PDX Art: What really really really matters! by Richard Schemmerer

What really really really matters!
It’s not always about decoration tone color craftsmanship taste labels or what not.
What matters is that it speaks its own language vibrates to its own beat.
Picasso was a great painter but he realized that his gift was not his ability to draw and paint beautiful life like specimens but to take apart the balance that we were accustomed too.
His brush turned into scissors his artistic eye got polished into a diamond with many more facets than it was common at the time.
When I take something that is either used up or has no more value or both or something else that has a function in daily life and does not register as a piece of Art and bring them together it blows new life force into its allotted prediction to allow fresh information to be gained.
An umbrella in a flower pot all of a sudden illuminates a metaphor for the planets fragile ecosystem.
White bread becomes Wonder Bread when laid out like a Mandala on a city square reminds us about waste and starvation and that life is TBA a time based spectacle free of charge to the participant.
Instead of reading a book it morphs to be a surface for a collage with its title integrated into the context giving renewed meaning to it to become one with it.
What I am saying is that what matters is that we keep mixing and meshing things to go deeper into the web of life.
Sure surface is nice fun great easy to observe but inside underneath and all around is where our destiny is still invented.
Nothing really compares to anything else all stands in itself but all also stands side by side as part of something greater unfolding each of its pleads of potential like a monumental piece of Origami made with artistic consideration and cheerfulness to surprise us with every new perspective we take.
Life is not a cartoon with a pre-written text balloon in front of everyone’s face.
Life is fierce in its desire to propagate exponentially because there is no final creation.
Sorry we are not the ultimate “piece de la resistance” but only a proto type that is bug ridden and needs a major overhaul soon.
What matters is that we are willing to acknowledge this with grace and that we continue to step outside our comfort zone with grace joy vigilance to keep plugging away in pursuit of happiness for all.

Escape is not an option but surrender is.