Welcome to SolarArt

Art teaches nothing except the significance of life. 

                                        - Henry Miller
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There are a great many things we learn by observing the patterns and processes of the natural world.  Solar Art is an artform, but it is also a law of nature and from it there is a great deal to learn. 
 
Every creation is first an act of destruction. 

                                              - Picasso
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From my own first hand life experience I can recognize many similarities between the creative process in smoke and light and my own life experience.  The scale is different but the movement, the recurring moments of  uncertainty and the fluid path of destruction are all familiar.  

Truly the beauty of life is it's uncertainty.

                                    - Yoshida Kenko
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I have no other wish than a close fusion with nature.  I desire no other fate than to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.  
                                     - Claude Monet
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Observing and working with this creative process helps me make sense of my experience.  I've been aware of and enjoying for the similarities for years.   

I think of it as developing an awareness for how life really works- smoke and ashes makes up half of it but that isn't a problem- it's an orderly principle of nature.  

Time is the fire in which we burn. 

                              - Gene Roddenberry
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I know that this aspect of Solar Art resonates very strongly with many folks I meet during festivals.  They let me know that the process is  similar to their own experience.  It provides a real ground-level sense of life which differs a bit from the conventional ideas of win-lose.  

The situation as a whole is no longer incomprehensible or unfamiliar but concise and structured in it's own way.   It takes the pressure off trying to succeed in traditional terms. 

Do not fear mistakes.  There are none. 

                                         - Miles Davis
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An artist cannot fail.  
It is a success to be one.
                                    - Charles Cooley
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