
Find the differences
Do you ever see things. I mean in your imagination. I sometimes do, and then I think about how to put that into a piece of artwork. I recently saw a collection of soldiers, and that lead to doing this piece. I think is is extremely amazing how we can step out of conscious thought and see things, or even hear voices. You don’t have to listen to the voices if they tell you to just chop off their heads — just remember that’s the Queen of Hearts.
{In this piece, you will be able to find slight differences in the five soldiers marching across the tiled floor. This is a fun game especially for children. I can still remember circling the odd shapes and designs in the Highlights magazine, and the find the differences or find the exact match pictures. If you have children, they might like to note the differences in the five soldiers — of course, you may want to have to print the picture out on a color printer.}
Soldiers themselves don’t represent much good to many. They see soldiers are perpetuating violence, but they can be thought of as protectors– there to help and not harm. The guns though, they are meant to arm. Armies care for their arms like one cares for a baby. Their arms are their lives. Unfortunately, no matter how much we don’t want to have soldiers, and we do want to turn the weapons into plowshares, they are a big part of the modern world. Can you think of some good uses for some of the left over atomic weapons?
But back on track– so when you think of having an army in front of you, defending you against your foes, then you might think positively about armies. No one likes to be left vulnerable to others armies, however. It can get sort of twisted. Everything is twisted and perverted, and that’s why I like imagination: its fun and free, and doesn’t cause pain and suffering. Also it doesn’t have side effect like mind-altering drugs produce.
The trick with imagination is to get the ideas in your head onto paper as quickly as possible — it takes discipline, a sharpened pencil and a pad of paper handy. (Not like I’m the one who has it all together here.) No, the paper and lead are not always next to the bed — especially if you want to capture a dream sequence.