Creative Works, John Steines

Current Practice: My expressionist art form evolves through gestural lines onto the blank canvas. I view these preliminary lines with unfocused eyes (via relaxation of the ciliary muscles in the eyes). This causes the eye to lose focus and allows me to place gestural lines that initiate image creation. I have worked this way since my mid-twenties in an increasingly complex manner. I have since learned that this practice is described as a 'Jungian' format, aimed to bring the unconscious into a visible state (aka Spontaneous Form) while awake as opposed to dream state. The process allows an evolving conversation between self and canvas.

I have worked this way since my mid-twenties in an increasingly complex manner. I have since learned that this practice is described as a 'Jungian' format, aimed to bring the unconscious into a visible state (aka Spontaneous Form) while awake as opposed to dream state. The process allows an evolving conversation between self and canvas.

Languages, Acquired and Intuitive, Exhibit Retrospective & Published Catalog. Assistance provided by John Charles Fitzpatrick (American humanities educator, curator. Certified teacher State of Iowa, 1980. Named Arts Administrator of the Year, Iowa Art Education Association, 2001; recipient Arts Education Award, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1982, John Fitzpatrick Day, City of Cedar Rapids, 2001.)

WITNESS TREE EXHIBITION SERIES, 2013-2015, Lead Artist/Producer, WI 1. Witness Tree, catalogue, Common Wealth 2. Witness Tree Dodgeville 3. A Fable for Tomorrow, UW Arb, 4. Tree Of Life - Overture 5. Tending the Nest installation, Farley Center, Verona 6. Ten Variations On a Theme, Silverwood C.P., Albion 7. Earth Songs, Sun Prairie 8. Envisioning the Future - Yahara 2070 INTENTIONALLY WELCOMING COMMUNITIES (Art Dir) 2016, 13 Cloaks, community resiliency, 22'x12' woven longhouse.