Jerry Wellman's Blog

a long time

JerryWellman — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:23:37 +0000

a long time since last blog here, in the meantime check out my blog dedicated to my art work as inspired by the writings of Gaston Bachelard, http://poeticsenpleinair.blogspot.com/

To check out my expanded definition of art project go to www.axleart.com, also while there visit the artists page, look up Jerry Wellman and my other side project, Geronimo Bonomo.

roadsign haiku

JerryWellman — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:32:41 +0000

The latest from Santa Fe Axle Contemporary art gallery. www.axleart.com Please check this out. Consider donating. Thanks

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/axleart/axleart-roadside-haiku-project

apologies

JerryWellman — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:27:39 +0000

Been a long time since a posting, sorry! Been incredibly busy with www.axleart.com, as you can very well imagine.
I am going to be putting up more imagery, video etc
Thanks for your patience

benevolent disruption

JerryWellman — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:49:50 +0000

Every manifestation contains within it something besides which it seems to be

Paradigm shifts, self organizing principles, applied complexity theory.
In the line of pursuit of what’s going on anyways.

Is it possible to accept all this as a kind of divine working? (with or without a (G)od). In every aspect of this unfathomable construct, all I get is wonder. It’s just too damn confusing to see it as anything else. Well, maybe wonder and praise. Rips and tears in a neurotic self serving linear order Benevolent disruptions of applied creativity. Benevolent disruptions that seek to heal.

Embrace and encourage all possibility,all disciplines, before ruling out
anything. Then sort and purge. then work what’s left back into the system.

friendship

JerryWellman — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:40:51 +0000

My friend Matthew came over the other day. We got to talking about art, artists, working, and life in general. The conversation was freewheeling, time passed fleet and unnoticed.So many thoughts and ideas emeged that I wondered aloud if I was talking too much, if perhaps I wasn’t listening, monopolizing the conversation.
I was assured that wasn’t the case.
At that point I realized the conversation, the visit, took on a life of its own. I was no longer completely me. I was something else, I was a part of the entity of conversation, interaction and emergent thought.

Anais Nin hit it on the head—
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

is this grace?

JerryWellman — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:52:16 +0000

If there is something in the fundamental framework of a system (any system) that is corrupt or ill thought out the system will fall apart, giving in to a new system. On the other hand if it is fundamentally sound it will self correct.

Freedom?

JerryWellman — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:22:35 +0000

For some reason freedom is defined for us citizens politically. It seems something as precious and personal as freedom needs additional input from those outside the policy and law fields.

How does the artist define it? The inventor? the Businessman? The scientist? The psychologist? The clergy?

It seems a definition is very complex, how can it be applied universally?

This demands another question, what isn’t freedom? Is the real, day to day, filled with freedom options?

If we are bound to our reality by our definitions, conditions or stories that we surround ourselves with, then these questions are not trivial at all.

Definitions, conditions and stories can change. Change and creativity are in the same family. GET CREATIVE!

art is applied philosophy

JerryWellman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:37:41 +0000

Art is applied philosophy

Art is more like resolving the problem that YOU (the artist) want to resolve.

Thus art could be a great meal, an elegant calligraphy, a new political party, the choice to add a scribble on a piece of blank paper, or not.

Okay, so this is a rather expanded definition of art. Perhaps a definition of applied creativity?

Actually as I think about this. Art and creativity are considered interrelated. This causes a cheapening of both.

Perception, expanded notions and re-definitions of art, value, and creativity are of utmost importance as we pass into this new millenium.

wonder, source of creativity

JerryWellman — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:25:24 +0000

It seems to me that building wonder is never far away, but it takes discipline. The same sort of discipline it takes to regard everything with a sense of gratitude, even praise.
Wonder is the foundation source of creativity and innovation, promote wonder!!!

innovation or invention?

JerryWellman — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:02:53 +0000

To maybe help clear things up….
in-nova-tion.
Inner or to introduce new action
in-ven-tion
inner or introduce a coming to action