I am producing back in Canada. This is a long, important letter for those interested, please sit down and read it.
There are many images at the bottom, but please read this first, otherwise it's only a half-truth.
You are the first to see them and they are now all for sale, ranging from $61.00 to $771.00.
Daniel John Poisson-artist
Presents: “17-17-17-TWO HUMAN WEEKS”
Soul (sohl)–noun
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
Conscious (kon-shuh s)–adjective
aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings,
fully aware of or sensitive to something (often fol. by of), having the mental faculties, fully active, known to oneself, aware of what one is doing, deliberate, intentional.
Life (lahyf)–noun
a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul: eternal life,
the general or universal condition of existence, any specified period of animate existence, the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
April 7th 2009
My name is Daniel John Poisson. I am 32 years old now. I am an artist. I paint mostly. Sometimes I get into these states of productivity where I feel I cannot stop and should not stop. So I don’t. It used to drive me mad and surely annoy those around me. People continually tell me I need a job so I can support myself, however, they do not understand what I feel. I just cannot do it. After sometime now, I refuse to give up this intense focus and realize something magnificent is occurring here. I struggle. Financially. Change is important. I feel there is a massive energy inside my soul slowly boiling over into the world and getting ready to explode. I love this feeling more than any feeling I have ever had. I have found something in painting that cannot and has not been found throughout my entire life. I refuse to give this up. If I do stop, I immediately feel that I am not fulfilling something. This “something” I can not really explain, however, for some time now, over the last few years, I have not been able to remove myself from my work of creating art. I cannot seem to work for someone else at a so-called “dayjob” as I am unable to focus enough attention away from my higher mental state going directly into my art, to provide that person with the effort they deserve. I need to produce. It’s the most important thing to my conscience. I need to think. I need to expand my conscious thought pattern as far into the universe as life's interruptions around me will allow. I feel a lack of energy and a breakdown in my constitution if I am not maximizing my productivity.
I originally started this condition, with images that were very messy, abstract, out-of-control some may say, however, very well intentioned for the greater good of our species. I use colour, and I love life. I have allowed my work to take it’s own direction, and although I often begin a piece after a solid concept, idea or image forms inside my mind, that initial image has rarely been the outcome in the final products. My work falls into no genre or style. I prefer that. What is “grafitti”? Why do people paint “lowbrow”? etc. etc. I paint. I create. That’s all. I copy no one, strive to be no one, idolize no one, and feel the need to just create, everything.
There is no desire to copy. There is no focus on certain methods or structure. My work ranges from fast scribbles to detailed ink designs, massive thrown-paint abstracts to maticulous renderings of tribal faces and clean lines, unidentifiably separate from one colour to the next. I like it this way. I don’t know why it’s this way. I let it be.
Recently, in the last year, I have begun working with the instruments of Sacred Geometry. Compass and Square only. Design work interests me. Graphic imagery is fascinating. I love shape. Contour is underlying in everything. I started to feel very calm and focused on a recent trip to visit my brother in Spring 2008 in Revelstoke BC. While there for 2 weeks, I completed over 10 perfect, symmetrical, interwoven images on paper working off one central point. These images all radiate from the centre. I have not yet discovered where these images come from inside me but they are seen, felt, heard, and original. I have been creating these images ever since and now this concept has transpired into a world of it’s own.
“THE PEACE VORTEX”
This concept brings me balance. It focuses me. There is something within these central images that draws my soul in and cleans it up and allows it to function efficiently. The perpetuation of creativity within this concept of the Peace Vortex has evolved into colour images, larger-formats, and multi-media, heavy-process creation. They are beautiful, geometric, and captivating visually. I feel they mean something. I have not figured out what exactly.
Recently, I was fortunate enough to travel to Central America for 6 months. The first three months were on a painting contract in Panama where I had complete and total freedom of expression to paint whatever I wanted, wished, or felt. I made a complete mess. I worked slow, worked incredibly fast. Painted abstract as large as 8 feet and spray painted stenciled images of presidential police officers I photographed. I got political, sarcastic, loving and angry. I flipped out, worked in a trance, got drunk, and threw paint. I smiled, laughed, yelled, danced and went free. I kept my nose 4 inches from the canvas for hours at a time in the same spot, as close to meditation as possible and everything in between and outside this explanation. It was an exercise in creativity from the beginning. I have no style. I paint feelings. I paint love. I paint what matter to help this world. I learned a lot. I learned so much in that time that I learned too much. I am still putting it all together.
After this adventure in creativity, I backpacked north from Panama to Southern Mexico, drawing along the way, building things in random places, and riding with the locals. I was searching. I used the next two months to bring personal awareness to my misunderstood creative situation I’ve mentioned. This is my conclusion, and although I need to survive financially, maybe I will never extend this justification to the proper plane of understanding towards you. I love ART! I refuse to stop and so does my soul. Unfortunately, this mindset has dug so deep into my constitution that, although being very open-minded, intelligent, aware and rational, I will not accept doing anything other than allowing myself the ability to function within my mind, body and souls own productive parameters. I am driven. I work long hours. I stay ahead of my own game. I’m organized, honest and dedicated. I HAVE TO CREATE! I feel an energy that I must harness. I need tojustify this feeling to myself before I can move backwards, because right now and for the last time period, forward is all I see.
Upon arriving back in Canada after this life-changing journey, I was eager to set up my work area and get creating. I had the basic idea of where I wanted to start image-wise. I began painting on March 17th 2009, after setting up, my studio, purchasing many more supplies than I could afford, and having my work space set-out ready to go at it. I created this series with only the initial image in mind and allowed the series to take it’s own direction. In fact, I had no intention of creating a series like this, but only to get a few pieces done for some upcoming shows. Now, it seems silly to break up these completed pieces into individual paintings.
I had to purchase materials nearly every day to ensure the vision was correct as it came to my mind. I worked on as many as 5 pieces at one time. This series has many amazing things that came to light after I went to bed after what is now to be the final piece in this series of 17 pieces. I worked everyday with little interruption for as long as 17 hours straight and as little as 6 hours.
This series has come to be titled “17-17-17-Two Human weeks”.
I began the first piece on March 17th titled “Bang!. I felt the last piece, titled “Mother of God”, the 17th piece completed was a fitting place to stop, which happened to be 17 days later. 17-17-17. I am not sure how this happened, but it’s a prime number divisible only by itself and “1”, which is also an important number that I have utilized repeatedly in my past works.
The first piece “Bang!”, conjuring thoughts of noise, or the Big Bang, initiation of life, is the messiest piece and the biggest. The last piece “Mother of God” is tribal, loving, and very clean and precise. All the images in between this have a natural flow of design from one image to the next that really makes sense upon analysis. It’s all build upon Peace and transpires from earth, peoples and respect. This is an ongoing theme and underlying importance in all my work, however, a series has never come out so perfectly with so little pre-conceived intentions.
So here is “17-17-17-TWO HUMAN WEEKS”…as the pieces were completed and signed first to last.
PEACE!
Daniel John Poisson
“BANG!”48” X 48”
acrylic, resin on wood panel
“Rollin Hard”48” X 48”
acrylic, varnish on wood panel
“Whistler PEACE 1”24” X 24”
acrylic, paper on wood panel
“Whistler PEACE 2”24” X 24”
acrylic, paper on wood panel
“Whistler PEACE 3”24” X 24”
acrylic, paper on wood panel
“Whistler PEACE 4”24” X 24”
acrylic, paper on wood panel
“PEACE Radiant 1”24” X 24”
acrylic, spray paint on wood panel
“PEACE Radiant 2”24” X 24”
acrylic, spray paint on wood panel
“PEACE Radiant -Portal to Life”10” X 10”
Lazertran Transfer, Varathane on wood
“PEACE Radiant -Triple Threat”10” X 10”
Lazertran Transfer, Varathane on wood
“Tribal Freedom”10” X 10”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Varathane on wood
“Wargod Mother “5” X 6”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Varathane on wood
“Principle Warrior”11” X 15”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Varathane on wood
“Fractured Life”10” X 10”
Acrylic, Ink, Varathane on wood
“Respect Your Peoples”7” X 11”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Ink, Varathane on wood
“Save Yourself First”7” X 11”
Lazertran Transfer, Acrylic, Ink, Varathane on wood
“Mother of GOD”20” X 30”
Acrylic, Varnish on wood panel
PEACE!
Daniel John Poisson
Code of Creation
w: www.danielpoisson.com
e: codeofcreation@gmail.com
c: 604-902-3474
