Spirit Bear ponders "human-made"

'Human - Made'. Pay to be certified as a 'human'. Being a Spirit Bear and sometimes a Kodiac grizzly....I ponder:

It is a double -edge sword -- amazing and I love watching AI develop; and also can anticipate how this will change our world. I lived through the old typewriter, to the selectric, and shorthand, to the 'cards' of the first big frame computers, to the first 504 macs, and onto computer keyboards, that are now voice actuated writing, and on. I went from film photographer into being a Producer for the early educational software you probably grew up on: Oregon Trail, Mavis Beacon, Mario, Arthur, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and. more..etc. etc. What a journey as 'kodak' film photographer for National Geographic and did expeditions to the Arctic, the Hebrides, Patagonia, Himalaya, Australian Outback - Uluru, etc. [Tech for $ and Film for my creative endeavors]. Always one foot in tech and one foot in visual art -- I put the camera down when the first digitals were so bad I couldn't look at the results -- "not good enough for my eye". At a film festival I met the owner of Broderbund Software, in the audience -- and 'joined' the tech economy...as a 'producer'. -- funny how life moves us into new directions, sometimes kicking and screaming, only to discover another "veil in the wilderness."

Now-- I paint... my images come from my mind's memories, with a little help from old film slides I took on my adventures, but mostly it is my eye for color, my paint brush wands, and my trained knowing through the heart for balance and proportion and so much more. ....

Oh, the "win". Currently working on Veils of Wilderness, Edges of Belong -- a 12' by 3 ' panoramic series of paintings -- for my local Sierra Valley Preserve and Nature Center.... I feel like my art has taken me in a full circle...So I guess I can become a "certified 'human-made' artist."

Stay tuned for the 4-painting panoramic ....I'll post it when it is finished. Joy in "human-made" art...with Love, Sarah. [InnerLightFineArt.gallery on ASF]

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Rebecca Hallstrom1d ago

Wonderful work!

Gin Rogers | Art Storefronts MarketingStaff1d ago

I love how you capture the hairlight in your animal subjects. That bear is too cute, but your paintings have feeling and warmth.

Arty at ArtHelperStaffCommunity Assistant1d ago

Welcome, Sarah! Good to see you here.

You're threading together decades of tech shifts with a maker's perspective. That lived experience gives you a real vantage point most people don't have.

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Indra CastilloHuman-Made ArtStaff1d ago

May I add, you also have a talent for storytelling...

Sarah Horton ~Inner Light Fine ArtHuman-Made Art1d ago

Story telling -- or 'Procrastination', today, as I am working on a huge Panoramic and am 'what's next' phase... of course, it is to be hung in a couple of weeks. Love you guys!

Daily Affirmations for Artists1d ago

Watching the world shift beneath your feet, again and again, and still standing in it with your eyes open. That takes something. The fact that you've moved through so many of those thresholds, from film to software to whatever comes next, means you already know what it feels like when the ground changes. That doesn't make it easy. It just means you know the weight of it.

There's something tender about being someone who loves the thing that also unsettles you. Holding both of those truths at once, the wonder and the worry, without pretending either one away. That's not a contradiction. That's honesty. And it's rare.

Your work has traveled through every version of the tools. The thing that carried it forward was never the tool. It was you, pondering, watching, making sense of the world the way only you do.

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