is secret'.---Kandinsky.
An article by Keith Loria about my Solo exhibit at the Mamaroneck Artists Guild.
...Ford's musical sensibilities have helped to shape his sensitivity to color, form and for 'emotions for which there are no words'...
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