D. 도미니크 롬바르디

Biography

"Life can be artful if you take risks and meet challenges with an open mind and a curious spirit. Art should be something new, but it can be based on a theory, idea or image that already exists as long as you take it further in some way. Creative thinking is part of the collective unconscious. There is a shared continuum in the thinking of an artist, something that can be realized in the choice of a color, a brush stroke, a cut with a chisel or a mark with a pencil, that connects you to the past, present and future thoughts of other artists. William S. Waldron once wrote in his essay titled A Buddhist theory of Unconscious Mind: “Freud shocked the Western world just over a hundred years ago with his audacious assertion that our actions, thoughts and feelings are largely determined by processes occurring outside our conscious awareness.” That theory or idea was developed further by Carl Jung whenhe basically states the unconscious mind allows us to have shared thoughts with any other mind in any time or era. In my two works, Birth of Venus and Mother of Invention I am revisiting paintings that I had done almost two decades earlier with whatever subconscious thoughts arose in my conscious mind. This kind of channeling with the past, present or future allows me to expand my thoughts and ideas beyond what I might normally dream up in the conscious world. This to me, is what makes life an art. "