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Rising Lines

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:52:13 -0400

Rising Lines

The human eye and it’s optics has been a constant...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:15:21 -0400

The human eye and it’s optics has been a constant curiosity to me over the years.

There’s a phenomenal array of interesting structures and mechanisms in such a delicate organ.

It brings us light

It opens the world to us

It helps feed us and fall in love

The connection between sight and the mind has barely begun to be explained.

This sculpture came about as a gift to a fundraiser for an ophthalmology organization

It represents the structure and function in the search for light, bone, retina, and the lit and darkness of space.

Steven Lustig

Is Your Pelvis a Butterfly? Things are rarely as they...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:29:00 -0400

Is Your Pelvis a Butterfly?

Things are rarely as they seem

Perspective and other musings on the human figure

The human figure is an endless source of visual fascination for most fine artists. What looks like one thing to one, informs another completely differently.

We all start learning and looking at the basics. Drawing skulls on notebooks or for friends. Drawing skeletons for cartoons and Halloween. Then we realize that there is much more to this than first appears.

Under the skin is the structure of the bones. Strong and intricate. Large for strength, small for dexterity. Useless on their own without the soft tissue that connects them.

It’s at this point that most of us skip the details of what’s soft and strong underneath and go straight for what soft and alluring on the outside.

Our first chance to draw the beauty of the human figure is one of life’s most memorable experiences. But when the rush subsides, we are left wondering what’s beneath the beauty, and we are on to greater depths.

Muscles, tendons, and ligaments of every imaginable size, shape and function. The strength of the strings that hold us as human beings together. That make us stand and walk, move, bend and jump. A lifetime spent studying how we move, or how we look in motion.

But his is where the real journal starts. Once we have absorbed enough to go beyond, can we? How do we?

The journey of human, creative, imagination. How do we look at something that man has been staring at for thousands of years and see something more.

Is your Pelvis a Butterfly?

Studying the human figure is a life’s journal, with periodic side trips to whatever creatively spins out of the study. From classical renaissance drawings to the musings of Dali and onto the truly bizarre the human figure never ceases to be a source of creative imagination.

Steven Lustig

Moving Lines in Space. Shot in Laguna at sunset Almost...

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:15:10 -0400

Moving Line in Space ant Suset

Moving Lines in Space.

Shot in Laguna at sunset

Almost completed

Can be seen soon at the Yoram Gil Online gallery, www.galleryyoramgil.com

"How can it be, Lady, as one can see from long experience, that the live image sculpted in hard..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:54:30 -0400

“

How can it be, Lady, as one can see from long experience,
that the live image sculpted in hard alpine stone lasts longer
than its maker, whom the years return to ashes?

The cause bows down and yields to the effect,
from which it’s clear that nature’s defeated by art;
and I know, for I prove it true in beautiful sculpture,
that time and death can’t keep their threat to the work.

Therefore, I can give both of us long life
in any medium, whether colors or stone,
by depicting each of these faces of ours;
so that a thousand years after our departure
may be seen how lovely you were,
and how wretched I, and how,
in loving you, I was no fool.

”

- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1538-46

Dropping In

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:44:00 -0400

It drops in silence

from the head to the depths

enclosed in glass

seeing clearly

sensing

perceiving perfectly

hearing nothing

felling everything

but oh so briefly

before its gone.

Tadasana

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:27:00 -0400

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Asana Art drew live yesterday at Lulelmon in Fasion Island, CA!...

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:03:00 -0400

Asana Art drew live yesterday at Lulelmon in Fasion Island, CA! If you missed it, and want to see or participate in the next event, follow us on twitter or facebook! See you there!

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Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:51:00 -0400

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Why is everybody moving?

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:59:00 -0400

As I move through my yoga practice, the immense impression of all these beautiful people moving in unison, is sometimes overwhelming. I know that when I’m on my mat I’m supposed to turn inward and feel like I’m the only one in the room. As an artist and long-time student of anatomy I can’t help but look up and see the beauty that surrounds me.

In classical life drawing classes there is one model and about twenty students and everyone is sitting or standing still. In yoga class, there are 20-30 models, at least one artist, and everything is in continuous movement flowing with breath.

It is a very powerful visual experience for an artist. It gives me a completely unique perspective on any single posture or flow.
The effect yoga has had on my work and my life as a fine artist is often astounding and is yet, it is still unfolding.

A way to breath.

A way to work.

A way to live.

A stillness that brings a clarity to life, to drawing, to sculpture. A community of lovely souls who are open, mindful, caring and supportive,.

I hope to give back some of the beauty I’ve been so generously given.

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Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:56:00 -0400

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Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:55:00 -0400

"His gentle way of sculpting souls took me years to understand"

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:55:00 -0500

“His gentle way of sculpting souls took me years to understand”

- D. Fogelberg

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Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:18:00 -0500

"Create like a God Command like a king Work like a slave"

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:57:00 -0500

“Create like a God
Command like a king
Work like a slave”

- Constantine Brancusi

Is everything vibrating?

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:36:00 -0500

There is a special stone from the southern part of Italy down by the boot heal called Italian ice. It is the color and texture of frosted glass. When you strike it with a hammer and chisel it rings, vibrates. When you file and sand it, it hums or sings like the edge of a crystal wine glass.

For a thousand years, ancient Italian craftsmen cut this stone so thin that the light would pass right through it. It was used as window glass in churches, translucent and glowing. Today, in Carrera, Italy, there are still families working this stone to make beautiful lamps, sculptures, and collectables.

I first encountered this stone four years ago before ever coming to yoga. It has an intoxicating feel and addictive sound when working it that is undeniable; much like my beginning yoga practice.

Is everything vibrating? First it was the OM. The vibration that emanated from a room full of people chanting OM in unison was remarkable. It was the stone, the earth, the soul. Then I felt the sound from the primordial sound bowl. Instantly, the singing of the bowl passed through me as the ring of the stone had so effected me. I found that if I lifted my hands to the sound and vibration it would travel straight through my fingertips and into my now open heart just as the stone had.

Do all things have a resonance? Is everything vibrating? The connection between the stone, the OM and the singing bowls are one. Joined with the breath, it brings an energy that travels through all things and the artist as well.

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Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:43:00 -0500

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