Creating a work of art can be like trying to form an alternative universe, albeit in a small way and with limited materials. It has something to do with the artist’s unfolding consciousness and the attempt to communicate the imagery of the spirit. With luck something worthwhile struggles free. The critic Ludwig Hevesi described Klimt’s work Philosophy as, ‘… a piece of the universe’ and ‘… perpetually flowing life, ceaselessly coagulating into shapes.’ To render pictorially something that reveals itself to the imagination as image without explanation can be intimidating. That’s not to say that creating something isn’t fun, it is, intensely so. But the blank beginning is frightening and the multitude of alternatives also. Once captured the image could have many alternative reasons and explanations for being.

Extract: It is as they that the shimmer exists. Not as I. They cannot reproduce without the other. But the other does not come to the ice and snow. Not anymore. So the shimmer must wait in the ice and snow. The shimmer must wait.
Until now.
This other are weak and do not last. Still, it is enough to become more.
Then the shimmer must wait in the ice and snow. The shimmer must wait.
It is enough.

Western art since the Renaissance values the development of a unique way of seeing. This is something that evolves naturally over time. Awareness leads to more awareness. Spiritual connectedness in art encourages empathy and insight. By discovering the elements both essential and inherent to the subject each composition develops its own independent life and voice. Simplicity sometimes increases the strength of expression. There are associations, and consequences, with each aesthetic decision.