Man Ray

Man Ray is an artist who invented the Rayographs, a type of Photogram which is a process of placing ranndom objects onto photo paper and exposing them to light. I just watched a documentry about him and enjoyed looking at his creations. Quote, "My pupils ask how do they become original and I said easy, just be yourself and you will be original."

The idea of deeply becoming ones true self as being original is interesting. I wonder if it is true. Seems like at the deepest level the true self opens up to the universal. Hmm.

We will be doing a photogram in Photography class on Tuesday.

I have enjoyed the 5 hour plan. It opens up the day to really orient toward creating. Everyting starts to point to that. And I ask myself when engaged in someting does this put pennies in my art jar or does it take pennies out? Or is it neutral, not adding or subtracting.

So today when I watched the documentry on Man Ray pennies were added. If I were to spend all day watching documentaries pennies would be taken out. One has to be able to be honest with oneself.

Anyway. Here are the drawing/paintings I worked on today. I plan to put the first and last one away for a bit to get some perspective to evaluate them more clearly. The middle one is not done and I will work more on it tomorrow.