Natasha's Art Candy

(above) Natasha Goes Pop! series

SOME MAGIC

There is something about the creation of art that baffles others. I’ve often heard from friends and strangers alike how, when looking at a piece of work seems to humble them. They find it such a miracle that a human can create something out of nothing like that. Whether it be sculpture, a painting, or a machine. It’s fascinating to them, because they can’t envision what the process must be like. Some people can doodle. Some people can put together an engine.

But few can SEE something that’s not there.

The unique vision of an ambitious writer, artist, or creator is that we can already see something exist. When I was 3 years old, I had a very active imagination that made me uncomfortable without the ability to project it onto paper.  I wanted to see what I envisioned on paper. I wanted to draw what I could fantasize about so that in some way, I was making it real. That same ambition carried on into my other passions: business, design, organization.

POSITIVE DELUSION

What would almost seem like a delusion is just a strong vision for us. It’s very much real, that picture or that car or that crafted box.

We see it crystallized in our mind and all we need to do is materialize it.

UNIQUE LANGUAGE

What makes it seem so easy for us, is we seem to also have the ability to project it from mind to hand. And it comes out in these beautiful, unique ways. We all have a style, or personal language in which we interpret that vision onto the mediums we choose. I’ve always created from my mind onto paper with inks. Later, I transfered to paints. Very very different skills required but my style remains similar throughout. An energetic, impatient style is what I like to refer to mine.

What seems frustrating or arduous to others, to us creators, it seems like second nature. It’s a compulsion that obsesses our minds, that propells us towards the making of that vision. If we don’t materialize it, it frustrates us, makes us weary.

ITS A COMPULSION

For me, I cannot NOT create. People ask me what my inspiration is. I say I’m not inspired at all. It’s simply an obsessive vision I am excited and possessed to create. It excites me to see it materialized. It excites me to get a reaction out of a viewer who see it. It excites me to watch it clamoured for and living in a home where someone loves and adores viewing it. It’s been born from me.

ART AND TECH CONNECT

There are similarities in the mediums, and the community surrounding them.

Art is creation and vision. Tech is creation and vision.

Both are a form of innovation and desire in the existence of something we see in our minds eye. People in the art and tech world have an innate desire to solve a problem in our mind, to bring to live something we can only see. Put the two together and you see a symbiotic relationship. This is why artist need to learn all about the possibilities of expression, sharing and creation with the use of the web and technology today.