Daniel Falk - Artwork

Monday, January 23, 2012

Goat and the Farmer. Series A-3.

Goat and his Farmer. 2008. New York. 18 x 13.2 cm. Pen.

The farmer in profile and his skeleton is all that remains from his wayward goat, which has eaten almost every ounce of muscle and organs from his defenseless body. The drab, expressionless farmer seems somehow relieved to shed his earthly form. The goat becomes his captive savior. Like the artist himself, the farmer shifts roles to relate viscerally with generations of artists who’ve suffered their master’s requirements while sneaking some time for their other interests beyond mere survival. The goat, slightly above and left of the farmer, shows its exaggerated darkened eye and vertical pupil, one that so vigorously enjoys the loom of its captive feast. But how did the farmer become captive? He lost a wager with two vagabond angels, cupids in fact, that fell from a heavy sky onto a branch in one of the farmer’s fields. Mesmerized, the farmer joined in a long night of “story-telling” with the angels, which found him elevating beyond his worldly body for a time. Seeing the farmer vulnerable and seemingly occupied elsewhere, the goat feasted.

Friday, January 20, 2012

A Horse Runs Up The Mountain, Series A-2.

A Horse Runs Up The Mountain. 2008. New York. 18 x 13.2cm. Pen.

How does a goal come into focus? And why does one goal become more preferable than another? Is it based on mere survival, this common churning and yearning that drives living beings and flora to develop ever more effective approaches to living, of improving their quality of life? Visible here is a progression, from valley, guarded by an extending tree-trunk, up to mountains glowing with future promise. A bird-like creature in the middle helps guide the horse safely to its goal: the peak. But a horse has little reason to charge up to the mountaintop. Something else has caught its attention above the mountaintop. This is a fable of reaching beyond the observable and for something one perceives to be within reach, but is perhaps more a part of their imagination, which has created a powerful drive to climb higher, to explore, to unite the solid internal nature of living beings, the mind, with the will to connect with external forces. Connection with external elements, secular or ethereal, suggests searching for a source of validity of one’s life.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Series A - Pen Drawings 2008 -2010 - Series A-1. Woman Emerging from the THicket of Time.

Woman Emerging from the Thicket of Time, 2008, 18 x 13.2 cm. Pen on paper. 18 works.
2008-2010.

My explorations with my first pen series begins with a dominant figure surrounded by chaotic, yet orchestrated movement and characters involved in their own stirrings and tasks. Somehow they are swept together, each heading in different directions at the same time (is there really such thing as the "same time" experientially?). A slice of time reveals characters blended together, each generating their own scene, or are they just manipulating to the best of their ability? Figures appear to dance as part of a larger image that provides energy to relate, progress, persist and expand.

I'm excited to share this series with you and look forward to your comments. Thank you.

Recommended music to listen while viewing: Rodrigo y Gabriela & CUBA, 11:11. 2012.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Give Flight, 2008; Colored Pencil, 52 x 32 cm, - An evolutionary realm churns to produce new life forms…burning, adjusting, and evolving in its own rhythm. Daniel Falk.

Daniel Falk - Artwork: Digital Bunny-Segment 240-Tumblr link

Daniel Falk art work, Tumblr link

Digital Bunny-Segment 240

Micro-Cubism. Digital Bunny-Segment 240, New York, 2010, Ballpoint Pen, 35.6 x 43.2 cm; A slice of time in a limbo world of developmental evolution. Various species churn into potential significance as simple living matter builds volume, abundance, defensiveness, complexity and more slowly, intelligence.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Public Launch, comments welcome!

I started this blog during a master's degree class I'm taking at Teachers College, Columbia University, called Art and Technology, Professor Richard Jochum; Autumn, 2010. My creative focus in the past 10-15 years has primarily been music composition and piano playing; film scoring and jazz standards, some gigs. A few years ago, I began drawing fiercely, caring little about anything else creative. The output became too great, and I'm happy to share it with you. There are many more pieces that I will share soon.

I hope you enjoy my art work. I welcome your comments. Thank you!