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Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings Catagories: Nonction > Art > Collections, Catalogues, Exhibitions > General Nonction > Art > Digital Enter the Art Experience! Introducing Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings... physical/virtual hybrid paintings that occupy physical gallery space while simultaneously manifesting within the virtual world of 360° panoramic technology. • Tales of Travel Discoveries • Paintings of Famous Sights • Digital Media of Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings Travel Art 2019: Ravages of Time & Permanence of Wonder features: C T • Illustration & Comics O C N E • Impasto Oil Paintings N N • Travel Art & Travel Writing E N C O • Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings T C Travel Art 2019: Ravages of Time & Permanence of Wonder traces an artist’s trajectory from comic art and travel illustration to impasto oil painting and Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings. Visual journalism and Travel Art represent images from six countries across three continents. Travel Writing explores Asian food culture, contemporary architecture, and a traveler’s literary pilgrimage to the real Shangri-La. Travel with me to China, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Ethiopia, the United States, and on into the virtual world. Dave Alber creates Travel Art and Travel Writing. His Travel Art shares an experience of wonder at our cultural continuity and universal humanity. Dave is known for his impasto oil paintings and for being the inventor of Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings. Dave’s books include: • Travel Art & Travel Writing: A Curious Heart’s Wanderlust in China, • Travel Art 2018: Intimations, • The Heart of Myth: Wisdom Stories of Endangered People, and • The Taotie Image in Chinese Art, Culture, and Cosmology Receive Dave’s art book Travel Art: Intimations for free at http://DaveAlber.com. R AVAGES OF T IME & P E R MANENCE OF W ONDE R DAVE ALBER: TRAVEL ART 2019: R AVAGES OF T IME & PERMANENCE OF WONDER D AVE A LBE R : T R AVEL A rt 2019 :: H ttp :// D AVE A LBE R . COM What are reviewers saying about Dave’s books? “As someone who is passionately committed to the survival of both the world’s treasure trove of myths and the indigenous peoples who conjured up so many of those marvelous stories, I deeply admire Dave Alber’s anthology, The Heart of Myth. This collection of wisdom stories is the book lover’s equivalent of spinning a globe and vowing to travel wherever your finger lands, and to learn and respect the traditions you find there.” Phil Cousineau Author of Once and Future Myths, The Art of Pilgrimage, and host of Global Spirit on LINK TV “A little treasury of wild and wise stories.” Sam Keen Author of Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man and Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds http://samkeen.com “The stories in this book are a delightful testament to the human imagination, and full of timeless wisdom about life. In our modern confusion, The Heart of Myth looks back in order to help us find our way forward.” Wes `Scoop’ Nisker Author of Essential Crazy Wisdom, Buddhist meditation teacher, and performer wesnisker.com “As more cultures face extinction, their wisdom is gathered, preserved, and, passed on by those who live within the cultures of destruction, yet reside in a place where the spirit grows stronger, where ancient truth strives to be heard, through the chaos. Here, we are invited to journey into The Heart of Myth, and, we are the better for heeding the call; it is a privilege to sit among the wisdom keepers of these old and powerful stories.” Malidoma Patrice Somé, Ph.D. Author of Of Water and the Spirit, Ritual: Power, Healing and Community, and The Healing Wisdom of Africa www.malidoma.com Copyright © 2019, 2020 and beyond by Dave Alber. The right of Dave Alber to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs, and Patent Act of 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Newspaper and magazine reproductions © the respective publisher and reproduced with their consent. http://DaveAlber.com Name: Dave Alber, author. Scan the QR code to visit http://DaveAlber.com Title: Dave Alber: Travel Art 2019: Ravages of Time & Permanence of Wonder Subjects: Art Catalogues, Art Exhibitions, Virtual Reality, Digital Art ISBN: 9781689274562 2 R AVAGES OF T IME & P E R MANENCE OF W ONDE R “Intimations is creative expression from travel impressions married to art. I travel and I oil paint. So I was really surprised, so pleasantly surprised when I met Dave and discovered his concept of travel art. I mean it was like plunking down in a bus seat after a weary day and turning to see a long lost friend right beside you. I just never thought of travel ideas and art together. And so I recognized paintings of his that captured places he had been which often require a quickness of wit, humor and reflection as not to be lost by the time we are somewhere else. A snapshot of a magic moment or impression. Surprised pleasantly by the concept of travel art and I shall integrate that into my paintings as well. Thank you David!” Matthew McDaniel Founder of the Akha Heritage Foundation (akha.org) “Dave Alber’s Myth and Medium blends art with myth. His images and essays challenge the viewer to commune with the eternal values of our shared mythological heritage.” Ginette Paris, Ph.D. Author of Pagan Grace and of Pagan Meditations “Alber’s work is grounded in the notion of myth-making itself. The personal and the interpersonal mix and mesh, to become something new, something that breaks the static desires of culture itself.” Maggie Macary, Ph.D. Creator of Myth & Culture “A Curious Heart’s Wanderlust in China is an artful journey through Chinese food and myths. This book is filled with unique things. and I don’t just mean, Dave Alber’s artwork. For example, in the first section of the book, he helps the reader journey through the art using the powers of modern technology, specifically VR. In Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings, readers use a QR code to immerse themselves in the artwork experience. In other parts of the book, the artwork and text work together as a seamless real-reality experience. Alber’s delightful writing and commentary on his journeys through China are a pleasure to read. This book is a quick read and will be enjoyed by art lovers and travelers (including armchair travelers) alike.” Jill L. Ferguson Author, entrepreneur and founder of Creating The Freelance Career http://www.jillferguson.com 3 D AVE A LBER : T RAVEL A R T 2019 :: H tt P ://D AVE A LBER . COM R AVAGES OF T IME & P ERMANENCE OF W ON D ER Ravages of Time & Contents Permanence of Wonder Article: Post-Modern Architectural Irony in Suzhou’s the Gate to the East .......... 22 Introduction Article: Chasing An Elusive Ideal in Modern Day Shangri-La ..................... 23 About Dave Alber, Travel Artist ... 6 Ravages of Time & Permanence of Wonder: Dave’s Comments ................... 24 Artist Statement .............. 7 Exhibition: Ravages of Time & Permanence of Wonder: Impasto Oil Paintings Artist Journey ................ 8 by Benj Kinenga and Dave Alber ........................................... 25 Exhibitions, Education & Illustrations ... 9 Painting: Falling Into The Sky: Ganden Sumtsenling Monastery, Shangri-La, Yunan, China................................................. 26 Painting: Grain Storage Warehouse: Saint Ignatius Contact Cathedral, Shanghai, China .......................... 28 Painting: Gate To The East, Suzhou, China ............... 30 Contact: Dave’s Comments ........... 10 Old World New World Painting: Suzhou IFS, Suzhou, China ................... 32 Exhibition: Contact .................. 11 Hybrid Oil 360° Panoramic VR Paintings ....... 54 Painting: Mutianyu Section of the Great Wall Contact: Curator’s Comments ......... 13 during Winter, China ............................... 34 Exhibition: Old World New World: Oil, Mixed Article: Snow Fish ................... 14 Media, and 360° Panoramic VR Paintings ...... 55 Painting: Underwater Sunlight: Legian Beach, Bali ........ 36 Painting: Snow Fish (Xue Yue) .......... 15 Painting: Twin Pagodas 360° ................. 56 Painting: Black Sand Sunset: Balian Beach, Bali .......... 38 Bad Year to Be a Cat ................. 15 Painting: Suzhou Center 360° ................ 58 Painting: Ancient Canal in Suzhou, China ............... 40 Comic: Bad Year to Be a Cat: Painting: Temple Of Mystery (Xuanmiao) 360° ... 60 Painting: The Verticality of Laughter: A Joke In the Former French Concession . 16 Amongst Acolytes at Tiger Hill Pagoda, Suzhou, China .... 42 Painting: Suzhou Hilton 360° ................ 62 Comic: Bad Year to Be a Cat: Painting: Alone: Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, USA .......... 44 VR Paintings: Instructions ................. 64 In the Yuyuan Garden Bazaar ......... 17 Painting: Lalibela Rosary: Annunciation Celebration What people are saying about Dave Alber’s Travel Art . 65 Comic: Bad Year to Be a Cat: in Lalibela, Ethiopia ................................ 46 At Shanghai’s China Art Museum ...... 18 Rewards of a Rogue Travel Artist ............ 66 Painting: St. George Church in Lalibela, Ethiopia ......... 48 Comic: Bad Year to Be a Cat: Dave Answers Clients ..................... 67 At Shanghai’s Saint Ignatius Cathedral.. 19 Painting: Khajuraho Temple, India ..................... 50 Connect and Get Involved ................. 68 Comic: I Love You: The Neglected Words . 20 Painting: Sustenance of Devotion: An Offering of Marigolds on the Remains of a Durbur Square Temple after the 2015 Earthquake: Kathmandu, Nepal .......... 52 4 5 D AVE A LBE R : T R AVEL A rt 2019 :: H ttp :// D AVE A LBE R . COM ABOUT DAVE ALBER, TRAVEL ARTIST Dave Alber creates Travel Art and Travel Writing. His Travel Art shares an experience of wonder at our cultural continuity and universal humanity.
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