Tuva or bust 2022-06-25 = 19 Quantum Creativity, no footprints but mine

* Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense. Roger Penrose. 

* It is safe to say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. Richard Feynman.

July 25, 2021, Tuva or bust, Violet King Henry plaza, Alberta Legislature grounds.

2015-06-25 Painter's notes, Abstract Mountain & Selfie after my 3rd.day painting at the Alberta Legislature - Sorry if I look a bit full of myself these days but I'm very pleased with myself and my work ethic this week - I've surpassed my goal so anything more I do for the rest of this week will be added bonus. I have lots of canvas! 95 % completed "Mountain above Maligne Lake"

No footprints, 

Summer of 1986, 1996, 

updated 2022-06-25/19

I have walked

along life's shores

to see what others

have overlooked.

My spirit

jumped,

I'm rewarded

by the beauty

I see

For now

I have seen

what no other

has seen.

It's true

after noticing

no footprints

by the sea

but my own

  

I've become one

with nature,

a mix with

my surroundings

A 

quantum in

a universe

at being 

here alone.

In physics, a quantum is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction.

2022-06-25/ 19 Painter's notes: I'm entering a new phase in my world of creativity or perhaps I've always been there/ or maybe I'm leaving it. That's Quantum Mechanics for you. For now, I'll just call it Quantum Creativity and see where it takes me...

2016-06-25, Painter's notes, Fire and Rain art project: "Beautiful but very intimidating" was what one woman said of my paintings leaning up against the Old strathcona farmers market, during today's 49th outdoor art show and tell featuring my Fire and Rain art project on Alberta wildfires and floods from the rain. I walked 5 K to the Old Strathcona farmers market and found a great selection of spots to set up my art as most of the fair-weathered buskers and street preachers stayed home from this drizzly Saturday morning. As soon as I set up my art show the sunshine came out.

Day 2, Ann, Summer, Saturday & Amoy painting the Canadian Rockies

2022-06-24 Painter's notes: On day 2, I got by with a little help from several passersby. The teacher watched while 3 students added the excess paint to the backside. I added their names to the back of the painting.  #AbLeg 11th hour #TGIF #outsiderart self-taught/ influenced by Lawren Harris paintings/ Group of Seven. #intuitiveArt 45 minutes, brush cleaned once, slapping paint on like porridge/ See 2014 Maligne Lake 1924. Helper's Ann, Saturday, Summer, and Amoy.

See 2014 Maligne Lake 1924

Welcome Back to Edmonton Garth Brooks, 2022

2022-06-24: Twitter users deemed Friday "Garth Brooks Day" in Edmonton. The country music artist is returning to Alberta's capital city for the first time in five years to play Commonwealth Stadium two nights in a row. CTV News

 Fire & Rain Art Show New Year's Eve, 2016

Edmonton City Manager Threatens Police Action over 2016, Art Show

Picketing / #Yeg Protest the 2017 Garth Brooks Concert. Abstracts of Light and Shadows ENTER #QuantumCreativity #OutsiderArt #IntuitiveArt #CommunityArt, Ann, Summer, Saturday & Amoy help me paint the Rockey Mountains on the Alberta Legislature grounds https://t.co/faz4nRlStl pic.twitter.com/7M8PY5BVGr

— Citizen Doug, My ART is my #FreePress (@DougBrinkman) June 25, 2022

 In March 2017, The City of Edmonton apologized.

 I ended my 32-day protest. I'm free to show my art in public.

Enter Quantum Creativity

9 Social Art Projects/ 2022, Abstracts of Light and Shadows #QuantumCreativity? Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense but I'm entering into that rabbit hole to see where it takes me, my art in a world of creativity... did that just make sense? The photo was taken a block after Pete and I had this interesting conversation about synchronicity and living in the moment.... do you think I can walk through this wall or am I already on the other side?

From Light on Earth - The Quantum Hole - Into a place of Darkness 

Circle/Square, December 2019, Alberta Legislature grounds.

The Suicide of Veteran Ken Chan,  December 2019, sketch study.

RED LIGHT (Suicide)

Main Gallery Intuitive, Outsider & Community Art.

My painting is a hobby and not for sale.

Painter's notes on Laws, The Seven Sisters Matariki & Serenity's Law

2022-06-23, Painter's notes: Another sunshine/ overcast day painting on the Alberta legislature grounds by Eastgate, preparing a Jasper park mountain scene, positioning a jasper trolley car on the tracks with dark reds, and finally a little fun painting an abstract coiling snake. The day started by busing over to the Paint Spot in Old Strathcona/ breakfast to go at A&W, return bus trip downtown, the Legislature grounds. 'Flags at half-mast?' Serenity's 12th birthday on the front steps, grocery shopping... then home. There are laws in effect that governed my day from start to finish.

 

The laws that Governments enact and the laws of nature and synchronicity. I try to abide by both laws based on the third law of faith that comes from the voice within my heart. Faith, do good, be humble I tell myself each day and sometimes I pray and give thanks to myself with the Serenity Prayer. Self-taught, mountain painting influence Lawren Harris of the Group of Seven.

Today June 23, 2022, would have been Serenity's 12th birthday. Thank you UCP (Hon) Mike Ellis for your private member's bill Serenity's law.

Our friend Marie from down under shared with me today that in New Zealand, for the first time, they have a new holiday to celebrate the arrival of the cluster of stars, Matariki, the Maori name for the Pleiades, or The Seven Sisters, into our skies, and the Maori New Year. She says "I believe the same cluster is recognized by a different name in some other countries. It is the first time in the world that an indigenous holiday has been taken, so quite an event."

Matariki is a special occasion in the New Zealand calendar that marks the start of the Māori New Year. Signified by the Matariki cluster of stars reappearing in our night sky, this is a time to reflect on the past year, celebrate the present, and plan for the year ahead.

Wind symbolizes change 

#AbLeg The Reflection Pool

The Alberta Legislature has no dome, UNITY' by Doug Brinkman and others who added flowers at the base of this painting. Painted on the day of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, next to the Alberta Legislature Service Through Christ statute, April 15, 2019. Completed June 2021, next to the Kamloops Residential School 215, children memorial by the same statute. Outsider, Intuitive, Community Art.

Citizen Doug, My HeART is my #FreePress

Alberta children who died in government care

Main Gallery Intuitive, Outsider & Community Art.

My painting is a hobby and not for sale.

Free Press, Citizen Doug, 67, Painter of 9 Social Art Projects since 2013

2020 Freedom to Express & LISTEN art project

The Speakers Banned Speech and Wear Toque of Alberta

9 Intuitive art projects completed since 2013 after 13 years of not painting. 9 Afghan boys gathering firewood, 2014 Return to Maligne Lake 1924, 2015 The Judge and the Poet, We First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, 2016 Fire and Rain art project focus on Alberta wildfires and floods, 2017 Not a Bystander art project focus of Anger, Violence & Bullying, 2018 The Status versus Motion art project focus on Citizen Free Press versus the Corporate News Media, 2019 More Circles than Squares art project focus on Environmental, Social and Political Climate Extremes', 2020 Freedom to Express & Listen art project featuring The Speakers Banned Speech and Wear designer T-shirts, Baseball Caps and Toques of Alberta, 2021 The Misty HeART project focus on Humanity & Legacy. 2022 Art is my freedom.

 9 Art Projects

9 Afghan Boys gathering firewood, 2013 

 2021, Misty HeART Project

"Freedom is important, especially today"-B.K., "True North Strong and FREE, a line straight from our anthem"- E.K., "Escape is freedom from judgmental civilians who should mind their own business - and help those /encourage them who try to get a happy lifestyle..." -A.C.R.L.W.-B, "Freedom is Honesty, Being Honest is Love"-C, "Free The Art"-W.C., "Freedom is our right. In any form express it with art. If art was a crime Leonardo would have been doing the time"-E.B., "Sovereignty is Freedom"- Dene Warrior, "Edmonton Ward 7 candidate"-S.P., "Lets make Edmonton the City of Art and Imagination"-D, Art is Expression, Freedom is Art"-V, "Keep Fighting to Speak your Piece"-N.R., "Freedom is my right as a human being..." - C.A., "Freedom, Art and Honesty"-M.M., "If freedom is the child, then understanding is the mother and determination is the father"- R.K.A., "Art is a way to express ourselves as an artist, and its not something that others can simply take it away from us"- Kevan Lyons “Poet of Churchill Square”. "Art is Freedom"- Love A.L., "自由" S.L., "Fight the power, art is freedom" - K.C., "Art is freedom"- A.A., "Freedom, art and honesty"- M.M., "Freedom is a Right" - M.O.S., "Freedom for All Canadians"- G.W. Edmonton Ward 10 candidate, "The choice is ours", "To be who we want to be"-J.U., "Freedom seems almost unachievable", "Live your life how you want to, with love in your heart" -J, "We stand together" - V, "Art is Freedom" - Doug Brinkman

 

1993, Two Indigenous girls on a rock

Gift of Art to Janet Blonde, with a message on the painter's frame from Mel Hurtig. 

I started expressing my creative self as a kid with a box of crayons on my parents' basement walls and inside the pages of my grandfather's leather-bound encyclopedia collection. So my parents began to supply me with a steady stream of paper and pencils with which to draw and expand my creativity. In secondary school, I studied commercial art and printing and took extra courses to learn photography and produce short video features. In my twenties I learned to fly, earning a private pilot's license, and moved to Edmonton from Toronto. In my 40s I hiked the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island 3 times and once to the Rose Spit on Haida Gwaii Island. Living in Edmonton I continued a career as a graphic arts craftsman operating mostly Goss high-speed web offset newspaper printing presses, first for the Edmonton and Toronto Suns and finally with the Edmonton Journal (Video). I volunteered at Walterdale Community Theatre, painting sets and doing public relations. I was laid off from my newspaper job in 2013 after 42 years and attempted to start a business Hawkeyi Media Inc with a grant from Alberta Works. It failed after losses, so I retired I now work freely as a social artist and citizen news activist now in my 15th year.

March 20, 2015, First outdoor art show and tell featuring the Judge and the Poet, We First Nations, Metis, and Inuit where I focused my citizen news camera & canvas on Indigenous Residential Schools, one year after the Truth & Reconciliation, Alberta National Event. 

 June 2022, The Grindstone and Icebox

2022-06-16 On Location, Strathcona Edmonton, Alberta, The south end of the High-Level bridge, railway, pathways, wooden staircases, and wildlife. Above, blue skies, golden sunshine and trolly car wires to add.

Sarah points to where she spotted a coyote walking by.

Alberta Legislature grounds Quickdraw & CorelDRAW graphics of Zack’s proposal for a Greener more than Concrete, Safer & Open to All.

2022-06-21 National Indigenous Peoples Day. After spending some quality time with my wife Sarah on summer solstice day, enjoying the river valley trails and what would be my last day with my indigenous drum. I used the drum to raise awareness over the past 3 years, on various issues relating to Aboriginal Veterans, Murdered and Missing Indigenous women and girls, and residential schools.

I would play the drum, sometimes sing, and dance in circles at various Edmonton locations such as the Alberta Legislature grounds, in front of City Hall, and the Art Gallery of Alberta. I once drummed for 2 weeks in front of the Federal Building next to the Alberta Legislature in protest of an ATM machine plugged into the floor inches away from the Indigenous Red Dress. The Government removed the ATM elsewhere.

Today on the trail I soon met the former Alberta Liberal leader Dr. Raj Sherman and I immediately knew in my heart it was time to pass my drum on to the good doctor for his public service in office. I told Raj that maybe one day he too might pass this drum on to someone most deserving who would make good use of the indigenous drum.

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