About Creative Cogitation

Update 2011:  I am chang­ing the name from Insane Imag­in­ings, Ran­dom Reverie & Other Cre­ative Cog­i­ta­tion to just Cre­ative Cog­i­ta­tion.  The other name is too long. I am thnk­ing this blog is going to become more and more art cen­tric, with some posts about the biz of art or on cre­ativ­ity, but math will prob­a­bly be rel­e­gated to dis­cus­sions at applied to a spe­cific work.  I have begun guest blog­ging, which is brand new for me. Also I need to fig­ure out how to cre­ate a land­ing page and start col­lect­ing con­tact info from you all.  Yours in art-Jake

I am still work­ing this blog out.  I am not sure what I am doing here so right now it tends to be a ran­dom col­lec­tion of my thoughts on a given day.  Some posts are about the busi­ness of art, which is a per­for­mance work in progress for me.

Some posts are about a spe­cific piece I am work­ing on or have completed. These posts usu­ally include a pic­ture, a call to buy the work, and a link to art pages on my web­site where there is spe­cific sta­tis­ti­cal infor­ma­tion, such as the size, price, ship­ping costs, add-to-cart link etc. for the arwork. I paint what I call rep­re­sen­ta­tional abstracts and mag­i­cal real­ism with a light hearted touch.  Cur­rently I am cre­at­ing Binary Birds inspired by my humor­ous, some­times slightly sar­cas­tic obser­va­tions of social media and other elec­tronic communications.

Some posts are about things I find inter­est­ing.  My edu­ca­tion is in nuclear physics; sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and math fas­ci­nate me.

Some posts are about my expe­ri­ences — travel, art shows and other bits that com­prise an artist’s life.

Jake Beck­man work­ing in office with crit­ter assistants

I am a visual artist so pic­tures are an impor­tant part of this blog.  I am too busy to cre­ate my own Word­Press Theme, but it could hap­pen even­tu­ally, I cer­tainly pos­sess the skills nec­es­sary to do some­thing like that — but I do not have the moti­va­tion right now.

I expect this blog will even­tu­ally morph into some­thing spe­cific, but right now it is like a paint­ing wait­ing to take on a life of its own.

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

The art work in this blog is fed­er­ally copy­righted. All repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imi­tated, derived OR oth­er­wise used in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.