Happy New Year 2010

© D J McGarel, digital image

the last image of 2010

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Journey Towards Fulfillment

To me, art has always been a healing process, a great way of exploring and seeking comfort. I firmly believe art expresses the artist's soul, their true being. Whether subconsciously or consciously, the artist collectively by his/her choices of colors, subject matter, composition, titling, and/or brush- stokes reveal their inner truth, whom they really are to themselves and the world. I’ve decided to name my exhibition, Journey towards Fulfillment because as we travel through life, both intelligently and spiritually we seek meaning, purpose and enlightenment, in other words, fulfillment.

In 2002, late August early September I had a near death experience. The following year, one of my first cousins whom was the same age as I died suddenly, unexpectedly. She unfortunately wasn’t given a second chance as I was and I do every once in awhile question as to ‘why, why not?’ There are some many things in life that I do question. As I grow older the questions seem to be more profound and the answers seem more distant, kind of a way elusive, far beyond my grasp I do not claim to have life’s answers nor do I claim to have all life’s questions ( I doubt being blond, I am that deep) but what I will say this for myself, I am a seeker, a seeker of the truth. I think we all are to some extent; we seek to answer life’s complex questions as to why we are here. Whether our answers come intelligently or spirituality, we all seek for the basic need to know why each one of us does exist and our role in the universe. By the way, I was just teasing about the blond comment so please don’t take it to heart.

In a nutshell, here is my art today as it stands. I am seeking truth, answers and more importantly questions to what we all face when we reach that certain age when the President discusses the older generation and we look in the mirror and comment to ourselves, ‘Oh my gosh that is me. I am now part of the older generation.’ Yes I am referring to the dreaded midlife crisis. The time in our lives where excitement lies in seeing what body part will fail apart next. And with that I will leave you to digest these current babbling as I re-write, re-work the artist statement into a more acceptable platform that will be used for one of my upcoming 2011 shows. And yes, the working title for one of my shows will be entitled, JOURNEY TOWARDS FULFILLMENT.

McGarel Graphics Art work of November 2010

© 2010 DJ McGarel

A digital creation entitled:

Broken Hearts, New Beginnings

© 2010 DJ McGarel

A digital image entitled:

Stage 1 & Highly Treatable

Greetings All

These last few days I have been working on my art. Creating & having fun. Before you know it, 2011 will be here. I have three shows lined up. My work will be appearing at the Tinley Library in February. In April, I have a solo digital art show at S. Suburban College. I will be exhibiting new work @ the Frankfort Library this upcoming July. I am still working on the title. So far I am leaning towards: JOURNEY TOWARDS FULFILLMENT.

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SOFA SHOW 2010

Awesome time at Chicago's SOFA show this weekend 11-5-10

Someday I hope to exhibit at Navy Prier.

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which image is the best?

These past two days I created these three images. All very similar but with slight differences. I am unsure which digital image I prefer. I am still working on the title, something about earth, life and the history of one's mistakes or past that effects one's future. All three of these images are copy written by yours truly, Diane McGarel.

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Riverwalk, San Antonio TX

A place I plan to re-visit is San Antonio TX. The Riverwalk is amazing. I spend a week enjoying the city. We traveled daily by river taxi. We ate at great places but I think our favorite was Landry's. I saw two art museums: San Antonio Art Museum and the McNay Art Museum. We went to the Towers of America, 75 stories up in the air and had an incredible lunch looking down onto the city. At the San Antonio Art Museum, we listened to the curator speak of the latest exhibition, all about Egyptian Art. All in all, loads of fun and yes, I do plan to re-visit someday in the near not to distant future.

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enjoying time at San Antonio's McNay Art Museum

I ( Diane McGarel ) had an enjoyable time visiting San Antonio. Besides from the views of the Riverwalk, I had the great pleasure of visiting two art museums. Both were awesome !!!! Lucky me gets to travel a lot and visit many different sights. Here are some of the pics of me enjoying this great museum. For lack of a better word, the artwork was awesome.

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