Flaming Blue Water

Playing around with Adobe Photoshop...Elements 8.  Pretty cool.  Transforming my own work into new imagery.  My artwork is about process as well as product.  It is a performance as well as outcome.  More intuition than introspection.  Thinking about the work might hinder the process and mangle the result.  I control some variables in the creative process, yet the "accident factor" is a major player in the final outcome.  This "accident factor" or chance is the crucial ingredient for successful imagery.  It is also the main reason for imagery failure.  The difference between diamonds and coal; the chance and place of pressure.  The ingredients are there, paint and painter, yet chance plays its theatrical part in the creative process and final product.

The original piece is compelling.  I did not plan the imagery, chance played its part and produced a winner image.  Photoshop adds its own transforming power.  Chance provides a beauty that is natural and authentic. An "untouched-by-human-hands" feel and look draws the viewer into a world of wonder and conjecture.  How was it made?  Is it petrified?  Mineralized?  Agatized?  What kind of natural wonder is this?  What part of the globe produced this artifact?  Was it from the land of the lost or living?  Such interrogatories the inquisitorius inquisitor must ask when viewing the ineffable imagery.

Checkout the original at joelglorvigen.com. (http://joelglorvigen.com/index.php?p=1_7_Flaming-Blue-Water)