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Hello there all you happy deviants,

I haven't written in my journal for a long time. I got a DD and participated in an international group exhibition in Milan with "The Responsability Burden" in the mean time and had lots of fun this summer. I played a lot with photography and had the chance to work with hair and make-up stylists and loved giving directions to models

This summer is a very good time for me, I finally ended some of the most disturbing things in my life, will not go into that, I sleep and dream a lot and in my dreams I often paint. Sounds strange, I know, but after spending around 8 hours in front of a canvas, I keep on painting in my dreams.

I hope I can paint many nice things and get ready for my first solo exhibition. The theme has something to do with zen and meditation...maybe some aikido.

In the mean time I would really appreciate if you would like my facebook page on witch I will put more stuff that I can upload here... like videos and mobile uploads and stuff like that. So I'd be happy if you could click a like on my page Thank you.

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5000 is a round number. Yey! Had a burst of enegy this week and I did a lot of stuff including painting.
Fun fact:
A friend of mine asked me yesterday if I see the painting finished in my head or if I just trow paint and what end up on the canvass is what you get . I liked my reply and believe is worth sharing. I said that I had an image of how I wanted to be at 24 years old. And I anted this here and that there but along the way you take risks, find new friends, do stuff that wasn't planned. The idea of you remains no matter what but the things that are unplanned and spontaneus give flavor to my life. That is the exact same way I paint: I know where I would want to get, I see the image but most of the time I get lost in splashes, in random forms and colors that appear and always I end up with something totaly different than what I have in my head. That is fascinating about working traditional vs digital because the traditional way of working, of getting all dirty with paint, gives a lot of chances to randomness and can become and meditation exercise, an awareness exercise because you really have to be present and see the new opportunities that arise on the the canvass and always be prepared to give up the image in your head for what you have in front of you

I've got a job in design again me happy about that. Check out my facebook (Dragos Gorak) for more fun stuff, quite stressfull to syncronize all sites. Sharing some posters and stuff that I enjoy doing

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Holiday ... I don't need money to do nothing.

I promised I'd write about the painting called Silence but couldn't find the since I'm not that much of an organizer, but here goes.

One of my best friends plays the bass in a grindcore band called Deadeye Dick. When they recorded the album, and when they rehearse I could hear each instrument separately and loved the melodic line, the rithm...I don't know exacltly what but I liked it a lot despite the fact that I am not a Heavy Metal fan. In one talk about music I tried to understand how musicians memorise music...still is a mystery to me since I can't sing nothing, guess I'm tone deaf or something.

I asked "how do you see music in your head?, what rules do you use, what mechanism?" The answer was pretty simple even though it came with a lot more words. The bass player doesn't "see" music in his head, he hears it. I hear music in my head to but try to understand it visually. When the heavy metal band plays...to me it's just a loud noise and a struggle to identify each instrument and it's melodic line. It's hard, it's tireing, difficult.

the I figured out that maybe it's the same visualy speaking. In my older paintings I used lots of colors, a whole bunch of symbols, texture, flow, a whole array of stuff that is just tiring for the untrained eye, just like heavy metal music is to me. I decided to simplify the "stuff" I put in my works.

Thus in Silence, in my vision things are quite simple; there are 3 planes, separated by two lines. Each plane symbolises a division of time; the lower part is the past, the middle the present, and the upper one is the future. When one is in silence, having no thoughts he enjoys the only division of time that can bring authentic happiness; the present. The past should drip away, the future is an empty shell, both formed by the being represented in the present with his eyes shut in a meditative state. Look, in one phrase I could explain everything I wanted to say...but if I talk about paintings, oh...dunoo like Drowning we could buy a coffee and spend an hour or two talking only about that one.

The lesson I learned from music will be used again and again, I already did another painting, Awakening, and kept it very simple. It is a commission for someone who wanted me to do a painting about the Buddha. After a quick google serch all that I found were those classic depictions of a fat-ish man with I dunno what are those on his head. I know the symbolism of the statue since I did a 3 month course on Buddhism but to me art is about putting on canvas interior experiences, and the only thing that really set me loose in buddhissm was freeing my head of the chatter box. That is what I painted; the feeling of freedom and rejoice one feels when giving in to himself leaving all the shit and just for one second or two (my personal record) having no thoughts...like when one has an oragasm doesn't think about paying the rent.