David McCullough:  “Quantum Art: The Energy of Color”

Final day: June 30, 2018

Artist’s Statement:

For the past forty-eight years, my paintings, sculpture, and works on paper have been concerned with describing the phenomenon of light in nature from an audio-visual perspective.

I have hiked and created art in National Parks throughout the U.S.A., especially the Southwest’s ‘Canyon Circle’ parks in the Four Corners area (Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado), notating their seasonal color changes and geological formations. I have used these field trips in the National Park system to explore and notate nature’s colorful holistic psyche and geological spirit through the mediums of watercolor, drawing, and photography. These notations are the foundation stones of all my abstract studio compositions. I have used these nature insights to instill into my Taoist vision of art a special quality of coloration that best describes her spirit and sacred character.  I have made many comparative studies of the Earth’s holistic psyche and its geological spirit in our ecosystem, as well as rock painting sites. for example, the Australian Northern Territory outback, where I made watercolors, drawings, and photographs at sacred Aboriginal sites in Kakadu National Park in the Arnhem land with my field notations from Southwest U.S. national parks in the Four Corners region, where I recorded the holistic earth energy rhythms at Native American sacred sites.

My ethnographic studies of the sacred nature of the Native American and Aboriginal traditions and their stories, as well as their pictographic rock art depictions, have informed the imagery and chemistry of my abstractions in many ways. I always paint on the ground at each site directly to music from cultures all over the world, especially American Jazz. My fellow musicians have assisted me in feeling, expressing, and interpreting through the watercolor medium nature’s sacred colorful ordering systems in a sonic lyrical manner. These influential audiovisual insights have infused all my studio artworks with a cosmological significance and special color-filled sonic energy.

All my studio artworks reflect the poetic recordings of these sacred locations and their geological and botanical micro/macro spirit world. The poetic nature of these feelings, aesthetic character of the field artworks, and musical insights are all woven into the patterns, geomantic order, and compositions of all my artworks in every combination of mediums. I have cross-referenced knowledge from mythology, the earth sciences (mineralogy, crystallography, and sacred geometry), quantum physics and biophysics with music, art and poetry sources in order to map out new states of consciousness I can use to process new alchemical color medium systems. These science and nature insights have empowered my artworks with a dynamic visual-sonic presence.  

My most recent painting adventure was in Northern India, Rishikesh and the Northern Himalayan mountain ranges, where I recorded the Hindu cultural operating system and experienced the ‘Diwali Festival of Light’.  

More about the artist here.