Baylee Rae Renditions
This is the Artwork and thoughts of Baylee R. Mann. A new way of looking at things has arrived. Using the past masters to help the future of art everywhere.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Friday, November 16, 2012
Book making
I have recently been diving into the book arts. It's incredibly amazing and creative. Many more books to come I have yet to finish. Very exciting and relaxing. I love this form of art very much.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Braids
I haw found that braiding hair is a fun and extremely useful form of artistic expression so I have been polishing my skill.
Society: Your Crazy Breed
A definition of a person is never accurate. Not whenever it is given to you instead of you inferring about your own self. Society for centuries has determined how a certain person of a certain race or ethnic background should behave, appear, or speak. What role does society have on people as they try to determine who they are as a singular without inviting the plural to stay and dictate. Most of us in this world concern ourselves with originality. We strive to be ourselves without realizing its nearly impossible. What threat does society play in our development? In the clothing we wear and the foods we eat where do we find the line that determines what are actually us individually?
Not only is our stand for our style a showcase of who we are, also our manner and the way we view our station in life. Should the idea of a convenience store clerk be any less valuable than that of a high dollar banker? Do you trust ton e over the other based on their job or the idea they presented? Everyone is viewed based on their role in this world. People strive for the job that suits them for life because they know that it becomes a part of how they are viewed in this society. Everyone accepts the fact that your friends are the ones that love you for your personality, and the people who matter in society love and use you for your mind and the paper your hand holds.
Also, you come upon the issue of being surrounded by others. The social convention of this world stifles many and places them on the board with the crazies. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson. These people who do not conform are remembered for who they were and not what the era was. For example, I disdain to wear shoes most places. I wear ten anyhow do to sanitary reasons and social convention. However, what keeps them on my feet even when the cleanness of the area is not an issue is social convention. Its knowing how you would be thought of without shoes on. What is expected? We train people to expect certain things from us. I have found that I have trained my friends and those who see me most often to expect me to do the unexpected and wear certain clothing they wouldn't dare. "I try my best to be myself in public, but you cant be yourself completely because of the very fact that your in public." - John Lennon
The issue of society protruding into our lives is very evident. No one would live where they do or even act how they act in a different society. If everyone around you rides bikes, and you're the only one who runs, then you are labeled 'the runner.' This is not uncommon, and the title you are given determines what part your being you want to show the world more often depending on what they like best. I for example am 'the artist'; however, I do love to sing. The only difference is that I do not receive as much acceptance for my singing as I do my art and therefore I embraced my art much more readily as a means of knowing that society was most comfortable with seeing that part of me and I therefore more comfortable with showing it. What is accepted even in the littlest senses by society is what is chosen to show most often. Many times books incite people to read it just due to hype. "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ― Mark Twain
Not only is our stand for our style a showcase of who we are, also our manner and the way we view our station in life. Should the idea of a convenience store clerk be any less valuable than that of a high dollar banker? Do you trust ton e over the other based on their job or the idea they presented? Everyone is viewed based on their role in this world. People strive for the job that suits them for life because they know that it becomes a part of how they are viewed in this society. Everyone accepts the fact that your friends are the ones that love you for your personality, and the people who matter in society love and use you for your mind and the paper your hand holds.
Also, you come upon the issue of being surrounded by others. The social convention of this world stifles many and places them on the board with the crazies. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson. These people who do not conform are remembered for who they were and not what the era was. For example, I disdain to wear shoes most places. I wear ten anyhow do to sanitary reasons and social convention. However, what keeps them on my feet even when the cleanness of the area is not an issue is social convention. Its knowing how you would be thought of without shoes on. What is expected? We train people to expect certain things from us. I have found that I have trained my friends and those who see me most often to expect me to do the unexpected and wear certain clothing they wouldn't dare. "I try my best to be myself in public, but you cant be yourself completely because of the very fact that your in public." - John Lennon
The issue of society protruding into our lives is very evident. No one would live where they do or even act how they act in a different society. If everyone around you rides bikes, and you're the only one who runs, then you are labeled 'the runner.' This is not uncommon, and the title you are given determines what part your being you want to show the world more often depending on what they like best. I for example am 'the artist'; however, I do love to sing. The only difference is that I do not receive as much acceptance for my singing as I do my art and therefore I embraced my art much more readily as a means of knowing that society was most comfortable with seeing that part of me and I therefore more comfortable with showing it. What is accepted even in the littlest senses by society is what is chosen to show most often. Many times books incite people to read it just due to hype. "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ― Mark Twain
Monday, August 27, 2012
So I Was Just Thinkin'
FOR THOSE EASILY OFFENDED :if your easily offended chances are you easily offend others routinely.
Sure you could assumeto yourself that I am a simple case ofantisocialism. However, I find it more lays within the reaches of my inabilityto need to presence of others anylonger. I do understand the benefit ofhuman contact. However there is so little space left on earth for any one person to be guaranteed not to collidewith another human being. Therefore I feel as though a solid few months or so to rejuvenate the soul, to be free from socialconvention, the eyes of spectators towhich most likely do not care nor have opinions yet whose opinionswe invent and play within our heads constantly and therefore judge our actionsunto ourselves within those parameterswe can feel come from society and those who reside in it itself.
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is anecessary ingredient in living.”-Doctor Sues. My imagination happens to extend to the idea that everyoneon earth can serve their purpose to eachother. However, who is it that decides how happy you become in reference tothese people we call our neighbors, oursisters, our brothers, our family? Peoplein my opinion pose a coy problem within my soul. They are always interrupting my thoughts. These humans never quite can ascertain the meaning of justsimple disappearing for a certain amount of time. The idea that we, and therefore I, can never be fully alone, makes my heart heavy in despair.
Collage self portrait (unfinished, soon to be) |
Would you not agreethis statements relevance to such a topic as I have so candidlypresented? “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originalitywill ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (withoutcaring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out often, become original without ever having noticed it.” ― C.S. Lewis, MereChristianity. Quite certainly we see howthe ideas we are surrounded withand the thrusts of the world press and congeal our minds to substitute our own freedom. Our world and such the people within it, reside inside a plastic bottle towhich the inside label tells us willonly allow slight bursts of fresh airto ignite within our lungs. How so? Well they give us paint brushes to paint the scenery towhich we never truly experience butsimply document to turn into knowledgeand not a memory. They gave us music to avoid the singing of the birds, theflowing of the brooks, the harmony of the melody the wispy wind provides. For wasn’tthat just the annoyance? They provided dance, on hard floors, with specialshoes and sparkles and stiff poignant skirts with rigid lines; this to replace the rehearsals with the grassyfloors.
Our feet once upon atime could play notes into the earth’ssurface, dance with the wind, and feelthe scenery before we saw it.
People. They evolve into things greater. They become better. More advanced. However, simply only if yourdefinition of advancement is replacingone good thing for another of similar and slightly ostentatious qualities with increased marketability. For you cannot market the music of your backyard now can you? Simplicity has vanished. The earth, the trees, the flowers,the birds see no need in improvement andadvancement.” Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished..”(-Unknown) Simplicity isreplaced with dissatisfaction. Who’s to blame? People.
Just get rid of thepeople who think shoes are a must. Who believe that the sky is just up. And who will take a photo of a beautiful thing before they see it. Thosewho regard peripheral vision as just what your eyes leak to you as you pivotyour head. Those people who agreeit is logical to build one house upon another, simply because theone underneath was not sufficient to such standards they did not decideregardless. Get rid of those people. Placeme on an island somewhere with nothing but a good book to read over and overagain until the words sing themselves throughthe trees I walk next to and voice new stories from the branches I form withinmy dreams; then I’ll be happy. Then my ssoul may feel alive once more as itwas before I left the womb. People,people are the problem. Now one person…just one. Now that’s simple.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
We Need A New Color
We Need a New Color
Written By: Baylee Rae Mann
Color shows the intensity on her face we find in her eyes (Photograher Unknown) |
The lines convey the mood without needing to show us detailes. (Unknown Artist) |
Just think what we could do with it? Ok, did you think about it for a while? Alright so here is what is so immaculate about another primary color. (1)It’s primary. This means that at least 3 new colours could be made with it and hues more than we can count of each of those.(2) clothing. Fashion designers would go completely insane with new ideas and color pallets to work from. Each color has a mood or aroma to it. You base this off of your design or vice versa. A new color with a new mood could allow for anything we can think of for another 1,000 years with nothing to bore us. Perhaps style wouldn’t be recycled as much if this were so. Sort of like the moment they discovered we could wear the colors on a parrot instead of only the ones on the sheep we just sheered.(3) my most favorite thing in the world would be able to convey new ideas and feeling just as clothing designers fetched their ideas from this color. To be able to feel on paper that one emotion you just couldn’t write or show on paper in any form useful. A new color is a new highway of expression.
Black and white is so popular becuase it forces the veiwer to focus on the emotion of the subject and not be distracted b the emotion of the color. (Photogrpher Unknown) |
Contour lines provide movement and sow vibrations of feeling. (Photographer Unknown) |
This world needs a new color. A breath of whipping air, feet dipped in soil and not sand, and hearts made from another color besides red. Though, red is my favorite color, a color of passion, it does not hold every feeling the heart possesses. I ask you, if the heart is red and blue, than what color is it in our chests as it beats. What is the color that rushes through our veins and fills our lips with lust and our fingertips with movement and creation? Not two of the most well distributed colors on earth. No, it is the color we have not found yet on a random insect to be found in 100 years by a scientist on an island someplace. Whenever the colors were being created, I believe we received almost all of the ones we needed. Though there is one to represent one emotion we haven’t found yet. Maybe never will.
This World While Beautiful, Needs a New Color
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