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The
F.A.P. Online, which started as a promotional vehicle, has
become more than a P R vehicle for the Freedom Art Project
paintings. Just as my voice as an artist has elevated beyond
myself as personal expression, so has the Online project
grown beyond itself and its original (perceived) ways.
The
F.A.P. Online has become communal and service oriented.
The art has ceased to be object and is now a center theme
to a service. In a analogy, the site will be the campfire
around which we (the project audience and myself) gather
and share intimacies of our faith. In sharing our God specific
experiences, we expand our observations of God's ways and
mercy and glory, far beyond the narrow vision of our individual
lives. We see clearer His ways with us and strengthen our
faith. I am hoping that the site, and specifically our experiences
shared, will center around being called to participate in
God's will with the gifts that each and every one of us
are uniquely given. So the site would center on 'callings'
and faith.
In the long run, I see the
Freedom ART Project Online serving to help people find their
specific gift/s and offer those gifts back to the Lord for
His purpose and His glory. To help people achieve life vitality
through this relational connection with our Father through
their special God given gift. He made us all unique, and
we all have a unique place in our service to Him and to
others for Him. In this service is life and purpose and
joy.
10 / 3 / 2000
Laguna Beach Calif.
An
artist expresses through their artistic vocabulary, usually
about their experience, things they like and find interesting,
be it nature or there own joys or pathos. Generally, the
art is an expression of the self: I like, I am, I think,
ME: as often is the case in conversations of the self with
other people.
It
seems that expression continues like this, until the time
one finds a voice for which expression has purpose, and
the focus of the art shifts off of the self, to a cause
or observation beyond the self. This focus beyond one's
personal self, then becomes the locus of interaction. It
is possible that the expression then gains a more respectability
to public and posterity, and greater value as a serious
art form at this point, whether that is or is not, a goal
of the artist . This level of expression achieved, when
an artist's voice becomes so directed, takes on a sense
of integrity; the voice takes on a sense of clarity and
cohesion and power as an expression. More so than because
of it's focus of intent, and less than by its subject matter
alone or by the whim of immaturity.
Then
too, there is another level in which the art itself is not
the voice, but a vehicle for a larger voice. It is at this
level that the artwork is not the end result but the means
to an end. The art ceases to be object and becomes emblematic
of a larger voice - a zeitgeist, if you will.
It's
it is at this level that the art is not even so much a representative
of the artist, but is joined with the artist as servant,
and expression becomes a calling to which others relate,
contemplate, even congregate. At this level, art and artist
become servant to the expression - and the expression becomes
communal.
Just
a thought during the day, today.
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