Artsvis 54

this week i’ve been in the bahamas for thanksgiving with my family, and i had some time to draw and elaborate on my little bear story…. except i realized i was really falling out of like with it. i love to play golf, and i played every day while i was down there, and i thought it would be funny to document golf as an experience in heaven and hell. those of you that golf know exactly where i’m coming from- heaven when you make that 15ft put, or just drive a mile right down the center of the fairway, or hell when you shank right into a sand trap or hazard, or you lose your umpteenth ball. i liked this idea because it was still abstract, and i wanted to stick to the loose, abstract interpretation of heaven and hell that people can relate to.
sooooo i tried to document my journey on the gold course, but of course i was very frustrated and found it hard to concentrate on the game when i had to take a picture every other breath. dropped that idea.
my next inspiration came from an afternoon walk on the beach, where all of a sudden i realized the transitory nature of the sand on the beach, the seaweed distribution, the every changing shadows and sunlight so on and so forth… ultimately connecting all of this to the transitory nature of human life. what happens when it’s over? some think we go to heaven or hell. some think that our bodies just decay into the earth and become a part of natures ongoing cycle (could this be heaven or hell?- i wonder) which allows our bodies to become one with the earth and all of it’s components- mountains, beaches, oceans, lakes rivers, plains, deserts… blah blah you get it, we all learned the water cycle.
next step: i looked to find a quote that truly embodied the transitory-ness of life, and what comes after, if anything at all, the good and the bad being insignificant… i found this great quote and used it in an abbreviated way in my animation: “A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.” -Sivananda

i wanted to stray away from evil hell and purely good heaven, and evoke a more abstract thought process about what happens after and how insignificant it all is when its done and gone. so what? we do good things, we do bad things, we are not purely good, or purely bad. how can heaven be so black and white? the things we know are the earth, the ocean, the mountains, the water. this is our place to create heaven or hell, and the consequences of our actions here are minor, and yet we create heaven and hell on earth for ourselves. something to think about.

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