No one alive today makes pairings of mobile art with poetry and music like Knox Bronson, founder and daily curator of P1xels, aka PixelsAtAnExhibition.com.
I count myself blessed, indeed, that Knox received my first submission to P1xels right about now, three years ago, and has paired some of my work with the most appropriate possible poetry and song many times in the last three years.
I record my gratitude for his publication of my work here almost every week. But the nourishment I receive from P1xels is not just connected to the way Knox collaborates with me when he makes something I’ve sent him the “Pic of the Day.” He does this kind of collaboration with other mobile artists every day on PixelsAtAnExhibition.com where he has been building his own collection of beauty and keeping a personal “history of iPhonic Art” for the last five years. What I learn from his wildly creative pairings of words and music with mobile artwork has deepened my intelligence about culture - popular and “classical” - and certainly emboldened me as an artist.
Seeing this piece, “In the Blood of Eden,” appear two years ago on P1xels - a day after I made it - paired with this Song of Solomon reduced me to sobs. And it’s done it again today. In a million years, I could never have imagined this pairing… and the fact that Knox did both delights and honors me deeply. He gets what I’m doing when I use my telephone to make and share art. Not all the time, but so much of the time that I walk around certain that I have a real audience for my work: and Knox is in the front row.
When other human beings truly SEE my visual expression - not just with their eyes but with their hearts and souls - I am flooded with happiness. Because for me, the images are all about communication of things that can never be reduced to words. Using my telephone to make and then exhibit images… and then having other human beings meet my communication with their authentic responses - in words, other images, and sound - WTF!?!? No words for that feeling except to say it gets me as close to heaven as I expect to get in the body.
So, thank you, again, Knox Bronson, you wild and crazy man! The fact that you continue to nourish your 33RPM Soul the way you do, and nourish so many of us - including me - so deeply, in ways that none of us could ever predict… Well, that fact challenges me to continue on my own adventure, no matter how much it hurts some days.
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