In this episode, we speak to Shane Guffogg about the upcoming event at El Nido art space in Hollywood curated by VC Projects, where it not only features his oil paintings but also features an opera performance of arias and art songs by Shooka Afshar, Soprano and Anthony Cardella, Piano.During this conversation, we learn that Guffogg sees color as sound and this informs his paintings. He explains, that he hears his paintings as much as he sees them. And when he sits down to play the piano, which he often does as another creative outlet, the sound he plays becomes for him a color, as in the act of painting, he listens to the colors and the movement of the brush. The artist shares that “painting is like peeling an onion” and as he gets deeper into the center of the onion, each layer is the center of his being and the memory banks of his mind. What you see in his painting is the deepest part of his memory. We also discuss the purity of sound without words, and how Guffogg reaches into his creative process. This is such a fascinating conversation. The artist continues to touch on what it means to be “human beings”, and brings up some very interesting thoughts about existence and how one might reach creativity. I interject here and there asking questions to learn more about his intellectual thought process. After all, it was Guffogg who came up with the title of the event at El Nido, “Translations of Being Through Sight and Sound.” For 40-plus-minutes we dissect just that, the intent of sound, the means to making marks, cave art, and the desire to capture the ‘eternal’ moment. Towards the end, we talk about “visual harmonies” and how Guffogg makes this happen in his artwork. Shane Guffogg is an American Artist that looks through the lens of humanity both past and present, and views time as threads that connect all people. His work is a visual language that is informed by the spiritualism of abstraction and the realism of the old masters. These two ideas are usually seen as seperate but Guffogg fuses them seamlessly into works that transcend and become testaments to thoughts taht inform us of who we are in the 21st century.To learn more about Shane Guffogg, visit: www.shaneguffogg.com

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