In The Light...There's A Truth

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

Note: I wish I had the raw file for this video so I could edit inmindcreations.com out. Inmindcreations.com no longer exists. It used to be a website where I would showcase my artwork only. Unfurtunately, I had to let it go. CristianLandero.com was then born.

Photomanipulations - 2005/2008

Back on Blogger

That artwork I posted several months ago I never got to finish it. It is now located in my WIPs folder on my computer and will remain there until one day I feel inspired enough to finish it.

One of the reasons I have not been able to finish several photomanipulations I have shown in the past is not being able to find those stock photos I need in order to continue working on them. And spending several hours infront of a computer and clicking that "next" link hoping to find that right stock photo is exhausting and causes me to loose my inspiration.

I tend to give up after I have gone through more than 99 pages containing 60 photos per page and not having found what I need. I end up with a feeling of frustration and deciding to move on to something else. Only if I ever come across that photo I was looking for, then there are chances I will go back to those artworks and finally finish them.

Here's a sneak peek of a photomanipulation I keep coming back to every time I come across a stock photo I need to continue working on it.

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The preview above is a very small part of a photomanipulation about war and is the only part I can show you because it seems finished. The rest of the image is in progress and looks messy.

Now that I am back on blogger I have decided to change what I had initially considered to post about - WIPs. Now I will post sketches, doodles, and anything with regard to my art as WIP entries are obviously not a good way to keep my blog active.