Art takes courage!

Sturgeon River, collaged paper and acrylic on panel, 24”x18”

I did it! I posted one image each day for 4 days, and announced my website, although I forgot to direct to the site each time. I have now obtained my own domain name, so that I will be searchable by name: KBDesrosiers-FineArt.com

I have chosen to start with Facebook and Instagram. Instagram is new to me. I am seeing different responses on each platform. This observation makes me feel very sophisticated! What does not boost my confidence is that I am rewriting this post after losing it! More learning; no auto save.

My next dilemma was what to post, given that my work is varied, in terms of media and style. I work in bursts on ideas that seem to demand a certain media and even style, yet others have told me that a thread of unique me runs through it all. So, I decide, willy-nilly, from current or past work, each day. In this blog I’ll describe works further.

The image above, Sturgeon River, has garnered the most feedback, so far. I am happy to have apparently achieved my intention, based on the comments received. My intention was to create a landscape that had embedded within it a complexity of patterns, a layered depth, that reflects what I know and understand about the way the world works. For me, the optical surface of things is far less interesting than what I know is going on at the micro, cellular level, or the smaller, physical science level, or the relational ecological level, or what forces are at work in the atmosphere, or within inanimate parts of the earth, not to mention the element of deep evolutionary time and time at a cosmological scale! There is also memory, imagination, and poetic association, but anything I could imagine would not hold a candle to the awesome power and beauty of how the real world works. As a piece, somehow, I wanted to put all that together in a whole.