Seth Lew's thoughts on life and Art

Quote: "History will show that the zeitgeist of the United States of America, early 21st century, is poltergeist" -Seth Lew

I miss George very much still. I thought that a year after his passing I would start to feel "better". Then 2 years went by, 3, 4. The loss of my cousin still disturbs and saddens my heart. I feel like when he died, the world made less sense then it used to. Something was diminished. And it can never return. Now only his Art, Friends, Family and recorded images, can express what a great friend to Humanity he was. I still miss you terribly George.

all my pain and joy goes into my Art.

An Artists' pain is the bread and the tomb of himself.

Five new works posted look here for links to them

as far as i can discern, the definition of an Artist is, "a person who is always lonely in a crowded room".

the thinkers - new work posted ........

Posted two new Artworks: the scream v11 - older work that I finally got around to posting the scream v12 - brand spankin' new! I am so very proud of this version of the scream. I feel it's my best effort so far to make my own greatest scream picture ever. I have been thoroughly fascinated with scream pictures after seeing Edvard Munch’s "the scream" and "scream" pictures by Francis Bacon based on Velázquez’s pope. It is my personal quest throughout this life to make the best scream pictures I can make. I am haunted and obsessed to make such pictures. I hope someday to successfully make a scream picture that (as Francis Bacon once said) to go right into the central nervous system of the viewer.

I feel, and have felt for a long time, that being a good human being is the most important thing in my life. Everything else is secondary. My Art might bring me fame and fortune, which in the end really doesn’t matter much. What matters to me is being a good person and helping who I can in this world. My Mentor and cousin George always impressed in me the desire for love and truth. There will be a time in the future that I will be able to help the world. Help in a very small way, but help none-the-less. The history of man and there good deed is drops in a bucket. Eventually all the drops fill the bucket to the top. Overflowing with wisdom, truth and love. Perhaps not in my lifetime, but I feel eventually this world will become a paradise. I just want to do my very small part.

My wonderment of the world never ceases. I saw the most beautiful sunset on the water yesterday. It looked like a Monet painting. I now truly understand what he saw when he started painting haystacks.

If a mediocre Artist falls in a forest, does he make a sound?

"Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea." -- Lou Dorfsman

"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world." -- Leonard Bernstein

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." -- Leo Tolstoy

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." -- Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." -- Carl Gustav Jung

Side note: I wonder if a so-called "great" Artist really deserves accolades? Art is an extension of the everyday life of the Artist. Why be praised for being who you are?

I just posted 4 new works in the "digital art" section. These works were photographed mostly, in and around, Berkely Park.

My new direction in Art might be in three-dimensional Computer generated Art. Funny that my Art is going in this direction. My cousin & mentor George once juried an art contest where he gave first place to an early computer Artist. This was strange because George himself did not like using computers himself. He must have seen the great potential in this new tool. I asked him many times if he wanted me to setup either a website for him or a computer is his home. He always said he wasn't interested in such things. He thought email would be a "bother".

This is my new blogger. A way for me to publish my thoughts on life and Art. Welcome to an ongoing diary.