Creative Thresholds

by Peter Seelig
 

My fotos and paintings are love stories.
They are the music of my eyes and the colors of my ears.

 
The Rite of Spring (Photomanipulations)-current exhibition in Vienna

the rite of spring #1

the rite of spring #5

“You would like to see more, where hermetic boundaries of signs have their limits and start to try to
interview them“ (Maria Männig)

“By luxurious digital posttreatment he reaches the alienation of the material which is accompanied by an estrangement of the originally photographed object. The reality in its deformed shape wins distance, coagulates to a visual concentrate, in the felt becomes visible.“ (Maria Männig)

Digital Art

Bluebirds In My Mind

Beating the sky, for what, for more of
what – For more truth From what

Paintings

four o clock in the morning

Nina

“The relinquishing of man in music and dance, in colour and painting, in rhythmic movement and
swinging lines constitutes the theme of Peter Seelig’s work. He circuits his subject in drawings and
paintings obsessively. Figures and faces allure in an expressive decidedly modern picture language
presence.” (Prof.Ulrich Gansert)

Family Group UP-UP-DOWN

Lilith

“In his painting the human form acquires a sketch like forcefulness. In a picture group one linear
formulation dominates against a black background. Symbols of elementary simplicity emerge. The
lines are like simultaneously those in a test arrangement , the tracks of racing electrons, becoming
visible is a black eternity, and real figures of Lillith or the flowers for Alice. Strange spirals or the form of an angel flying through the dark room.” (Prof.Ulrich Gansert)

Oil Pastels

The Key of Eros

on the traces of Claude Monet and Joan
Mitchell #1

Drawings

Boattrip

Myself In My Head Out My Head In My
World

Looking Right Top To My World

On The Top Singing With Mozart

“Peter Seelig’s artistic work grows out of a debate with modern art and a wide range of interests
including music, theatre, ballet and literature. His lovely Vienna atelier apartment is full of books.
Numerous visits to Switzerland and France, where in 1968 he experienced the enthusiasm of the
students in Paris, belong to his personal biography. In philosophy, this sphere of positive energy
would be described as Dionysian. The presentation of this possibility of human being is the program
of his artistic work.” (Prof.Ulrich Gansert)

Peter Seelig in the theater Espace Marais Paris
Photo by Maia Citterio

Links
Homepage: www.peterseelig.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/peter_seelig
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterseelig
Facebook: www.facebook.com/peter.seelig.arte

by Taudalpoi

BED HEAD

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS

A WAR

WALL (EYED)

Portal to Heaven

landmåling

I Hope You’re Happy (Now)

tam

Bridge Workers

Building from Outer Space

Everything Collapses with logic

Mural

SUN+MOON+EARTH

Fiori Guiseppe (part of series)

α▬τ

Artist: Taudalpoi

As the son of an artist and an interior architect, I guess I was doomed to do some artsy-fartsy things in life.

I am currently doing a BA in Philosophy at King’s College London, and while I have no formal training in art, I’m self-taught (to some degree) in Photoshop, Illustrator and photography (preferably analogue).

I have been working with Digital Art and Photography since early 2010, and often change style back and forth – everything from abstract, digital illustrations to simple black and white photography.

In 2013 I was awarded first price and a stipend of £1500 in the University of Agder’s Faculty of Arts (Trafo) art competition (Link: http://www.trafo.no/news/detail/2565 – unfortunately in Norwegian)  for my mixed media work «jonnis på Tuben»).

As a philosophy student, art is a form of escape for me – an escape from the hundreds of articles and books I constantly have to read. My art is usually made immediately after reading philosophical ideas and works, the consequence of which is a “wondering” type of art, where philosophical questions and ideas are – although not always directly involved – always in the back of the creator’s (mine) mind. My main motivation for this artsy escape, is to create something visually appealing and beautiful, in contrast with the visually unappealing articles and books I surround myself with. I escape from long philosophical articles, with art, to create beauty, but still carry with me questions and ideas from the texts. At the same time, I hope and intend, that viewers may also escape, for a moment, in my art – escape their daily life and experience something of beauty.

Links:

by LizzieRz

ESTAMPA, graphic design on architectural design

ABOUT KISSES & HUGS, acrylic painting on canvas, digital photo, collage

RUN FREE, pencil and pen on paper and digital graphic design

CHAIRS, pencil and pen on paper and digital graphic design

WOMAN, pencil and pen on paper and digital graphic design

OPOSTOS, pencil and pen on paper and digital graphic design

1 MULHER 1 CADEIRA, pencil and pen on paper and digital graphic design

ALONE, pencil and pen on paper and digital graphic design

MELANCIA, photography and acrylic painting

LARANJAS, photography and acrylic painting

LizzieRz is a Brazilian Architect and Urbanist, internationally recognized and quoted in the press for her artistic and architectural projects. Throughout her career she’s worked in a broad artistic universe–design, graphic design, painting, drawing, sculpture, and literature. As an artist, Liz likes to choose simple details in everyday context and expand them to reveal new patterns.

You can learn more about LizzieRz here:

http://www.lizzierz.com/

http://www.soulempreendimentos.com/

https://twitter.com/LizzieRz

by Maarten Oortwijn

broken dreams

no title

contact sheet

coq au vin

flames

glass wall

on fire 

pond

postcard from lisbon

reaching

room with a view

sinking

the digital painter

the journey inside

typewriter xxl

Artist: Maarten Oortwijn

I’m living in Amsterdam, have two daughters and work as a software engineer in the centre of Amsterdam. My biggest passions are creating images and music (playing guitar, Flamenco and Bossa Nova style). My first artistic adventures started at the age of two, when my parents gave me Bic pen to draw. Soon I began to draw everything around me (and on everything around me when running out of paper). Gradually I learned other techniques and materials, until painting big murals at the age of 25.
At the moment I’m into more modest sizes, switching between analogue and digital. The digital part started with the iPhone and Hipstamatic. First I was focussing on photography but gradually started to use other apps for further processing. The next step came with Paper53, a wonderful, simple and very responsive drawing app.
At the moment my digital work has become a blend of photo’s and drawing.  In the meantime I’m still shooting straight black and white Hipstamatics and creating analogue paintings from time to time. And maybe someday I’ll start with murals again …
Apps used the most for creating images are Image Blender, Snapseed, Photoshop Express, Paper53 and Hipstamatic.

website http://www.wijnworks.com
flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/28516121@N06/

By Maxwell Sebastian

Maxwell Sebastian was born in 1979 in Atlanta GA. He spent his early years in the metro Atlanta area, but moved and spent his teens and early 20’s in Philadelphia, PA. 2002-2003 brought him back to Atlanta. He’s a self-taught artist and has been exhibiting since 2000-20001. Check out more of his work at his website.

By Daniel Boscaljon
Images by Melissa D. Johnston

“everytime i write i feel myself disintegrate” is the first letter in a series of posts called Letters to You written by Daniel Boscaljon. His writing is joined by images from an ongoing project by Melissa D. Johnston that incorporates similar themes from a different perspective. We hope the two create an interesting dialogue for the reader/viewer.

i write to you here partly because i know that you will not read it.  you do not have the time to drown in my oceans of words, to work through the sentences and sentiments that i wish to put forth.  i write, nonetheless, in the hopes that perhaps others will benefit from the words meant for you.  these words are all my flesh made text: each time i think about you it is almost always in the words i wish i was speaking or writing, words that i want for you to hear or see or feel.  i want my words, like my hands, to be able to touch you: i write despite knowing that they do not and cannot.  i open my veins and watch the words spilling out onto the screen, pouring from my heart, pumping outward, showing up in so many fragments.  words and spaces, black pixels separated by white spaces all so someday when you have the time and emotional energy i can attest to the fact that i never left you behind but was waiting to do anything i could.  everytime i write i feel myself disintegrate from an illusory whole to a mass of differences and separations.  a text is not any sort of unity.  the words and worlds swirl out of me and i lose myself in them to find myself out of them, to show you who i am through them.  this is all that i can do.  i write my flesh made words: each is an opportunity for a certain sort of consummation, a meditating mastication, thoughts for you to chew through, food for thought.i want you to devour each of these as a message for you, to taste me through the bland universal medium of language, to see my fingerprints in the phrasing of every sentence and the choice of every word.  when you miss me, i want these here for you to find, to take comfort in, to relish, and to remember the times when conversations could be held face to face.  these words are mirrors: when empty, they reflect the emptiness within me.  when exhortations, they reflect the strength in which i long to hold you.  when full of laughter, they reflect the echoes of the joy you once introduced into my life–for nothing inside of me can any longer be separated from whom you have let me be.  these words and letters are my own private army, and i am their general: i command them and send them forth into the world on a mission to convey the message of love able to be seen and heard throughout the world.  their failure is a reflection of my failure.  it is possible that these words unread merely lie dormant, as a spy in an enemy nation, waiting for the right time to take charge and complete the message.  it is equally possible, however, that they are an army which will expire without the resources that you would bring to them, that unread they will be squandered, and that the corpses of the words will be found too late becoming only a curiosity to be enshrined for tourists within a museum.  every series of words and letters are an attempt to form a bridge to you: they are my workers which move from me into the abyss of silence, working their ways to find you in the hopes that they will connect.  i am rooted to a million bridges, spanning from my soul into nothing.  the bridges never close: my heart continues to love through them, despite the fact that they lead nowhere and into nothing, in the hope that someday all of the bridges will once more connect to you and we will once again become one.  what else can i do? i write here in a space that you cannot see, in a medium that can be destroyed, with anonymous words that can be lost and misconstrued.  i write for a you who does not currently exist: each message is a message from who i was in the past to someone i hope to find again in the future.  will you read this tomorrow?  next month?  in ten years?  when you read, will the bridges still return to me, or will they be magnificent edifices cutting through the nothing, supported by nothing on either side, hanging silently and orbiting in the vast void which has become our lives?  i cannot know.  i merely trust, and write. i am the words that i write, and i can do nothing else.  this is all i have.  you read all that i am, stripped naked before.  vulnerable.  and now what will you do?

Daniel Boscaljon has Ph.D.s in Modern Religious Thought and 19th-century American Literature, both from the University of Iowa. His interest is in the fragility and liminality of human experiences. His first book, Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in the Secular World will be published by the University of Virginia Press this August.

by Franck Balestracci

Artist: Franck Balestracci

I am a French musician and composer. My music is an itinerary, an invitation into my world perception, my relation to things, to beings etc. In my pictures (digital collages), indirect, transformed, I try to translate modified realities as furtive snapshots. I’ve always incorporated the association and interaction of sound arts with visual arts in my concepts. Each of these visual “samples” is the expression of a view of what surrounds us.

Web Sites:
http://www.franck-balestracci.fr.nf

http://www.franck-balestracci.infos.st

by Jenny Wantuch

“The Walker” Digital Imaging, 2013

“The Dreamer I” Digital Imaging, 2013

“The Seeker”, Digital Imaging, 2013

“The Dreamer II” , Digital Imaging, 2013

“The Reader” , Digital Imaging, 2013

Jenny M.L. Wantuch is an artist creating figurative art using traditional media as well as digital media. Inspired by the complexity and beauty of life and nature, and her own imagination, she enjoys exploring her inner and outer world.  In her art, she seeks to find visual harmony and yet allow dynamic movement.  Jenny was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden.  From an early age, she loved to draw, paint and create stories. Her family has for generations worked as farmers, and since the 1600’s lived in the area around Uppsala. During her childhood in Sweden, Jenny spent most of her summers at the farm. She developed a deep interest and appreciation for the beauty of nature. Early influences were her grandfather, a storyteller and draftsman, her aunt, a portrait sculptor and painter, and both her grandmothers whose talents for various crafts seemed to be endless.

Jenny moved to Northern California in 2001. Jenny is a full time artist, working from her studio in Burlingame.  Jenny regularly exhibits her work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has private collectors in USA and in Europe.

For more information please visit: http://jennywantuch.com. You can also follow Jenny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JMLWantuchArt.

by Melissa D. Johnston

Onomatopoeia

Happy Holidays from Creative Thresholds. May the new year be the year you dream big…and watch those dreams come true! 

by Melissa D. Johnston

de-centering

refuse from the machine

fragmentation and compression

self-other arithmetic

identity in time