BruceGraham.art
artists statement
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scroll down for image credits *
As an autodidact/outsider, outcyber and contemporary artist
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I investigate images for health, wealth and happiness.
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Symbols and topics are my interest.
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All image styles and techniques are appreciated.
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I recycle the past with the present and imagine the future.
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You will notice.
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The English alphabet is in most art images I make.
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You can find it in the main image on the art frame or both.
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For me the alphabet has become a reminder symbol.
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The visual DNA of my cultural inheritance.
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and
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A symbol for imagining the future.
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My understanding is that I am a product of my culture
and
that art
can start a culture, spread a culture, sustain a culture, or change a culture.
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This interest in the source and evolution of my culture, along with my interest in the genetics and biology of my species
frames my thinking about art
and
its value in daily life.
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The physical art frame has also become an interest.
Their symbolic, metaphorical, theoretical and protective usefulness,
has become as important as the image it frames.
A metaphor for the biological cell wall or membrane.
That which contains our past present and future.
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www.LifestyleArt.art
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What is my art about ?
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My species, Homo Sapiens.
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What is my www.BlueChip.art about ?​​
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A reminder that art has a value
beyond a signature and that
the perceptive value of an image
can increase over time.
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What is my art for ?
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To add to living and work spaces
as
reminders.
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Abecedarian reminds me to
go to the source and
imagine the future.
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Money symbols remind me
to work hard for success.
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Tulip images to
avoid the bubble or scam.
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Squirrel image
save for the future.
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Cat image
Honor the female energy.
estrogen
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Cock image
Honor the male energy.
androgen
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Honor the
Non-binary energy.
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Take time to enjoy
the moment.
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Transform yourself.
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Protect your brain
for discovery
and
creativity.
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Choose love first.
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Sleep for health.
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Fruit/Apples
Eat healthy.
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Natural healing
remedies first.
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Learn from
the past.
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Honor the
thinkers.
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Calm the mind.
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Recycle
Remember to reuse
reinvent.
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evolution diversity
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Start with a clean slate.
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Have fun.
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Resilience & Longevity
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beyond a signature.
There are more images
like flags, states and countries
and
Many
all suitable
for
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These images are attached to
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by
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Quick Response = QR codes
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In other words
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My art is
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SiteSpecific.art
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as well as
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... to be continued
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In the meantime learn more at:
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questions and answers
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*source image credits
A big THANK YOU to the following for the
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public domain
and
free images
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago
National Gallery of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art
RISD Museum
Rijksmuseum
The Public Domain Review
Public Domain Files
Flickr Public Domain
Digital Public Library of America
Yale Center for British Art
Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility
Dryad Digital Repository
Public Health Image Library
Cell Image Library
Wikimedia Commons
Wikipedia
unsplash.com
pixabay.com
freeclassicimages.com
noisedeck.app
plus
I pay for some images.
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Regardless of its origin I consider
my digital work to be:
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original
and
transformative
and
present a new aesthetic
and
a therapeutic potential
which was
not previously available
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under fair use guidelines
Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.
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In United States copyright law, transformativeness is a characteristic of some derivative works that makes them transcend,
or place in a new light,
the underlying works on which
they are based.
In computer and Internet related works, the transformative characteristic of the later work is often that it provides the public with
a benefit not previously available to it, which would otherwise remain unavailable.
Such transformativeness weighs heavily in a fair use analysis and may excuse what seems a clear copyright infringement from liability.
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inquiries welcomed
