THE VIRTUAL WORLD

Aleta Michaletos 1970

 Although creatives may hold no creative tool in hand and there's no trace of fresh paint on a dusty palette, they are able to fill sketchbooks with intricate drawings, complete large canvasses and have them delivered to museums abroad, say witty and sharp things during sought after interviews with famous journalists, chisel monumental sculptures from choice blocks of Cararra marble, eagerly autograph napkins in fancy restaurants, effortlessly fill journals with published books and sit at the captains table on a luxury liner. 

How, you may ask is this possible? 

All of this is effortlessly achieved by the power of the imagination which is seated (but sadly also obscured from view) within the human skull. 

Only full effort, results in full victory. 

"Full effort is full victory" -Mahatma Gandhi

PIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION

       © ALETA MICHALETOS Cranium: PIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION  

 oil on perspex 2002 

 

'When you are an inventor, it's impossible to stick to one formula.
To the inquisitive and discerning viewer, it may sometimes seem as though the winged evolutionary tract of my art making process has skipped a few steps, however that's entirely due to the fact, that the missing paintings have been painted in my head and therefore only invisible to the eye.'

THE GOLD OF THE GOAL

I wonder whether the millions of people who spend their entire day in an office, huddled over a computer and at the service of some invisible employer, have a sensual experience when their fingers touch the buttons a few hundred or maybe thousand times a day....? 
How do they feel when they switch off that silent instrument at the end of the day and the days work disappears behind the black face of the screen, leaving no evidence of their toil?
Moving freely in the space of my studio, which has an unobstructed view across the garden, sunbeams flickering on the surface of the pool, I count my blessings...
Although I rarely have the security of a regular paycheck at the end of the month, what I do have is the GOLD OF THE GOAL.... 
All the creative processes that keep me busy towards reaching my goals, fill me with joy and wonder. 
Late afternoon, as I leave my studio, I glance at my easel and see the visible evidence of my days work.
And in the mornings, the first thing I see when I enter my studio, is a painting just begging me to touch it with my brush. I feel needed and wanted where I am.
My being is saturated with life's ultimate love potion, which is a perfect blend of the intellect and the senses. Awareness, thought, discernment, memory and the creative imagination mingle with the sensual acts of looking and seeing, smelling, hearing and listening, touching and feeling all the aspects of life. 
This is the intoxicating booster, that not only stimulates me, but keeps me creating under all circumstances.


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