About the Book
My methodologies have been in an effort toward both the conscious and sublime artistic disciplines. It is for you the reader to decide what is better in the end, spontaneity, or systematic implementation of rules upon what otherwise would be freely expressed organic emotions and behaviors. My discernment of intuition and the governing of such forms readily combines into personal expressions throughout this book. I hope this book's level of originality and authenticity is enough to inspire artists, poets, musicians, scholars and connoisseurs alike, as well as the everyday person who might be interested.
“Spiralchemation” presents its fundamentals to the reader by ways of shapes, light, colors, behaviors, and musicality. My research, observations, and perceptions have guided this system from its early beginnings, in 2014, when I gathered my thoughts for my earliest “Universe Diagram.” It meets its final form here in this book. In black and white on paper I started with formal drawings as my understandings and placements of them grew from there. Overtime, color came in, and newfound inspirations and discoveries experienced within my discipline as an artist, philosopher, poet, and musician.
This book’s grand finale ends with poems written for and addressed to Taylor Alison Swift, through pensive, confident, gentlemanly forays that try to impress.
Sincerely,
Damon Jared Freed
About the Creator
I am an artist who cherishes reason, balance, and ambiguity. I express it through a variety of working methods – from abstracted landscapes to nonobjective paintings of grids. I have many bodies of work in painting and poetry – to rhyming and prose poems – and I believe discovery exists at the edges of perception. My Mom and Dad have been my best and greatest influences. Brice Marden’s and Agnes Martin’s work in painting and writing are among them. In poetry – William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's work in both poetry and essays, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Janet Frame, William Blake, and Edgar Allan Poe’s work are ever present among many of my contemporaries, both male and female. I received my Bachelors of Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, with honors. My Masters of Fine Art is from Hunter College, City University of New York.